Re: [pfSense Support] pfsense 0.88

2005-10-22 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 14:39 -0500, Randy B wrote: Basically I'm concerned about what if it fails? - keeping same as external IPs would allow me to simply take of pfSense and temporary use local firewalls. It is not great but better than having it down. After thinking further, I

[pfSense Support] Upgrading pfsense

2005-10-22 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Hi, I see pfsense is moving fast. I got 0.88 yesterday and today 0.89.2 was available... This makes me to ask couple of questions 1) Is there changelog available somewhere so I could decide it I should upgrade to recent version ? 2) Firmware upgrade is still broken in 0.89.2, or am I only

Re: [pfSense Support] pfsense 0.88

2005-10-22 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 19:02 -0500, Bill Marquette wrote: Then bridge the interfaces. Any advice how exactly it should work ? Yep. Take the WAN interface and bridge it to the LAN interface. Now your internal machines are directly on the internet with pfSense transparently

[pfSense Support] Pfsense in transparent mode

2005-10-23 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Hi, I'm still struggling to set up pfsense in transparent mode - to make it act only as Firewall without doing NAT for me or something. I have network 111.111.111.152/29 assigned to me by provider, 111.111.111.153 is gateway. I set WAN interface of pfsense to 111.111.111.154 and LAN

Re: [pfSense Support] pfsense 0.88

2005-10-23 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 09:23 -0500, Bill Marquette wrote: O Is there any way I could have pfsense ip at .154 and use .155-158 for my applications ? Yes, configure the pfSense LAN IP to .154 (and configure it for the full subnet - you'll need to set the default gateway too) and then

[pfSense Support] Firmware update bug

2005-10-23 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Hi, I seems to have found why the following happens for me on system firmware check as well as on packages page: Warning: raiseerror(PEAR.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /etc/inc/xmlrpc_client.inc on line 562 Warning: raiseerror(): Failed opening 'PEAR.php' for

Re: [pfSense Support] pfsense 0.88

2005-10-24 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 10:34 -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: I'd agree with Alan's description. for more detail, see: http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/examples-filtered-bridge.html It should work just like that. Chris, Thanks for writing. I've read in FAQ and I was wondering what was your

[pfSense Support] bridging troubleshooting (i guess 0.89.2 is broken ?)

2005-10-24 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Hi, Might be this one would point out why it works for everyone but not for me. As I mentioned firewall rules fail to load in such configuration, which is obviously the problem but it looks like it is not the only one. I've replaced real IP prefix with 111.111.111. in this example #

RE: [pfSense Support] pfsense 0.88

2005-10-24 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 00:41 +0100, alan walters wrote: You should really disable this check and add the rules manually afterward. How should I do that ? In FAQ it is written /tmp/rules.debug is generated by scripts every few minutes so it is not right place to edit. I've checked config.xml

RE: [pfSense Support] bridging troubleshooting (i guess 0.89.2 is broken ?)

2005-10-24 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 00:46 +0100, alan walters wrote: Could this be an issue with the duplex. Maybe different speeds on the lan the wan and switches? Well... to be honest I do not understand why it would be - ifconfig em1 up brought it up without any problems so I guess the problem is

[pfSense Support] Traffic shaping

2005-10-25 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Hi, I'm running 0.89.6 I tried to experiment with traffic shaping today. I'm to use it for collocation so my goal is to avoid long traffic spikes, as this is what I'll need to pay for. So lets say I have 100MB connection and I want to cap it at 15Mbit or something. Anyway at this point I

Re: [pfSense Support] Traffic shaping

2005-10-25 Thread Peter Zaitsev
features. It looks like you can't simply continue with Wizard to the end without setting any shaping - it will create wrong rules. Also in remote access services I did not find SSH - very surprising omission for FreeBSD based product. There is VNC, RDP but not SSH. --Bill On 10/25/05, Peter

Re: [pfSense Support] Traffic shaping

2005-10-25 Thread Peter Zaitsev
ACK corresponds to IP packets with ACK flag. - So SSH is not in ? (If you put ssh in...) - What is bulk - Why it would kill all other ssh traffic and what it suppose to mean ? On 10/25/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 19:52 -0500, Bill Marquette wrote

Re: [pfSense Support] Traffic shaping

2005-10-25 Thread Peter Zaitsev
as possible. This is detected as ACK flag in IP packets and such packets are routed with high priority ? Does it mean however any application which does same socket set up will obey the same rule ? On 10/26/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:50 -0400

[pfSense Support] Summary of problems in Bridging Mode

2005-10-27 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Hi, I've recently tried number of variants of setting pfsense in Bridging mode of my small subnet and I guess here is the state of things as it is now. Scott was going to fix some of these issues but I guess it is good to summarize them anyway. So running in bridging mode you set

[pfSense Support] Pfsense causing problems on high load.

