[pfSense Support] sip nat

2009-03-18 Thread anders
Hi I know this issue have been raised before, but I haven't really found a satisfying answer, so here I go again... My problem is related to sip-nat. I'm running a network with approximately 2000 home users. I have choosen pfsense back in the 1.0.1 days, and is still very satisfied with it's

[pfSense Support] SIP and Traffic Shaper?

2009-03-18 Thread Paul Cockings
Pfsense 1.2.2 2 NICS (WAN/LAN) 1 WAN IP NAT, with outbound NAT set to static port 1 Sip phone Phone works great (since I read about the static port rule), but if I use the traffic shaper wizard inbound calls stop working (outbound and two way audio seems ok). If i disable the shaper, inbound

Re: Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Can't get more than 15kpps.

2009-03-18 Thread five2one . lenny
Hi, ok, I'm back with some tests and results. I read a lot about the em driver settings, and this is what I did: in /etc/sysctl.conf I added: dev.em.0.rx_processing_limit=1600 dev.em.1.rx_processing_limit=1600 although I also tried -1 and some smaller values. in /boot/loader.conf I added:

RE: [pfSense Support] Nat traversal and Asterisk

2009-03-18 Thread k_o_l
Perfect! It fixed the problem for me -Original Message- From: cbuech...@gmail.com [mailto:cbuech...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Chris Buechler Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 8:57 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Nat traversal and Asterisk On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:52

Re: [pfSense Support] sip nat

2009-03-18 Thread Chris Buechler
Nearly always, rewriting source port on SIP breaks it so it's not done by default. Enable AON and it will be. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:11 AM, and...@fiberby.dk wrote: Hi I know this issue have been raised before, but I haven't really found a satisfying answer, so here I go again... My

RE: [pfSense Support] Existing pfSense 1.2.2, adding redundant member

2009-03-18 Thread Dimitri Rodis
It looked that easy-- just wanted to be sure before messing with a production set up! Thanks, Dimitri Rodis Integrita Systems LLC -Original Message- From: Paul Mansfield [mailto:it-admin-pfse...@taptu.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:45 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re:

Re: Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Can't get more than 15kpps.

2009-03-18 Thread five2one . lenny
Also, while searching the net for the emX taskq solution, I read that few people are successfully running the modified em driver from Yandex. This is their README: RX queue is being processed w/more than one thread. Use sysctl dev.em.X.rx_kthreads to alter number of threads. TX interrupts has

Re: Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Can't get more than 15kpps.

2009-03-18 Thread Ermal Luçi
You would have to build a kernel yourself without the em/ixgbe modules to be able to use yandex driver. Ever checked if you have MSI enabled on your motherboard and what happens if you disable it? On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM, five2one.le...@gmail.com wrote: Also, while searching the net for

[pfSense Support] VPN pass-through not working

2009-03-18 Thread Steve Spencer
All, I've got two wireless segments that I recently tried to implement a pfsense firewall on. They currently are running with a simple iptables firewall on a linux box. This works, but I'm trying to streamline a few things here, and the pfsense firewall seemed like a good fit for what I was

SV: [pfSense Support] sip nat

2009-03-18 Thread anders
Hi Chris Thanks for the quick response. I already tested it, and that solved my problem. But your probably also right when you say that it won't fix the actual problem: SIP does not like NAT. Keep up the good work... Kind regards Anders -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: cbuech...@gmail.com

Re: Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Can't get more than 15kpps.

2009-03-18 Thread Bill Marquette
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:32 AM, five2one.le...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, ok, I'm back with some tests and results. I read a lot about the em driver settings, and this is what I did: in /etc/sysctl.conf I added: dev.em.0.rx_processing_limit=1600 dev.em.1.rx_processing_limit=1600 although I

Re: Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Can't get more than 15kpps.

