Hi, same experience here, running a pfsense is already complicated enough without trying to restrict internet usage. Have seen the strangest kind of errors and sunk to many time into managing the box to really see a payoff for usage restrictions. And that even in Germany where we have this stupid file sharing law that you as the owner of a connection can be sued for copyright infringements of your users. I rather trust my coworkers and be really loud about it within our community if that trust is misused ;)
Cheers Thilo -- coworking: http://co-up.de more time for you coworkers: https://cobot.me On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 8:56:35 PM UTC+2, Jacques Paquin wrote: > > My initial impression syncs with your real world experience. We have our > open house next Monday night but already have members working here. I > turned on blocking for rules for about 10 minutes and problems immediately > cropped up with guys working on the websites. So, blocking got turned off. > I was just curious as to whether that was normal. Or if there were rulesets > that stopped the really egregious abuses that I could enable. > > -jacques > > On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 10:33:45 AM UTC-4, Alex Hillman wrote: >> >> We run pfsense, and have experimented with snort and a few other network >> management extensions, but found that it was REALLY hard to manage them >> effectively with all of the unpredictable ways that our members use the >> internet. Rulesets end up getting complicated and confusing. >> >> We want to make it easy for someone to come in, sit down, and get >> straight to work...without wasting time figuring out why something isn't >> working on our network. It's been easy to go overkill with network >> management tools that end up making the network LESS useful instead of >> more. This frustrates members AND our team members who don't always know >> how to explain why the internet isn't working the way they need/expect, let >> alone how to fix the issue. >> >> If someone has a magical universal ruleset, though...I'd love to check it >> out ;) >> >> -Alex >> >> >> >> >> ------------------ >> *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.* >> Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com >> Listen to the podcast: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/podcast >> >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Jacques Paquin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I'm running pfsense in our cowork space and am curious how other people >>> have it configured. >>> >>> Have you installed snort for ids/ips? If so, what rulesets are you >>> using? Has that caused problems for your coworkers? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Coworking" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
