Re: [pfSense-discussion] Online scanning

2009-04-14 Thread RB
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 04:10, cl...@pfsense pfse...@mail-fwd.archie.dk wrote: To test my new configuration can anyone recommend a secure, thorough online port scanner ? What qualifies thorough? Although nmap's aggressive mode pretty well covers most there's a port open and this is what it's

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

2009-04-10 Thread RB
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 01:57, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: amount of effort. I suspect there's a tiny, simple daemon somewhere that will do this without a lot of fuss, I just can't find it. I'd ASSP almost makes it, but probably doesn't qualify due to being written in Perl. I like

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

2009-04-09 Thread RB
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 21:58, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: Saw both of those, though from what I can see neither one of them will accept SMTP over the network, they're local only. If I'm mistaken, let me know. My check was cursory, I only mentioned them because they both have the

Re: [pfSense-discussion] WAN LAN1 and LAN2 (OPT1)

2009-02-28 Thread RB
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 01:53, Tortise tort...@paradise.net.nz wrote: I have since tried configuring as: LAN1: 10.aaa.bbb.ccc/8 LAN2: 10.(aaa+1).bbb.ccc/9 I presume I have still got it wrong. Yes. Any /9 is still a subset of a /8 with the same prefix, and unless you really know what you're

[pfSense-discussion] syslog.conf errors

2009-02-04 Thread RB
I was porting some local log-size changes to 1.2.2 and found something I'd never really noticed before. Currently, the logger startup creates a set of rules like the following: *.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit; %/var/log/system.log news.err;local0.none;local3.none;local4.none;

Re: [pfSense-discussion] xen aware pfsense.

2009-01-28 Thread RB
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 15:31, pfsense sense pfse...@kavadas.org wrote: Ignoring the lack of Xen dom0 support in FreeBSD for a moment, of course. I definitely misunderstood your original post, my apologies. That being said, there isn't and doesn't soon look to be much motion within FreeBSD to

Re: [pfSense-discussion] xen aware pfsense.

2009-01-28 Thread RB
of the guest systems. The reverse is also true - the virtual firewall may be attacked in much the same way. Having a hypervisor running underneath a guest OS does not make security a moot point; rather, it increases complexity and attack surfaces, effectively reducing security. RB

Re: [pfSense-discussion] xen aware pfsense.

2009-01-27 Thread RB
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 17:42, pfsense sense pfse...@kavadas.org wrote: has anyone considered the possibility of intergrating xen with pfsense ? i might be loosing my mind but wouldn't it be nice to have a pfsense running on harware and a vistualization environemnt that allow us to install our

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Captive Portal on pfsense

2008-07-17 Thread RB
That's what I was thinking: isn't it a problem to have to APs with same SSID (and maybe the same channel) in reach of each other? Don't the clients get confused? Or are the drivers usually smart enough not to flap between the two? Many righteous WLAN cards have the election process

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Captive Portal on pfsense

2008-07-17 Thread RB
really do know. First glance tells me I likely have nothing to add or respond to on your other two emails. RB

Re: [pfSense-discussion] disappearing httpd

2008-05-01 Thread RB
Oh wow! Definitely haven't heard of that. It dying isn't unheard of, though it's very unusual. It disappearing that's a new one on me. I would question hardware, maybe bad drive or flaky controller. Maybe a FreeBSD driver quirk specific to something related to your disks, though

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Slow Firewall reload

2008-04-30 Thread RB
About 10 to 15 minutes on Configuring Firewall.. and it's just a Pentium 3 PC That doesn't seem particularly unreasonable, considering my machines are dual 1.8GHz systems w/2GB of RAM. Of course, they have a _lot_ going on, and have gotten a lot faster since I tweaked down SQUID disk

[pfSense-discussion] disappearing httpd

2008-04-30 Thread RB
Anyone have a situation where they're switching WAN types and somehow /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd just disappears? I limped my way back online, but that sucked! No CLI changes or anything, just normal web UI interaction. (1.2 release) RB

Re: [pfSense-discussion] disappearing httpd

2008-04-30 Thread RB
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.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Outbound load balancer users, please vote

2008-04-18 Thread RB
or comment here. Although not technically load-balancing (we're using it to do WAN failover), we are running a CARP cluster with sticky connections zero problems - maybe it's the wrong thing to do. We set 'sticky' when we only had one WAN path and never dropped it when we went to two.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] clog size

