Re: [pfSense] insert a pfsense box to handle high network load (botnet attack)

2013-09-05 Thread Vick Khera
It entirely depends on the hardware you use for pfSense as to how much load it can handle. I for one, push a sustained 60-70Mbps, with bursts of 120Mbps or more on a fairly hefty Xeon 64-bit server with 16GB of RAM. I have mostly simple rules, several IPSec and OpenVPN endpoints, and about 8

Re: [pfSense] Site to Site VPN issue in PFsense

2013-08-19 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:07 AM, pratap koppal pratap.kop...@gmail.comwrote: My head office and along with two branch office deployed with pfsense. Head Office and one of Branch office deployed with PFsense 2.0.1, and other branch office PFsense 2.0.3. My branch offices are linked with HO

Re: [pfSense] Site to Site VPN issue in PFsense

2013-08-19 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:12 PM, pratap koppal pratap.kop...@gmail.comwrote: Im using openvpn as site to site, still im facing same problem as mentioned. On the home office, configure your OpenVPN to listen on all interfaces, not just one of the WAN links. Then have the remote offices just

Re: [pfSense] Newbie questions

2013-08-09 Thread Vick Khera
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:44 PM, lar...@angelichost.net wrote: Side question: are there iPhone/iPad/Android apps that will allow VPN access so I can get into the management interfaces while on the road? Yes. The built-in cisco ipsec client on iOS works great with pfSense, following these

Re: [pfSense] OpenVPN site to site connection

2013-08-01 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Peter Milazzo peter.mila...@somersetcapital.com wrote: there. So there is already an IPsec tunnel running (which I disable) and 2 WAN connections using gateway group for failover. Could there be some sort of conflict with the IPsec even though I disable it?

Re: [pfSense] high load on LAN iface in CARP - LAN master becomes backup

2013-07-08 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Adrian Zaugg a...@ente.limmat.ch wrote: Whatever slow hardware I may have, it should work steady, but maybe just slower. And in my opinion the slave should take over completely not just the LAN interface, but that's another discussion. I agree with this

Re: [pfSense] high load on LAN iface in CARP - LAN master becomes backup

2013-07-05 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Adrian Zaugg a...@ente.limmat.ch wrote: In our network there are two gateways configured with CARP. It runs all well, as it should, except if I produce heavy load, something like 80-100MByte/s on the gateway, CARP switches (just) the LAN interface of the master

Re: [pfSense] Remote office redundancy

2013-05-23 Thread Vick Khera
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Peter Milazzo peter.mila...@somersetcapital.com wrote: My questions are, do I need to setup a second IPsec tunnel for the cable connection (which I believe you can't do) if it fails over and what will the routing look like? Is there a better way to set this

Re: [pfSense] Remote office redundancy

2013-05-23 Thread Vick Khera
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Chris Bagnall pfse...@lists.minotaur.ccwrote: I wonder if you could, for example, create two OpenVPN connections which run at all times - WAN1 to WAN1 and WAN2 to WAN2, then load balance or failover between those? Still, what happens if site 1 wan1 goes

Re: [pfSense] Conditional Routing question

2013-04-29 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Oliver Hansen oliver.han...@gmail.comwrote: I'm also interested in a solution for this. I also have a VPN provider that uses OpenVPN. I tried to set up some policy routes after adding the OpenVPN connection but I didn't have much luck. I'm pretty sure the

Re: [pfSense] help

2013-04-28 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:36 AM, eyobe kebede e...@dbu.edu.et wrote: public ip 197.156.75.54 our side and 197.156.75.53 ISP side Well, now you have just shared some new information. Try this: set your public IP to 197.156.75.54 and the default route to the .53 address, and the netmask to

Re: [pfSense] help

2013-04-23 Thread Vick Khera
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:46 AM, eyobe kebede e...@dbu.edu.et wrote: but 10.134.192.154 is the WAN ip and 10.130.42.65 is default gate way Given that 10.134.192.154 is your WAN IP, and the netmask they gave you is 255.255.255.252, the *ONLY* other IP you can directly reach is 10.134.192.153.

Re: [pfSense] CARP / VIP Failover Queries (NAT sessions and no preempt?)

2013-04-16 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:48 AM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any ideas about some sort of no preempt option for CARP so that if the master fails, and everything switches over to the You would need to adjust the advskew on the old master to be higher than that of

Re: [pfSense] CARP / VIP Failover Queries (NAT sessions and no preempt?)

2013-04-16 Thread Vick Khera
to the firewall device. https://github.com/postwait/vippy On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:41 AM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 April 2013 14:41, Vick Khera vi...@khera.org wrote: There is no election protocol where they are considered equal and defer to the other if it is up

Re: [pfSense] CARP / VIP Failover Queries (NAT sessions and no preempt?)

2013-04-15 Thread Vick Khera
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 3:58 PM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: If I am connect to a LAN host from outside using SSH for example, and I pull out the master, my SSH sessions stops working. Do the boxes not sync NAT tables and states etc? I loose any active TCP connections. I had

Re: [pfSense] help

2013-04-09 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:49 AM, eyobe kebede e...@dbu.edu.et wrote: to 197.156.75.54 and default gateway of 10.130.42.65 As Luis points out, this makes no sense. What is the netmask they told you to use for the WAN address? The gateway must be within that network block defined by the netmask

Re: [pfSense] help

2013-04-09 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org wrote: His ISP may have just forgotten to give him the proper gateway. But on the outside chance they really do expect him to use that 10.x address as the gateway, it may still be possible. http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/972

Re: [pfSense] Dual WAN Failover to gateway default

2013-03-05 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:57 AM, may...@maykel.sytes.net wrote: Hi, I need configure the pfsense for output traffic WAN1, but when WAN1 down I like redirect traffic to WAN2 and viceversa. I like only use WAN1 for activity connections and if WAN1 down, the traffic redirect to WAN2. I have 2

Re: [pfSense] Samba4 package and extend services with pfsense

2013-02-26 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Luiz Gustavo Costa luizgust...@luizgustavo.pro.br wrote: I have worked in the Samba4 package for pfsense, not only act as a domain member, but also act as a domain controller and i see this as an opportunity to extend the pfsense to be more than a firewall and

Re: [pfSense] Firmware bug in Intel Ethernet Controllers

2013-02-07 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Moshe Katz mo...@ymkatz.net wrote: I saw this today and figured I would bring it to everyone's attention. I figured that there are definitely people on this list who use Intel NICs that are affected and may have just the right traffic to trigger the problem.

Re: [pfSense] Multi WAN CARP

2013-01-11 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:46 PM, WolfSec-Support supp...@wolfsec.ch wrote: any hint will be welcome You want your pfSense boxes to be mostly identical, and symmetrically configured. That is, you want BOTH ISPs connected to both firewall boxes, and have them share the inbound gateway route via

Re: [pfSense] Alix 2D3 with pfSense 2.1

2012-11-21 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: ~85 Mbps max. Not going to fill a 100 Mb pipe, but will work. Thanks, that will do plenty. I think you will find it barely handling that load. Will you have any VPN connections or a lot of firewall rules? We were unable to

Re: [pfSense] Internet thru IPsec VPN

2012-10-12 Thread Vick Khera
I believe it depends on the client. For example, the when i used ipsecuritas on the mac, it only routed the VPN destination thru the vpn. the IPsec client on iOS routes all traffic via the VPN. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Luis Carrión luic...@gmail.com wrote: Heloo folks, Just a

Re: [pfSense] OpenVPN client for iPad

2012-10-04 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Raúl Sampedro raul.sampe...@grupocarreras.com wrote: App embebed in IOS. And these are the right instructions, step-by-step. http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=eqvfsk9c6dar52lncgb39gc0s7/topic,24752.msg130558/topicseen.html#msg130558 The only thing I

