[pfSense] Open Source WAN Optimization

2013-04-12 Thread James Caldwell
Has anyone had any kind of success running an open source or commercial alternative to riverbed for WAN optimization? It would be great if some of solution like this was available and even better if we could run it inside of pfsense. Cheers. James

Re: [pfSense] Open Source WAN Optimization

2013-04-12 Thread Andrew Cotter
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:50 AM, James Caldwell jamescaldw...@hurricanecs.com wrote: Has anyone had any kind of success running an open source or commercial alternative to riverbed for WAN optimization? It would be great if some of solution like this was available and even better if we

Re: [pfSense] Open Source WAN Optimization

2013-04-12 Thread Warren Baker
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:50 PM, James Caldwell jamescaldw...@hurricanecs.com wrote: Has anyone had any kind of success running an open source or commercial alternative to riverbed for WAN optimization? It would be great if some of solution like this was available and even better if we could

[pfSense] Watchdog timer?

2013-04-12 Thread Jason Pyeron
I cannot see any centralized information on setting up a watchdog timer in pfSense 2, I do see some random posts about peoples nics emitting messages about timeouts and some specific motherboards and their capabilities. Other than reading

Re: [pfSense] Open Source WAN Optimization

2013-04-12 Thread Glenn Kelley
We use traffic squeezer between two end points in our WAN (using UBNT links that natively support about 50mbps) and we are seeing 90mbps or so on average Great tool We use them transparently however on the end points - not really a Wan Optimization - just in between links - but works very

Re: [pfSense] Open Source WAN Optimization

2013-04-12 Thread Jim Thompson
On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Warren Baker war...@decoy.co.za wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:50 PM, James Caldwell jamescaldw...@hurricanecs.com wrote: Has anyone had any kind of success running an open source or commercial alternative to riverbed for WAN optimization? It would be

Re: [pfSense] Open Source WAN Optimization

2013-04-12 Thread James Caldwell
Hi Jim, That’s very interesting. If not directly integrated into pfsense how do you envision it might take shape? What do you think of Glenn Kelley’s comment about the very impressive numbers he’s been getting using Traffic Squeezer? James From: list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org

Re: [pfSense] Open Source WAN Optimization

2013-04-12 Thread Jim Thompson
On Apr 12, 2013, at 2:36 PM, James Caldwell jamescaldw...@hurricanecs.com wrote: Hi Jim, That’s very interesting. If not directly integrated into pfsense how do you envision it might take shape? In general I'm not ready to discuss pfSense futures on list. However, if you think of

[pfSense] Prevailing wisdom on Hyperthreading?

2013-04-12 Thread Nathan C. Smith
A couple years ago when the topic of CPU hyper threading came up I remember folks being advised to disable it. Is that still the prevailing wisdom and current best practice? Thank you. -Nate ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org

Re: [pfSense] Prevailing wisdom on Hyperthreading?

2013-04-12 Thread Dave Warren
On 2013-04-12 13:18, Nathan C. Smith wrote: A couple years ago when the topic of CPU hyper threading came up I remember folks being advised to disable it. Is that still the prevailing wisdom and current best practice? On P4 series CPUs, you should absolutely disable it. On modern CPUs,