Re: [pfSense-discussion] happy IPv6 day

2011-06-08 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Chris Buechler cbuech...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: This being the World IPv6 day, I enabled IPv6 on three pfSense instances, using the excellent http://iserv.nl/files/pfsense/ipv6/ (thanks, Seth

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Problems with CARP VIP and layer 3 switch

2011-04-17 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Vinicius Coque vco...@gmail.com wrote: Now I understand the problem. I'll keep track of the bug on redmine. I would definitely check the problem on the switch too as in a CARP setup it shouldn't have problems with MACs that switch between ports quickly. That

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Problems with CARP VIP and layer 3 switch

2011-04-15 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Vinicius Coque vco...@gmail.com wrote: What does the CARP status show, and what do the logs show for CARP? CARP Status pfSense master:  vip1 172.16.0.39  MASTER pfSense backup:  vip1 172.16.0.39  BACKUP System logs: pfSense master: Apr 15

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Problems with CARP VIP and layer 3 switch

2011-04-14 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Vinicius Coque vco...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have two pfSense machines configured as cluster using carp, they are both connected to a layer 3 switch. There are about 10 different subnets configured on that and each client machine under these subnets use the

[pfSense-discussion] 2.0-RC1 now available!

2011-02-28 Thread Chris Buechler
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Re: [pfSense-discussion] Considering Switching to Pfsense

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Tony Zakula tonyzak...@gmail.com wrote: We have a 5mb line, is a quad core processor with 4gb of ram overkill? Way, way overkill, that's closer suited to a 5 Gb connection than 5 Mb. Not that that's a problem, you can get by with a whole lot less hardware if

Re: [pfSense-discussion] DreamPlug

2011-02-02 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Cédric Jeanneret pfse...@tengu.ch wrote: Hello, Just wondering if anyone has already used pfsense on such material: http://www.newit.co.uk/shop/proddetail.php?prod=DreamPlug There are some other computer plugs, like

Re: [pfSense-discussion] PfSense localization

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:36 PM, st41ker st41...@st41ker.net wrote: Hello, PfSense is a very popular project and it used around the globe. So I can say that that is an international wide product. But when I look at localization I see that it's not so good for international usage. Hardcoded

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Re: ARIN space not accepted

2010-12-11 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Gé Weijers g...@weijers.org wrote: [...]  That means, prior to end of Q1, the bogon list will be: 0/8 10/8 127/8 172.16/12 192.168/16 224/3 There's a number of special-use ranges that are not in this list, but which should not occur as (source)

Re: [pfSense-discussion] country blocking for single address

2010-11-26 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net wrote: The specific country involved might take far less than that; accuracy also matters. For example, I can block about 80% of Africa with less than ten rules. Blocking 100% of Africa takes hundreds of entries. I do

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense router/firewall in a Vmware ESXi guest for other guests

2010-10-07 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 03:53:54PM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: That's not the normal experience from what I've seen, sounds specific to something in particular you're doing. I believe every environment I've seen that routes

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense router/firewall in a Vmware ESXi guest for other guests

2010-10-02 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Adam Thompson athom...@c3a.ca wrote: This started with 4.0, I have upgraded to 4.1 but haven't specifically tested performance since.  Routing from one VLAN to another entirely inside VMware is still slow, however.  AFAIK this is somehow related to interrupt

[pfSense-discussion] training session at EuroBSDCon

2010-09-20 Thread Chris Buechler
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Re: [pfSense-discussion] IPSEC routing hack, and CARP, leading to arpresolve can't allocate route errors

2010-09-01 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Paul Mansfield it-admin-pfse...@taptu.com wrote: if you recall, to make your pfsense firewall itself be able to talk to a remote site over an IPSEC tunnel, you need to add a hack which is a static route to remote network via the LAN address if you have a

Re: [pfSense-discussion] article: Millions of Home Routers at Risk

2010-08-02 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:53 AM, LM asturlui...@gmail.com wrote: What is the status of this? A patch is going to be released or what? I'll put up a blog post later - the just of it is use a strong password and you're fine. The protection we added simply protects from gross negligence (or future

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Hints on no firewall and bridge

