http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7356.0.html

Take a look at the packages forum (and search it - the question of using Squid as a reverse proxy has come up before) and the documentation for Squid (www.squid-cache.org from memory).  I've never used it that way, I just remember reading that it can do that.

Or you could just follow the guide here:
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Full_Install_on_WRAP_Embedded_Router

Yup.

Get a copy of VMWare or another virtual machine system that supports FreeBSD.  VMWare has a free trial.

Then, install FreeBSD 7.1 inside that virtual machine.

@znelbok:

on the contrary, those that are new coming here with that question will find the answer now that there is a thread with this title.

I am new and did not find the reply in any other thread.

it is not all bad having questions asked again if the thread subject offers a good explanation of the question.

Mick

Did you read the forum rules?
Apparently not.
Let me quote:

Allways search forum, FAQ and WIKI before asking, We do have them so that we will not have to answer every question over and over.

Do not crosspost ! if you are looking for quick answers try IRC first. If you do not get any answers there, try either Forum or mailing lists. NEVER both.

So not only was this question posted multiple times at different places, no, the search function which can be found here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?action=search has not been used as well.
Heck. There's even a a hardware compatibility list on the mainpage of http://pfsense.com (hardware –> compatibility list): http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=51

Not meant to be rude, but it gets annoying if you have to answer the same questions over and over and over and over and over again just because someone didnt even TRY to find the relevant information.

And honestly. If you cant even get the hardware running then please stop right now and get a clue what you're messing with.

just tested with pfSense-2.0-ALPHA-ALPHA-20090427-1036.iso

no problems anymore , so there must be something wrong in the releases after this one for me.

i don't know what , but it has to do with the Realtek of config file.

??? ??? ??? ???

Wow.  I would never have guessed that.  That's a shame; man pages are so useful…

Thanks anyhow,

Eric

Hmm…. Ahh... I see ... So all is done by serial and web interface ?
I nerd some more monday and thanks for your reply

Burn ISO image to CD Insert CD into CD-ROM drive Boot system from CD Select option to install to hard disk

There already is documentation out there, so I'm not going to type it all out here for you.  If you're having problems with a particular step, and the documentation (including the Wiki) doesn't cover it, then post details of your problem (not "it doesn't work").

I tried enabling polling to see what difference that might make.  I noticed about a 50% decrease in throughput with polling enabled.  Transfers across the WRAP box went from about 2MB per second down to 1MB per second.

For now, I will keep polling disabled and see if I have any issues with the new version.  So far, it has been working great.  ;D

Thanks again.

Awesome!  Thanks for pointing that out.  I must have missed it in the docs.

Eric

Perhaps your LAN systems are not given the correct DNS details. Do you need to specify DNS server(s) in System -> General Setup or need to change the setting in the box Allow DNS server list to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WAN

Are your LAN systems assigned IP addresses by DHCP? If not, how do they know the address of the DNS server? If so, then they can find the DNS server address by DHCP but you have to specify the address in System -> General Setup or tick the box to say get it from DHCP assignment on the WAN interface (which assumes your ISP provides it by DHCP).

Not that it matters quite yet, but you may be interested in knowing that in 2.0, the RRD data can be backed up in the XML file that you get from the WebGUI, so it can also be restored.

Other things to note:

Remove the packages you don't want before you make your final backup. The settings will still be in the config xml (you can edit them out) but unless you uninstall the package, it will get reinstalled after the restore is finished. You should be able to put the config on a FAT formatted USB stick in <drive letter="">:\cf\conf\config.xml - The installer is supposed to pick up on this and install with that config to the hard drive. I haven't tested this, but it will speed the process up greatly vs. installing, getting it on the network, and restoring from the WebGUI.</drive>

Just to clarify: Does the "No dump device" message appear BEFORE the console prompts for the installation parameters OR does it occur on the reboot after an apparently successful install?

If you completed an install did you select GRUB as the boot loader or the FreeBSD boot loader? (I have no experience with GRUB as the boot loader for pfSense but have seen a couple of reports that people haven't been able to get it to work.)

On my installed system the startup reports:

vga0: <generic isa="" vga="">at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
udav0: <shantou 0="" 2="" st268="" usb="" nic,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.10="" 1.01,="" addr="">on uhub0
udav0: Ethernet address 00:60:6e:30:32:26</shantou></generic>

so after the ISA VGA report it looks as if the kernel is looking for USB devices. Do you get a different result if you remove all USB devices from the system? How about if you disable USB devices in the BIOS before booting. (I needed to do this on my AMD Athlon based system before I could get pfSense 1.2.2 to boot but that problem went away with pfSense 1.2.3.)

It works fine. Glad I could get rid of those awful 2Wire gateways.  ;D

From everything I have read, it should "Just Work" as long as the disk is dedicated to FreeBSD.  Since I accepted all of the defaults, I assume that this is what was set up.

I have run lots of tests.  Can someone who understands this tell me what information I might post, or what I might try, or tell me "Clearly this will never work because xyz" ?

Thanks.

I have tried the following permutations of BIOS settings and Geometry:

AUTO (Disk Config) and LBA
USER (Disk Config) and LBA with 3148 16 63 (I changed to a 1.6G disk)
USER (Disk Config) and LBA with 787 64 63
AUTO (Disk Config) and NORMAL

With AUTO, 3148 16 63 was offered and accepted in the PFSense "Select Geometry" dialog in both cases.

I always put the same geometry in the BIOS and the PFSense "Select Geometry" dialog.

For each of these four permutations, I tried the default Boot Boot configuration (No Packet, no Grub), with "Packet", and with "Grub"

In all cases the Default Boot configuration and the Packet install fine then fail on boot as described previously with the one second Beep every 10 seconds.

In all cases the Grub configuration failed installation, saying "Cannot mount selected partition".