RE: [pfSense Support] errors that im receiving

2006-06-25 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
To add a few cents .. in my experience collisions are usually attributable in decreasing order to: 1) Faulty ( Bent ) cable, 2) Dicky Transceiver (hit by static or lightning ) 3) Chipset (Thomas Conrad especially, but others are notorious for interframe spacing issues like older Intels ) 4)

RE: [pfSense Support] kudos to Mr. Ullrich and the rest of the pfsense contributors

2006-04-05 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
And remember: Nothing says thank you quite as well as a nice big donation! -Original Message- From: Charles Sprickman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 April 2006 10:33 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] kudos to Mr. Ullrich and the rest of the pfsense

RE: [pfSense Support] Crash Disk problems

2006-01-15 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
I don't use a UPS on my two firewalls and I they are in a pretty hostile environment, they have been running for more than a year now with no disk failure. My theory is that since they boot up quicker than any other device there is no need to have them on a UPS, since none of the other

RE: [pfSense Support] Preconfiguration of PFSense?

2005-12-28 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
HI Scott, what about customization of the LiveCD image? Is this possible? i.e. use something like IsoBuster to extract it and put the config.xml on it and as a last step in the setup scripts before reboot copy the config.xml into the right place? Recreate the ISO with ISObuster and you have a

RE: [pfSense Support] Preconfiguration of PFSense?

2005-12-28 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI Scott, what about customization of the LiveCD image? Is this possible? i.e. use something like IsoBuster to extract it and put the config.xml on it and as a last step in the setup scripts before reboot copy the config.xml

RE: [pfSense Support] Features

2005-12-10 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
Multiple PPPoE outbounds? ;) (no need to reply) -Original Message- From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:40 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Features It depends on what they are, etc. Please contact [EMAIL

RE: [pfSense Support] Embedded image

2005-12-10 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
Title: Embedded image Some of the mirrors don't delete previous / pulled versions. the above.net mirrors are typically the most current. From: alan walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:57 PMTo: support@pfsense.comSubject: [pfSense Support] Embedded image

RE: [pfSense Support] DynDns scheduling issues

2005-12-08 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
] a écrit : Hello, Okay it works for me Thank you... --- Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Update_file.sh /etc/crontab and reboot -Original Message- From: Damien Dupertuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 01

RE: [pfSense Support] DynDns scheduling issues

2005-12-01 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
Update_file.sh /etc/crontab and reboot -Original Message- From: Damien Dupertuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:03 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] DynDns scheduling issues Hello, I'm using 95.a and I just got my dyndns account

RE: [pfSense Support] 0.95 DynDns Doesn't Work

2005-11-30 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
. Make sure your crontab is current: update_file.sh /etc/crontab Scott On 11/29/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI Ok so it still doesn't work.. I think it's the cache file.. Either it's not being updated or it shouldn't be trusted wherever

[pfSense Support] 0.95 DynDns Doesn't Work

2005-11-29 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
Title: 0.95 DynDns Doesn't Work HI Ok so it still doesn't work.. I think its the cache file.. Either it's not being updated or it shouldn't be trusted wherever it gets its data from ? Nov 29 19:05:31 php: : phpDynDNS: No Change In My IP Address and/or 28 Days Has Not Past. Not Updating

RE: [pfSense Support] DynDns Broken again on 94.10?

2005-11-28 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
to wait one day, because the bug appears only after one day... regards... --- Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : HI I have a custom DynDns account with PPPoE dialup via DSL. Not working on 2 boxes running 94.12. -Original Message- From: Holger Bauer

RE: [pfSense Support] DynDns Broken again on 94.10?

2005-11-28 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
the system logs that pertain to phpDynDns? On 11/28/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My last DynDns update was when I was on 0.90a last week ... i.e. its not updating either immediately or due to cron job. Only thing I can think of is that I have been doing upgrades

RE: [pfSense Support] DynDns Broken again on 94.10?

