[pfSense-discussion] BTX halted --- I've fallen and I can't get up :)

2005-07-18 Thread Matthew Lenz
Well I got those new supermicro systems (5014C-MF) I talked about before and popped in the pfSense .70.1 cdrom into an external usb 2.0 drive hooked up to the machine. It sees the cdrom and tries to boot it but right after a bunch of BTX error codes are on the screen stuff like

Re: [pfSense-discussion] multipe ips on the wan interface?

2005-07-27 Thread Matthew Lenz
- Original Message - From: Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pfsense discussion@pfsense.com Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 3:42 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] multipe ips on the wan interface? I should have said 1. add virtual ip (am I supposed to beable to select the cidr

Re: [pfSense-discussion] advertisting frequency

2005-08-08 Thread Matthew Lenz
ok..thats what I was thinking. but it was doing this without preemption enabled before. was the check box not functioning and enabled by default? - Original Message - From: Scott Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pfsense discussion@pfsense.com Sent

[pfSense-discussion] iperf

2005-08-12 Thread Matthew Lenz
What are some good command line settings to get an idea of what kind of throughput pfsense has? currently I'm just doing: host1: iperf -c host2 host2: iperf -s and getting about 613 Mbits/sec. Where host1 is on the LAN net and host2 is on the OPT1 net (in other words the route through the

Re: [pfSense-discussion] iperf

2005-08-12 Thread Matthew Lenz
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 16:10 -0500, Bill Marquette wrote: I usually use: client: iperf -P 2 -w 128k -c server server: iperf -w 128k -s And I'd recommend using: http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/iperfdocs_1.7.0.html Also, I'm not sure FreeBSD uses polling mode for the em driver by

Re: [pfSense-discussion] iperf

2005-08-12 Thread Matthew Lenz
/A Duplex:N/A em3: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 2.1.7 port 0xd300-0xd33f mem 0xd006-0xd007 irq 27 at device 6.1 on pci3 em3: Ethernet address: 00:04:23:ba:7b:e7 em3: Speed:N/A Duplex:N/A maybe? On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 16:32 -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 16

Re: [pfSense-discussion] iperf

2005-08-12 Thread Matthew Lenz
sorry for the top reply.. they are all debian linux (afaik the ultimate server os ;) ) - Original Message - From: Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: discussion@pfsense.com Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion

Re: [pfSense-discussion] iperf

2005-08-12 Thread Matthew Lenz
# ifconfig em0 polling ifconfig: polling: Invalid argument - Original Message - From: Scott Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fleming, John (ZeroChaos) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED]; discussion@pfsense.com Sent: Friday, August 12

[pfSense-discussion] not able to resolve addresses during startup?

2005-08-22 Thread Matthew Lenz
I guess it might not be considered secure anyway but I've got a couple rules to allow outbound access to a couple internet hosts (some external xmlrpc stuff one of our apps uses) but it seems that the firewall isn't always able to reliably resolve the names during startup. It makes sense that the

[pfSense-discussion] sync of config between machines isn't working

2005-08-23 Thread Matthew Lenz
My config changes are not being synced to fw1 when I make them on fw0. Is there a log some where I can look at to see how/why this is failing? Here are the 'Services: CARP Settings' on fw0 (primary firwall): Synchronize Interface: OPT4 Synchronize to IP: OPT4's interface ip Remote System

Re: [pfSense-discussion] sync of config between machines isn't working

2005-08-23 Thread Matthew Lenz
becomes more obvious. I figured that maybe you guys who look to the configs all the times for issues might know of a tool to do this. On 8/23/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My config changes are not being synced to fw1 when I make them on fw0. Is there a log some where I can look

Re: [pfSense-discussion] sync of config between machines isn't working

2005-08-23 Thread Matthew Lenz
included when it really doesn't. --Bill On 8/23/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My config changes are not being synced to fw1 when I make them on fw0. Is there a log some where I can look at to see how/why this is failing? Here are the 'Services: CARP Settings' on fw0

Re: [pfSense-discussion] sync of config between machines isn't working

2005-08-23 Thread Matthew Lenz
or the other on the same daemon. On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:05 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: On 8/23/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bingo, I am using https. Is there a work around other than not using https currently? Not at the moment.

