not sure what the plans are there. Eventually we'll have a more full-featured notifications system but that won't be ready any time soon. When that happens, notifying of a mirror failure would be possible. Not sure about mirroring to a loopback device or anything like that, that's all up to gmirror. We can't really automate a lot there safely.

Did you shutdown the first server before starting the second server? If they are running concurrently on the same network you will have multiple interfaces with the same IP address - an invalid configuration. In this case, PERHAPS "setting up gateway monitors" got stuck because a necessary response got sent to the correct IP address but the "wrong" interface.

Got the firewall up.  The interface has to be named and rules set before interface can be activated. My friend and I worked on this for a couple hours to get working. I have firewall up for 3 days now testing before I deploy it. I have a config with passwords XXXXX out if there is a way to post it, I would like to know. Bob

cmb hay thanks for the reply I really do appreciate it. I looked and I do have the CRL certificates for each of the road warrior client machines, do I enter them in the cert manager? Then what about the user accounts, is that something on top of OpenVPN authentication? Is it optional (must be)? That's all my questions, thanks again for shedding light on this for me.  And Oh I looked back and it was back with IPCop that I had individual control over the each client cert, I've not been able to do that sense I moved over to PFSense, until now. Take Care BigBSense!

I found this post as I have the exact same problem. The posted solution works for my needs. Thanks Ventolin!!! ;D ;D

Weeeeell, since the original PE machine was running on a three HDD raid array, i ended up taking one of those and placing it into the second machine. Booted them both so they rebuild the arrays. Now they're fine. Thank you all for your suggestions :)

Thanks Jimp, you certainly earn your money. Actually I already read that page yesterday, but not that section because "it is not the case with me"

Great, i did also get this magnificent hdd failure club.. That hdd were working perfectly before upgrade attempt. –> to the computer hardware shop to get one hdd

When you restore the config you can edit/reassign interfaces and vlans in the gui before it reboots with the restored config. Otherwise, you can open up the backup and do a search/replace on the NIC names.

@torontob: I "dd" the image from Ubuntu onto a CF card What is the the name of the image? (Maybe you didn't pick the correct image for Alix.) dd to the whole device (e.g. /dev/sdc - correct!) or to a partition (e.g. /dev/sdc1 - incorrect!)?

Should be OK now on current snaps.

Why not just use the gmirror option in the installer to make a mirror for you?

pfSense includes its own operating system based on FreeBSD. So the answer is YES if your server is an x86 variant and you are prepared to run pfSense in a virtual machine.

2.0.2 is not available at this time (aside from some people who were pointing their auto-updates at the snapshot server and pulled prerelease versions they shouldn't have been pulling). 2.0.1 is the latest release.

I had two devices last thursday which had weird kind of arp-table, it didn't clear up at all before boot.. that caused few hours problem solving. those devices were LAN/LONtalk converters

If your console keyboard has Num Lock or Shift indicator lights you could press the corresponding key and see if the light changes state. If there is no change then the system is so knotted it is ignoring the keyboard and there is nothing further you can do beyond a power reset.

Ah… so its not just me. I ended up doing a backup of both machines and then merging the desired sections from the existing machine backup into the new machine backup and then doing a Restore - All.

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