2010-07-04 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Tonix (Antonio Nati) to...@interazioni.it wrote: First question. We are planning to use PFsense as frontend gateway routing to customers subnets, and in such architecture, we could use pfsense as pure routing device, except we want to protect the LAN network.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] 2.0 on a two-NIC system

2010-06-07 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: I've manated to resurrect my oldish VIA C3 dual mini-ITX upgrading them to 2.0beta. Is there a way to get them to run as a failover cluster in 2.0, despite having only two physical NICs? This wasn't possible in 1.3. Yes, and

Re: [pfSense-discussion] modified nanoBSD 1.2.3 image for WRAP?

2010-03-08 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org wrote: On 3/8/2010 5:51 PM, David Rees wrote: I've seen same or similar behavior on an ALIX box with a fairly large ruleset and decent number of VPNs. We could never get all the VPNs to come up properly and we eventually ended up

Re: [pfSense-discussion] broadcom BCM5722 only running at 100M not 1G

2010-02-01 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Paul Mansfield it-admin-pfse...@taptu.com wrote: after complaint about slowness between our lan and dmz, I traced it to a firewall interface on our pfsense 1.2.3 firewall, a Dell R300 with onboard broadcom bcm5722 FreeBSD fwa.xxx.yyy 7.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Ping

2010-01-06 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:18 AM, cl...@pfsense pfse...@mail-fwd.archie.dk wrote: I wonder: Has there really been no activity on this list since Dec 21 or has my feed been cut ? This list isn't very active, the support list is much more active, and the forum far more active than both the lists

Re: [pfSense-discussion] two /24 on a WAN

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: I see there are no multiple fields for subnets in the WAN interface. My ISP doles out networks as /24 as the largest chunk. Does this mean I can't add a second subnet in the pfSense GUI and have to use the command line, or do

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Traffic shaping VOIP on low bandwidth connections?

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Joe Lagreca lagr...@gmail.com wrote: I have a T-1 (1.54mb symmetrical) for our data connection.  Whenever there is a big download filling the pipe, the inbound voice chops. When I set the inbound traffic to 1450kb (tested all the way down to 1000kb), I got

[pfSense-discussion] pfSense 1.2.3 release now available!

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Buechler
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Re: [pfSense-discussion] optimal way for a colo setup

2009-11-10 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: generally prefer getting a smaller WAN block and having the larger internal block routed to you, then you can use a combination of NAT So you have a small address space just for the firewalls WANs and other stuff, and get the

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense book now available for purchase

2009-11-04 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Scott Ullrich sullr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:13 PM, cl...@pfsense pfse...@mail-fwd.archie.dk wrote: Can't wait for the electronic version  :-) I believe only commercial support customers will have access to the electronic version. I

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Rebecca L. Bowman/CHMCA is out of the office.

2009-10-29 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:38 PM, iggd...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like you all to know that unlike Ms. Bowman I will be in the office or at least available more or less at all times.   I kind of live on the internet.   Thanks. That was confidential!! ;) On a serious note, I wish people would

Re: [pfSense-discussion] long upgrade of 1.2.3RC3full on ALIX

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:10:59AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: I've updated 1.2.3RC3 on a SunFire X2100 M2 yesterday without a hitch. Same upgrade on ALIX takes now about an hour. What's the name of the upgrade process? bsdtar

Re: [pfSense-discussion] layer 4-7 load balancing

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Aristedes Maniatisa...@ish.com.au wrote: I've since discovered that our application server doesn't need sessions to be bound to a particular httpd front-end. So 3 4 are not actually required (although SSL offloading would be convenient simply to reduce the

Re: [pfSense-discussion] layer 4-7 load balancing

2009-08-20 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Aristedes Maniatisa...@ish.com.au wrote: Is anyone using pfSense to perform load balancing (and failover) for two or more web servers in a redundant configuration? Yes, lots, but in more generic setups. Bonus points for being able to also perform SSL

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Very odd issue - Transparent Firewall - 2 Locations

2009-07-16 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Angus Jordanangus.jor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, I've attached the logs directly from the /var/log/filter.log. These show up at exactly the same time the download stops... What happens if you lower the MTU on the server to 1450?

