The fixes likely wont get MFC'd from -current into RELENG_6_2, but probably into RELENG_6 for 6.3-release. The pfSense guys probably orient their Releng cycle around the FreeBSD one to some extent.
~BAS On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 00:10 +0100, Martin Johnson wrote: > Just a quick note to report that the 5501 seems happy running the > current (1.2-BETA-1) embedded firewall image from pfSense.org, which is > based on FreeBSD 6.2. So for a quick firewall setup (with or without > VPN) you can just cat the .gz image to the CompactFlash card device, > stuff the card into the 5501, then boot up. You'll need the serial port > set to 9600 for initial config. Thereafter, pfSense config uses a web > browser. > > Navigating around the PHP-based web config interface in pfSense seems a > lot faster on the 5501 than on the 4801 :-) > > I'm not using this setup in anger, so I can't positively confirm whether > its stable enough for production use. As a quick test it looks fine, but > Poul-Henning Kamp made some fixes to the FreeBSD VR Ethernet drivers, > and those fixes might take time to reach pfSense. (I don't know whether > the pfSense guys have a 5501 yet.) > > Poul: how important are the VR Ethernet fixes? Do they affect > stability, or are they performance tweaks only? In other words, will a > standard FreeBSD 6.2 RELENG install suffice for a server with modest > performance requirements, or do I need to take -CURRENT for stability on > the 5501 hardware? > > Cheers, > > - Martin. > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