2005-11-27 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
Appologies.. Make that 94.12 -Original Message- From: Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 9:50 AM To: 'support@pfsense.com' Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] DynDns Broken again on 94.10? HI 90.12 doesn't fix it. Tx Ivan. -Original Message- From

RE: [pfSense Support] captive portal - Is this possible?

2005-11-14 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
Ethereal and a network card that allows you to change macs .. Trivial. Access to a network needs to be properly controlled (wired or wireless). Security needs to be designed in.. Physical access is never a deterant for the truly motivated. -Original Message- From: jonathan gonzalez

RE: [pfSense Support] WAN DHCP not working ?

2005-11-14 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
I echo that ! I've used 3coms through the many generations on various os's.. They even sucked hard under DOS(3c509) and even worse under Novell .. One might have thought they could get there sh*t together over time .. But alas .. not. Broadcoms and Intels are generally the best in my

RE: [pfSense Support] DYNDNS fixed

2005-11-04 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
be releasing a new version later today. Scott On 11/3/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 90a with Scotts update_file.sh /etc/rc.newwanip from Sunday. I am guessing this was not included in 90a? Tx Ivan. -Original Message- From: Damien Dupertuis [mailto

RE: [pfSense Support] DYNDNS fixed

2005-11-02 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
] DYNDNS fixed Hello, What version??? Modifications??? Thank you !!! :-) regards Damien --- Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : My IP changed yesterday and it was detected and registered successfully. I think this one is fixed finally. Tx Ivan

[pfSense Support] DYNDNS fixed

2005-11-01 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
Title: DYNDNS fixed My IP changed yesterday and it was detected and registered successfully. I think this one is fixed finally. Tx Ivan.

RE: [pfSense Support] Problems in version 0.90

2005-10-31 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
I get the same when going to pkg_mgr. -Original Message- From: Tommaso Di Donato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:26 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense Support] Problems in version 0.90 Hi guys! In a fresh new install of pfSense 0.90, I have the

RE: [pfSense Support] Dump states featue

2005-10-31 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
For my own reference please .. The role of a firewall is supposed to be a filter rather than a router or a front end load balancer? If there is this much inbound traffic clearly other solutions would be appropriate? Or am I wrong? -Original Message- From: Peter Zaitsev [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [pfSense Support] Diagnostics: DHCP leases v0.88

2005-10-24 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
it is actualy alive?. What about trying to do a sniff of some sort on the network, to see if the machine has any kind of trafic ? Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) wrote: What about doing a ping back to the device rather than using ARP ? Then you can use the live/dead terminology instead? i.e. do a ping

RE: [pfSense Support] Diagnostics: DHCP leases v0.88

2005-10-24 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
Agreed topic dropped. The passive approach seems safer. -Original Message- From: Chris Buechler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 4:23 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Diagnostics: DHCP leases v0.88 Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) wrote

RE: [pfSense Support] Outgoing Load Balancing mini-howto

2005-10-13 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
And does CARP have to be running? I think the answer to 6 would be something like a DNS box on the ISP's network .. or perhaps even something like www.microsoft.com ? -Original Message- From: Rajkumar S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:59 AM To:

[pfSense Support] Sesamie Street on 086.2

2005-10-09 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
I scoured all the webgui pages .. but I dont seem to find a simple way to make my router beep on up or down .. is it a shell command that I need to add the rc scripts? PS: Update_file.sh after 086.2 upgrade and then reset password from console fixes the webgui issue for me.

RE: [pfSense Support] Sesamie Street on 086.2

2005-10-09 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I scoured all the webgui pages .. but I don't seem to find a simple way to make my router beep on up or down .. is it a shell command that I need to add the rc scripts? PS: Update_file.sh after 086.2 upgrade and then reset password from

RE: [pfSense Support] Sesamie Street on 086.2

2005-10-09 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Sesamie Street on 086.2 Oh really? I thought that it was kinda loud last night when I rebooted the machine at 5 am :) Scott On 10/9/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my hands and knees.. it does