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Very odd issue - Transparent Firewall - 2 Locations

2009-07-16 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Angus Jordanangus.jor...@gmail.com wrote: I had configured the servers behind the pfsense bridge with the gateway pointing directly at the pfsense firewall. When I modified the gateway on the servers to use the real upstream gateway, all is normal. Ah yeah,

Re: [pfSense-discussion] dhcp relay | failover

2009-07-11 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Zied Fakhfakhzyd...@gnet.tn wrote: Hi, I have a dhcp relay on pfsense to a dhcpd at, let's say, 192.168.2.1. There's a failover dhcpd server at 192.168.2.2 (withou floating IP). is there anyway pfsense can handle that ? Manually change the relay. There's

Re: [pfSense-discussion] euroBSDcon

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Paul Mansfield it-admin-pfse...@taptu.com wrote: http://www.ukuug.org/events/eurobsdcon2009/ anyone going? I submitted a talk on pfSense, if it gets accepted I'll be there. We've submitted to 5 BSD conferences over the past 4 years and haven't been rejected

Re: [pfSense-discussion] High latency on downloads with shaping

2009-05-08 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Joe Lagreca j...@bignetonline.com wrote: I'm having a STANGE problem when our traffic shaper is turned on. Normal. limitation of 1.2.x shaper. treats no differently than Internet-bound pings. -

Re: [pfSense-discussion] High latency on downloads with shaping

2009-05-08 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Joe Lagreca j...@bignetonline.com wrote: Why only on the download portion of the test and not the upload portion? If I switch to pfsense 1.0.1 can I avoid these limitations/problems? No. The shaper in 1.0.x is slightly worse, and 1.0.x is riddled with problems.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] High latency on downloads with shaping

2009-05-08 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Joe Lagreca j...@bignetonline.com wrote: The problem is the high latency is wreaking havoc with our VOIP PBX. That's irrelevant, ICMP is queued differently from your VoIP traffic. - To

Re: [pfSense-discussion] HSRP log messages on BRIDGE0

2009-04-27 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Angus Jordan angus.jor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, We have a pfSense 1.2.2 box setup in a transparent firewall configuration (ie. LAN is bridged to WAN). This works just fine, but the colocation where this box is sitting is broadcasting HSRP (UDP port 1985)

[pfSense-discussion] 1.2.3-RC1 released!

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Buechler
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Re: [pfSense-discussion] Cannot Save changes in /tmp/rules.debug

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:52 AM, RI 1 / ipv6.or.id risna...@ipv6.or.id wrote: Hallo Chris, Yes, changing PF Rules. GUI doesn't seem to work, i already set allow all for all interface. It works fine, you're seeing something else like out of state traffic or asymmetrically routed traffic. If

Re: [pfSense-discussion] OT: simple SMTP relay daemon?

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:52 AM, David Rees dree...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: I'm looking for something simple to do nothing but accept SMTP mail from a defined list of hosts allowed to relay and push it off to another SMTP server

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Cannot Save changes in /tmp/rules.debug

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:00 PM, RI 1 / ipv6.or.id risna...@ipv6.or.id wrote: Hi, I just worked with PFSense lately. Why can't I save any changes made to /tmp/rules.debug file due to web interface firewall doesn't seem to work ? It's always after a while back to block default deny rule or

Re: [pfSense-discussion] OT: simple SMTP relay daemon?

2009-04-09 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:46 PM, RB aoz@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 21:07, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: I'm looking for something simple to do nothing but accept SMTP mail from a defined list of hosts allowed to relay and push it off to another SMTP server (using

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense / Free BSD CPU kern.cp_time Jams in some environments

2009-04-04 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Tortise tort...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Hi Is anyone else getting this? It is occurring if you get a either a 1) divide by zero error on the index page for CPU Usage or 2) an indication the CPU is always on 0% use, which it shouldn't be for long! It seems

Re: [pfSense-discussion] extending LAN private network

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:34 PM, David Rees dree...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Paul Mansfield it-admin-pfse...@taptu.com wrote: use vlans, a managed switch, and use 192.168.x.0/24 for each vlan. for bonus points, use NAC and dynamic vlans to allow only approved devices

