Re: [pfSense] Silly question - using a PC + pfsense + dual ethernet NIC + wlan PCI card as wifi router

2011-12-10 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 10/12/11 2:23 am, Chris Buechler wrote: Depends on your machine and cost of power. The 5 watts of an ALIX/other embedded router vs. most PCs will save you roughly 80 watts of power usage (some PCs will be quite a bit more, some less). That's about 700 Kwh a year of power savings assuming 24/7

Re: [pfSense] Request for help: Seeking pfSense user with access to 6RD IPv6 WAN

2012-02-01 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 1/2/12 2:15 pm, Seth Mos wrote: I am seeking a user(s) that has access to a 6RD IPv6 connection so we can test our development 6RD code. Out of curiosity (and this is more aimed at ISPs than end users), is implementing the various IPv6 'workarounds' - for want of a better word - actually

Re: [pfSense] Dual wan issues

2012-02-03 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 3/2/12 4:56 pm, - Dickie Bradford - wrote: Does anyone know why sticky connections do not work on https ? Is it possible that although the url is the same, the IP address behind it fluctuates. As I understand things, the 'sticky connections' option is by IP (i.e. layer 3) rather than by

Re: [pfSense] Alerts by Email

2012-02-16 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 16/2/12 9:32 pm, bsd wrote: Use the zabbix package and configure some checks in your conf file seems the most straightforward way to answer your request. I must admit the existence of this had completely passed me by. What extra 'stuff' does it allow to be monitored/graphed over and above

Re: [pfSense] icmp best practices

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 19/3/12 11:54 pm, Moshe Katz wrote: I have ICMP blanket allowed on both pfSense installations that I have (home and work). +1. We have an ICMP Echo blanket allow rule on all our pfSense deployments (several dozen). As others have indicated, it's a useful troubleshooting tool, and also a

Re: [pfSense] How to Load balance and Failover 2 ISP's

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 20/3/12 3:09 am, Adam Thompson wrote: (And, really, you can afford the labour to implement HA Exchange and all this complexity, but you can’t afford to upgrade to a single Comcast or Verizon business-grade connection??? Either you work for peanuts, or maybe someone in your office can’t do

Re: [pfSense] icmp best practices

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 20/3/12 6:30 pm, Nachtfalke wrote: For security issues you should think about Tunneling IP traffic over ICMP. So allowing ping top the world could be a risk but probably ping the GW/pfsense is not a big problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICMP_tunnel I've only skim-read it, but doesn't

Re: [pfSense] Upgrade 2.0.1 to 2.1

2012-04-23 Thread Chris Bagnall
Thanks for the list of stuff that works. Out of curiosity - how are folks planning on doing multi-WAN load balancing in the v6 world? With NATed v4 it was simple: get public IP from each ISP, use that on the WAN, then use RFC1918 addresses on the LAN, translating to each ISP's public IP as

Re: [pfSense] Upgrade 2.0.1 to 2.1

2012-04-23 Thread Chris Bagnall
Are there any plans to incorporate something like NAT64 (or another 4-to-6 translation method) to allow v6-only networks? Kind regards, Chris -- This email is made from 100% recycled electrons ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org

Re: [pfSense] Upgrade 2.0.1 to 2.1

2012-04-23 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 23/4/12 1:40 pm, Jim Pingle wrote: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Multi-WAN_for_IPv6 Already have that covered... (and it works for me at my house). Excellent! Thanks for the link. I shall give it a try over the weekend (it's the one thing that's been holding me back from a fully v6'd

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

2012-06-26 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 26/6/12 9:23 am, Pim van Stam wrote: For higher demands than a Alix can deliver we use Jetway MB's with a daughterboard option, like the NC9C-550-LF and AD3INLANG Links: http://www.jetway.com.tw/jw/ipcboard_view.asp?productid=781proname=NC9C-550-LF

Re: [pfSense] Encrypt Microwave Link?

2012-06-26 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 26/6/12 8:46 pm, Paul Cockings wrote: 1. (broad question... beat me up if like..) Are microwave links hackable and therefore I should consider some type of encryption on that link You should probably let the list have a bit more detail about the type of links you're setting up -

Re: [pfSense] Encrypt Microwave Link?

