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All of the above prices are for business class dedicated connections with dedicated bandwidth. There is no SLA, but they do make a good best effort. In addition, I can purchase many /29s for $10/month on any of those packages. Their connections are also over GPON, but they promise to not oversubscribe the ports. They actively claim that their edge and core network can handle all customers at 100% of their provisioned rates.

OMG… Found the cause... I had LZ4 enabled on both ends. Disabled and things fly like normal... OK, OK... Reenabled, rebooted everything, problem again. Disabled and rebooted again and things are back to normal. WTF?

Hmm, yeah it pretty much doesn't work like that. Unless maybe the upstream provider is artificially limiting you to 4Mbps per IP address in that subnet but allowing you to use multiple IPs.  Like they expect you to be using multiple clients in that subnet for example. You still can't combine those IPs to one one link of multiples of 4Mbps but if you have a number of things making connections thought pfSense you could NAT them to a range of IPs on the WAN to get 4Mbps per connection. Steve

I love this but I do have a questions. This works great on our local network, but we have VPN's setup to other pfsense routers when i try to back them up I get this. pfSense Backup Tool v2.4.1 by Koen Zomers Connecting using protocol version 2.3 Authenticating Requesting backup file Retrieving backup file No valid backup contents returned This is what I ran and the IP is going over ipsec VPN I:\pfsense\pfSenseBackup\pfSenseBackup2.4.1.exe -u admin -p removed -s 192.168.50.1 -v 2.3 -o I:\pfsense\backups\kron\ I can access the IP via SSH and http over our VPN but the backup fails with "No valid backup contents returned" never seen this but never tried to backup over the PVN before. EDIT I also tried v2.4.2 and we are on pfsense 2.3.3-RELEASE-p1 EDIT Number2: Never mind I found it in the readme go figure. 2.4.2 - released February 22, 2017 - download - 10 kb There was a minor modification to the backup page in pfSense 2.3.3. Added support for 2.3.3 and made it the default version. So if you're on 2.3.3 you don't need to provide the -v flag. If you're still on 2.3 you need to provide the -v 2.3 still.

My test device was actually affected and died 2 days ago. Had to reboot it via Serial Console. This one was close, the others were at 210-211 days: FW-EXT up 212 days 1 hour failover cluster up 2 years 20 days We now officially qualify for "another 213 days 12 hours". I like that.

@johnpoz: Virtual Private Server..  google it ;) They are not related - its apples and mushrooms.. 128 is the men requirement for centos 5 with cli, gui would be 512.. Are you one of those gui people? ;) Comes down to what your doing with it.. The 128 mb ones are just NS and vpn endpoints.. They don't normally do anything ;) Hey, thank you for clearing it out.

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@RWaters: @NOYB: Notebook pfSense and UPS supported network is great.  Just survived a 40 minute power outage. Hey NOYB, quick question about your UPS. I was just wondering what model you have and how much you got it for? I was recently looking into buying the APC Back-UPS pro1500VA and I wanted to know if anyone had some firsthand experience with it. Just to get a second opinion (in addition to the reviews). The APC1500 is all I run. I even purchased the external battery for two of them for extralong life.  As mentioned replacement batteries are easy to locate for them. I usually hit batteries plus up for them. If you check out the show your pfsense thread I just posted a pic of 4 of them lined up. Totally recommend them

Thanks for the comments. Unfortunately I never get to a prompt and I only have a .iso (on a USB stick) to boot from. This is read only, so there's no crash log either. I should be able to hack the image if required. It's the serial boot console that I'm hoping to be able to activate, but I can only do that if there's something I can add to Grub when the system boots. The really frustrating bit is that it must be very close to booting - FreeBSD 10 works perfectly and FreeNAS uses the same version, so…

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I swapped my new router in this afternoon, and was ultimately able to get the previously described configuration working. In case anyone else reading this finds it interesting/useful, here's what I needed to do to make it happen: Preconfigure the new router - This can all be done without interrupting the original network at all: Setup one interface on the existing LAN and connect it. Setup one interface as WAN. Setup a third interface OPT1 (or whatever you want to call it), give it a static IP in a new, separate network. In the new router, configure a firewall rule for OPT1 interface to allow all traffic for all protocols. Without this, the new router's firewall will block all traffic coming from the old router. Swap the cables: Move the cable providing your internet over to the new router's WAN port. Then with another cable, connect the WAN port of the old router to the OPT1 port of the new router. Set IP configuration of the WAN interface to be part of the network that OPT1 is configured for. That's it - the network will now work and function like in the diagram above. Hosts will have connectivity, whether they are using the original configuration, or have been updated to use the new router as the default gateway. Note: There are many things this will break that aren't detailed here - VPN's/Web Caching/IDS/etc.  The configurations in your old router need to be moved to the new one before they'll do anything, so if you have any mission-critical stuff going on in your router, plan accordingly.

I think it is highly possible, as in my office the IT department has made such connections which allows to use the wifi and we just need to input the username and password for once only. Will ask them about how they do it, give me a little time.