Re: [pfSense-discussion] VPN Tunnel Dual WAN failover

2009-03-05 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Mark Slatem nitro...@gmail.com wrote: Chris, Will version 2 support this natively by any chance? Just need a package for OSPF, which could be added on 1.2.x and 2.0. That's a project I

Re: [pfSense-discussion] VPN Tunnel Dual WAN failover

2009-03-04 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Mark Slatem nitro...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all advice. I recall attempting to add a static route to the openvpn server endpoint ip, but it still did not work for me. Then you aren't doing something right.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] VPN Tunnel Dual WAN failover

2009-03-03 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Mark Slatem nitro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I have about 50 Alix embedded firewalls running at branches. All the branches connect to a central pfsense at our data centre via an openvpn tunnel. This solution works absolutely beautifully and allows all the

Re: [pfSense-discussion] 1.2.2 CPU Division by zero error in index.php

2009-02-28 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Tortise tort...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Hi In the index.php page CPU usage value I am getting: Warning: Division by zero in /usr/local/www/includes/functions.inc.php on line 66 0% This is with the embedded image on a CF, Pentium 400, 756M RAM. Run this

Re: [pfSense-discussion] xen aware pfsense.

2009-01-27 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:15 PM, pfsense sense pfse...@kavadas.org wrote: i'm not suggesting pfsense be run inside a VM, i am suggesting pfsense provide VM functionality Refer back to my earlier post. - To unsubscribe,

Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS

2009-01-24 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: IIRC one developer (Chris?) mentioned a number of different pfSense possible flavors, Yes. including a NAS appliance. but no to that part. :) That's one thing that probably won't ever be added, at least not by any of our

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Load Balance Cannot Do Logins on forums , webmails , etc ,etc

2009-01-22 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:27 AM, John Dakos [ Enovation Technologies ] gda...@enovation.gr wrote: hi Ron and thanks for reply look , i turn ON the sticky connections and for 30 seconds everything is working. but until 30 seconds i have no Internet Don't use sticky connections. It's

[pfSense-discussion] 1.2.2 released

2009-01-08 Thread Chris Buechler
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Re: [pfSense-discussion] single interface operation

2009-01-04 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Jure Pečar pega...@nerv.eu.org wrote: Hello, would it be possible to use pfsense on a platform with a single nic, where wan,lan,opt are all vlans? With managed switch, of course. Yes.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Load balancer using carp interfaces?

2008-12-19 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Veiko Kukk veiko.k...@krediidipank.ee wrote: Hi! I wonder if there are some good reasons why i'ts not possible to choose CARP interfaces (virtual IP-s) for load balancer pools? Because you use only the physical interfaces, the CARP VIPs just go with the

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Load balancer using carp interfaces?

2008-12-19 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Paul Mansfield it-admin-pfse...@taptu.com wrote: Veiko Kukk wrote: Hi! I wonder if there are some good reasons why i'ts not possible to choose CARP interfaces (virtual IP-s) for load balancer pools? If not, then why can't I select carpx interfaces for ISP

[pfSense-discussion] Network Perimeter Redundancy with pfSense session at DCBSDCon

2008-12-17 Thread Chris Buechler
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Re: [pfSense-discussion] PHP uses 100% CPU on 1.2 and 1.2.1-RC2

2008-12-02 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Roland Giesler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I removed all the routes except one, just to test if all else is ok, but found that on both release 1.2 and 1.2.1-RC2, PHP steadily increased when I save a change until it hits 100% usage on one CPU. Then, if I click

Re: [pfSense-discussion] a pair of transparent bridges gotcha

2008-10-05 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I presume this is the same problem as http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=11531.msg63655 That person bought a support contract and we helped him resolve that, his firewall rules weren't setup properly to allow the DNS

Re: [pfSense-discussion] a pair of transparent bridges gotcha

2008-10-04 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a pair of pfsense 1.2.1-RC1 working in a poor man's failover (a parallel pair of transparent bridges). Had a problem with DNS lookup blockage, the problem is that LAN was on a different subnet. Put them on the same

Re: [pfSense-discussion] a pair of transparent bridges gotcha

2008-10-04 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 05:13:27PM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: LAN was on a different subnet from what? LAN was a different subnet from WAN (in transparent bridge this shouldn't matter, and it doesn't, with the exception

Re: [pfSense-discussion] can't filter on transparent bridge

2008-09-13 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get an 1.2.1-RC1 full with two NICs (VIA mini ITX) to filter traffic using http://pfsense.trendchiller.com/transparent_firewall.pdf No rules either in WAN or LAN, to the bridge must block everything -- but doesn't.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] hardware

2008-07-30 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Mark Dueck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Throughput will be minimal. From 512Kbps to 2Mbps max. I guess my biggest concern is stability. I have lab tested the Soekris 4801 with openVPN to have throughput of up to 3MB/s, so it should be fine for these locations,

Re: [pfSense-discussion] DNS resolver test

2008-07-22 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.provos.org/index.php?/pages/dnstest.html DNS Resolver Test For secure name resolution, it is important that your DNS resolver uses random source ports. The box below will tell you if there is something you

Re: [pfSense-discussion] DNS resolver test

2008-07-22 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - if your recursive servers are behind pfSense doing NAT with a default NAT configuration, you're fine even *without* patching your DNS servers. Scratch that part depending on your DNS server - if it uses a single static

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Captive Portal on pfsense

2008-07-17 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering that you are talking about the Linux variant of the WRT54G, I think it's safe to say that Chris probably assumed you were not running the stock Linksys firmware on it. Actually that is what I meant - you

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Captive Portal on pfsense

2008-07-17 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm happy to respond more fully to this: A) off-list, Jim, I'd encourage you to keep it on-list, a number of us have learned quite a bit from sharing of your expertise over the years. It may not be precisely on-topic for

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Re: Nessus : Change in the Plugin Feed Policy (Reminder)

2008-06-14 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Paul Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now none-free for any commercial usage, I was wondering if anyone's looked at the alternatives? I've been a Nessus user since its very early days, been roughly 7 years now I believe. I've had a Nessus Direct Feed

Re: [pfSense-discussion] SIP Phones and SIPROXD

2008-06-14 Thread Chris Buechler
Lee is a commercial support customer and we helped him offlist with this. There was a problem with the siproxd package, it should now work. Lee confirmed he now has two phones working simultaneously, so this must be working now. If you have installed the package previously, uninstall it first.

Re: Fw: [pfSense-discussion] I Cannot Uploading Files

2008-05-26 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 7:08 AM, John Dakos [ Enovation Technologies ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thank u SAI , but i have a problem with this configuration. this configuration work with NAT , and i dont want NAT because i have 200 public IP on Cisco Router, and i want all clients to join

Re: [pfSense-discussion] disappearing httpd

2008-04-30 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:52 PM, RB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have a situation where they're switching WAN types and somehow /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd just disappears? Can't say that I've seen that. You can restart it at the console menu for future reference. Anything relevant in the

Re: [pfSense-discussion] disappearing httpd

2008-04-30 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:08 AM, RB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't say that I've seen that. You can restart it at the console menu for future reference. Anything relevant in the logs? Nothing at all, and no restarting - the binary is *gone*, as in deleted. Oh wow! Definitely haven't

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfsense on alix, slow to access via WAN

2008-04-11 Thread Chris Buechler
Joe Lagreca wrote: I am running pfSense on an Alix system 2c3. When accessing via the LAN everything works great. However when I try to access it via the WAN, its very slow, and will time out. This is NOT a bandwidth issue. Sometimes the pages will load, but look as if the css file didn't

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Detailled syslog format.

2008-03-27 Thread Chris Buechler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm trying to do some analysing on the raw log format sent to syslog: snip check out pflog. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/logging.html http://www.google.com/search?q=pflog quite a bit of stuff available. for the underlying ruleset you're running, see

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Traffic shaper bug ?

2008-03-23 Thread Chris Buechler
Jan Hoevers wrote: While not unwilling to donate to projects, this bounty thing is not for me because of a strict open source policy. Again, is there any estimate for 1.3? This is 100% completely open source. The source ported to RELENG_1_2 is even in the public CVS server in its own branch.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] RELENG_1 library linking (was: Traffic shaper bug ?)

