Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense comment packetpushers.net

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Dressel
This sort of points the finger then at a commercial need for a hardened pfsense product running on a specialized ASIC of some sort. So when can Chris sort that out? :) On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Ian Bowers iggd...@gmail.com wrote: I think the gist of what he's saying is that because it's

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Considering Switching to Pfsense

2011-02-10 Thread Tim Dressel
The snort plugin has this functionality built in. Just enter your oink code and set how often you want it to update. On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Tony Zakula tonyzak...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but I was just wondering if this is routing for say several hundred hosted sites, if it would be

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Considering Switching to Pfsense

2011-02-09 Thread Tim Dressel
Hi Tony, I have a /24 public subnet for a school district running behind an old pail of proliant dual CPU (single core) opteron box, 2GB ram each. It is ridiculous overkill with my 100Mbit pipe and ~10,000 simultaneous sessions. I used to run squid on it, but moved that elsewhere as it made it

Re: [pfSense-discussion] anyone using Netgear GSM7352S-200 ?

2011-01-13 Thread Tim Dressel
I've been a huge fan of Procurve for at least 8 years when I replaced some Cisco and Bay Networks kit for the first gen Procurve gigabit kit in the form of a 5304 chassis. In the last couple of years I've been picking up the 2510G-48's which if you shop around can find for around $1000,

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

2010-10-02 Thread Tim Dressel
Hi folks, I did this for about 6 months to do evaluations of Exchange 2010 and Zimbra. My cluster had two VM hosts, each with 6 nics (2 onboard used for heartbeat, and an an in Intel PCIe quad port). I defined a LAN (vswitch) internal to the cluster only for traffic between all the VM's and the

Re: [pfSense-discussion] filling network with meaningful traffic

2010-03-11 Thread Tim Dressel
You could throw up a bunch of virtual ftp sites and leave them wide open (bind multiple IP's or virtual IP's all pointing to one volume). Put a post on usenet and watch the traffic flow in. Suddenly you are a 0-day hoster, ha! Be prepared to be t...@gged though. I wish I had a problem with