RE: [pfSense Support] Sesamie Street on 086.2

2005-10-09 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
. ;) Scott On 10/9/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 profiles then ? Loud annoying or Smooth and Neighbour/partner friendly?! No seriously .. I think this is one feature that people can roll their own with now that the script is their? -Original Message

RE: [pfSense Support] MASTER MASTER on CARP 086.2

2005-10-09 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
Support] MASTER MASTER on CARP 086.2 One machine should have a advertising skew higher than the master. Scott On 10/9/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK .. so carp is working great for Outbound LB/DHCP Failover/Gateway. One question .. something has changed

RE: [pfSense Support] MASTER MASTER on CARP 086.2

2005-10-09 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] MASTER MASTER on CARP 086.2 I am not seeing this behavior in any of my 3 install locations. Make sure your sync interface has allow all rules on them? Scott On 10/9/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes. ADV skew 100 on backup

RE: [pfSense Support] DynDns still being blocked for abuse.

2005-10-06 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
is incorrectly trying to update your IP address every time it runs. On 10/5/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have updated crontab on both my routers.. DynDns is still being blocked for abuse. ( both custom and dynamic 2 different routers ). 086. Tx

[pfSense Support] DynDns still being blocked for abuse.

2005-10-05 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
I have updated crontab on both my routers.. DynDns is still being blocked for abuse. ( both custom and dynamic 2 different routers ). 086. Tx

[pfSense Support] update_file.sh overwrites captiveportal.inc

2005-10-03 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
HI .. No sure if this is a bug .. or a feature request, so I havent logged a ticket yet. I just realized why I need to keep disabling captiveportal then goto console, drop to shell, disable captive portal do upgrade from .gz file to recover. When doing an update_file.sh the

RE: [pfSense Support] update_file.sh overwrites captiveportal.inc

2005-10-03 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
On 10/3/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI .. No sure if this is a bug .. or a feature request, so I haven't logged a ticket yet. I just realized why I need to keep disabling captiveportal then goto console, drop to shell, disable captive portal do

[pfSense Support] DynDns Still being blocked?

2005-10-03 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
HI I am still having a problem with my DnyDns account being blocked for abuse? Is there something I have do on my setup to fix this? I am on 0.86.

RE: [pfSense Support] CARP Master/Backup goes to INIT update

2005-09-30 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
catch. I'll fix in a bit. Scott On 9/29/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI I just did another update_file.sh .. and re-setup CARP. Doing a Reboot brings CARP up into Master as expected ;) ( I can't turn on the slave to test if it is 100

RE: [pfSense Support] LB and pre-emption on CARP?

2005-09-30 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] 1) What does the load balancing option in CARP page do? It's a poor way of load balancing based on the HASH AFAIK. From the manpage: net.inet.carp.arpbalance Balance local traffic using ARP. 2) If load balancing is enable on the CARP page

RE: [pfSense Support] beep on ready suggestion

2005-09-30 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
I remember being able to play mods through the pc speaker ;) From this thread : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2003-April/30.html mplayer -ao oss:/dev/pcaudio -vo aa .. but I suspect oss is not turn on in the kernel? -Original Message- From: Andrew Harvey

RE: [pfSense Support] Rpppoe

2005-09-30 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
2 pppoe need 2 boxes with load balancing. You can't have 2 pppoes on one box. -Original Message- From: Marcin Jessa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 12:32 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Rpppoe On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:28:46 +0200 Mark

[pfSense Support] Dyndns is being banned

2005-09-30 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
HI I am using Dyndns.. (dynamic) .. They have banned me for the 2nd time this week. I have been rebooting the router a lot lately (testing CARP).. would this do it? Regards, Ivan Frimmel. HP South Africa - Sales Specialist, Industry Standard Servers Mobile: +27 83 409 2077

RE: [pfSense Support] 050.2 CARP won't go Master or Backup

2005-09-29 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
now. Scott On 9/28/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I spent sometime on this, this morning. One of the problems I had yesterday during update_file.sh (on 085.4).. it somehow broke OPT1(sync) and kept making it disabled. So carp would never come up, once

[pfSense Support] LB and pre-emption on CARP?