2012-06-26 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 26/6/12 10:09 pm, Jim Thompson wrote: Why? I it's a satellite link. Likely Ku-band, but could be C-band, or even something else. Is it? You seem to have made an assumption that it's a satellite link. There are plenty of point-to-point microwave links that don't go anywhere near a

[pfSense] 2.1 Snapshots - 'best' ones to use?

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, In recent months I've done quite a few pfSense installs with 2.1. I've tended to simply download the latest snapshot as and when I've needed to image a new CF card (all our deployments are embedded). However, in recent days - especially after seeing a post on here last week

Re: [pfSense] Ping Wan Virtual IP Firewall Rule - Is this possible?

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 8/8/12 5:15 pm, Moshe Katz wrote: We do this at my office. We have 1-to-1 NAT for our public IPs to our Servers. On WAN, we set a rule for Allow ICMP from * to *. You may be able to get by with a more-restrictive rule but this is the one we use. We always allow ping responses from our

Re: [pfSense] Android VPN with pfSense

2012-09-08 Thread Chris Bagnall
I've used PPTP without any difficulty connecting from Android devices to pfSense in the past. I'll leave others to discuss the relative security merits of each (but yes, L2TP by itself will not encrypt). Kind regards, Chris -- This email is made from 100% recycled electrons

Re: [pfSense] Soekris net5501-70 additional PCI network card does not work

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 26/9/12 12:35 pm, İhsan Doğan wrote: As mentioned, I don't have any issues with built-in Via Rhine interfaces. My problem is, that the Intel card on the PCI slot does not work. You need to ascertain whether it's the card or the slot that's the problem. Try the card in a different machine

Re: [pfSense] Soekris net5501-70 additional PCI network card does not work

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 26/9/12 12:35 pm, İhsan Doğan wrote: As mentioned, I don't have any issues with built-in Via Rhine interfaces. My problem is, that the Intel card on the PCI slot does not work. You need to ascertain whether it's the card or the slot that's the problem. Try the card in a different machine

Re: [pfSense] Particular website is not opening

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 31/10/12 12:17 pm, Pankaj Kumar wrote: Hi, I have PfSense 2.0.1 installed with Multi WAN. today i figure out some websites are not working on my LAN please anybody can help me ? You will probably find that certain sites don't like connections coming from multiple different IP addresses -

Re: [pfSense] 2 WAN Load balancing PPOE(ISP1) + Static IP (ISP2)

2012-11-01 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 1/11/12 6:45 am, Vinod Nadiadwala wrote: I would like to load balacing between PPPOE connection which is ISP1 and Static IP connection which is ISP2, please guide me is it possible to do it with pfsense, if yes tell me the procedure. Yes, it's perfectly possible, and in the newer 2.x

Re: [pfSense] fast CF cards?

2012-11-07 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 6 Nov 2012, at 19:24, David Burgess apt@gmail.com wrote: With that in mind, can anybody recommend a CF card with good write speed and good reliability? We've used a mix of Sandisk, Transcend and Kingston cards over the years. Of those: - nearly all the Kingston cards have failed

Re: [pfSense] Building Reports and Content Filters

2012-11-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 20/11/12 2:53 pm, James Caldwell wrote: Trying to figure out a good solution for monitoring users and building reports to try and enforce acceptable use policies and procedures but I would really like to avoid using any solution other than pfSense. Having asked around and checked the

Re: [pfSense] update from 2.0.1 to 2.1 HEAD

2012-12-08 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 8/12/12 5:58 pm, David Burgess wrote: Some CF cards are exceptionally slow to change from ro mount to rw. Recent builds allow you to manually change this from the UI so that you don't have to wait 40 seconds each time you make a config change. You, sir, have my thanks. I was going to reply

Re: [pfSense] 2.0.2 release now available

2012-12-21 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 21/12/12 11:31 pm, James Caldwell wrote: I'm always a little leary of the 'beta' term. Once you guys stamp it as a release quality build I'll move up to it no problem. If you want v6 support, you don't get a lot of choice at the moment :-) FWIW, I've been using 2.1 nightlies in

Re: [pfSense] 2.0.1-RELEASE, dual-WAN with loadbalancing

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Bagnall
I'm using 2.0.1-RELEASE, in a dual-WAN configuration with loadbalancing. Some websites that require a login apparently do not like that, as I'm constantly being asked to re-authenticate. Is there a way to make pfSense remember the pairs of source and destination IP, and only use the other