2008-03-22 Thread Chris Buechler
RB wrote: I understand, and have tangled some of the terminology. My ticket was about HEAD, but the library breakage seems to have seeped from HEAD to 1.3 (RELENG_1). Because all the binaries in RELENG_1 and HEAD are for FreeBSD 7.0. You can't go from 1.2 to 1.3 just by pulling the files

[pfSense-discussion] Registration open for pfSense training at BSDCan!

2008-03-22 Thread Chris Buechler
Please see the following post for more information. http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=182 Hope to see you there! Chris

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Traffic shaper bug ?

2008-03-21 Thread Chris Buechler
Ermal Luçi wrote: Expected behaviour. Since ALTQ shapes on outgoing that shapes every thing that goes through the interface where the shaper is enabled. For 1.2, it should be noted. For 1.3, Ermal has done a nice job completely rewriting the traffic shaper to accommodate these kinds of

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Sorry guys

2008-03-06 Thread Chris Buechler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen! I sorry to have started this Return Receipt storm. Chris Buechler complained to me in private and asked me to turn off RR when writing to this forum which I will of course do my outmost to remember in the future. I half expected a read receipt pop up

Re: [pfSense-discussion] 2 WAN

2008-03-04 Thread Chris Buechler
Jose Augusto wrote: Look this http://pfsense.blogspot.com/2005/05/captive-portal-and-traffic-shaping-to.html That's outdated info. Traffic shaper does not work properly with more than two interfaces (LAN + WAN) in 1.2. That's already fixed in 1.3.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] CD-ROM + floppy

2008-03-03 Thread Chris Buechler
DarkFoon wrote: Yes. just the config is kept on the floppy. This means that the RRD graphs don't save across reboots, right? And packages can't be installed. (well that's sort of obvious...) Correct on both accounts.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] CD-ROM + floppy

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Buechler
DarkFoon wrote: Does pfSense 1.2 still support booting from CD-rom and storing the config (and possibly other data) on a floppy disk? Yes. just the config is kept on the floppy. USB flash drives are also supported, and recommended over floppies.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] 1.2RC5 or release

2008-02-12 Thread Chris Buechler
Ronald L. Rosson Jr. wrote: On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Scott Dale wrote: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7313.0/topicseen.html This brought back my dashboard without a re-install. Thanks, that's good to know. Those who use the dashboard on 1.2, keep in mind it's experimental

Re: [pfSense-discussion] 1.2RC5 or release

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Buechler
Paul M wrote: Hi, given the a number of minor bug fixes, we will be seeing a 1.2RC5 variant sometime, or is the next step a full release? We'll probably skip RC5 as an official release even though the snapshots are labeled as such right now.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] bogons update issue

2008-02-03 Thread Chris Buechler
Jan Hoevers wrote: 2. On previous versions the bogons file was fetched from cymru.com, but on RC4 the script tries to get it from a pfSense server. The file is however missing on that pfSense server. I worked around this by copying the old cymru url back from RC3. Thanks for catching that,

Re: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ?

2007-12-21 Thread Chris Buechler
Jure Pečar wrote: Since everyone is just singing praises, I'll add some things to look for ;) Besides running it at home we run it on three production locations, which are two server rooms and one fast growing wireless lan. First bad expirience: it is really touchy about the quality of your

Re: RES: [pfSense-discussion] Problems to use PPTP/GRE traffic to connect in a server - Please advice.

2007-11-19 Thread Chris Buechler
Luciano Areal wrote: Hi Bill! The pfSense box is in front of the PPTP server. In other ways, it will act as the main gateway, and the PPTP server will be on the LAN. Clients will access it from WAN, passing through the pfSense box. I just did what you said. Removed all rules from NAT and

Re: [pfSense-discussion] 1.2-RC3 released!

2007-11-08 Thread Chris Buechler
Paul M wrote: meanwhile, I noticed many of the mirrors are not doing too well so I reported them some of the update mirrors are no good either.. in fact the downloads are pretty slow. The mirrors are all fine. Many only sync once a day, so as it says in the release announcement it

[pfSense-discussion] 1.2-RC3 released!