2008-04-14 Thread RB
indicates that, although the displayed size in bytes doesn't come out exactly, 2GB is indeed the limit. There isn't any overflow that I can tell, but something, whether it be the signedness or something in init_log, is cutting things off there. RB

Re: [pfSense-discussion] clog size

2008-04-11 Thread RB
if there were a clean way of getting a copy of the pfSense tree into a development environment _I_ am comfortable with. I can do VMs and all that goop (and would to test), but especially since this is all PHP/csh, there's no reason I shouldn't be able to use my own environment. RB

Re: [pfSense-discussion] miniupnpd No buffer space available

2008-03-28 Thread RB
On 3/28/08, Dennis Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well you snipped the useful information. Then please snip it for us, since no one really has an interest in sifting through your 1055 other irrelevant log-spam lines. I hear not being an asshole is quite a virtue too. That's not going to win

Re: [pfSense-discussion] miniupnpd No buffer space available

2008-03-28 Thread RB
then please discuss that. I was. I wasn't bumping up my question I was adding information. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#volume

Re: [pfSense-discussion] miniupnpd No buffer space available

2008-03-28 Thread RB
Ok, the log was too long. But is it really something to argue about? Esotericism aside, then, can you please explain what issue you are seeing other than the log entry appearing? That is not apparent; your original question simply states that you are seeing a lot of them. Do you find miniupnpd

Re: [pfSense-discussion] miniupnpd No buffer space available

2008-03-28 Thread RB
Well, I think a pfSense developer can answer that better. No, they can't - other than your statement of I get lots of these in the System log they don't know if your system is working or not. They might be able to make a general assumption, but unless you are seeing operational issues (i.e. a

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

2008-03-22 Thread RB
concerned with facilitating community contribution than you are with hunting/squashing bugs yourselves - reasonable, given your limited resources. Wishes != horses. RB

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense / Time Service

2008-03-06 Thread RB
The correct course of action is to boot him off on first offense. This makes seven on my count

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense / Time Service

2008-03-06 Thread RB
Bwa ha ha! Delicious, delicious irony! I knew it was inevitable since Ryan had to read the thread at least once more before fixing things, but it was worth it to see this one come in. On 3/6/08, Ryan Neily [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Return Receipt Your document: RE: [pfSense-discussion]

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense / Time Service

2008-03-06 Thread RB
The real problem is that the %^$%^#$ mail program I am using does not allow you to turn of return receipts. Corporate standards for the win! I feel for you, as your situation is very similar to what initially drove me to use my own address versus a corporate one. Anyhow, it's fixed now.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] traffic shapper squid

2008-02-26 Thread RB
traffic shappingsquid in the same server is working good or not ? any idea ? I've not seen a single problem, and that's with 300+ users per hour. What information are you basing this on?

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Re: [pfSense Support] 1.2 - Its official

2008-02-26 Thread RB
In the frenzy of upgrade, did we lose all the documentation (multi-wan, etc.?) I'm not finding that stuff any more.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Re: [pfSense Support] 1.2 - Its official

2008-02-26 Thread RB
And I found it. Disregard my bit of pollution. On 2/26/08, RB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the frenzy of upgrade, did we lose all the documentation (multi-wan, etc.?) I'm not finding that stuff any more.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] 1.2RC5 or release

2008-02-11 Thread RB
On 2/11/08, Ronald L. Rosson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On doing an update from RC4 - RC5 with Dashboard installed I can no longer get dashboard back. Even tried uninstalling dashboard (Yes, I know it says it can not be uninstalled) to no avail. Other than that I ran into the 'no

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Intel 82559ER switch

2007-06-19 Thread RB
Are details on the Broadcom switch controllers openly available? I did not find anything on their web site. Nor did I, but the header file indicates it came from Broadcom: https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/tags/kamikaze_7.06/package/switch/src/etc53xx.h Relevant comment: /* * Broadcom Home

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Intel 82559ER switch

2007-06-18 Thread RB
values therein. RB

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Intel 82559ER switch

2007-06-17 Thread RB
On 6/17/07, Nick Buraglio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was the OS that had the support that you expected? A crufty blend of only the finest proprietary software, based on VxWorks. x86 architecture. RB

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Intel 82559ER switch

2007-06-17 Thread RB
the glue. So be it. There are two 8255ERs on-board, one with it's own dedicated port, the other connected to the BCM chip. Now to pick it apart. RB