Re: [pfSense] 2.0.1-RELEASE, dual-WAN with loadbalancing

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 19 Feb 2013, at 22:30, - Dickie Bradford - dbradf...@never-enuff.net wrote: I had the same issue with https and constantly having to re-login, the way i worked around it was to force all https connections out the fastest wan link. Its not ideal , but it was the only way I found to

Re: [pfSense] Microsoft Outlook Blocked

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 17/3/13 6:38 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: thanks for the response, I have ports set for '*' any I moved this rule to the top of the rules list TCP/UDP * * * * * none Internet to servers Out of curiosity, have you tried protocol = * rather than just TCP/UDP? Just

Re: [pfSense] Total bandwith usage for month pfsense

2013-04-16 Thread Chris Bagnall
How captured the bandwith total for months? In my experience this sort of thing is best done on an external box with something like Cacti via SNMP from pfSense. This way you aren't at risk of losing your stats on the pfSense box if you need to upgrade or reimage for whatever reason. Kind

Re: [pfSense] help

2013-04-24 Thread Chris Bagnall
Some ISPs that are particularly stingy with IPs and bad at routing have been doing this. I might be missing something, but it does seem like a pretty awful, and at best very temporary 'solution' to IPv4 shortage. I must admit if I were the OP, I'd probably be looking for a new DSL provider.

Re: [pfSense] Dandy pfSense appliance

2013-04-24 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 24/4/13 7:05 pm, Mathieu Simon wrote: Depends what you think about high specs many 1 GE ports or even 10 GE, lots of cores etc? This. You also have to decide whether you actually need high specs in a router. There's little point in paying for multiple GigE or 10GE ports if your internet

Re: [pfSense] Dandy pfSense appliance

2013-04-25 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 25/4/13 11:00 am, David Ross wrote: http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-m1n1wall-2D3-2D13-Black-P216C83.aspx No SSD. Runs off a 4GB CF Card. Worth also adding this for folks who are in the UK (or for whom sourcing stuff from the UK is cost effective): http://linitx.com/product/13242 (similar

Re: [pfSense] Bandwith Alert

2013-04-25 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 25/4/13 2:04 pm, Ugo Bellavance wrote: I used a nagios plugin in the past that did a check on bandwidth use. It didn't check the total data transfer like what you're asking, but it was checking the % use of a link. I used to configure nagios so that it warns me when my 15 mbps link was used

Re: [pfSense] Shell Logout time

2013-04-25 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 25/4/13 4:20 pm, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Whenever I am logged into my pfSense box via SSH, I always get logged out within some time, even when I am running something. Where can I change that timeout value? I have pfSense SSH windows open at the moment which have been active for several

Re: [pfSense] SOHO Router for VPN to pfSense

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 29/4/13 2:35 pm, j...@millican.us wrote: I have a task to connect a number of small/home offices via VPN (OpenVPN is preferred but could be IPSEC) to a central location that has a pfSense box as its FW/Router. Does anyone have any recommendations based on their personal experiences as to

Re: [pfSense] SOHO Router for VPN to pfSense

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 29/4/13 5:11 pm, David Burgess wrote: It could just be my own ignorance, but I have had little success trying to connect a pair of pfsense firewalls via OpenVPN. Really? I must admit it's always Just Worked for me (even going across versions, e.g. 1.2 to 2.0). Far easier than trying to

Re: [pfSense] pfSense box not visible from LAN, only from WAN

2013-05-08 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 8/5/13 7:41 pm, Marco wrote: no IP configured This would be your problem. How can I make the pfsense box visible from the LAN side? Am I doing something wrong or is this expected? I suspect it's expected behaviour. If you want to use pfSense purely as an access point, then you're

[pfSense] OpenVPN over satellite broadband

2013-05-15 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, One of our clients is currently building a property in the middle of nowhere, and traditional (*DSL/cable/wireless) services aren't feasible, which leaves the only option being satellite. Unfortunately, satellite broadband services available to them only seem to offer a