2009-03-18 Thread Bill Marquette
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:27 AM, five2one.le...@gmail.com wrote: So the question is, should I go for it? Will it help me in any way? I mean, if I have 2 Xeon CPUs and Hyper Threading enabled, I can actually divide it into 4 threads, right? Don't use hyperthreading. It's likely to cause you

Re: SV: [pfSense Support] sip nat

2009-03-18 Thread Chris Flugstad
I use Linksys SPA 921 which do a BADASS job of going over NAT. They have a good "keep alive" function that keeps them nice and cozy behind a nat. We use them for our hosted pbx product and havent had any problems. Chris Flugstad Cascadelink 900 1st ave s, suite 201a seattle, wa 98134 p:

Re: SV: [pfSense Support] sip nat

2009-03-18 Thread Tortise
What is BADASS and what are you saying here? It seems to be mixed messages and not consistent to me. I'd like to understand what it is that you understand please. Kind regards David - Original Message - From: Chris Flugstad To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:43 AM

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Can't get more than 15kpps.

2009-03-18 Thread Lenny
Hi Bill, thanks for answering. a couple of questions: I'm gonna disable hyperthreading tomorrow, but tell me, should I do it in BIOS and just boot it up, without any change(reinstall)? or should I use this method: FreeBSD supports hyperthreading on Intel CPU's on the i386 platform.

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Can't get more than 15kpps.

2009-03-18 Thread Lenny
Hi, ok, thanks. Regarding MSI - I never checked, but as far as I remember the BIOS settings - I never saw it there. I'll check tomorrow. thanks, Lenny. Ermal Luçi wrote: You would have to build a kernel yourself without the em/ixgbe modules to be able to use yandex driver. Ever

[pfSense Support] RE: 1:1 NAT - Outbound source IP?

2009-03-18 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Just bumping this question up. :) Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg Atlas Networks, LLC Phone: 206-577-3078 supp...@atlasnetworks.usmailto:supp...@atlasnetworks.us www.atlasnetworks.ushttp://www.atlasnetworks.us From: Nathan Eisenberg Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:54 AM To: support@pfsense.com

Re: [pfSense Support] RE: 1:1 NAT - Outbound source IP?

2009-03-18 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Nathan Eisenberg nat...@atlasnetworks.us wrote: Just bumping this question up. Gary answered it yesterday. The only way it doesn't work that way is if you have some sort of proxy running on the firewall.

RE: [pfSense Support] RE: 1:1 NAT - Outbound source IP?

2009-03-18 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Huh, odd, I didn't get that message. No proxy, but still seeing the firewall's IP as the source IP. Very confusing. Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg Atlas Networks, LLC Phone: 206-577-3078 supp...@atlasnetworks.us www.atlasnetworks.us -Original Message- From: cbuech...@gmail.com

RE: [pfSense Support] ip aliases for LAN interface

2009-03-18 Thread Chuck Mariotti
Agi, Did you get this working at all? I have the same situation. Two subnets and want my VPN users to access both subnets. Regards, Chuck From: Agi Subagio [mailto:a...@mbs.co.id] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 3:00 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] ip aliases for

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Can't get more than 15kpps.

2009-03-18 Thread Bill Marquette
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Lenny five2one.le...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bill, thanks for answering. a couple of questions: I'm gonna disable hyperthreading tomorrow, but tell me, should I do it in BIOS and just boot it up, All our older Intel machines had it disabled in BIOS. The

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Can't get more than 15kpps.

2009-03-18 Thread Bill Marquette
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Lenny five2one.le...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, ok, thanks. Regarding MSI - I never checked, but as far as I remember the BIOS settings - I never saw it there. I'll check tomorrow. That reminds me. Our HP gear has an APIC setting in BIOS - we set it to Full

[pfSense Support] CARP over Serial?

2009-03-18 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Seems like I'm ending up asking a lot of questions here lately. (Long Version) I have two servers I want to set up as a CARP cluster. So I did, and that's working fine. The only issue is that the servers only have 2 NICs. I setup a VLAN on the LAN interface to function as a temporary CARP

Re: [pfSense Support] CARP over Serial?

2009-03-18 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Nathan Eisenberg nat...@atlasnetworks.us wrote: Is there any provision for doing CARP over serial/SLIP, or do I have to have a third Ethernet interface? No, because it wouldn't work unless you have a 512 Kb Internet pipe or slower. Serial is *way* too slow to

Re: [pfSense Support] CARP over Serial?