Re: [pfSense] pfsync Synchronize Peer IP best practice

2012-09-11 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Pedro Serotto pedro.sero...@yahoo.eswrote: which value do you usually set in pfsync Synchronize Peer IP ? The other peer pfsync ip address ? Is it right to leave empty ? When I set this up with a dedicated NIC just for the pfsync, I left it blank as hinted on

Re: [pfSense] pfsync Synchronize Peer IP best practice

2012-09-11 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Pedro Serotto pedro.sero...@yahoo.eswrote: I have a dedicated NIC too. But, do you set the remote ip, on every side or only on the master side. Is right that the session migrate only from master to slave and never from slave to master ? You set the remote

Re: [pfSense] Accessing web-interface on WAN network

2012-07-31 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:10 PM, pfsense-supp...@madcyclist.org.uk wrote: I have a pfSense 2.0 box connected to an ASDL modem running as a MPoA bridge. Basically the ADSM modem does some unspecified manipulation and presents the public IP to the LAN connection via DHCP along with gateway

Re: [pfSense] ipsec HA

2012-07-18 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Pedro Serotto pedro.sero...@yahoo.eswrote: Everything migrate correctly but not ipsec. What is your remote IPsec device? Is it pfSense as well? That is my situation and the connection flips over rather quickly. ___

Re: [pfSense] ipsec HA

2012-07-17 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Pedro Serotto pedro.sero...@yahoo.eswrote: I try to set up multiple VPN gateways in a redundant configuration, allowing for transparent failover of VPN connections without any loss of connectivity. I find my IPsec tunnels transfer from primary to secondary

Re: [pfSense] pfSense vs JunOS

2012-07-03 Thread Vick Khera
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: The level of service we provide is on par or better than commercial vendors. For most of our customers, much better, because commercial vendors will rule out the firewall and tell you to have a nice day I'll confirm that

Re: [pfSense] supermicro SOL console

2012-06-29 Thread Vick Khera
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org wrote: Use /boot/loader.conf.local - that won't get overwritten. The other two will. Based on this, my revised configuration is to create /boot/loader.conf.local: hint.uart.2.at=isa hint.uart.2.port=0x3E8 hint.uart.2.flags=0x10

Re: [pfSense] Network freezes on IBM x3550, Broadcom NICs

2012-06-29 Thread Vick Khera
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Paul Gear p...@gear.dyndns.org wrote: Server hardware: IBM x3550, Xeon E5405 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 2 x 300 GB 10K RPM SAS HD in hardware RAID 1, 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) About two weeks ago I had to put into production a temporary hacked

Re: [pfSense] failover sync question

2012-06-22 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: You have to enable synchronize states on the secondary too or it won't accept them. FirewallVIPs, CARP settings tab. Thanks for this tip. I thought perhaps my problem was that I was sharing an interface for this, and the

[pfSense] supermicro SOL console

2012-06-22 Thread Vick Khera
So I just figured this nifty trick out. I provisioned a pair of servers based on supermicro X9SC motherboard, which has a built-in ILOM processor, and that provides a serial-over-lan serial port in addition to other administrative features. It was exceptionally easy to convince pfsense to use

Re: [pfSense] Slightly OT: Accessing pfSense webinterface via reverse proxy

2012-06-18 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: I'm not sure whether the URL re-write will work when HTTPS is in use. Apache's SSL proxy uses CONNECT, so it doesn't terminate your SSL connection. Thus, it cannot decode or rewrite anything within. If you want it to work,

[pfSense] failover sync question

2012-06-13 Thread Vick Khera
I have a pair of firewalls set up with pfsync. pfSense 2.0.1/i386. I'm pushing a lot of connections and traffic, so had to bump the number of states in the Advanced - Firewall/NAT tab. This increased number did not show up on the backup firewall. Ditto for unchecking the disable nat reflection