Re: [pfSense] Remote office redundancy

2013-05-23 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 23/5/13 4:50 pm, Vick Khera wrote: Still, what happens if site 1 wan1 goes down, and site 2 wan 2 goes down? I suppose theoretically you could have 4 VPNs: 1 - 1 1 - 2 2 - 1 2 - 2 Though the OSPF rules to do that would be... interesting, to say the least :-) Kind regards, Chris -- This

Re: [pfSense] dual ISP BGP

2013-05-27 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 27/5/13 6:18 pm, Zach Underwood wrote: network 216.105.159.0/24 network 216.105.158.0/24 network 216.105.157.0/24 network 216.105.128.0/24 network 216.105.135.0/24 network 216.105.136.0/23 network 216.105.141.0/24 network 216.105.143.0/24 network 216.105.144.0/22 network 216.105.153.0/24

Re: [pfSense] dual ISP BGP

2013-05-27 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 28/5/13 12:13 am, Zach Underwood wrote: Right now we have large blocks many /24 that are not in use at this time. You lucky person, you :-) The rest of us are struggling to get assignments of new v4 space, so I suspect you're sitting on a gold mine there... We dont want to advertise

[pfSense] pfSense as a datacentre router (was: dual ISP BGP)

2013-05-28 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, Following the recent thread entitled 'dual ISP BGP', I am curious as to how ready people using the OpenBGP package feel it is for use as a datacentre router managing several full BGP feeds and IXPs/private peers). One of our clients has traditionally used Quagga for this

Re: [pfSense] pfSense as a datacentre router (was: dual ISP BGP)

2013-05-28 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 28/5/13 9:06 pm, Adam Thompson wrote: Interesting... I've had exactly the opposite experience. If the Mikrotik forums are to be trusted, there are certainly quite a few people who have run into problems running full tables on even their high end Mikrotik platforms. Despite Quagga's

Re: [pfSense] pfSense as a datacentre router (was: dual ISP BGP)

2013-05-29 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 29/5/13 9:39 am, Eugen Leitl wrote: Which hardware are you using? If you're pushing 5 GBit/s you might be running into hardware limitations. There was a thread about it on nanog a week or two ago. I'm quite impressed Mikrotik hardware is able to sustain 5Gbps with full BGP tables from

Re: [pfSense] IPv6 - Subnetting/Routing with HE?

2013-09-30 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 30/9/13 7:56 am, Seth Mos wrote: I finally bit the bullet and signed up for PI space with a ASN and hopefully that's that. Worth mentioning here that no more IPv4 PI ranges will be allocated - at least not within RIPE jurisdiction (conservation rules kicked in when we started on the last

Re: [pfSense] IPv6 - Subnetting/Routing with HE?

2013-10-01 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 1 Oct 2013, at 14:31, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: But you're going to pay the annual fee. Or is PI for end user through sponsoring LIR possible without incurring annual costs? I can't speak for other jurisdictions, but in RIPE-land, most LIRs charge around 70GBP per annum to

Re: [pfSense] Can pfSense be considered trusted? What implementations of VPNs can now be trusted?

2013-10-10 Thread Chris Bagnall
I've deliberately stayed out of the political discussion, but interested in this more technical discussion… On 10 Oct 2013, at 14:50, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: 2. Cipher Selection - we're not all cryptoanalysts, so statements like 'trust the math' don't always mean much to us,

[pfSense] Syncing alias lists

2013-10-10 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, Does anyone know if it's possible to 'sync' alias lists across pfSense units? I could probably knock something together in $scripting_language_du_jour to backup each unit's config, update the alias list, then restore the new config back to the device, but a) that would involve

Re: [pfSense] Syncing alias lists

2013-10-10 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 10 Oct 2013, at 15:25, Vick Khera vi...@khera.org wrote: The HA facility of pfSense will sync various configs. Look at the checkboxes to determine what gets synced to see if that is suitable for your need. Is that not designed for multiple units at one site? In this scenario, the client

Re: [pfSense] naive suggestion: conform to US laws

2013-10-11 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 11/10/13 2:37 pm, Seth Mos wrote: And which country would that be? I mean the Brittish MI4? tapped the Belgian telecom network for over a year to listen into the EU politicians... Who is this MI4 of whom you speak? :-) In very broad terms, UK to USA equivalents would be as follows: GCHQ =

