Re: [pfSense Support] how does one test for stability?

2010-02-04 Thread mehma sarja
Nagios is complex and the Reconnoiter thing looks weird. Now that I think about it, is there a formal database in a pfsense install? Don't know...pkg_info -a shows blank and a find on *.conf does not show a hint of a db. The PHPService package could be used to send messages. Remote syslogging will

Re: [pfSense Support] how does one test for stability?

2010-02-04 Thread Vick Khera
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:46 AM, mehma sarja mehmasa...@gmail.com wrote: Nagios is complex and the Reconnoiter thing looks weird. Now that I think TANSTAAFL. If your requirements involve knowing when things are not working right, you a) need to know what the baseline of working properly means,

Re: [pfSense Support] how does one test for stability?

2010-02-04 Thread Ian Bowers
to be honest, you ought to get something like Cacti running on an external server. It's easy to deploy and configure. You'll get charts of all kinds of info, and its only a few clicks to set up. In order to run it you'll need to know a little about SNMP. But for monitoring, quite honestly

Re: [pfSense Support] how does one test for stability?

2010-02-04 Thread Glenn Kelley
THIS IS EASY There is a Zabbix Plugin :-) Install zabbix on a server - then install the plugin - configure the port and such (defaults are just fine) and voila - you have the information needed. Zabbix will also monitor snmp for other applications and servers - and is FREE On Feb 4, 2010, at

Re: [pfSense Support] how does one test for stability?

2010-02-01 Thread Michel Servaes
Web surfing happens on port 80 and tcp only. There should be no udp port 80 traffic going out. I think I read it in the pfsense book which just came out. Didn't read it yet (but, then again - I'm only at page 147 ;-) ) In the meanwhile, I blocked 80/udp on my firewalls :)

Re: [pfSense Support] how does one test for stability?

2010-02-01 Thread mehma sarja
How many walls do you have? Mehma === On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Michel Servaes mic...@mcmc.be wrote: Web surfing happens on port 80 and tcp only. There should be no udp port 80 traffic going out. I think I read it in the pfsense book which just came out. Didn't read it yet

Re: [pfSense Support] how does one test for stability?

2010-02-01 Thread Michel Servaes
How many walls do you have? Mehma === On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Michel Servaes mic...@mcmc.be mailto:mic...@mcmc.be wrote: Web surfing happens on port 80 and tcp only. There should be no udp port 80 traffic going out. I think I read it in the pfsense book which

Re: [pfSense Support] how does one test for stability?

2010-02-01 Thread mehma sarja
It would be neat to have a cron job reporting certain parameters conveying how a pfsense is running. I use to work at a company managing a hundred and a quarter FreeBSD appliances and we had a custom Control Center webpage where we could track all machines easily. As I recall, this is what it

Re: [pfSense Support] how does one test for stability?

2010-02-01 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:50 PM, mehma sarja mehmasa...@gmail.com wrote: It would be neat to have a cron job reporting certain parameters conveying how a pfsense is running. I use to work at a company managing a hundred and a quarter FreeBSD appliances and we had a custom Control Center webpage

Re: [pfSense Support] how does one test for stability?

2010-01-31 Thread Michel Servaes
I suspect my Alix embedded appliance (500 MHz 586 class with 256 MB RAM) is getting maxed out via either heat or traffic. e. Rejecting UDP port 80 on LAN f. Rejecting TCP 6667 (IIRC), 135 (MS RPC) on LAN g. Rejecting TCP/UDP 445 (SMB/CIFS), 137-139 (NetBIOS) on LAN. My imac and a PC laptop

Re: [pfSense Support] how does one test for stability?

2010-01-31 Thread mehma sarja
Michel, Web surfing happens on port 80 and tcp only. There should be no udp port 80 traffic going out. I think I read it in the pfsense book which just came out. I am suspecting type of traffic also. Tried controlling per IP states to 20, 30 , 50 and it seems that is not the solution. I am

[pfSense Support] how does one test for stability?

2010-01-30 Thread mehma sarja
I suspect my Alix embedded appliance (500 MHz 586 class with 256 MB RAM) is getting maxed out via either heat or traffic. a. Don't have any active packages installed - just Backup b. Have 11 entries in DNS Forwarder for my internal network c. Doing OpenDNS d. Have a VPN defined although I have

Re: [pfSense Support] how does one test for stability?

2010-01-30 Thread Glenn Kelley
do you have 2 computers? if so - simply setup one to talk to the other and do an iperf test between Push large amounts of data - and see what happens. See what happens when you have multiple ports blocked but hitting it - iperf works well for this kinda thing