[pfSense] modern hardware selection

2012-05-29 Thread Vick Khera
Looking through the forums and mailing list archives, I see recommendations for the following two devices to handle my network throughput: Hacom Mars system http://www.hacom.net/catalog/mars-ii-pfsense-1u-server and Netgate FW-7535 http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-FW-7535-1U-P1695C84.aspx Both

Re: [pfSense] modern hardware selection

2012-05-29 Thread Vick Khera
Also, I have three IPsec VPNs connecting to other data centers and the main office, which need to push at peak 40Mbps for a couple of hours a day during backups. ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list

Re: [pfSense] Rule processing optimization - states

2012-05-22 Thread Vick Khera
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Ugo Bellavance u...@lubik.ca wrote: I would like to make sure my rules in the best order.  I understand that the rules are processed from top to bottom, so I should place the rules that are most used at top.  However, how long lasts a state?  I just want to

Re: [pfSense] CISCO VPN CLIENT 5.0.07.0410 CONNECTION TO PFSENSE 2.0.1

2012-05-16 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Antonio Cortes Alhambra (INCATEL) antonio.cor...@incatel.cl wrote: someone has found the right combination of parameters settings to achieve the connection from a CISCO VPN CLIENT 5.0.07.0410 and pfSense 2.0.1 There are instructions for making the Cisco IPsec

Re: [pfSense] HA and ifstated

2012-05-14 Thread Vick Khera
Isn't this automatic with CARP? On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Pedro Serotto pedro.sero...@yahoo.es wrote: With ifstated I can catch the fault and demote the carp interface to guarantee the service continuity. How can I do that in pfsense ? ___

[pfSense] incoming load balancer docs notes

2012-04-27 Thread Vick Khera
Reading http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Inbound_Load_Balancing I find a couple of issues, which seem to be changes in 2.0. 1) the default probe is 10 seconds, not 5. There is no way to tweak that. 2) there is no sticky option The commentary about 1.2 implementation using NAT and issues with

Re: [pfSense] Move instance from X to Y, cold spare.

2012-04-23 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Karl Fife karlf...@gmail.com wrote: In the scenario where the hardware interfaces are NOT the same, is it possible to do something simple like search/replace the configuration file, substituting the interface names?  Is there any reason to believe that process

Re: [pfSense] Mounting memsticks

2012-02-27 Thread Vick Khera
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Warren Baker war...@decoy.co.za wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:48 PM, David Miller dmil...@metheus.org wrote: Is there a way to mount a memstick on a mac and see the file system(s). Given its roots I'd think the mac would understand freebsd file systems and

Re: [pfSense] Backup from HD, restore do CF

2012-02-06 Thread Vick Khera
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Diego Barrios s...@techsystem.com.br wrote: Can i install nanobsd 1GB image on my Alix, Backup the config from the PC and Restore it on my ALIX? I don`t care about the RRD graphs, logs, etc... only my VPN users and useful settings. You will need to edit the

Re: [pfSense] PFsense to PFsense IPSEC VPN and VOIP

2012-02-06 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Gavin Will gavin.w...@exterity.com wrote: Routing and firewall rules are correct and I can access both networks fine. The voip phone registers and can make a call but both ends cannot hear each other each other. The VOIP phones at my remote locations (VPN with

[pfSense] how to route ipsec connected traffic to remote vpn endpoint and back

2011-10-28 Thread Vick Khera
I followed http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=eqvfsk9c6dar52lncgb39gc0s7/topic,24752.msg130558/topicseen.html#msg130558 to set up iPhone IPsec vpn. This works splendidly (once I granted permission to the new user to create VPN login). However, since the iOS can only make one vpn

Re: [pfSense] OpenVPN road warrior how to for 2.0

2011-10-04 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Nenhum_de_Nos math...@eternamente.info wrote: for 1.2.3 it works great, but I always get cert problem in 2.0 :( The config imported from 1.2.3 works fine for us. I think we had to manually re-import the certificate authority, though. Memory fades.

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