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 24/10/13 5:30 pm, Thinker Rix wrote: I want to have: - full Gigabit wire speed between the DMZ and the LAN zone (i.e. 2x Gigabit at max) Would have thought you'd be fine here. - full 450Mbps between the WLAN and pfsense Even with 450Mbps *radios* I'd be amazed if you get more than

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 25/10/13 12:02 am, Thinker Rix wrote: Ok, I see. Does this change with a router that has a Gigabit-NIC to connect with pfSense, or isn't that the bottle neck? I've never encountered even a 100Mbps NIC being a wireless bottleneck at 2.4Ghz. The limitation is effective throughput through the

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 24/10/13 7:31 pm, Adam Thompson wrote: If I upgraded to a better-quality unit, or switched to licensed spectrum, I could probably eliminate the variability and increase speed simultaneously. Indeed, we have Ubiquiti kit running point to point links in the 5Ghz unlicensed spectrum (band C)

Re: [pfSense] Question on FW log entries

2013-11-03 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 3/11/13 3:27 pm, Peder Rovelstad wrote: Just a quick question for anyone who cares to reply, something I can't figure out. I have the default LAN - Any rule active on the LAN interface, but I often see block entries such as those attached, in this case from my kid's iPad to Google. Other

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-11-06 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 6/11/13 7:11 am, Thinker Rix wrote: Unfortunately the motherboards I plan to buy supports only the above-mentioned CPUs. - Pentium - 4th generation core i3 - Xeon E3-1200 v3 If your board supports a Core i3, it is *very* unlikely that it won't also support the i5 of the same generation

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-11-06 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 6/11/13 12:30 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: Anyone running pfSense on a HP Microserver G8? I have - in the past - had it running on a G5 and a G6 if that's any help. One of our clients is using it on a G7. lspci on both mine show: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5723 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev

Re: [pfSense] Traffic Graph: Not reflecting reality?

2013-11-07 Thread Chris Bagnall
We recently relocated and are waiting to get our primary connection installed, so in the mean time we're on a 3Mb/0.75Mb DSL line. However, pfSense often shows 6Mb/s coming out of the LAN during a download. Same problem here. I am not seeing incorrect traffic graphs in 2.1, and I am using

Re: [pfSense] MultiWAN with SSH

2013-12-13 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 13/12/13 5:48 am, Walter Parker wrote: What do I need to do to get the firewall to use the COMCASTGW for responses to packets sent to the COMCAST interface? Unless you're using advanced outbound NAT, this should happen automatically. You said: I have a rule on the Comcast interface the

Re: [pfSense] MultiWAN with SSH

2013-12-13 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 13/12/13 1:12 pm, Jim Pingle wrote: * Don't use interface groups or multi-interface floating rules for WAN rule I stand corrected. You learn something new every day :-) As an aside, is there any way to 'fix' this? On a system with 4 or 5 WANs, the ability to define inbound rules that

[pfSense] Squid version for pfSense 2.1

2014-01-28 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, I've recently been working on a project in which Squid would be beneficial. So I thought a good starting point would be to try installing one of the pfSense Squid packages on my home pfSense, play around with the config, etc. before setting it up for the project in question. I

Re: [pfSense] Squid version for pfSense 2.1

2014-01-28 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 28/1/14 4:41 pm, Brian Caouette wrote: I'm running the 3.x over here with no problems. I haven't really noticed much of a performance gain however. I've been reading up on tweaking the settings but so far our hit rate has only been 1-2%. Thanks - I'll give that a try. In this context, it's

Re: [pfSense] Setting PPPoE MTU

2014-01-29 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 29/1/14 10:57 am, Brian Candler wrote: My uplink is using PPPoE into a DSL router in bridged mode. The connectivity is fine, but the MTU is 1492 and I would like to bump this up to 1500 (assuming the router will take ethernet frames which are 1508 bytes). I looked at this about a year ago

Re: [pfSense] Firewall Aliases: DNS resolving of domains broken

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 14/2/14 3:37 pm, Thinker Rix wrote: I have had entered some domain names there in the past, which always worked flawlessly. Recently I changed ISP and since then the domain names are not resolved anymore to IPs, so that the traffic using those aliases gets blocked by the firewall. When

