Re: [pfSense] Soekris Net6501-50 & 2GB mSATA SSD Boot Issues

2011-10-24 Thread Jim Spaloss
-- Sent from my HP TouchPadOn Oct 24, 2011 9:36 AM, Jim Pingle wrote: That should work under normal circumstances. I have a net6501 and a 2GB mSATA SSD but currently I'm running from HDD instead. I imagine if I were to use the mSATA SSD I'd put it in while running from HDD and then image the SSD w

Re: [pfSense] Forwarding an external port according to user

2011-10-24 Thread Daniel Davis
David, Whilst this is not as secure as a real VPN, you could possibly use something like OpenVPN ALS (Previously Adito). It is a remote access over SSL solution that allows your users to somewhat securely connect to work resources without needing to install a VPN client or open insecure ports o

Re: [pfSense] Forwarding an external port according to user

2011-10-24 Thread David Brown
On 24/10/2011 15:53, Vassilis V. wrote: David Brown wrote on 10/24/2011 02:34 PM: Using a VPN is certainly a possibility - our "road warriors" who use a laptop as a main computer use a VPN (OpenVPN), and I use a VPN from my home machine regularly to access everything in the network here. Wher

Re: [pfSense] Forwarding an external port according to user

2011-10-24 Thread Vassilis V.
David Brown wrote on 10/24/2011 02:34 PM: Using a VPN is certainly a possibility - our "road warriors" who use a laptop as a main computer use a VPN (OpenVPN), and I use a VPN from my home machine regularly to access everything in the network here. Where VPNs are the right solution, they are w

Re: [pfSense] Soekris Net6501-50 & 2GB mSATA SSD Boot Issues

2011-10-24 Thread Jim Pingle
On 10/23/2011 9:33 PM, Jim Spaloss wrote: > I just picked up a pair of Soekris Net6501-50 boxes to upgrade two of my > client's aging m0n0wall installations.I wanted to go dual-wan, so I'll > be migrating them to PFSense. > > I didn't realize at the when I placed the order that the storage was > m

Re: [pfSense] Forwarding an external port according to user

2011-10-24 Thread David Brown
On 24/10/2011 14:08, Jim Pingle wrote: It isn't quite all that easy. There is already an open ticket for that feature. http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/385 OK, thanks. I'm convinced that such a feature is technically possible, but I also appreciate that it would take a lot of work to implem

Re: [pfSense] Forwarding an external port according to user

2011-10-24 Thread David Brown
On 24/10/2011 13:57, Vassilis V. wrote: Hello David! You seem to be very over complicating things :) If I understand you correctly, you want to have your users authenticate themselves in order to have limited access to the work network and offer them certain services there. You already mentioned

Re: [pfSense] Forwarding an external port according to user

2011-10-24 Thread Jim Pingle
It isn't quite all that easy. There is already an open ticket for that feature. http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/385 Jim ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list

Re: [pfSense] Forwarding an external port according to user

2011-10-24 Thread Vassilis V.
Hello David! You seem to be very over complicating things :) If I understand you correctly, you want to have your users authenticate themselves in order to have limited access to the work network and offer them certain services there. You already mentioned your solution but dismissed it! What

[pfSense] Forwarding an external port according to user

2011-10-24 Thread David Brown
Hi, I am wondering if the following setup is possible to achieve: A number of people at my company work at home by running a VNC server on their desktops, and connected to them from their home machines. It is often a better choice than using a VPN because it makes security much easier, and s