2007-11-07 Thread Chris Buechler
http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=152

Re: [pfSense-discussion] IPsec tunnel to a transparent bridge

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Buechler
Eugen Leitl wrote: I used to have a nice pre-shared key IPsec tunnel between two m0n0walls/pfSenses, running in NAT. Worked very nicely. However, I now have a transparent bridge with a public /24 network, and whenever I activate the tunnel I no longer can ping any host on the network (the

Re: [pfSense-discussion] web interface gone after upgrade to 1.0.2

2007-10-30 Thread Chris Buechler
Daniele Guazzoni wrote: I just upgraded from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 with pfSense-1.0.2-Full-Embedded-Update.tgz and although the firwall is functional I cannot access the webconfigurator. Any idea how to fix it ? There is no 1.0.2, so I'm not sure which version you're using, for embedded upgrades

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Via LAN drivers

2007-10-30 Thread Chris Buechler
Adam Van Ornum wrote: I've been looking into a Via C7 based system to run pfSense on and so far all of the systems seem to have either Realtek or Via based LAN chipsets. Several people have mentioned before that the Realtek chipsets are not very well supported at this time and I'm wondering

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Cacti Template

2007-10-30 Thread Chris Buechler
Ronald L. Rosson Jr. wrote: Has anyone come across or developed a template for pfsense firewalls to be polled by a Cacti server. Any information is helpful. haven't heard of any, it would be nice to see.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] ALIX shipping soon

2007-10-22 Thread Chris Buechler
Eugen Leitl wrote: I see on http://pcengines.ch/order1.php?c=2 that ALIX (e.g. alix2c3) is ETA 20071020. http://blog.pfsense.org/ sez snip ... Anyone knows how well AMD Geode LX does accelerated IPsec on FreeBSD? As far as we know at this time, it's not yet supported.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] commercial support

2007-10-22 Thread Chris Buechler
Eugen Leitl wrote: I see there's commercial support for pfSense, starting at about 300 EUR/year. Are there proper invoices for that? I can't tell. $300 USD actually. Yes, we can send you a proper invoice, or you can pay via credit card online and we'll send you the typical email receipt.

[pfSense-discussion] 1.2-RC2 released

2007-08-18 Thread Chris Buechler
http://pfsense.blogspot.com/2007/08/12-rc2.html Please test! This may be the last RC before 1.2 is released.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] SNAT / masquerading

2007-08-03 Thread Chris Buechler
Eugen Leitl wrote: I have a somewhat strange setup (thanks to our provider) which looks like this: LAN* - bge0- 192.168.0.1 WAN* - bge1- 10.0.2.6 OPT1(DMZ)- vlan0 - 62.245.148.129 Yes, the WAN is

Re: [pfSense-discussion] atmel avr port of pfsense?

2007-07-31 Thread Chris Buechler
Paul M wrote: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2837651365.html 32MB of SDRAM and 16MB of flash, expandable via an SD-card slot. aside from the fact that those two numbers alone mean it's far from compatible, it's not an x86 system, it's RISC. It won't run m0n0wall either.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Start other processes inside pfSense?

2007-07-23 Thread Chris Buechler
Roland Giesler wrote: Is it possible to start a VMware or Xen client inside pfSense? no. VMware doesn't support FreeBSD as a host, and Xen is still questionable on FreeBSD I believe.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] network layout

2007-06-20 Thread Chris Buechler
Bill Marquette wrote: Low end switches have a tendency to not have enough ram or cpu to handle a high volume mac spoofing attack and will usually end up turning into a hub under this kind of attack, rendering your vlans useless. Any switch's CAM table can be overflowed by directly connected

Re: [pfSense-discussion] MiniUPnPd security risks

2007-04-26 Thread Chris Buechler
DarkFoon wrote: I'm considering installing the UPnP daemon on some home/home office boxes, and I'm curious what the security issues are. From my own (simple) analysis, the worst that could happen is a malicious application could ask for many, many (almost all?) of the ports above 1024 to be

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