Re: [pfSense] Firewall Aliases: DNS resolving of domains broken

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 14/2/14 4:48 pm, Thinker Rix wrote: Any ideas what could be the problem? Have you tried entering the DNS servers your ISP supplies via PPP or DHCP (look on the Status - Interfaces page, they should be listed on there) manually on the General settings page, then disabling DNS via

Re: [pfSense] Unbound

2014-02-15 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 15/2/14 6:22 pm, Brian Caouette wrote: I've been trying to use unbound with poor results. Currently it resolves very very slowly. About 4 times longer then the default dns forwarder. Once the site is found and loaded however browsing the site is incredibly fast. Curious what might be the

[pfSense] Overzealous Multi-WAN state flushing

2014-02-17 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, A few days ago I finally found time to upgrade my ageing pfSense 2.1-RC0 at home to 2.1 final. Since that upgrade I've noticed that pfSense doesn't seem to be handling state killing on failed gateways very well. A bit of background: I live in a rural location with poor

Re: [pfSense] Blocking based on MAC

2014-03-01 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 1/3/14 2:37 am, Ryan Coleman wrote: I just checked google and the “best” solution from a few versions ago is to reserve the MAC IP to something out of range. I’d like to find a “simple” way to do that for my customer. Is there a better way to block a MAC? At the risk of thinking outside

Re: [pfSense] Gateway Group / Failover WAN setup question

2014-03-11 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 11/3/14 6:48 pm, Justin Edmands wrote: The current rules all read * for the Gateway. Do all of my current LAN, OpenVPN, and IPSec rules need to be altered to include the Gateway as the new Failover1 rule? Those that rely on the WANs, yes. Rules to allow traffic to pass between your VPNs

Re: [pfSense] Proxy filter

2014-03-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 20/3/14 7:14 pm, A Mohan Rao wrote: I m using squid squid guard and light squid for user access websites reporting with live but there is pfsense not read or show ftp server access logs. I also try as pfsense firewall client and to to any other ftp sites then download files but in proxy

Re: [pfSense] Proxy filter

2014-03-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 20/3/14 7:19 pm, A Mohan Rao wrote: Ok thanks but if i need how i maintain ftp traffic logs. Not really relevant to the question, I appreciate, but I can't think of a good reason why you'd want to do that, unless of course you're running the FTP server, in which case your FTP server

Re: [pfSense] Proxy filter

2014-03-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 20/3/14 7:22 pm, A Mohan Rao wrote: Also i struggling to block https social networking sites like facebook etc from last 1to 1.5 years. I used for block that domain through DNS FORWARDER. But when user use open dns its working pls any idea its very helpful for me. You might find it easier

Re: [pfSense] Proxy filter

2014-03-21 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 20/3/14 8:42 pm, Rafael Akchurin wrote: May be this will be of any help - http://sichent.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/filtering-https-traffic-with-squid-on-pfsense-2-1/ That approach does require that your users 'trust' the proxy and allow the necessary certificates. It's all well and good

Re: [pfSense] Android apps block

2014-03-24 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 24 Mar 2014, at 19:19, A Mohan Rao mohanra...@gmail.com wrote: I need to block whatsapp facebook etc android apps of pfsense users. Given that you seem to want to block everything under the sun (though I still don't understand why), how about doing it the other way round? Why not decide

Re: [pfSense] RDP port forward based on destination name.

2014-03-27 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 27/3/14 8:17 pm, Walter Parker wrote: That's what I would recommend. The VPN can serve as a second gateway to protect the RDP from the outside world, so you could pitch this solution as higher security method of network access. This. There seem to be lots of dictionary attacks against RDP

Re: [pfSense] RDP port forward based on destination name.

