The 'modify' bit times out after a while. It's best to just reply with the new info rather than editing the first post anyhow. Edits to the initial thread posts can easily be missed.

I'll join to say 'thank you, thank you, thank you'  ;D

It was quite a hassle to get it working due to:

The hardware that gave multiple problems

My ISP's modem/router that didn't play nice

But thanks to kind help of the forum members and the incredible help of a member who refuses consistently to have me pay him a cup of coffee (you know  ;D), I finally got it running for one week now, without any hick ups (while also having installed quite some packages).

Gone are the days of bloatware consumer plastic routers, finally, for the first time in my around 20 years internet-life  :P

I am very happy, would like to thank all the developers/maintainers/contributors; those of Pfsense, and those of the mother of all operating systems, FreeBSD (I am a big fan of FreeBSD also  :)).

And as I donate to FreeBSD, I am now going to donate some money to Pfsense also. It won't be much as I ain't a rich man, but hopefully it will be enough for at least 1 beer on my behalf  :P

Thank you & bye,

I wish you luck  ;D

Did you happen to have found some time in the meanwhile, by any chance? I am interested in reading your guide  :P

If you check that option does the behaviour reverse?

Steve

The snapshot server isn't meant to be navigated manually, and definitely not by people who have any doubt about what they're doing. :-)

The 2.0.x pages (your first links) are not meant to be linked anywhere right now except directly via the links in my forum thread for 2.0.3. We only have that on because of the problems people had with 2.0.2. Using 2.0.3 snapshots is safe, but it's best to follow the links there from the forum thread to read the explanation there.

@Abdsalem:

Interesting you mention squid rule creator, where have you seen this? I finally got multi-wan+squid+auto outbound NAT working (after switching the damned sticky conns off lol..with it on, only WAN was passing traffic) and looking to fine tune my squid rules or re-create them entirely.

I mean samekind of setup as watchguard (and similars) have, you just click porn and apply that, then you almost certain can't see any porn.

Thanks Jim, I got confused between the 2 now you've pointed it out.

I can see what you mean there would be no room for it under the menu banner.

I have a set of forums up and get hammered daily with spammers.  I've beaten them all using SMF, two addons, and logic questions.

I use httpBL and OS & Browser Detection as my two addons.  httpBL also leverages Project HoneyPot, which is real nice.  They're both stable and stop a majority of the spammers outright.

I also use a logic question that cannot be solved by bots.  In SMF you can ask questions and receive answers during registration.  One question can be something like "Write the answer to the first question here again."  A bot cannot understand that, and you can always change that question to ask for the second or third answer.  I've also asked for answers to be spelled backwards and numbers to be spelled out.  It stops 99% of the bots out there.  I think in the past year I haven't gotten a single spammer registered with a constant 50 attacks per day.

I'm running SMF 2.0.2 but I think the mods will work in your version.

I emailed you. Thanks!

It's now 3 days since I emailed wikiadmin@pfsense.org for a Wiki Account and have not heard as yet.

If something is actually relevant, someone can click 'report post' and ask a mod to unlock the topic. (Or start a fresh thread to ask about it, and link back to the old thread)

It's fairly rare, but we have had people come back months/years later to update a forgotten thread they started or were talking on to share a final resolution or workaround. In that case, one of us unlocks the thread and they can post in it no problem…

Occasionally we'll go back and edit a locked thread if it turns up high in Google searches for a particular topic as well, to lead people to better/more accurate info. In those cases if the thread were unlocked it would probably get a lot of irrelevant posts that would be better served by new threads.

Ok I have corrected the first entry.  And pointed to the tutorial from the tutorials section, that other link must of expired, ie no longer existed.

the other item doesn't make any sense - someone else must of edited the docs section already for what you were talking about.

Your best bet would probably be to contact the author of apinger (util used by pfSense to monitor gw up/down status)

@TooMeeK:

Does this server run in virtual env + snapshots?
Are there additional plugins?

Source for SMF 2.0:
http://download.simplemachines.org/

I see many queries to this server (because many people read / post), are You sure Your hardware is capable to serve it? And will with SMF 2.0?

This is a known problem with SMF 1.1.16…  It is not a problem with SMF 2.0.2 which I can confirm...