[pfSense] Interface Assignment Change - Requires Bridge Save?

2015-07-28 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- I've run into what appears to be a bug in pfSense. When changing interface assignments, if those interfaces are part of a bridge, the bridge will not be updated. Instead a reboot is required, or going to each bridge affecting and re-saving it's parameters. A specific case I've exper

Re: [pfSense] Strange problems with pfSense 2.1.4

2014-08-11 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > > One, the problem first appeared with the Tranquilnet unit. Two, I > forgot > to mention that I noticed that the heat problem (it's hard to miss if > you > don't read the directions -- the units are almost hot enough to burn > skin > :) and am using a laptop cooler

Re: [pfSense] HELP

2014-07-10 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > Greetings all, > I ma new to pfsense , pl help me out "pfsense firewall & Nat > configuration" for small education network. > I am Using pfsense 2.1.4-reease for (i386) > 1. interface on WAN (wan) -> em0 - > v4/DHCP4 : 192.168.0.16/24 > 2. interface on LAN (lan

Re: [pfSense] Extended link down state, no connectivity after link up

2014-06-27 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > Greetings- > I'm experiencing an odd situation. On a system running pfSense > 2.1.3-RELEASE on i386 (6x Intel NICs, Intel G2030 CPU, 1GB RAM, > etc), the use case lends the unit's LAN to be physically > disconnected (think lab environment). If the interface is left

[pfSense] Extended link down state, no connectivity after link up

2014-06-24 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- I'm experiencing an odd situation. On a system running pfSense 2.1.3-RELEASE on i386 (6x Intel NICs, Intel G2030 CPU, 1GB RAM, etc), the use case lends the unit's LAN to be physically disconnected (think lab environment). If the interface is left down overnight, upon reconnecting th

Re: [pfSense] Problems with pfsense on ProfitBrick

2014-04-14 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > I'll put here the amount of info that I can before my server's > security may be compromised. > I want to install pfsense to an server that's hosted by ProfitBrick > and using KVM as virtualization enviroment which may became a > problem. > It has two nics. One for

[pfSense] Heartbleed and OpenVPN

2014-04-11 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- Hot on the heels of the OpenSSL debacle, and a fresh new release of pfSense (THANK YOU), I'm curious about the Heartbleed vulnerabilitie's actual surface attack area. All of the relevant information, reports, and PoC's are pointing at exploit only via an affected HTTPS webserver. Ho

[pfSense] IPv6 - Subnetting/Routing with HE?

2013-09-27 Thread Tim Nelson
Alright, I understand IPv6 is a 'different animal'. BUT, I'm trying to do something that seems logical, but not working. Hoping someone can shed light on it? I have an IPv6 tunnel from Hurricane Electric. The /64 is routed to my GIF interface. I requested another /48 for assignment internally.

[pfSense] mPCIe Recommendations?

2013-02-11 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- I've just (unsuccessfully) tried setting up an Atheros AR5280 based mPCIe card for use with pfSense 2.0.2. The results were not spectacular. Errors included randomly dropping traffic, dropping carrier, and the infamous scrolling errors 'ath0: stuck beacon...'. So, I'm on a quest for

Re: [pfSense] CARP Sync States - Not the same on both hosts?!?

2013-01-23 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Tim Nelson < tnel...@rockbochs.com > > wrote: > > I have two hosts in a CARP setup, working as expected for failover. > > States are set to sync between the primary system and the secondary > > syste

[pfSense] CARP Sync States - Not the same on both hosts?!?

2013-01-22 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- I have two hosts in a CARP setup, working as expected for failover. States are set to sync between the primary system and the secondary system. However, when I look at the state table of the slave system, it does not match that of the master system. For example, the master shows 1187

Re: [pfSense] CARP Master/Slave Status Change Notification

2013-01-22 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > On 1/22/2013 9:27 AM, Vick Khera wrote: > > the SMTP alerts will tell you when a carp cluster change occurs, > > but no > > details on what exactly it was. > > On 2.1 the message is quite a bit more informative: > > Carp cluster member "192.168.x.y - (wan_vip241)"

[pfSense] CARP Master/Slave Status Change Notification

2013-01-21 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- I have an installation where two pfSense 2.x systems are configured with CARP IPs on 6 interfaces. This is working quite well after I resolved some OpenVPN oddities. CARP works as expected when simulating failure (link, power, etc). BUT, the question is, how do I know when a CARP fai

Re: [pfSense] 2.0.2 release now available

2012-12-21 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > info here: > http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=676 And just in time for ! Fantastic! Thanks for your amazing software, and brilliant work! --Tim ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listi