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 28/3/14 4:03 pm, Walter Parker wrote: I'd love it if there was simple solution, but I don't see one that would compatible with today's internet. Much of the original design of the internet was for a 1 to 1 mapping of IP addresses, rather than a 1 to many mapping (which is why there is usually

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-02 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 2/4/14 9:17 pm, Thinker Rix wrote: Unfortunately again only 3 NICs... and Realteks with bad performance. I would love to see such a board one day with at least 4-8 NICs. On that subject, we've recently been experimenting with these:

Re: [pfSense] pfSense Book (Buechler / Pingle)

2014-04-13 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 13/4/14 4:25 pm, Adam Thompson wrote: As to the liberated comment, let us know when you've figured out how to make a completely open eReader that doesn't sell for $1000. Nexus 7 + fbreader (freely available)? Opens all the usual suspects (pub, mobi, pdf, etc.) If you don't mind one of the

Re: [pfSense] HP DL160 for pfSense in a datacenter

2014-04-23 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 23/4/14 4:46 pm, Vick Khera wrote: I reconfigured them to use geom mirror instead, and everything has been much better since. The FreeBSD kernel does a fine job managing the mirror all by itself. We have some DL160s with the same B110i controller running as Linux KVM host machines, and

Re: [pfSense] Upgrading Alix 2d13

2014-04-29 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 29/4/14 7:40 pm, Vick Khera wrote: I've now upgraded 3 separate ALIX boards to 2.1.2 (one from 2.1.0, the other two from 2.0.1) with zero failures. Perhaps try upgrade from the console menu. Just make sure that the upgrade URL is configured correctly for the i386 version of pfsense. Also

Re: [pfSense] Upgrading Alix 2d13

2014-04-29 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 30/4/14 12:31 am, Ryan Coleman wrote: 4GB CF cards are pretty cheap these days - I would just buy one in the store ($20) or online ($10 or so) and image that, pop it in the firewall and import your config. Agreed, if the devices are suitably close to you. A bit more of a problem if

Re: [pfSense] Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad Port PCI-e Gigabit Ethernet

2014-05-09 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 9 May 2014, at 23:25, Dave Warren da...@hireahit.com wrote: I'm looking on eBay as well, it's worth the gamble vs buying new. Not pfSense-specific, but I've used quite a few from eBay (both dual and quad port cards) in generic FreeBSD installs and not had a problem with them. As others have

Re: [pfSense] Poweredge 2850

2014-05-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
I concur with Ryan's readings with the 2950s - we use them as KVM host machines in a datacentre environment and they average around 250W under moderate load. That's with 4x SSDs in each. Also worth mentioning that pfSense will barely use a gig of disk space; the 6x 73GB SAS units specced by

Re: [pfSense] Poweredge 2850

2014-05-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 20 May 2014, at 18:45, Brian Caouette bri...@dlois.com wrote: What software is available to do virtual machines? We use KVM. Kind regards, Chris -- This email is made from 100% recycled electrons ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org

Re: [pfSense] Poweredge 2850

2014-05-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 20 May 2014, at 21:37, Harlan Stenn har...@everett.org wrote: Where are you that you get electricity for .05/kWh? Here in Oregon we have pretty great rates, and I think we're paying .10-.12/kWh. I don't know where the OP hails from, but here in the UK (Scotland, specifically, at the

Re: [pfSense] Setup advice

2014-05-28 Thread Chris Bagnall
Brian Caouette wrote: How much space should be allocated for pfsense and squid? In the office here I have 30GB allocated for squid to use as a cache. In this case where the chaps in the workshop are often downloading things like Windows Updates, software packages, etc., the size was chosen

Re: [pfSense] Monitoring

2014-06-03 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 3/6/14 7:21 pm, Brian Caouette wrote: I just installed the NRPE package to pfSense. How its it used? Is there a docs page to make this work with pf? The first thing you'll need is a working install of Nagios somewhere - do you already have that in hand? As an aside, another option to

Re: [pfSense] Migrating from /32 + /29 to just /29

2014-06-12 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 12/6/14 11:06 pm, Jon Gerdes wrote: As far as I can tell, the only downside is I lose another address to act as the gateway. Can anyone spot any flaws with this method or is it a general practice? Certainly assigning the first IP in a /29 to the PPPoE client is fairly standard practice in

Re: [pfSense] Squid3 with https filtering

2014-06-17 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 17/6/14 10:32 am, A Mohan Rao wrote: actually i need to block https sites like https facebook or https youtube etc with transparent proxy. So in order to block Facebook and Youtube, you're going to put all your users at risk of SSL MITM attacks on every secure website they visit? You

[pfSense] Squid in a Multi-WAN environment

2014-07-10 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, I'm trying to persuade the Squid 3 package to use a load balancing gateway group, unfortunately without much success. I'm afraid my google-fu is failing me: - this link from the official docs seems to relate to 1.2:

Re: [pfSense] Squid Problem and DNS?

