thanks for your suggestion Aldo

finally i've put this in a script called pppoesrvrestart :

killall -15 mpd && sleep 2 && /usr/local/sbin/mpd -b -d /var/etc/mpd-vpn -p /var/run/mpd-vpn.pid pppoe

and then added that in config.xml :

<minute>0</minute> <hour>0</hour> <mday>*</mday> <month>*</month> <wday>*</wday> <who>root</who> <command></command>/etc/pppoesrvrestart

and pppoe server is restarting everyday at midnight

thanks all for your help

if you enable the cli in the pppoe-server startup script with  -a 127.0.0.1
you can access it and disconnect a pppoe session

i also ammended the pppoe load to add the /usr/local/bin/vpn-up and vpn-down to allow loggin of logged in and logged out clients on the ptpp logging tab like so.

set iface up-script /usr/local/sbin/vpn-linkup
        set iface down-script /usr/local/sbin/vpn-linkdown

adding radius acct-update is as simple as adding a line to vpn.inc like so

set radius acct-update 180

you will find the relevent area near the bottom of vpn.inc

Ok i installed pfsense on vmware
And lucky enough, it got all the options i need.

Hopefully it will run on the DELL

Great Software guys, will get my boss to do a little Donation if everything works fine

@fouinix:

@hoba:

It's the same software but it already is available as pfSense package if you go to system>packages in the webgui (unless you run the embedded version of pfSense).

Does it work with multiple LAN interface (LAN OPT1 …) ?

Not right now. There is a known bug with Bandwidthd using multiple interfaces.

Checking for Biosupdates sometimes helps with compatibility in edgecases too.

If you have modem/routers you can set up the other IP for a /29. Where are you wanting to place your servers?

No problem.  Hopefully someone will find it next time they have the same question.

No, this is not possible. You only can sync settings between CARP-Members.

Thanks for your reply!

I'll have a look into that program, thanks  :)

Best regards,

Chris

Whoops! Good reason not for me to be trying to find solutions to my problems late at night ;D

None of the packages like snort will be included on the livecd. This has been discussed before.

Well, those are fresh installs. What else could there be to configure besides setting WAN to PPPoE and putting in username and password? The logs are quoted from system log. Are there any more detailed logs? BTW, a test install of IPCop works well on the same line (but not at the same time of course).

I used the shell but couldn't find the config files for mpd. Also a tail -f on the logs gives me garbage. Not familiar with BSD, so what would be a way to watch them?

Quite some question. Thanks for answers.

@hchady:

does pfsense runs any STP protocol ?
comcast is not compatible with STP

Only on bridges.

haha yah I was editing my post when u posted thanks very much for your help!!

@Dortje:

Thats why i wrote option 2. USB drives with 1GB+ space are very cheap, and should have more than enough space for saving the package files and configurations. Wouldnt that be a practical solution?

The idea is basically that if you've got a USB drive that large, then you are able to install pfSense directly on to the USB drive. Most motherboards support booting from USB drives, so it is likely that you will not run into a problem with that. Like Scott said, it would just be too much work to install only packages on a USB drive in the cdrom platform.

Ok, thanks.

Cheers,
Manuel