2009-03-18 Thread Bill Marquette
Further, CARP doesn't run on a dedicated NIC, pfsync does (and no, it's not required, however it isn't encrypted or authenticated). --Bill Sent from my iPhone On Mar 18, 2009, at 7:01 PM, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Nathan Eisenberg

[pfSense Support] Help with NIC Hardwares

2009-03-18 Thread Alexandre F. Guimarães
Hello Pfsensers! I need some help with brands of NIC to buy, I need Giga ether cards with more or less 300kpps (real throughput) only for routing. What card is the best for this? Intel? 3com? What model? Can anyone help me?

[pfSense Support] Site to Site openvpn with public IP's on Lan

2009-03-18 Thread Chris Flugstad
So I have a pfsense router in my colospace, and 1 out on a cable connection. I want to be able to setup a block on the LAN side of the pfsense box in my colospace, and use that block or ip's on the same subnet on the other side, going over the vpn. Is this doable? Chris Flugstad Cascadelink

Re: SV: [pfSense Support] sip nat

2009-03-18 Thread Chris Flugstad
Some phones, such as the SPA921 will have a "keep alive" function or NAT transversal. This will allow the phone to not disappear from behind a firewall. So you could take the phone and stick it on any 192.XXX home network/office network and it will connect to a voip server and not go missing

Re: SV: [pfSense Support] sip nat

2009-03-18 Thread Chris Flugstad
Also forgot to note, that most phones will register on port 5060. This however behind a NAT wont work if you have more than 1 phone. You will have to statically configure the port different on each port OR someone phone will have a "random" port selection OR sometimes you can select 5061 and

[pfSense Support] Fw: About bridge network interface and rc.conf

2009-03-18 Thread rakthum_r_NetworkTelecom_IP#1
To Pfsense project teams I don't know it is a bug or not. First, I use your product and I = have 4 LAN cards then I want to bridge LAN interface with WAN interface and want to bridge = OPT1 With OPT2 in webGUI but. When I typed ifconfig I have bridge0 interface

Re: SV: [pfSense Support] sip nat

2009-03-18 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Chris Flugstad ch...@cascadelink.com wrote: Also forgot to note, that most phones will register on port 5060.  This however behind a NAT wont work if you have more than 1 phone.  You will have to statically configure the port different on each port OR someone

Re: [pfSense Support] Help with NIC Hardwares

2009-03-18 Thread Victor Padro
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.comwrote: I've actually had VERY good results with NetGear GA311 gigabit cards. they have TCP/IP offloading too. run like tanks and are pretty inevpensive. not sure about the pps rating on them though -Sean

Re: [pfSense Support] Help with NIC Hardwares

2009-03-18 Thread Bill Marquette
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Re: [pfSense Support] Help with NIC Hardwares

2009-03-18 Thread Bill Marquette
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Victor Padro vpa...@gmail.com wrote: Intel 1Gbps are the best for routing, data transfer, etc. Although intel pro 100Mbps are quite alright in a 300 kbps routing enviroment. thousands of PACKETs per second, not bits. You'd need a bit more than 100Mbit capable

Re: [pfSense Support] Help with NIC Hardwares

2009-03-18 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
I've actually had VERY good results with NetGear GA311 gigabit cards. they have TCP/IP offloading too. run like tanks and are pretty inevpensive. not sure about the pps rating on them though -Sean -- From: Alexandre F. Guimarães

Re: [pfSense Support] Help with NIC Hardwares

2009-03-18 Thread Victor Padro
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Bill Marquette bill.marque...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Victor Padro vpa...@gmail.com wrote: Intel 1Gbps are the best for routing, data transfer, etc. Although intel pro 100Mbps are quite alright in a 300 kbps routing enviroment.

Re: [pfSense Support] Fw: About bridge network interface and rc.conf

2009-03-18 Thread rakthum_r_NetworkTelecom_IP#1
Thank you very much -- From: Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.org Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:26 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Fw: About bridge network interface and rc.conf Did you not see my previous reply? Here: