Thanks, but I had seen all of those links already. I already did "dd" earlier, to completely clear the drive, so it wasn't a partitioning or GPT issue, or something left over from a previous installation. There's no SATA or AHCI options to set in the "BIOS" of the Soekris.  I think BSD is detecting the drives just fine, though, because they're all there, and the dd command completes without errors.  It honestly looks like some kind of scripting bug when it tries to do the partitioning. I found a workaround, though. Run the entire system from an external USB stick!  That's what I'm doing now.  The 4g-i386-nanobsd image works fine. Josh

Sorry ;-) Anyhow, I fixed it by using a x64 machine. In other words: Get the backup from the original, rename Interfaces in the XML File to different hardware and then restore it. Thanks for your help! Reinhard

That makes it fail the DNS rebinding and/or HTTP REFERER checks, where the hostname you're using isn't the hostname configured on the system. Either change it under System>General Setup, or add an alternate hostname under System>Advanced.

Supported != manual hack that can break any time.

Rather than re-configure the chassis -as in, installing the previous unit's hardware - the suggestion was to edit the config file directly so that LAN, WAN and DMZ (if any) assignments would be correctly mapped to the corresponding network cards on the new unit.

Also works here, Ubuntu + latest FF.

The only way I could get it working was to install 2.1.5 and then do an upgrade to 2.2.4. (I don't see 2.1.5 in the download list anymore.) There is something with the disk layout that conflicts with the 6501 bios boot and I haven't seen any solution.

@heliop100: …. Any idea? Your partition is read only ?

@Derelict: Nope.  Upgrading in the first place will clobber most of that anyway.  Pretty much on you to have a log of the out-of-gui changes you have made so you can duplicate them on a reinstall. Yup, fair enough for the cowboy that goes off-road, such as myself. I wanted to see if I could salvage the situation without blowing the escape hatch, it's been a couple days, so far so good. :)

This question would be better posed in the Cache/Proxy forum. When you make any changes to squidGuard, you MUST click the Save button and then go back to the General Settings tab and click the Apply button.

@robi: What kind of NICs are there, having such problems? It's an APU1D box with the Realtek 8111E GB interfaces. The unit is connected to a Cisco 2960 (trunk-only port). I maxed out at 85 MBps on a 100 MBps Internet line before changing the MTU - then I got 98 MBps throughput without changing anything else, leading me to suspect MTU problems due to the VLAN tags.

What a relief! Now I know I'm not the only idiot in this world.  :o 've burnt an Advantech AIMB-272 pretty much the same way  ::) And yes, it's fun to make custom cases with dremels and flexes…

I am assuming that this is a BIOS issue, as I have had this work on other machines.

You're making an issue for yourself, something that works for hundreds of thousands of us, usng pfSEnse, doesn't work for you. As the mentionned "gateway-on-lan issue", totally not existent, even when looking it up in Google, but suddenly present on your system, this is pretty much the same thing. Static DHCP leases are setup in pfSense. Handle them, like creating, modify, delete them in the GUI, and all is well. There is no need to wipe some hiding database (btw : Google knows where this 'database' is, as soon as you use the correct word: config.xml). For some reason, most of us do not use a power-backup supply (UPS) for our pfSenbse boxes, and still things work very well. And yes, you are not the only one with power failures. So : the good news is: there is no problem. And if there is one : you made it up yourself, so : remove it, and you're ok ;) edit: using a static IP on the client (PC) which fells out of the network mask of pfSense will break the connection, that is normal.

Some Windows clients try to muck around with CR/LF if they think they see any ASCII character.  Check for an option to download as a binary file.