Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS

2009-01-24 Thread jason whitt
I love Freenas, however if he is going for home use check into UN-RAID by lime-technology. THere are things that i do not like about it the lack of features, but really i didn't need anything more than a windows share. However being able to resize a raid 5 array is awesome..ZFS doesnt allow for th

Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS

2009-01-24 Thread Curtis LaMasters
OpenFiler would be a great option. I'm running 6TB on one server with MS Exchange and SQL over iSCSI without issue. Curtis LaMasters http://www.curtis-lamasters.com http://www.builtnetworks.com On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Chris Buechler wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Eugen Le

[pfSense-discussion] Secure LAN and WLAN setup

2009-01-24 Thread David Nordin
Hey! This might most likely come out as noise in here and wasted internetbits ;) I would like to create a pretty much maximum secure networkstructure for my network(s), mostly for educational purposes - but aim is to create a guide for this purpose. As I am unfamiliar with crucial network securit

[pfSense-discussion] VOIP traffic shaping problems

2009-01-24 Thread Joe Lagreca
I have a Trixbox VOIP PBX behind a pfSense v1.2.2. I'm having what I believe to be traffic shaping problems. Overview: We have a T-1, which tests to be about 1300/1300 kbps. Symptoms: When I download a large file and max our download speed, VOIP will garble. This is even with the traffic shap

Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS

2009-01-24 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Eugen Leitl 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 existing dev

Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS

2009-01-24 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:55:37PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:16:07PM +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > > Ten TB? > > Starting with about four, expandable to ten or higher. I've > seen SuperMicro SATA boxes which take 12 hotplug SATA drives > in 2U, twice that with 2.5"

Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS

2009-01-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:16:07PM +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Ten TB? Starting with about four, expandable to ten or higher. I've seen SuperMicro SATA boxes which take 12 hotplug SATA drives in 2U, twice that with 2.5" drives. Right now WD consumer TByte drives go for 80 EUR, RE3 for 130. I

Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS

2009-01-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 09:15:33AM -0500, apiase...@midatlanticbb.com wrote: > With that amount of space, your probably better off building a separate > NAS Server. The package hasn't been released or mentioned in awhile so i Ok, FreeNAS is it, then. Unfortunately the effort seems much smaller t

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] FreeNAS

2009-01-24 Thread apiase...@midatlanticbb.com
With that amount of space, your probably better off building a separate NAS Server. The package hasn't been released or mentioned in awhile so i wouldn't hold your breath for it. All in one boxes are geared towards home use. Not enterprise storage. Adam Eugen Leitl wrote: A customer/friend o

[pfSense-discussion] FreeNAS

2009-01-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
A customer/friend of mine needs a large (some 10 TByte) online storage. So far the optimal match looks like FreeNAS + zfs + RAID-Z, which is currently in pre-alpha (0.7 nightly builds). No firewall or VPN, though. IIRC one developer (Chris?) mentioned a number of different pfSense possible flavor