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 floored at how many
states open up when someone goes to Ameritrade with Java turned on. I am
talking a hundred or so states! Is this normal?

Asian soap site: desitvforums.net is evil as far as the number of
connections/states which open up. When two people are watrching a soap,
forget using the Internet and I am suspecting it is maxing the pfsense box.
I see a bunch of port 137 NetBIOS blocks on the LAN from a 10.6 OS X laptop
and a Windows 7 laptop.

Mehma
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Michel Servaes <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 generate a lot of 137 traffic that gets blocked.
>> h.  Doing Vonage VOIP traffic shaping
>> i.  I use the Internet mainly via a D-Link N wifi router connected to a HP
>> Procurve switch. The firewall is also connected to that switch.
>>
>>
>> Mehma
>>
>
> Why rejecting port 80/UDP on LAN ? I'm just curious, as I don't do that -
> and it might be a good idea :)
> I also have an Alix 2D13 (same specs like yours I guess) - but with some
> packages installed, and three VPN IPSEC.
> Also traffic shaping is active, though only for one dedicated LAN IP
> only... (for VOIP).
>
> The only time the Alix gets some trouble (seems to me), is when doing
> torrents... vr0: promiscous mode enabled/disabled all the time then.
>
> But for normal http traffic (even when downloading service packs or
> whatever that is large enough to test sustainibility) I have no troubles
> whatsoever...
>
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