RE: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ?
We currently have 3 pfSense boxes running on our network. Two different subnets, and one master to our Bonded T1. These are simple P4 (2.4ghz)workstations, with 1gb of ram. We have some 20 servers, 32 public IPs (1 to 1 nat on a few servers), and about 70 clients. Performane, uptime, and managability are the three areas I feel pfSense excells in. I would recommend them most anywhere. We even bought 4 M200's from mini-box.com that our remote clients use as a dedicated VPN Box. Take Care, Nate From: Paolo Gentili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:05 PM To: discussion@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ? Hi all, i'm planning to use pfsense as a multiwan and firewall solution for an enterprise network of about 40 desktop pc and 15 internet servers (with various HTTP/POP3/SMTP/DNS/DHCP services) I'm currently installed it on a desktop for learning purposes and i'm testing it with no more than 3 or 4 pc with no problems but i'm not sure about its stability when passing to a real case of use with all my network operators. Before "do the critical step" of making it my main enterprise internet gateway i'd like to hear from you, your thoughts or experiences about how much trust can i have on pfsense and about passing from testing phase to the "production" regardless to the power of hardware used for running pfsense (which of course have as strong impact on throuhput). Bye Paolo Gentili The information contained in this electronic mail message is confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by telephone (800 248-5882)and delete the original message. Thank you.
Re: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ?
I have a very similar setup with two pfSense 1.2rc3's setup in a failover state. They are running on Dell 1U servers with 3 NIC's and have operated quite well for the last 3 months with about twice the number you have stated there. One problem I did run into was during the migration to pfSense we also migrated ISP'; during that process we use proxy ARP to use the IP addresses from the other ISP to be used on pfSense. Let's just say it didn't go smoothly, but everything is operational and we are happy with the cost savings. Curtis
RE: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ?
We are using it in 11 sororities and fraternities at the U of I campus. Each house having a min of 50 to 80 college students. Using laptops, desktops and other devices (Xbox/TiVo). And pfSense is running perfectly, we will see loads of 100mb for hours at a time on each firewall (dang kids and their music). People beating on the firewall with bittorrent and other p2p apps and all the time the traffic shaper is keeping the web surfers happy. It even survived halo 3 release day. All this on only AMD 2400+ systems with 512megs of ram. So I would say yes pfSense is ready for whatever you want to throw at it. Zach. Hotwire Networks From: Ted Crow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:51 PM To: discussion@pfsense.com Subject: RE: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ? We were forced to jump from testing to production (our previous firewall bit the dust) with pfSense v0.62.5 (alpha). Remarkably, it was the most stable platform I had tested to date out of numerous open source and commercial offerings. I had it in-place and operational within a couple of hours and it ran for almost 6 months (continuously - no reboots) when I upgraded to a later version for more features. We're currently running ~75 PCs, 50 IP Phones, 16 Servers, 4 VLANs, 5 Subnets and 16 VPNs served up across 6 interfaces on the same hardware as 2 years ago. I've got 48d 18h of uptime right now since I took the firewall down to reroute power to that rack. We've had only one crash: a few days after upgrading to 1.0.1 from BETA2, the hard drive went loopy. New hard drive, fresh install and config restore: back up in 15 minutes. Ted Crow MCP/W2K Information Technology Manager Tuttle Services, Inc. _ From: Paolo Gentili [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:05 PM To: discussion@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ? Hi all, i'm planning to use pfsense as a multiwan and firewall solution for an enterprise network of about 40 desktop pc and 15 internet servers (with various HTTP/POP3/SMTP/DNS/DHCP services) I'm currently installed it on a desktop for learning purposes and i'm testing it with no more than 3 or 4 pc with no problems but i'm not sure about its stability when passing to a real case of use with all my network operators. Before "do the critical step" of making it my main enterprise internet gateway i'd like to hear from you, your thoughts or experiences about how much trust can i have on pfsense and about passing from testing phase to the "production" regardless to the power of hardware used for running pfsense (which of course have as strong impact on throuhput). Bye Paolo Gentili
RE: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ?
We were forced to jump from testing to production (our previous firewall bit the dust) with pfSense v0.62.5 (alpha). Remarkably, it was the most stable platform I had tested to date out of numerous open source and commercial offerings. I had it in-place and operational within a couple of hours and it ran for almost 6 months (continuously - no reboots) when I upgraded to a later version for more features. We're currently running ~75 PCs, 50 IP Phones, 16 Servers, 4 VLANs, 5 Subnets and 16 VPNs served up across 6 interfaces on the same hardware as 2 years ago. I've got 48d 18h of uptime right now since I took the firewall down to reroute power to that rack. We've had only one crash: a few days after upgrading to 1.0.1 from BETA2, the hard drive went loopy. New hard drive, fresh install and config restore: back up in 15 minutes. Ted Crow MCP/W2K Information Technology Manager Tuttle Services, Inc. From: Paolo Gentili [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:05 PM To: discussion@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ? Hi all, i'm planning to use pfsense as a multiwan and firewall solution for an enterprise network of about 40 desktop pc and 15 internet servers (with various HTTP/POP3/SMTP/DNS/DHCP services) I'm currently installed it on a desktop for learning purposes and i'm testing it with no more than 3 or 4 pc with no problems but i'm not sure about its stability when passing to a real case of use with all my network operators. Before "do the critical step" of making it my main enterprise internet gateway i'd like to hear from you, your thoughts or experiences about how much trust can i have on pfsense and about passing from testing phase to the "production" regardless to the power of hardware used for running pfsense (which of course have as strong impact on throuhput). Bye Paolo Gentili
re: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ?
Paolo I have a customer running it with over 100 clients and 6 servers and it runs flawless. I run it on our production hosting network as well with 20+ servers and heavy VOIP usage. The only major issues I have run into are with FTP + SSL. Thanks Bryant From: "Paolo Gentili" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:06 PM To: discussion@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ? Hi all, i'm planning to use pfsense as a multiwan and firewall solution for an enterprise network of about 40 desktop pc and 15 internet servers (with various HTTP/POP3/SMTP/DNS/DHCP services) I'm currently installed it on a desktop for learning purposes and i'm testing it with no more than 3 or 4 pc with no problems but i'm not sure about its stability when passing to a real case of use with all my network operators. Before "do the critical step" of making it my main enterprise internet gateway i'd like to hear from you, your thoughts or experiences about how much trust can i have on pfsense and about passing from testing phase to the "production" regardless to the power of hardware used for running pfsense (which of course have as strong impact on throuhput). Bye Paolo Gentili
[pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ?
Hi all, i'm planning to use pfsense as a multiwan and firewall solution for an enterprise network of about 40 desktop pc and 15 internet servers (with various HTTP/POP3/SMTP/DNS/DHCP services) I'm currently installed it on a desktop for learning purposes and i'm testing it with no more than 3 or 4 pc with no problems but i'm not sure about its stability when passing to a real case of use with all my network operators. Before "do the critical step" of making it my main enterprise internet gateway i'd like to hear from you, your thoughts or experiences about how much trust can i have on pfsense and about passing from testing phase to the "production" regardless to the power of hardware used for running pfsense (which of course have as strong impact on throuhput). Bye Paolo Gentili
