In pfSense terminology, you want to save the change (= update the config), press apply (for things that have an apply stage) to make it happen on the running system, then have another "confirm all is OK" button that you have to press within "x" minutes, otherwise the system reverts back to the previous config.

That way you can wait a few minutes to see that you have not locked yourself out, and then press "confirm all is OK". If you get locked out then the system will revert back in a few minutes and (hopefully) you can get back in again.

Mostly this sort of thing is great when you are messing with VPN settings on a remote box, using the VPN itself to make the changes.

Thanks. It was one of those things that I saw and wondered "does anyone really care about this?" Glad to know someone does.  :)

Yes, Derelict is joining the team.  We only recruit the best.

There is no need for Derelict to leave Vegas,  I was born and raised there, my father was born there, my grandfather moved there to work on Boulder/Hoover Dam.  My brother and mother are buried there.  My father, sister, aunt, nephews, nieces and cousins live in Vegas.  The Netgate warehouse was actually in Las Vegas for a couple years, not too far from where Derelict lives.

In other words, al oeste Vegas es mi barrio.

I threw down on the mod status because .. why not?  Dude works here (soon), he can be a force for even more good in the community.

Forgot to add Yet!! :-)

development by copy-paste chaos

Also known as full stackoverflow development.

https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Installing_pfSense
and lots of other docs at https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Main_Page

For each host I'm checking (4 in my case), I created a batch file in the same folder as CheckHost with these contents:

C:\Users\KOM\Software\NirCmd\nircmd.exe speak text "Google is not responding" 0 100

and save it as Google.bat.  Create other batch files to handle other hosts.  In CheckHost, I have an entry for Google DNS (8.8.8.8) and when down, I use Google.bat as the Start Program action.

We run into people like that a lot….Usually IT consultants and IT Directors that see our Bill of Materials has pfSense on it.  It spurs a lot of debate and complaining until you mention that 99.99999999% of the internet runs on Linux.  Then you hear a lot of uhhhhh.....but.....uhhhhh.....Never mind.

No problem. I just uploaded it so it will be ready when the conversion process is done.

@Jailer:

@BlueKobold:

Or you will be able to connect to your home firewall through a VPN tunnel and then you use the
Internet connection from your home.

I could do this but it's not worth it.

Browsing occasionally is one thing, circumventing security measures is quite another and would likely get me fired. No way in hell I'm going to risk my job for some occasional browsing.

I don´t want that you loose your job, it was more in the meaning to get in contact with the admins in your company
to ask for.

I'd put ESX on the hardware (ESX should support the Intel NICs in the Jetway) and run pfsense as a virtual. Dump squid unless you want it as part of a URL filtering solution - and if you that that, run it on a separate virtual machine.

This still leaves you some capacity for other fun things like an asterisk pbx.

+9001  you win one Internet