Re: [pfSense] pfSense error, maybe hard drive?

2012-03-22 Thread Dimitri Alexandris
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 01:39, Jim Thompson wrote: > > Hmm,  No, close, but not really correct. > > *all* flash will eventually fail if you write to it enough.  It's physics. I do not disagree of course. Fine with theory. > SLC NAND flash is typically rated at about 100k cycles, while MLC NAND

Re: [pfSense] pfSense error, maybe hard drive?

2012-03-22 Thread Seth Mos
On 21-3-2012 18:08, Adam Piasecki wrote: > What hard drive is recommended for pfSense. Or can someone tell me what > your running. Any ide or sata drive should do. If you really want a SSD drive I recommend the Intel 320 series SSD drives. These have a capacitor inside which means it will surviv

Re: [pfSense] pfSense error, maybe hard drive?

2012-03-22 Thread Seth Mos
On 21-3-2012 18:40, Jeppe Øland wrote: >> I deployed about a dozen Kingston 64G SSDs about a >> year and a half ago (in laptops and desktops) and I've seen about a quarter >> of them fail with different symptoms in each case. Garbage > > Totally agree. I have gone through 2 Kingston 4GB industria

Re: [pfSense] Virtual IPs: Carp or proxy arp?

2012-03-22 Thread Ugo Bellavance
On 2012-03-21 21:22, Adam Thompson wrote: Based on that very high-level summary: -assuming the /28 isn't a true routed /28, I would have to ask my ISP to get the answer? What is a true routed subnet? It means that every IP address in the subnet is availabie in a switch in which you connect y

Re: [pfSense] Virtual IPs: Carp or proxy arp?

2012-03-22 Thread Adam Thompson
> On 2012-03-21 21:22, Adam Thompson wrote: > > Based on that very high-level summary: > > -assuming the /28 isn't a true routed /28, > > I would have to ask my ISP to get the answer? > > What is a true routed subnet? It means that every IP address in the > subnet is availabie in a switch in which

Re: [pfSense] NAT kills connections

2012-03-22 Thread Jim Pingle
On 3/22/2012 2:43 AM, David Burgess wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Chris Buechler wrote: >> >> >> That's not the same scenario you described in the previous thread >> unless it's just not explained as thoroughly. > > In the previous thread I included a second pfsense, but didn't menti

Re: [pfSense] pfSense error, maybe hard drive?

2012-03-22 Thread Jim Thompson
On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:08, Dimitri Alexandris wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 01:39, Jim Thompson wrote: >> >> Hmm, No, close, but not really correct. >> >> *all* flash will eventually fail if you write to it enough. It's physics. > > I do not disagree of course. Fine with theory. Theory

[pfSense] sflow/netflow software

2012-03-22 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, Any recommendations for free software for sflow/netflow data analysis? Thanks, Ugo ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list

Re: [pfSense] sflow/netflow software

2012-03-22 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
> To: list@lists.pfsense.org > From: u...@lubik.ca > Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:02:58 -0400 > Subject: [pfSense] sflow/netflow software > > Hi, > > Any recommendations for free software for sflow/netflow data analysis? > > Thanks, > > Ugo > the cisco tool is free http://www.cisco.com/en/US/pr

Re: [pfSense] sflow/netflow software

2012-03-22 Thread OSN | Marian Fischer
Hi, have you tried PFlowd for PFsense? Choose it in the packetmanager for install. -m. Am 22.03.2012 15:02, schrieb Ugo Bellavance: > Hi, > > Any recommendations for free software for sflow/netflow data analysis? > > Thanks, > > Ugo > > ___ > List

Re: [pfSense] sflow/netflow software

2012-03-22 Thread Clayton Knorr
The only free one I have used is ntop. I don't think it does sflow but it does support netflow. -Original Message- From: list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org [mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org] On Behalf Of Ugo Bellavance Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:03 AM To: list@lists.pfsense.org

Re: [pfSense] sflow/netflow software

2012-03-22 Thread OSN | Marian Fischer
http://www.networkmanagementsoftware.com/5-free-netflow-analyzer-tools-for-windows Am 22.03.2012 15:02, schrieb Ugo Bellavance: > Hi, > > Any recommendations for free software for sflow/netflow data analysis? > > Thanks, > > Ugo > > ___ > List mailin

Re: [pfSense] sflow/netflow software

2012-03-22 Thread Ugo Bellavance
On 2012-03-22 10:10, OSN | Marian Fischer wrote: Hi, have you tried PFlowd for PFsense? Choose it in the packetmanager for install. Not really, but - I wouldn't want the software to run on my pfsense, as it would gather (s|net)flows from my switches as well. - Isn't pfflowd just a software

Re: [pfSense] pfSense error, maybe hard drive?

