It's not as easy as plugins into the other lan as their behavior is opposite. If I plug in is says disconnected if I pull the cord it says connected. Very messed up.
As for a low cost solution what would you recommend for hardware? What's my cheapest way out? I currently use squid and pf block which I understand doesn't play well with sd/cf media. Isn't the intent to limit writes on flash media? I don't need wireless as we have a carrier grade ap on the roof the covers the whole neighborhood. Kids love having access to the lan down the road at their friends. I suppose I could convert the 2850 to freenas and plex if I can build a dedicated box that's not too pricey. Sent from my iPad > On Nov 3, 2014, at 5:47 PM, Sean <[email protected]> wrote: > > You could also just switch the NICs from the console to make the former > outside interface the inside interface and so on. Then you'd be able to > access the web GUI. Or in VMWare change the Virtual LANs that the NICs are > attached to. Or set a static and manually connect your client PC to the > (formerly LAN, currently WAN) side and access the GUI. There's many ways it > seems to resolve this but I don't think anyone here could tell you why VMWare > suddenly decided to alter the virtual NIC assignments or if they were not > altered in VMWare then why/how they got detected in the wrong order causing > pfSense to get confused. If your wanting to fix it there are plenty of > possible ways a few of the more obvious of which are stated above. If you're > wanting to explain the cause of it then searching vmware KB articles might be > more productive than asking here. Given the low cost of putting together a > simple fanless flash-based low power appliance (I use a "set-top" type PC) to > run pfSense the whole virtual thing doesn't make much sense to begin with > unless it's just VM's themselves that you are trying to firewall. > >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Jim Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On Nov 3, 2014, at 7:25 AM, Brian Caouette <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Out of the blue this weekend pfsense went down. After further >> > investigation i've found that in VMWare 4.1 the status of the nics are >> > inverted. The ones that should be connected are disconnected. The ones >> > there had nothing plugged in show connected. If I unplugged the cable is >> > goes to connected and vise verse. I powered down the server a Dell 2850 >> > and powered it back up. No change. I used the ESXI cd and did a repair. No >> > change. I can't even get to the management software because the nics >> > status is reversed and for whatever od reason pfsense never auto starts. >> > Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this resolved? >> >> You could update. Your hardware is quite old. Your software is likely >> quite old. >> >> First, this isn’t Dell or VMware customer support. >> >> You don’t state the version of pfSense that you’re running. >> >> VMware 4.1 was first released in July of 2010. 4.1 update 3 was releases in >> August 2012. There is an update to 4.1.3 in April of this year. >> >> The PowerEdge 2850 was released in 2005, and given that the follow-on 2950 >> was first released in 2006, your 2850 dates from nearly a decade ago. >> >> It’s likely that the savings on your power bill could pay for a modern, >> low-wattage server. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
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