2005-09-29 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
HI The setup: Router2 Secondary PPPoe WAN - 172.16.24.125 - | | - Virtual 172.16.24.124 Router1 Primary | PPPoe WAN - 172.16.24.126- A few quick questions please .. 1) What does the load balancing option in CARP page do? 2) If load balancing

RE: [pfSense Support] 050.2 CARP won't go Master or Backup

2005-09-29 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
No, CARP is on LAN. -Original Message- From: Bill Marquette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 4:22 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] 050.2 CARP won't go Master or Backup On 9/29/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [pfSense Support] 050.2 CARP won't go Master or Backup

2005-09-28 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
Support] 050.2 CARP won't go Master or Backup On 9/27/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI PPPoe is on WAN .. CARP is on LAN with carp sync on OPT1. OK so you guys are going to laugh at me. I do feel stupid. As a fault finding procedure and just to get

RE: [pfSense Support] 050.2 CARP won't go Master or Backup

2005-09-27 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
. Anybody else seeing having problems? Strange. Holger -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. September 2005 11:47 An: support@pfsense.com Betreff: RE: [pfSense Support] 050.2 CARP won't go

RE: [pfSense Support] Output (mwatt) of a minipci wireless card

2005-09-26 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
My view is that wireless can be considered in the same way The Net it. Unsafe. Howver generally people on it are uninterested in the data passing across it just because of sheer volume. If you have data that is sensitive or you just don't want people to view it use tunneling, that's what Ipsec

RE: [pfSense Support] Output (mwatt) of a minipci wireless card

2005-09-20 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
HI In my experience its not always about mw transmitted. Using a proper antenna and a radio with decent receive sensitivity usually gets the job done better and you don't interfere and piss off your neighbours(who call the authorities to give you a fine, because you are polluting the band).

RE: [pfSense Support] Carp Weirdness - Always reboots to INIT

2005-09-13 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
to be UP when CARP wants to start? Tx Ivan. -Original Message- From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 September 2005 05:43 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Carp Weirdness - Always reboots to INIT On 9/12/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL

RE: [pfSense Support] /rescue directory

2005-09-13 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
My routers have been up for sometime before 0.84 and after .. du h gives ~3Mb on both. No VMware. From: Tommaso Di Donato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 September 2005 11:33 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] /rescue directory mmh. I did a fresh

RE: [pfSense Support] Carp Weirdness - Always reboots to INIT

2005-09-13 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. September 2005 14:19 An: support@pfsense.com Betreff: RE: [pfSense Support] Carp Weirdness - Always reboots to INIT Sorry I don't understand exactly... my CONFIG as follows

RE: [pfSense Support] Hang at the end of bootup

2005-09-12 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
Also seems to do it fairly consistently with a USB mouse attached. ( its attached to a KVM switch so I was compelled to connect it ;) ... ) Regards, Ivan Frimmel. HP South Africa - Sales Specialist, Industry Standard Servers Mobile: +27 83 409 2077 Direct: +27 11 785 1052 E-Mail and MSN

[pfSense Support] Gentoo Rsync allowed past the Captive Portal

2005-09-12 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
HI all So I spent most of yesterday trying to figure out why I couldnt emerge a new Gentoo box on my network, weirdly enough emerge ---sync managed to get through the captive portal but then when it came time to d/l via ftp or wget it would start downloading and then the files would

[pfSense Support] Carp Weirdness - Always reboots to INIT

2005-09-12 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
CARP is very cool. 3 things .. 1) kill power on both routers .. 1 is setup with lower advert. Freq than other. Power them up together. BOTH go into INIT mode always and the virtual gateway doesnt get created. .Only way to fix this is to disable carp on Master then enable .. it becomes

RE: [pfSense Support] Gentoo Rsync allowed past the Captive Portal

2005-09-12 Thread Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)
rule on that interface? It's overriding the captive portal rules (with exception to the port 80 redirect which uses different logic). --Bill On 9/12/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI all So I spent most of yesterday trying to figure out why I couldn't emerge