2005-10-28 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Hi, As I mentioned I'm trying to deploy pfsense for colocation envinronment. Today I did some performance tests, using main type of the traffic - HTTP requests - apache benchmark from my laptop to Linux server with only pfsense firewall in between firewall is with 2 Gbit nicks and

Re: [pfSense Support] Pfsense causing problems on high load.

2005-10-28 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 23:32 -0700, Peter Zaitsev wrote: Hi, As I mentioned I'm trying to deploy pfsense for colocation envinronment. Small followup, Even agressive mode does not seems to keep up with traffic well. In apache benchmark it works with concurrency=1 but fails with 30

Re: [pfSense Support] Summary of problems in Bridging Mode

2005-10-28 Thread Peter Zaitsev
or same as WAN ? On 10/28/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've recently tried number of variants of setting pfsense in Bridging mode of my small subnet and I guess here is the state of things as it is now. Scott was going to fix some of these issues but I guess

Re: [pfSense Support] Summary of problems in Bridging Mode

2005-10-28 Thread Peter Zaitsev
and check how it works in all 3 cases. Scott On 10/28/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:11 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: All these issues have been fixed. Please wait until the next version. Sure. I'm checking mirrors and your home directory every day

Re: [pfSense Support] Summary of problems in Bridging Mode

2005-10-28 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 13:42 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: On 10/28/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 13:05 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: I think it will work better with a dummy ip. But it will work without a ip as well now. Hm. Dummy IP looks like ugliest

Re: [pfSense Support] Traffic shaping breaks

2005-10-29 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 23:05 -0500, Bill Marquette wrote: Fixed. update_file.sh /usr/local/www/system_advanced.php and re-run shaper wizard or add: schedulertypehfsc/schedulertype to shaper tag in /conf/config.xml and reboot. Thanks. I actually simply rerun traffic shaper. Anyway this

Re: [pfSense Support] Dump states featue

2005-10-30 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 14:29 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: With that amount of states it does not surprise me. You're most likely better of doing a pfctl -ss and using grep to find what your looking for. Yes... It is however not total excuse for web page simply not loading. It would look like a

Re: [pfSense Support] Dump states featue

2005-10-30 Thread Peter Zaitsev
it is not the case - if I'm not happy with it for some reason I can try different firewall solution or simply put OpenBSD or any other OS on it and set it up as firewall. I love flexibility and hate vendor lockin Scott On 10/30/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 14

Re: [pfSense Support] Dump states featue

2005-10-30 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 15:45 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: If you don't mind me asking, what hardware are you running pfsense on for these tests? This is Dell PowerEdge 750 - 512Mb RAM, Celeron 2.4Ghz 2 Intel 1Gbit NICs This seems to be much better than all firewalls below 5K$ have :)

Re: [pfSense Support] Tests of new version (apache benchmark problem remains)

2005-10-30 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 04:08 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: This is not a release to test. Wait for OFFICIAL release around monday. Yes I know it is still RC1 based... I just need to ship the box around Monday for installation so I'm testing each new release, to increase the chance of all my

Re: [pfSense Support] Dump states featue

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
offloading but also have extra features such as deep packet inspections etc. On 10/30/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 15:45 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: If you don't mind me asking, what hardware are you running pfsense on for these tests? This is Dell

RE: [pfSense Support] Dump states featue

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 11:30 -0600, Fleming, John (ZeroChaos) wrote: John, I didn't see but are you using Nat? If so do things change with Nat disabled? Also could you try disabling the Scrub option and seeing if that makes a difference? I'm using bridging - no NAT What is SCRUB and how to

RE: [pfSense Support] Dump states featue

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
rule in this test) And I guess 300Mhz CPU is a lot different from 2.4Ghz I have :) Kind of funny to boot a 520 and hear a video failure beep code. :) -Original Message- From: Peter Zaitsev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 10:48 AM To: support

