[pfSense Support] Simultaneous client connection limit / Maximum state entries per host

2010-08-16 Thread Dominic
Hi, I have had a few issues lately compliments of a few machines on our lan been infected with a worm which has caused the state table to be filled. I've increased this to give some more time to react to the problem. I would like to implement the Simultaneous client connection limit / Maximum

Re: [pfSense Support] Simultaneous client connection limit / Maximum state entries per host

2010-08-16 Thread David Burgess
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Dominic dominic@gmail.com wrote: My query though is, how can I test that this is working correctly? Is there a tool that I can use to make connections from a single machine? Ideally something that provides the Would this do it?

Re: [pfSense Support] Simultaneous client connection limit / Maximum state entries per host

2010-08-16 Thread David Burgess
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:28 AM, David Burgess apt@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Dominic dominic@gmail.com wrote: My query though is, how can I test that this is working correctly? Is there a tool that I can use to make connections from a single machine? Ideally

Re: [pfSense Support] Simultaneous client connection limit / Maximum state entries per host

2010-08-16 Thread Steve Haavik
Well, I know the Ixia solution works but Chariot is a bit expensive (or it was when I looked.) I've used http://www.nominum.com/services/measurement_tools.php for testing DNS. I seem to remember seeing max concurrent requests before the server falls over from the load. I know I've seen

Re: [pfSense Support] SSD partition alignment in 2.0

2010-08-16 Thread Scott Ullrich
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:07 PM, David Burgess apt@gmail.com wrote: Is the 2.0 installer aware of 4k sector discs, and does it align its partitions accordingly? I realize better SSD controllers have minimized the effects of partition boundary misalignment, but I still prefer to introduce

Re: [pfSense Support] SSD partition alignment in 2.0

2010-08-16 Thread Scott Ullrich
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Scott Ullrich sullr...@gmail.com wrote: That is a good question.   The 2.0 installer uses pc-sysinstaller which I am not entirely sure if it takes into account this or not. Sorry, I meant 2.1 here, not 2.0. However I am looking at adding this utility to the

Re: [pfSense Support] Simultaneous client connection limit / Maximum state entries per host

2010-08-16 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Steve Haavik shaa...@soc.lib.md.us wrote: You could also try Nmap (http://nmap.org/), but I don't know if it's really agressive enough to fill a state table. nmap is among the best quick and easy ways to open a whole bunch of states. It's what I use most of

Re: [pfSense Support] SSD partition alignment in 2.0

2010-08-16 Thread David Burgess
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Scott Ullrich sullr...@gmail.com wrote: That is a good question.   The 2.0 installer uses pc-sysinstaller which I am not entirely sure if it takes into account this or not. I did an install yesterday and worked on this. I manually changed geometry to 32 heads

RE: [pfSense Support] iPad ssl vpn client

2010-08-16 Thread Steven Sherwood
I can confirm this, though with an iPhone, not iPad. There is even a SBSettings toggle available for OpenVPN. I'm not sure if it works with iOS4 or not though. http://code.gerade.org/tunemu/ Someone else actually built an app too : http://www.guizmovpn.com/ -Original Message-