Re: [pfSense] CARP Questions on pfSense 2.x

2012-12-05 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > > That was my hope, to save public subnet IP space. The answer appears > to be no, but now that I have a couple of boxen in my test lab, it > would be easy to find out. I'll post to the list with the results > later, although my hopes aren't very high for the intende

Re: [pfSense] CARP Failover Initiation

2012-12-05 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > On 12/5/2012 10:11 AM, Tim Nelson wrote: > > I've successfully setup 2x pfSense boxen with CARP. It is working > > properly, with ~1 second failover. The following test scenarios > > work well: > > > > -Unplugging a link (WA

Re: [pfSense] CARP Questions on pfSense 2.x

2012-12-05 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > 2012/12/5 Tim Nelson < tnel...@rockbochs.com > > > - Original Message - > > > > 1: You need 3 IPs in the same subnet. > > hello, to clearify this answer: > Is following correct ?: > - on WAN SIDE you need: &

[pfSense] CARP Failover Initiation

2012-12-05 Thread Tim Nelson
I've successfully setup 2x pfSense boxen with CARP. It is working properly, with ~1 second failover. The following test scenarios work well: -Unplugging a link (WAN, LAN, etc) -Causing system crash (kill -9 1) -Unplugging both SAS HDDs (actually carp doesn't come into play, system keeps routing

Re: [pfSense] CARP Questions on pfSense 2.x

2012-12-05 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > 1: You need 3 IPs in the same subnet. > > 2: For site-to-site i would honestly set up 2 separate tunnels (one > on > each WAN) and create an internal loadbalancer/failover pool for the > other side via the two gateways of the openVPN tunnels. > Thank you for the IP

[pfSense] CARP Questions on pfSense 2.x

2012-12-03 Thread Tim Nelson
I'm looking at implementing a new CARP setup for a couple of sites, but have a few questions before I dive in: 1. For two pfSense systems, is it confirmed that 3 IPs will be needed on each subnet/interface? My understanding is one IP per host, plus the 'floating' IP managed by CARP, for a total

Re: [pfSense] pfSense 2.x on Dell 1950

2012-11-28 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > > I'm looking at possibly running a CARP setup between 2x Dell 1950's > > in a failover configuration. My perusal of the mailing list > > archives, and the pfSense forum seems to indicate they should work > > just fine, no 1950 specific issues on the latest pfSense re

[pfSense] pfSense 2.x on Dell 1950

2012-11-28 Thread Tim Nelson
I'm looking at possibly running a CARP setup between 2x Dell 1950's in a failover configuration. My perusal of the mailing list archives, and the pfSense forum seems to indicate they should work just fine, no 1950 specific issues on the latest pfSense releases. Is anyone out there running pfSen

Re: [pfSense] Multiwan

2012-08-08 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > e.g. I will be getting an internal IP of 192.168.0.20, 0.102, 0.87 > and then 1.101 for example, however all the 0.'s will have the same > 0.1 gateway yet be totally different connections to the web… Not > sure if that would matter… Every WAN needs to have a unique

Re: [pfSense] Odd CARP Question

2012-06-29 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > I guess you could tcp dump on the sync interface. > Or set the advertise frequency to something really high. If it > switches > to slave there is somewhere a higher priorised slave which became > master. > > However a lot people are running CARP VIP's simply to get a

[pfSense] Odd CARP Question

2012-06-28 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- I have access to some virtual pfSense 2.0-RC1 hosts that need to be upgraded to the latest RELEASE. All hosts are setup with CARP, but it appears some of them do not have any slave systems. Meaning, of these systems, there are some that are setup as CARP masters for various IPs/VHIDs

Re: [pfSense] Low(ish) cost pfSense platforms

2012-06-08 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > Greetings list, > > For many years I've been deploying pfSense on ALIX boards. They've > proven to be reliable and a good balance between cost and > performance. > Price in the UK is about 120 GBP (including PSU and chassis), which > means that they're cost-comparabl

Re: [pfSense] can it be that having WAN on RFC1918 space fucks up site to site IPsec tunnel?

