[pfSense-discussion] Re: Nessus : Change in the Plugin Feed Policy (Reminder)

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Mansfield
now none-free for any commercial usage, I was wondering if anyone's looked at the alternatives? http://www.openvas.org/ http://www.lbtechservices.com/projects/sussen/ Original Message Tenable Subscriptions wrote: (You are receiving this email because you are using or used

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Used ALIX or Soekris?

2008-06-25 Thread Paul Mansfield
Adam Van Ornum wrote: Does anyone have any ALIX or Soekris kits that they don't need any more? I'm currently running pfSense on a dual P3 system at home and its way over-powered for what I need and I would like to get something that one of those new Intel Atom CPU motherboards would be

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Used ALIX or Soekris?

2008-06-25 Thread Paul Mansfield
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:28:12AM +0100, Paul Mansfield wrote: one of those new Intel Atom CPU motherboards would be worth looking at too. Anyone aware of an affordable system with Nano or at least a C7, with decent (Intel would be best, but beggars can't be choosers

[pfSense-discussion] solwise - UK seller of wifi kit - Re: [pfSense-discussion] Setup advice wanted, devices for public library

2008-08-06 Thread Paul Mansfield
802.11 mini PCI cards: http://www.netgate.com/index.php?cPath=27_86 I've been quite happy with service from solwise for miniPCI adaptors and various wifi accessories. I bought one of these and fitted a spare intel 2915abg minipci card: http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-pci-slot.htm I can

Re: [pfSense-discussion] openVPN routing

2008-09-22 Thread Paul Mansfield
Mark Dueck wrote: I am having some problems getting openVPN to route a properly from site to site. I had it working perfectly in between, but now nothing seems to make a difference to make it work. what does netstat -rn say

Re: [pfSense-discussion] SLC or MLC flash for full install

2008-10-23 Thread Paul Mansfield
Eugen Leitl wrote: Have any of you made especially good/bad experiences wtith either SLC or MLC CF? Any vendors to recommend, or to stay away from? in theory SLC is going to be more reliable, speed probably doesn't matter. avoid small vendors and ebay as there's a huge number of counterfeit

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense 1.2.1-RC2 now available

2008-11-21 Thread Paul Mansfield
Chris Buechler wrote: More info: http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=284 woo! congrats to devs and support for all their hard work. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Load balancer using carp interfaces?

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Mansfield
Veiko Kukk wrote: Hi! I wonder if there are some good reasons why i'ts not possible to choose CARP interfaces (virtual IP-s) for load balancer pools? If not, then why can't I select carpx interfaces for ISP failover load balancer pool? Please fix it or help me how to fix that in my

Re: [pfSense-discussion] centralized management with distributed pfsense installations

2008-12-22 Thread Paul Mansfield
Jason Dixon wrote: This is something I've been thinking about quite a bit lately. I'd like to see something modular that could potentially be used on any PF-based system. If there are others interested in this (or already working on it), please contact me. I nice feature I'd like would be

[pfSense-discussion] atom + US15W pico ITX board

2008-12-22 Thread Paul Mansfield
we've been a close observer of low-power CPUs and chipsets, because a lot of our costs are colocation fees which are mainly about power. In theory Pouslbo/US15W is much more efficient than the usual atom + desktop chipset, but it not particularly common... then I came across this:

Re: [pfSense-discussion] atom + US15W pico ITX board

2008-12-23 Thread Paul Mansfield
Eugen Leitl wrote: I presume you're talking firewall, have you considered VIA Nano? The performance is slightly on top of Atom, and Atom doesn't have the RNG and the crypto built-in. yes, firewalling for minimal power. if you have any pointers to nano motherboards with suitable network

Re: [pfSense-discussion] VOIP traffic shaping problems

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Mansfield
Joe Lagreca wrote: Symptoms: When I download a large file and max our download speed, do you have VOIP network on a separate interface on your firewall (a necessity for call security anyway)? are you using decent switches with a high packet rate?

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Secure LAN and WLAN setup

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Mansfield
David Nordin wrote: 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 you probably want to read a primer about networking and security before you get bogged down in looking at any one product -

Re: [pfSense-discussion] High latency on downloads with shaping

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Mansfield
Joe Lagreca wrote: But then you are in a catch 22, because without the shaper, VOIP will surely be choppy. get a separate WAN circuit for your VOIP connections if they're that important? - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [pfSense-discussion] High latency on downloads with shaping

2009-05-14 Thread Paul Mansfield
Joe Lagreca wrote: This seems odd, as I run pfsense at other locations without problems with their VOIP. So I'm wondering why the issue at this location. get a separate WAN circuit for your VOIP connections if they're that important? presumably your VOIP phones are on their own VLAN, and

[pfSense-discussion] OT: freebsd8 vs ubuntu 9.10

2009-09-30 Thread Paul Mansfield
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2009092801435NWCYSW thought it might be interesting albeit off topic - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [pfSense-discussion] commercial ALIX pfsense routers

2009-10-02 Thread Paul Mansfield
On 01/10/09 14:42, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 02:08:32PM +0100, Paul Mansfield wrote: You might want to have a look at Linitx, they do m0n0wall kits and speaking to one of the guys who works there, they are happy to do a pfSense embeded version on request. http://linitx.com

Re: [pfSense-discussion] jetway jnc92 - was Re: [pfSense-discussion] commercial ALIX pfsense routers

2009-10-05 Thread Paul Mansfield
On 05/10/09 11:34, Eugen Leitl wrote: I typically use 2-4 GByte Transcend IDE SSD (DoM) dongles. the closest I can come to that would be a CF card in a CF-IDE adaptor. Thanks for the assembly pictures -- what kind of case is this? 'fraid I can't say, I bought it long ago and it was used