2014-07-16 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 16/7/14 3:25 pm, Brian Caouette wrote: #1. Initial page lookups are really slow. When I enter a website it will pause for 6-8 seconds then the page is instantly there. I have Googles DNS set in general and currently have stock DNS Forwarder active. It's set to use system defaults. As a

Re: [pfSense] 802.11ac Mini PCI Express adapter for pfSense

2014-07-21 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 21/7/14 4:27 pm, Kevin Tollison wrote: I have used internal card in the past and they typically work well. We have found that an external AP gives a lot more flexibility to an install. +1 for external APs. Your environments may be different, but during installs we often find the best place

Re: [pfSense] Difference between APU4 and APU1C4

2014-07-22 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 22/7/14 11:17 pm, Nickolai Leschov wrote: I didn't notice this page. So it looks like it's some kind of thermal paste allows for adequate thermal conductivity between the CPU/south bridge and the aluminum heat spreader, but the heat spreader is in dry contact with the case? The one I've

Re: [pfSense] Difference between APU4 and APU1C4

2014-07-22 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 23/7/14 2:10 am, Jim Thompson wrote: Very little if this thread is related to pfSense. Please stay on topic. Respectfully, I disagree. Given the APU is - as the de facto successor to the ALIX - likely to be a piece of hardware used in a lot of new pfSense installs, discussion about its

Re: [pfSense] Difference between APU4 and APU1C4

2014-07-22 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 23/7/14 4:11 am, Ryan Coleman wrote: I may have fired off the message in a fit of frustration but you made it a public statement - if you wanted to be the “mom” and handle it you should have sent it privately instead of publicly. I can't work out if the above is directed at me or Jim. (I

Re: [pfSense] Difference between APU4 and APU1C4

2014-07-27 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 27/7/14 7:06 pm, Matthias May wrote: With intel cards on the same board you can get up to 650 Mbit/s, but i expect it to be lower with additional rules. Have you tried it with Intel cards (I assume you're talking mPCIe cards?) - and if so, what chassis did you use? The ability to install

Re: [pfSense] Triple WAN

2014-09-08 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 8 Sep 2014, at 18:07, Joe Laffey j...@laffey.tv wrote: Anyone using Load Balancing for a triple WAN setup? This work OK in pfSense? What about older 1.2.3 systems? I have a triple WAN setup at home, which worked fine in 2.0 and likewise now in 2.1. There are limitations in 1.2.3 that

Re: [pfSense] questions about carp/xmlrpc

2014-09-09 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 9 Sep 2014, at 14:01, Albert Dengg alb...@fsfe.org wrote: the second question is also related to virtual ip's: is there a way to configure a failover for the second wan interface, if there is only one ip assigned to me by the isp? My understanding (and this isn’t limited to pfSense - I’ve

Re: [pfSense] questions about carp/xmlrpc

2014-09-09 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 9 Sep 2014, at 14:46, Albert Dengg alb...@fsfe.org wrote: that however still leaves with the problem of the interface mixups for my internal networks, where the sync tries to assignt the virtual ip's to the wrong interfaces…. Is your hardware (and interface names) identical across both your

Re: [pfSense] VIP,MAC Arp

2014-09-18 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 18/9/14 8:13 pm, Nick Upson wrote: We have a new /27 range to go with this new installation and here is the problem, external ping/connectivity to the new IPs doesn't work except one the .225 address, it seems the firebrick requires ARP in order to route them. I have setup several different

Re: [pfSense] No logout in 2.1.5 i386

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 19/9/14 4:41 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: Also what browser is that? Looks like Firefox to me... Disabled your add-ons (I see there are a few of them - could be an issue)? This is definitely worth a try. As an aside, one of the first things I do with a fresh pfSense install is to revert

Re: [pfSense] [SOT] apu1c4/apu1d4 stability

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 22/9/14 5:10 pm, mayak wrote: in an earlier thread, i recounted issues that i had with the apu1c4 unit silently dying -- this was the only thread that i saw here, so i assume that i just got a bad unit. I cannot give you a sample of 20 - they're too new for that - but I can say of the

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