2012-06-01 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 02:36:21PM -0400, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > > If provider is providing you NATed internet access...my best guess > > is you > > It's not NATed. They're rewriting the packet headers. The only > NAT there is is our own. > Isn't rewriting of the

Re: [pfSense] pfsense on sun v100 server

2012-05-10 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > Ooh, I have a bunch of E450s I'd love to give away! :-) > (Shipping would still be expensive, though.) > -Adam > I gave my E450s and other Enterprise line stuff away a couple years back to another BSD project, and a local youngster interested in such things. Ah, th

Re: [pfSense] pfsense on sun v100 server

2012-05-10 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > Op 10 mei 2012, om 22:09 heeft Tim Nelson het volgende geschreven: > > > - Original Message - > >> I was not aware of the fact the OpenBSD runs natively on Sun Server > >> with SPARC architecture. > >> It's because

Re: [pfSense] pfsense on sun v100 server

2012-05-10 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > I was not aware of the fact the OpenBSD runs natively on Sun Server > with SPARC architecture. > It's because i bought the V100 few months ago, so that's why i would > like to integrate it,...and with OpenBSD - of -course- are quite a few > possibilities. Last I chec

[pfSense] Per-Host Current Throughput?

2012-02-28 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- I remember around the time of the 2.0 betas (or as an addon to the 1.x branch), there was a way to see the bandwidth used per host. It was displayed next to the SVG graph for the selected interface. However, I'm completely unable to see how this was previously done. Am I missing some

Re: [pfSense] OpenVPN Status Package in 2.0.1...

2012-01-13 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > - Original Message - > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Tim Nelson > > wrote: > > > Greetings- > > > > > > I understand the functionality of the OpenVPN Status package from > > > the 1.x versions is n

Re: [pfSense] OpenVPN Status Package in 2.0.1...

2012-01-13 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Tim Nelson > wrote: > > Greetings- > > > > I understand the functionality of the OpenVPN Status package from > > the 1.x versions is now integrated into the 2.x versions. *However*, > > let'

[pfSense] OpenVPN Status Package in 2.0.1...

2012-01-12 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- I understand the functionality of the OpenVPN Status package from the 1.x versions is now integrated into the 2.x versions. *However*, let's say... "hypothetically" a 1.2.2 config was uploaded to a fresh 2.0.1 installation, and the OpenVPN Status package XML(every package XML for tha

Re: [pfSense] pfSense 2.0 - Filtering traffic on OpenVPN

2011-10-13 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > In 2.0 each interface is renamed in a unique way so you do not need > dev > tun or any similar entries in the options. > > You can assign the interfaces if you want (set an IP type of 'none' on > them) and filter individually if you want, too. > > I run with two of

Re: [pfSense] pfSense 2.0 - Filtering traffic on OpenVPN

2011-10-13 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 16:03, Tim Nelson > wrote: > > I would expect it to work this way also. However, I've removed the > > OPT interfaces corresponding to the OpenVPN servers. Next, I've > > added one rule to 'Allow all

Re: [pfSense] pfSense 2.0 - Filtering traffic on OpenVPN

2011-10-13 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > On 10/12/2011 5:48 PM, Vassilis V. wrote: > > Tim Nelson wrote on 12.10.2011 23:37: > >> > >> Ah yes, that does in fact work, thanks. However, I like the idea of > >> having each VPN appear as a separate OPT for ease of rule > &

Re: [pfSense] pfSense 2.0 - Filtering traffic on OpenVPN

2011-10-12 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > I havent been using pfsense for very long, but under Firewall-Rules > you > should have a tab "OpenVPN". Try putting there some rules, it works > for me. Ah yes, that does in fact work, thanks. However, I like the idea of having each VPN appear as a separate OPT for

[pfSense] pfSense 2.0 - Filtering traffic on OpenVPN

2011-10-12 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- I'm attempting to filter traffic on an OpenVPN interface. However, the rules don't seem to be working. Steps I've taken: 1. Disabled 'Audo Added VPN Rules' on System->Advanced->Firewall/NAT page 2. Assigned VPN (ovpns3) as OPT1 interface 3. Enabled new OPT1 interface, type 'None' 4. A

[pfSense] Multicast traffic over OpenVPN

2011-09-30 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- Is it possible to send multicast traffic over OpenVPN using pfSense (1.x or 2.x flavors)? If so, does it "just work" or are multicast proxies, etc involved? Thanks! --Tim ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org

Re: [pfSense] Replacing a Linux router with pfSense

2011-09-21 Thread Tim Nelson
So, if your antennas are pointed straight up(vertically), signal should be coming horizontally. This is an oversimplified view, but roughly correct. I'm not a wireless "expert", but I hope these tips give you a few items to go on for better performance. Tim Nelson Systems/Netw

Re: [pfSense] Replacing a Linux router with pfSense

2011-09-21 Thread Tim Nelson
You could very well have channel spacing issues. There are only a few channels that do not overlap. Please see details here for specific wifi implementations:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11#Channels_and_international_compatibility Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218