I never used vi, where can I loacate a how to use it.  Just curious?
RC

;D  I now am running on XEN 5.0.0.  Here is the hardware that I am running on.

AMD Quad Phenom 2.5 processor
MSN-SLI motherboard
6 GB of ram
512 mb SLI video adapter
Broadcom 1 GB adapter
On board ethernet adapter
dual 100 mb Intel ethernet adapter
3 x 320 GB HD's (non raid array currently)
550 watt  power supply

Replacing the following servers:
DELL SC1500
DELL SC 440
COMPAQ DL360
COMPAQ DL380

It's a mix of production and test boxes.  For hosting servers and devices that you will access it's great.  It's working awesome.
RC

Great that it works now, but have you seen my comment on VirtualSMP in Vmware?

You should not use this with something like a firewall where SMP doesn’t bring huge performance improvements anyways(and timing is important).
Not only will it perform much worse, it will slow down you’re entire host.

With 1.2 release I get only 64MBs recognized out of 512MBs that I have configured in virtualbox. With one of the 1.2.1 snapshots I have tried I get full 512MBs recognized.

Someone interested in doing a little research digging should look into using the free vm tools that FreeBSD has under
ports/emulators/open-vm-tools. these are the open source versions of the VMWare tools binary blobs.
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/about.php

this might actually lead closer to just having a VMWare support package as it will be just another port added to the list to precompile.

Falcon4 - while you're entitled to your opinion, you might want to try to avoid coming across like a troll ;)

FreeBSD has a massively smaller developer base than Linux, and companies like VMWare put less effort into supporting it.  As with any open source project, only the things the developers care about have work put into it.  With few developers the rate of change can't be the same as with Linux.  The support it gets from commercial vendors tends to be focused on the server space (Intel, 3Ware and others produce and support drivers for their products).

That said, if you enable the e1000 network driver instead of the default then you can use the em driver for FreeBSD, which is supported by ALTQ.

I had the same problem with my network. my two routers is connected to the backbone and to the pfsense. i was having duplicate name errors. i made 3 rules blocking 3 kinds of netbios on LAN, WAN1 and WAN2.

i put he load balance rule below the 3 (netbios block) rules in the LAN. so far i have'nt found any problems..

please post any problem you might think i encounter by doing this settings.

I am having this exact same issue. However, I made the changes that you made, and it still doesn't work. The thing is, I removed one of the NIC's. So the machine NIC and PFSense's LAN NIC are the same physical NIC. (I needed a NIC in one of my other machines).

I'm thinking that is the problem, but I was wondering if anyone has any ideas. Or do you know on a more technical level, as to why that fixed it?

Not sure if anyone is paying attention to this thread, but I just found something new. It looks like I only experience this problem when I connect to the RDP console session(using mstsc /console). If I start the terminal services client without the /console switch, it works just fine.

I still can't figure out why that is the case.

@karsteb:

Linux kernel based virtualization (kvm) was introduced into the kernel in linux version 2.6.20.

So now, linux have full virtualization (but no paravirtualization) built into the kernel. Anyone tried to get pfsense running under it?

It seems that XEN has problems under Intel hw, and wmare ESX is costly, but according to this page http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Guest_Support_Status kvm seems to support BSD's just fine…

k

Interesting.  Give it a shot and report back!!

Nice card, didn't know they made anything like this.
In my case though the onboard gigabit NIC is probably much better than this 5$ card, but for lower end server I always take cheap Realtek cards.
Thanks for the link.

I've localized the problem, it is in OpenVPN over PPTP. I created new  thread in OpenVPN forum
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,9168.0.html (hope it allowed by forum rules :) )

Everything seems to be working just great over here!

I have now the 3 internet connections working of a single pfSense router on a VM, and all with only one physical NIC on the computer. I have one connection for WOW, Warcraft3, Quake3, UT, Guild Wars, Warsow, and some more, another connection for BF2, Steam games, CS, TF2, and a third one with more bandwidth but worse latency for web, IM, and any kind of unknown traffic. I love it! :D

When I have the time I will take a look if it is possible for me to implement failover, so if one connection is offline traffic can be redirected automatically to another one, and I would also like to try to use pfSense on a physical computer, to see if there are good improvements vs running it on VM.

Many thanks!
Aitor

Ah ha! You are right. That is the piece that I was missing. Cool. Thanks for your help.

Whitney

Hi,

I'm not sure if you have this resolved or not, but if not I have one piece of advice. I noticed that you have your two pfSense networks configured on the same network segment (182.168.1.0/24). Since pfSense acts as a router, this will not work. You need to have two different network segments. It looks like 192.168.1.0/24 is the network you are getting from your (other) router. So this can be your WAN network. For your LAN network you could set up a host only network. That is what I did. You will need to configure vmware to use host only networking. It will give you another (virtual) network that you can use. Then you will be able to put vms that you want behind pfSense on that network. This works for me.

Let me know if you need more information about this.

Whitney

i want to set up the radius server using the pfsense in vmware. but i don know how to configure the network interface for vmware and window xp. can some1 show me the guide/tutorial how to setup radius server?

Yes, if it does not exist and you want e1000 or vmxnet you should add it manually.