[pfSense-discussion] openvpn 2.1 rc20 out now

2009-10-08 Thread Paul Mansfield
http://www.openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html just thought people might want to upgrade, the RCs have been good for me, especially for vista users where you don't have to do the external route stuff. perhaps openvpn 2.1 will be released in time to make it into pfSense 1.3 and

[pfSense-discussion] pfSense in TechRepublic article

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Mansfield
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1110tag=nl.e102 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available -

Re: [pfSense-discussion] getting your feet wet with BGP

2009-12-17 Thread Paul Mansfield
On 16/12/09 14:55, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:52:06PM +0100, Aarno Aukia wrote: offer that option (it doesn't). Becoming a LIR at the current juncture is prohibitive because of fees alone. and becoming an LIR doesn't guarantee you'll get an allocation of IPs either I

Re: [pfSense-discussion] openvpn and mac osx 10.6

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Mansfield
On 26/01/10 18:19, Chris Buechler wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Paul Mansfield it-admin-pfse...@taptu.com wrote: we had openvpn working with osx 10.5 with a bit of bodging to get DNS to work, but 10.6.2 seems to have quite a few DNS quirks that prevent resolver from being set

Re: [pfSense-discussion] openvpn and mac osx 10.6

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Mansfield
On 26/01/10 16:01, Paul Mansfield wrote: On 26/01/10 15:39, Nate Davis wrote: Paul, We are using http://www.viscosityvpn.com/ as the OpenVPN Client for the Mac= s on our network, and it has worked like a dream. I can resolve items by name over the vpn and such. We were using tunnelblick

[pfSense-discussion] broadcom BCM5722 only running at 100M not 1G

2010-02-01 Thread Paul Mansfield
after complaint about slowness between our lan and dmz, I traced it to a firewall interface on our pfsense 1.2.3 firewall, a Dell R300 with onboard broadcom bcm5722 FreeBSD fwa.xxx.yyy 7.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p5 #0: Sun Dec 6 23:20:31 EST 2009

Re: [pfSense-discussion] broadcom BCM5722 only running at 100M not 1G

2010-02-01 Thread Paul Mansfield
On 01/02/10 13:03, Paul Mansfield wrote: I bounced the interface as suggested and it didn't help, and swapped the cable, also no joy. oh. and a reboot didn't fix it either. ;-( # dmesg | egrep -i broadcom|bcm|bgr|bge|ukp|mii|phy bge0: Broadcom BCM5722 A0, ASIC rev. 0xa200 mem 0xdfdf

Re: [pfSense-discussion] openvpn and mac osx 10.6

2010-02-01 Thread Paul Mansfield
On 27/01/10 12:27, Paul Mansfield wrote: On 26/01/10 16:01, Paul Mansfield wrote: On 26/01/10 15:39, Nate Davis wrote: BTW, Nate, were you using tun or tap? a test shows that using tap/bridging kicks off the mac's dhcp client and that successfully sets up DNS. I think we're going to end up

Re: [pfSense-discussion] broadcom BCM5722 only running at 100M not 1G

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Mansfield
On 01/02/10 18:54, Chris Buechler wrote: Sure you're using CAT5e or better cables and not just CAT5? That's the most common cause when I run into things like that. thanks for the idea, but all our cables are cat6, and it's only a 1m cable directly from back of server into the switch so no

Re: [pfSense-discussion] broadcom BCM5722 only running at 100M not 1G

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Mansfield
On 02/02/10 12:19, Alexander Norman wrote: Try a firmware upgrade or downgrade. The broadcom firmware has been a bit shaky. The easiest way to do it is to install for example windows 2008 server (30 day evaluation) and do a firmware upgrade through it. I had a horrible feeling you were

Re: [pfSense-discussion] broadcom BCM5722 only running at 100M not 1G

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Mansfield
well, I simply swapped round the firewall's connections to the switch - both have just a 1m cable direct to the cisco 3560e the primary firewall is now connecting at 1Gb/s and strangely the secondary is still at 1G, so I have no idea what the problem was. tis a pity that Dell use broadcom

Re: [pfSense-discussion] any chances to see pfsense on GuruPlug Plus?

2010-02-25 Thread Paul Mansfield
I asked them if there was a UK distributor, and they responded promptly with http://www.newit.co.uk/shop/products.php?cat=11 dual ethernet for less than £100 (US$150) seems quite a good deal. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

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

2010-03-18 Thread Paul Mansfield
put up some linux mirrors with a web service on each IP - use https and that way you won't be asked to use named virtual hosts as that doesn't work with https - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For

[pfSense-discussion] IPSEC routing hack, and CARP, leading to arpresolve can't allocate route errors

2010-09-01 Thread Paul Mansfield
if you recall, to make your pfsense firewall itself be able to talk to a remote site over an IPSEC tunnel, you need to add a hack which is a static route to remote network via the LAN address if you have a firewall cluster and you use the CARP address of the LAN, it does work, but it *seems* to

[pfSense-discussion] IPv6 needed, IPv4 exhaustion - was Re: [pfSense-discussion] Re: Low end, cool CPE.

2010-11-18 Thread Paul Mansfield
On 12/11/10 13:43, Eugen Leitl wrote: - IPv6 support, native or tunnel to tunnelbroker.net type thing. ... The point is: We've been asking for IPv6 for too long. That's just one bit in a packet header. We need to start asking for the features we expect, which is a lot more than that bit.