Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS

2009-01-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 24.01.2009 um 11:13 schrieb Eugen Leitl: A customer/friend of mine needs a large (some 10 TByte) online storage. Ten TB? OpenSolaris 2008.11 That is, if you don't actually want go with one of SUN's new appliances. What financial value do these 10TB represent? Rainer

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Website filtering with pfSense on alix

2008-08-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Gary Buckmaster schrieb: Mark Dueck wrote: Hi everyone, Is it possible to do website filtering on an Alix board? I setup some businesses with gateways using squid and dansguardian to blanket block the internet, and then allowing access on a per ip basis or allow certain websites for the rest

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Captive Portal on pfsense

2008-07-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Chris Buechler schrieb: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:38 AM, muhammad panji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Hi I start searching for option to implement captive portal on my campus hotspot and I think pfsense captive portal will make it easier. I'm not really familiar with wireless

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Captive Portal on pfsense

2008-07-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
RB wrote: I'm not very familiar with building large-scale WLANs, but AFAIK, it's a little more than just buying enough APs and placing them in the right spots... I am, and it actually is just that. If you already have UTP ports within 300' the AP locations, it's by far the most

[pfSense-discussion] [Fwd: Re: Linux SMP network performance measurements]

2008-01-15 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hi, this may be of interest to people here. Via the FreeBSD-current mailing-list - apologies, if you read that, too. cheers, Rainer ---BeginMessage--- Stefan Lambrev wrote: Thierry Herbelot wrote: gives some measurements on various tweakings of an SMP machine with 4 Xeon processors (it

Re: [pfSense-discussion] full instalation on 4 GB SSD

2007-08-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
Paul M wrote: Eugen Leitl wrote: I was thinking a real 2.5 SSD would have a MTBF comparable to a real hard drive (SanDisk claims 2 Mh MTBF, can't find any such for Hama SSD, which is a bargain at about 100 EUR for 4 GByte, which probably already answers my question). I think that

Re: [pfSense-discussion] full instalation on 4 GB SSD

2007-08-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Curtis LaMasters wrote: Honestly I don't know the answer to your questions but keep this in mind, pfSense loads from disk/flash/cd and then run's completely from RAM. I think this is true only for the embedded version. The full version (with packages et.al.) will quite probably use disk I/O.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Dynamic DNS

2006-10-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Stefan Tunsch wrote: I'm talking about the integrated dyndns client. Luckily I installed the ADSL with the dynamic ip address on the WAN interface... How can I report an IP other than the WAN IP? I think he said next version. Or did I misread that? Bear with them - they're probably

Re: [pfSense-discussion] IDS yet?

2006-10-04 Thread Rainer Duffner
Daniel S. Haischt wrote: Beside that I always thought Snort is first and foremost an IDS and not an IPS... It can do both, IIRC. But commercial IDS/IPS products have been blurring the line between these two purposes for years - upto a point where I think there is no real distinction

Re: [pfSense-discussion] artwork

2006-06-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.06.2006 um 21:18 schrieb Scott Ullrich: On 6/21/06, Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's kind of inflamatory, but change the theme to pfsense and you'll have the ugly old look back. It is indeed fnlamatory and I would go as far to say it is rude and a slap in the face to

Re: [pfSense-discussion] No altq support on linitx.com appliances? Also, plug for packaging on embedded version.

2006-05-02 Thread Rainer Duffner
Christoph Hanle wrote: Carl Youngblood schrieb: On 5/2/06, Scott Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/2/06, Carl Youngblood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to pfsense and have a question and a suggestion. I just installed pfsense on a brand new appliance that we bought from linitx.com,

Re: [pfSense-discussion] No altq support on linitx.com appliances? Also, plug for packaging on embedded version.

2006-05-02 Thread Rainer Duffner
Chris Buechler wrote: Rainer Duffner wrote: I think the latest-generation RealTek's are not that bad - I may be wrong, because I avoid them like the plague myself, but ISTR having read somewhere that the latest generation is somehow better than the the 1st generation (on which the comment

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Setup advice wanted, devices for public library

2006-03-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 29.03.2006 um 00:25 schrieb Josh Stompro: Anyone have recommendations for 2.5 inch hard drives for this sort of application? Hitachi. http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/ 79EC6FC280F57A2A86256D630067D507/$file/Travelstar_E7K60_100504.pdf Has anyone thought of how

Re: [pfSense-discussion] throughput - cpu, bus

2006-03-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 14.03.2006 um 20:52 schrieb Greg Hennessy: I'd love to get the chance to throw an Avalanche at a decent system running PF to see what it really can stand upto. Andre Oppermann is working on that. http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/ But the results won't show-up until 7.0 is released,

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense merge with freebsd?

2006-03-10 Thread Rainer Duffner
DarkFoon wrote: So the question is, if I jumper the drive to limit it to 32GB so the darn computer will actually boot (the BIOS freezes detecting the drive), can I get FreeBSD to recognize all 300GB? I probably should check the FreeBSD man pages, but being as ill as I am right now, I feel like

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Clients... ugh

2006-02-01 Thread Rainer Duffner
DarkFoon wrote: APPLIANCE! That's the word I was looking for! Thank you! Yes, my client my client means what you said: an appliance, which is plug, go to web interface, click, click, click and it works. He has one of those (appliance) already, but like I said, its some piece of crap.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] block port 25

2005-12-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
dny wrote: On 12/24/05, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: exactly what i need. can you please give more detailed? perhaps step-by-step guide will be greatly appreciated. This reading-list might be useful: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/fire2 http

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Newbie Q: security of php on perimeter firewall

2005-11-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Chris Buechler wrote: Sanjay Arora wrote: Hi all Just joined the list. Am mostly using IPcop other Linux flavours for perimeter firewalling. Needed ISP WAN-link balancing failover, hence my search for a new option. Also have started experimenting with freebsd, so choice was limited to

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Restricted viewing...

2005-10-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Scott Ullrich wrote: Sure its possible. Are we planning to do this soon? Not on the list. I'd also vote for pushing this far behind. Perhaps somebody has got an idea how to get a per-customer user-interface implemented so that the individual customers can view AND edit their own

Re: [pfSense-discussion] FFS bad disklabel

2005-10-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rajkumar S wrote: Scott Ullrich wrote: Try out http://www.pfsense.com/~sullrich/FreeSBIE.iso which has a few installer tweaks. We're still actively hunting this bug down. Still the same error. I have accepted all default options. No seperate partitions, full 40GB in a single slice and