@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.

Banner???

On 1.2.2 and older, any upgrade required a complete reflash+restore config. Since you have to do that anyway, there's no reason not to go right to 2.0.1.

@slth: In case you are wondering how on Windows: cmd -> diskpart -> list disk -> select disk #yourflashdrive -> clean by GUI Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management.. find the USB stick drive listed, usually by the bottom of the list. Click on existing partition, right mouse click and select "delete.." from menu.. then create new partition by right clicking on raw drive volume and selecting "New Simple Volume"..

Unless you happen to be lucky and have the default NICs in your config (presently the defaults are vr-based interfaces for ALIX/Soekris) you do have to assign NICs before you can do anything. There is an open ticket to attempt some sort of "auto assign" but there are some problems with doing that dynamically that are not easy to solve.

FINALLY!! After coming close to loosing it and taking a chain saw to my router I decided it was rtfm time. I don't find the cli on the HH very easy to get to grips with but managed to get all traffic sent to one IP address. As well as this the BT HH wasn't playing fair as the web gui wasn't doing as I told it too with the benefit of loking at the cli so I performed a factory default on it. Now the router is configured the way I was trying to get it configured via the web gui, cept it all works even port forwarding. Lets hope it stays that way

Access the latest area of ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.3-release/Latest/ And check the packages names and then pkg_add it.

Almost all dual port copper (RJ45, Cat5, Cat6, etc) Ethernet cards operate as independent interfaces, meaning that the Operating System and any software involved doesn't really notice that they happen to be sharing a slot on the motherboard.  At least as far as you or any software you're concerned about cares.  If you happen upon a card that doesn't operate this way, then it's most likely some oddball card that wouldn't be supported anyway.  If it's in the supported hardware list, it should operate in the way that you want. The main point that some people don't notice when starting out, with optical cards, mostly, is that it takes 2 strands of fiber to facilitate communication on a single port; what may look like 2 sockets is still a single port; one side sends, the other receives.  The other side to optical cards is them not being obvious by appearance as to whether they're an Ethernet card or a FiberChannel HBA.  Look up the model, it'll tell you.  There are dual port Optical cards as well, both as Ethernet and FiberChannel.  In the Ehternet realm, dual port Optical cards should operate as 2 independent interfaces; FiberChannel, not always, but that probably doesn't fully matter for your purposes. Oh, and there's also Quad port Ethernet cards.  Those should also be 4x independent Ethernet interfaces.

No you shouldn't need that. Just edit the fstab so that it gets mounted at boot. The shellcmd package only gives you easy access to the shellcmd option in config file anyway. Steve