RE: [pfSense Support] Network Device pooling

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:26 -0600, Fleming, John (ZeroChaos) wrote: Benchmarking 111.111.111.158 (be patient) Completed 1 requests - isn't 10,000 the default limit of the state table? That sure would explain a lot. I boosted it to 10 of course

Re: [pfSense Support] Locked out in bridging mode

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
booted and I could not connect. (I initially tried to add the rule to lock me out) and after pfctl -e I did not even need the rule. So I guess something else triggered it. On 10/31/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After the tests today ( I guess I disabled firewall

Re: [pfSense Support] Locked out in bridging mode

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 15:12 -0500, Scott Ullrich wrote: pfctl runs pfctl -f /tmp/rules.debug. What happens if you run this? There is no rules.debug if you have disabled firewall in advanced setting and rebooted. That was my first surprise :)

[pfSense Support] Traffic shaping broken in 0.90

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Just upgraded to 0.90 and traffic shaping seems to be broken. Even after rerunning the wizard I get: # pfctl -f /tmp/rules.debug bandwidth for qWANRoot higher than interface /tmp/rules.debug:17: errors in queue definition parent qWANRoot not found for qWANdef /tmp/rules.debug:18: errors in queue

Re: [pfSense Support] Locked out in bridging mode

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
and HTTPS). I can connect the boxes which are behind firewall but not firewall host itself. It seems somehow related to the same IP on LAN and WAN interfaces according to my previous tests. On 10/31/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 15:12 -0500, Scott Ullrich

Re: [pfSense Support] Network Device pooling

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 14:39 -0500, Scott Ullrich wrote: On 10/31/05, Fleming, John (ZeroChaos) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if part of the problem is PF isn't seeing the TCP tear down. It seems a little odd that the max gets hit and nothing else gets through. I guess it could be the

RE: [pfSense Support] Network Device pooling

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
enabled which seems to show it is not bridging itself at least. -Original Message- From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:09 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Network Device pooling On 10/31/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL

Re: [pfSense Support] Traffic shaping broken in 0.90

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 16:20 -0500, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: A Why not to set it to 1000Mbit ? Seriously If you're looking for something fail safe it could be fails safe. this is not ever going to happen unless there is something misdefined. very few people need to shape more than

Re: [pfSense Support] Locked out in bridging mode

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
benchmark in both configurations and there is the same effect. Scott On 10/31/05, Scott Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still don't have any idea what your trying to do. Send me your config.xml off-list. Scott On 10/31/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005

Re: [pfSense Support] Network Device pooling

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
ob my test driver host. This still brings the question why with filtering and without behavior is different but it makes me worry less :) Scott On 10/31/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 16:25 -0500, Scott Ullrich wrote: apr_poll: The timeout specified

[pfSense Support] Empty LAN IP is broken once again

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Hi, It looks like there is some newly added bug in 0.90 with empty LAN address (WAN bridging) # FTP proxy rdr-anchor pftpx/* rdr on em1 proto tcp from any to any port 21 - 127.0.0.1 port 8021 pass in on em1 proto tcp from /29 to any port 5900:5930 keep state tag qOthersDownH pass out on

Re: [pfSense Support] Empty LAN IP is broken once again

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
that gets broken by this careless move on my part. Heh. So we're back dead in a water. IP is required. The same IP as on WAN leads to trouble. Fake IP leads to less trouble but still some stuff does not work this way Scott On 10/31/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

RE: [pfSense Support] Empty LAN IP is broken once again

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 02:42 +0100, Espen Johansen wrote: Hi Peter, I'm sorry, but I for one have had quite enough emails from you by now. You have clearly demonstrated that you do not understand enough about firewalls, filtering, BSD etc. to use pfSense in it's current state. Thank you. I

Re: [pfSense Support] Traffic shaping broken in 0.90

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 17:14 -0600, Bill Marquette wrote: On 10/31/05, Peter Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fact it is not production ready as you put it makes me cautious - this is why I go in bridging mode as this way I can bypass firewall physically by switching couple of cables

RE: [pfSense Support] Network Device pooling

2005-11-01 Thread Peter Zaitsev
enough. -Original Message- From: Peter Zaitsev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 3:53 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Network Device pooling On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 16:31 -0500, Scott Ullrich wrote: Are we absolutely sure