2012-03-22 Thread Adam Piasecki
On 3/22/2012 9:52 AM, Jim Thompson wrote: Yes, and I discussed this, but better than this is wear-leveling, which works to avoid the issue, rather than reacting to failure. Combine this with some of the advanced error correction, and you can greatly extend the lifetime of (especially MLC-base

Re: [pfSense] pfSense error, maybe hard drive?

2012-03-22 Thread Mike McLaughlin
For everyone, real world write tests (with synthetic writes), notice most drives able to write hundreds of TiB some approaching a PiB -- http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm Adam - If you partition free space (under provision) the modern drives

Re: [pfSense] pfSense error, maybe hard drive?

2012-03-22 Thread David Burgess
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Adam Piasecki wrote: > 1) Windows has TRIM support for ware-leveling. Does FreeBSD include this? I can't speak to FreeBSD, but pfsense does not as of 2.0 > 2) If 8.1 does not support ware-leveling, would it be recommend that we not > use SSD for pfSense until i

Re: [pfSense] sflow/netflow software

2012-03-22 Thread Mike McLaughlin
NFsen - http://nfsen.sourceforge.net/ and FlowViewer - http://ensight.eos.nasa.gov/FlowViewer/ FlowViewer (NASA) seems to be down at the moment though. Mike On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > On 2012-03-22 10:10, OSN | Marian Fischer wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> have you trie

Re: [pfSense] pfSense error, maybe hard drive?

2012-03-22 Thread Adam Piasecki
On 3/22/2012 12:06 PM, David Burgess wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Adam Piasecki wrote: 1) Windows has TRIM support for ware-leveling. Does FreeBSD include this? I can't speak to FreeBSD, but pfsense does not as of 2.0 2) If 8.1 does not support ware-leveling, would it be recomm

Re: [pfSense] pfSense error, maybe hard drive?

2012-03-22 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Adam Piasecki wrote: > O > I have two questions, > > 1) Windows has TRIM support for ware-leveling. Does FreeBSD include this? > Looking at the wiki page for TRIM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM) it > does not for 8.1, only for low level formatting. > > 2) If 8

Re: [pfSense] pfSense error, maybe hard drive?

2012-03-22 Thread Jim Thompson
On Mar 22, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Adam Piasecki wrote: > On 3/22/2012 9:52 AM, Jim Thompson wrote: >> Yes, and I discussed this, but better than this is wear-leveling, which >> works to avoid the issue, rather than reacting to failure. Combine this >> with some of the advanced error correction, an

Re: [pfSense] pfSense error, maybe hard drive?

2012-03-22 Thread Jim Pingle
On 3/22/2012 7:00 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: > No, but FreeBSD 9.0 (which is to be the base for pfSense 2.1) does > support TRIM for ffs. > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#FS Not quite. We're going with 8.3. Too many problems with 9 for a timely release. 8.3 should also h

[pfSense] Snapshots are back

2012-03-22 Thread Jim Pingle
FYI- 2.1 snapshots are going again. http://snapshots.pfsense.org/ If you want to track via auto update... pfSense i386 2.1 DEVELOPMENT snapshots http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_8_3/i386/pfSense_HEAD/.updaters pfSense amd64 2.1 DEVELOPMENT snapshots http://snapshots.pfsense.org/Free

[pfSense] Squid Crashing the whole pfsense machine when running out of disk space?

2012-03-22 Thread Leon Strong
Hi All, bit of a curly one here today. We've had a Pfsense instance that's filled up it's disk, (via squid, that seems to be configured to only let 1gig be cached - which is an issue also) - but the odd thing is that the when the disk filled up, the pfsense machine seemed to hang. stopping al

Re: [pfSense] NAT kills connections

2012-03-22 Thread David Burgess
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Jim Pingle wrote: > Is this your only WAN? No. It is one of a load-balanced pair. > Does your rule passing out traffic to this server > have a gateway set? Yes. All traffic from the LAN to this server is policy routed through the correct gateway. > If that is