Thanks. I should have read the hardware requirements before trying to install it. I'll then get some better hardware and try again.

@strick1226:

Has anyone else attempted to perform an upgrade of a running system from 1.0b3 to 1.0b4?  I've tried it on two boxes; both failed to boot after the upgrade due to what appeared to be an invalid disk configuration of some sort.  I don't know BSD very well, so I'm not sure exactly what the problem was…  but I've been able to reproduce the issue, if that matters.

If it's something as simple as we shouldn't be using the firmware upgrades until the first actual release of 1.0, then I apologize in advance.

Thanks

I upgraded effortlessly (done in 5 mins) through the System: Firmware webpage. I have a dual WAN setup (OPT1 is WAN2)

My pfSense box contains:
P3 733
256 MB RAM
10,0 GB  Harddisk
1x Intel 82557
1x Digital 10Mbit (dont know the partno ATM)l
1x 3Com 3c905B

OK it now working.

i have write a script and copy in rc.d

http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting

Try again.  Should be fixed.

I see. thanks!

Enable SSH at system>advanced. Then access the pfSense with your SCP tool using user "root" and password <webguipassword>to logon.</webguipassword>

@calvin:

so many thanks for replys, here I am planning to using pfsense to distributing internet connection in a building, i need firewall and trafic shaper
(is important have traffic shaper to control p2p connection), the reaim is a solution to enable sound conversation in msn messenger, or I am
wrong ?

You are most likely correct but this is a linux specific program.  pfSense is not linux.

I did try having the drive as master on the 2nd and 1st channels, but anyway…

ok
what i did is a complete (fresh) install of beta-4 - even though it errored on install on that cpdup what i did is get on it's http
and did a firmware upgrade of beta-4 (the full version) and now it seems to all work ok except im again stuck with the first problem -
the captive portal still doesnt display any images…

so we're back to point a.

I'm using IE 6.0 or Maxton. I will try with firefox at the next update. It would not be strange that the problem comes from IE ;-)

@loopy:

Sorry my mistake  ;D i guess the rest of the question was am i able to set it up to be used as a SSH gateway/tunnel to the internal network for a box (OS host) that cant do ssh2

Yep.

Thanks and uhhh, screw you too  :-\

–Bill

You need to change it form the webConfigurator.  The shell is provided for your convenience only.

@_freebsd:

I had format my harddisk by DM.
When install 1.0b4. I get "ad0:WARNING WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=xxxxxxxxx"
???

??!!GOOGLE!!?? 2 mins of looking.

http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26392

It probably has something to do with your ata speed and whether you are using a 40 or 80 ping cable…. unless this is CF.

These are inofficial builds though they should work. Give it a try. The person who builds these images is from Hacom, a company that offers Firewallhardware ( http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/ ) and that was one of the first who donated hardware to develop pfSense on. Hacom is one of our recommended Vendors ( http://pfsense.com/index.php?id=40 ).

Update for those that might be trying to impliment the same thing i am doing.

Essentialy i am trying to put 2 pfsesne boxes between my core routers and my edge switches with backup links going around the firewal for redundancy.
I've upgraded my config from beta 2 ta 3.

Thank god ftp is fixed that was a huge issue thankx guys.

I've upgraded my in and out nics from 100mb to fiber 1gig cards, and changed the config accordingly.

After a few hours of troubleshooting loop issues and up down interfaces i finnaly was able to get 4 vlans trunked together across my fiber link passing 4-5 megs with about 15-20 physical machines.

Of course like sullrich said, the mac entries are still being broadcasted across all vlans with no fix in sight (might actually look at freebsd code to see if i can make a quick fix) but now i also have the spanning tree packets beign blocked as well.

If i shut filtered bridge off all 4 vlans go into stp disabled status for recieving ther other 4 vlan's stp packets.if i enable the filtered bridge all works but not stp packets pass at all.Apparently the bridge does not know after recieving these packets where to send them on the other side.

This wouldn't be that much of a problem being the bridge on the firewall itself has stp enabled, but being i want to place this inline with my core and edge switches i can not run a secondary (non firewalled) connection to my switches without creating 2 links on the same vlan in stp forward status (IE loop). Its either one link or the other.

So it boils down to this.

You can have 2 pfsense boxes on one switch, you can even have them on multible switches with the redundancy u want. But if you run a trunk of more than 2 vlans (1 natvie and 1 non native) across the firewall stp and mac entries will be screwed to high heaven causing extensive cpu load from learning mac entries over and over again(depending on how many machines u have, i got a few hundred) and possible stp loops even when enabled.

From what i am seeing on google and freebsd boards, this is a limitation of the kernel and not pfsense so no complaints here, but thought i'd give you guys a heads up.

Any suggestions would be apreciated. Anyone curious and want more details about my setup feel free to ask.

No problems here with ADSL2+ 16mbit/s down,1 mbit/s up  :)