[pfSense-discussion] carp netmask

2005-08-25 Thread Matthew Lenz
Is this always supposed to be a /32? I'm using /32 on all of them right now and it works but it still seems to me that since its asking for the netmask of that ip that I should be using /24 (192.168.1.0 network) for the private gw vips and /27 (which is what my public ip range is) for the public

Re: [pfSense-discussion] carp netmask

2005-08-25 Thread Matthew Lenz
something to do with the netmask not being entirely accurate. On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 11:20 -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: On FreeBSD /32 works just fine for aliases. Scott On 8/25/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this always supposed to be a /32? I'm using /32 on all of them right now

Re: Fwd: [pfSense-discussion] carp netmask

2005-08-25 Thread Matthew Lenz
the CARP address lives on...a /32 _should_ work, that's how I've had mine setup for ages, but I opened it up to the netmask for correctness sake. --Bill On 8/25/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this always supposed to be a /32? I'm using /32 on all of them right now

[pfSense-discussion] wan interface failed causing carp failover

2005-08-25 Thread Matthew Lenz
I had an interesting thing happen today. The watchdog (atleast thats what the system log called it) on my WAN interface reset the WAN interface (any idea why that would have happened?) which caused all my outbound NAT to longer work. All my private gw (LAN/OPT*) carp interfaces/ips were still

Re: [pfSense-discussion] wan interface failed causing carp failover

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Lenz
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 01:50 -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: On 8/26/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The watchdog (atleast thats what the system log called it) on my WAN interface reset the WAN interface (any idea why that would have happened?) various reasons. I have some

Re: [pfSense-discussion] wan interface failed causing carp failover

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Lenz
. Really, use Intel. On 8/26/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 01:50 -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: On 8/26/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The watchdog (atleast thats what the system log called it) on my WAN interface reset the WAN interface

[pfSense-discussion] interface configuration .. speed and duplex?

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Lenz
I'm seeing something kinda weird the 0PT1/em0 interface on my secondary firewall. For some reason its 100/full and should be running 1000/full. I checked the switch (managed) and confirmed it. The switch is configured (but negotiation isn't disabled) to run 1000/full for that port and all my

Re: [pfSense-discussion] wan interface failed causing carp failover

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Lenz
Marquette wrote: Are you using pre-empt? --Bill On 8/26/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had an interesting thing happen today. The watchdog (atleast thats what the system log called it) on my WAN interface reset the WAN interface (any idea why that would have happened?) which

Re: [pfSense-discussion] wan interface failed causing carp failover

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Lenz
Scott mentioned that functionality required ifdepd .. preempt results in the same behavior? - Original Message - From: Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: discussion@pfsense.com Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion

[pfSense-discussion] filter errors

2005-08-27 Thread Matthew Lenz
Aug 27 21:02:02 kernel: pool_ticket: 34320 != 34322 Aug 27 21:02:02 php: : There were error(s) loading the rules: - The line in question reads []: Not sure what either of those lines imply. i included both because they happened at the same time. Above those lines were more of the slbd 'poll

Re: [pfSense-discussion] load balancing failures

2005-08-27 Thread Matthew Lenz
if disabling some of the extra onboard hardware helps matters. Does freebsd do smp very well? this is a hyperthreaded intel cpu in these machines and it looks like its enabling smp in the syslog. - Original Message - From: Scott Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [pfSense-discussion] load balancing failures

2005-08-28 Thread Matthew Lenz
ok I take some of that back.. I'm getting the poll failures on the primary as well. Side/unrelated note. Does carp log any where when it switches an interface from master to backup? - Original Message - From: Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Scott Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

[pfSense-discussion] what are the 'pfsync nodes' on the carp status screen all about?

2005-09-02 Thread Matthew Lenz

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Production Use?

2005-09-12 Thread Matthew Lenz
If you have two firewalls and are going to do failover I'd say go for it. If you only have one you can't make a change and see if it breaks stuff and still recover quickly. If you have two you can simply disable CARP on the malfunctioning firewall until its fixed. Its worked well for me and I

Re: [pfSense-discussion] can't get outbound ftp working

2005-09-13 Thread Matthew Lenz
.. above is all there is. -Matt On 9/13/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i logged in and killed the pftpx server.. and restarted it with full debugging. when i hit an ftp site from LAN net machine .. i see it proxying everything. however, when I attempt it from the OPT net machine

Re: [pfSense-discussion] can't get outbound ftp working

2005-09-13 Thread Matthew Lenz
to any port 21 - 127.0.0.1 port 8021 rdr on em3 proto tcp from any to any port 21 - 127.0.0.1 port 8021 rdr on bge1 proto tcp from any to any port 21 - 127.0.0.1 port 8021 ^^ Those are it. Do you see a rdr for the interface in question? On 9/13/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[pfSense-discussion] hitting public ip from behind the firewall

2005-09-20 Thread Matthew Lenz
I didn't think that it was supposed to be possible to access a VIP from behind the firewall which is serving that VIP? Is it possible that since I'm using CARP on all my VIPs that I've found an exception? Basically: I'm able to hit a public CARP ip from my LAN segment (private non-routable ips)

Re: [pfSense-discussion] block vs reject?

2005-09-25 Thread Matthew Lenz
Matthew Lenz wrote: Just had a situation where a backend job was hanging because it couldn't get to an ip. the tcp connect just kinda hung and this particular software module had a really long timeout set. Is there a reason why for example there is a global block in pfsense as opposed

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Re: Intrusion Prevention Systems

2005-10-06 Thread Matthew Lenz
I think checkpoint has been reading the mailing list ;) http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/06/1640258tid=172tid=218 I've said it before, pfSense is the only open source FW that comes close to (and exceeds in some aspects) commercial offerings like checkpoint. On Thu, 2005-09-22 at

[pfSense-discussion] syncing over https

2005-10-15 Thread Matthew Lenz
did this get fixed yet? I'm still running a 82.x version and haven't had a chance to upgrade yet. Was planning on upgrading once 1.0 came out. -Matt

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Donations needed

2005-10-19 Thread Matthew Lenz
Is this the main drive in the system? I wouldn't want to send you something slow since its a new system. If you'd rather wait a few days and see if people donate enough to get a nicer SATA drive we can do that. On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 12:52 -0500, Bill Marquette wrote: On 10/19/05, Matthew Lenz

[pfSense-discussion] *dances*

2005-11-04 Thread Matthew Lenz
from the release notes for FreeBSD 6.0 cdboot now works around a BIOS problem observed on some systems when booting from USB CDROM drives. swet. This was kicking my butt when I first started using pfSense. I was really hesitant about upgrading my FWs because if they got horked really bad

Re: [pfSense-discussion] redundant firewall hardware question

2005-12-13 Thread Matthew Lenz
we use the same switch for everything and have it broken into untagged vlans which simulate breaking the switch up into smaller switches. we have two switches total with the same configuration and one port on each is configured as a trunk (the switches are connected to one another). All servers

Re: [pfSense-discussion] redundant firewall hardware question

2005-12-13 Thread Matthew Lenz
offer is avoid Dell switches, they are junk. -Matt On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 11:35 -0500, Scott Ullrich wrote: Fancy. Have to say that I haven't experimented with multiple switches as of yet. Good to know! On 12/13/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we use the same switch

Re: [pfSense-discussion] hw sizing

2005-12-16 Thread Matthew Lenz
most 1U units come with 2 gig ethernet ports now days and you can add a quad-gig intel pci-x card to them. Thats what we did. http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/ for the machines (case+mb) you can buy these machines from lots of different resellers. newegg.com is where we got ours.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Small suggestion

2006-03-06 Thread Matthew Lenz
could probably do it with a tool tip. think thats provided by some standard html tag if I remember right. something with alt text or something. On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 10:04 -0600, Bill Marquette wrote: On 3/5/06, Lawrence Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about having the ip's pop up if you