We up until last week 4 or more of us on the lan could connect to the same online game server for a game like Urbon terror. and all play at once. Now as soon as 1 player connects the rest can't.

Im curious if the administrators of that particular game server didnt do an upgrade that blocks multiple people on the same public IP…  You might visit their forums and see if anyone else noticed...

@GruensFroeschli:

What is a possible source of problems in your setup is, that you assigned the parent interface on which VLAN's are assigned.
–> em1 is directly assigned.

OK, that's what I was afraid of.
I deleted one of my previous "WAN_x" and renamed/reconfigured "WAN" as the previously deleted.

Hi bruno,

looking at your name and your email, I suggest you looking at portuguese forum.

Here is a post with some tips to install samba on pfsense.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,45828.msg239737.html#msg239737

att,
Marcello Coutinho

@jaredadams:

Its a shame that an older 95W 3.0ghz Pentium 4 which is extremely notorious for heat will perform better than even a C2D, C2Q, or even a Xeon whos clock is <= to it.

Not true in the least, CPU performance is no longer tied to its frequency. The better performing the CPU, the more it can push. A C2D/C2Q/etc. is MUCH faster than an old P4 even though they have lower clock rate.

@mendy:

I am wondering what are some of the features in PF sense.

does it have a general category filtering? (gambling, online gaming, etc) 
this "captive portal" does it have logs of every website visited?
any other information regarding pf sense would be helpful.

The base pfsense system doesn't include URL filtering features.

It is possible to do URL filtering by installing 3rd party packages (e.g. Squid+squidguard) but the overall result won't be as tightly integrated or as feature-rich (e.g. reporting websites visited by each user) as some commercial products.

That's what packages are for (varnish, haproxy, etc), you can already do that sort of thing, just not in the base system.

And just because it would make it easier for what you want to do, it may make it more confusing for someone else. You can't please everyone all the time :-)

http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1938

www.viako.com make some good looking cases but they are not cheap. plenty to choose from given your requirements.

Ah, thanks for keeping us up to speed.

Steve

just removing the include was my first try – didn't work.

would be nice if there was some built-in support for allowing anonymous access to certain pages.

@ptt:

You can do this, using "Limiters"

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Traffic_Shaping_Guide#Limiter

Limiters work great.  I use these to keep people on my guest wifi from using more than 2/2, and people on my main connection from using more than 20/20.

Hmm, normally :) i didn`t have any drive inside, just usb pendrive. I"ve booted from another pendrive with memstick image couse my terminal does"t have odd

Please post the details of your Windows Update / squid settings. I followed a pfsense doc somewhere on caching Windows updates in squid and saw the same thing you're describing. I ended up scrapping squid for other reasons but I may try it again at some point.

@nexusN:

Ya, as you have mentioned for those who actually want an all-rounded-box can pick ClearOS instead, yet another capable package with everything available.
While for pf what I like it the most is it is purely a firewall software without anything redundant, instead of adding those unused server functions I do prefer a neat, professional and efficient routing unit with it.

@Supermule:

Freenas works quite opposite of PfSense….Freenas requires a lot of memory to perform.

On bigger systems its not quite uncommon they ask for 192GB ram to run a NAS in an Enterprise setup....

I dont find that in terms with PFSense's way thinking and the hardware requirements...

As I said, it would be nice to have 2 versions of pfSense. I am NOT talking about implementing freeNAS with pfSense in a busniness environment, but in a home environment. It would be perfect to cut of one more server. One "enterprise" version (the current pfsense :) ) and one version for home users.

We all know that it is not recommended to combine a firewall with a NAS in same server, but in a home environment its no problem :) virtualization is ofc an option, tho the hardware requirements would exess the "server you have in your home".

thanks guys! i changed to 192.168.0.202/30 and that fixed the issue makes sense not sure why the isp gave me the wrong info but it works now

Yeah your going to want to look here for your answers
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff793419.aspx
KMS Activation

Spells out the default port of tcp 1688 and then section 2 lists what records your dns server must have.

The problem with those test sites is that they all run some java client or some other very high level code that consumes massive system resources in order to display a shiny graph and a 'speedometer'.  >:(

The machine I'm writing this on is quite capable of saturating my WAN connections but it can't keep up with the java front end hence it always shows something completely unrealistic.

Steve

Squid is first, havp is set as parent for squid

While using Opendns do not forget to block access to outside dns servers from hosts you do want to restrict access.

First step is to assign these ips on firewall -> virtual ips, than change outbound nat (firewall -> nat ) to manual and create your own outbound nat rules to match server with ips.