As an aside, take a look at kiTTY, a fork of puTTY.

Yes but that's ok because the image you're writing contains the partition/slice info. It's a raw image of the drive.
Unless of course you have other partitions on disk1 you need to keep!

Steve

Yes, do you have some good reason to upgrade from a CD rather than downloading the upgrade image directly?

I have never tried to do this but if you really need to upgrade from CD then I would mount the CD manually and then run the manual upgrade from the console menu.

Steve

Ah sorry, certainly.
Firstly if you feel you can use UPnP without causing some security nightmare then just do that because with it enabled 'it just works'.

Skype has a settings/preferences page that can be accessed in the application (in the Windows and Linux versions at least). In that it specifies what port it listens for direct incoming connections on and allows you to change it if you wish. Knowing that port you can then set a port forward on WAN for UDP traffic.

The option to show info is in the Advanced section labelled 'Display technical call info'. In Windows you can also right click the video window to bring it up during a call but the Linux app seems slightly less…. polished.

There doesn't appear to be a way of limiting the video resolution. I was pretty sure there used to be a bandwidth limit you could set but if there was it's gone now. There used to be number of hacks for forcing high resolution video by editing the config file. You might be able to that to force a lower resolution. You could always use a limiter in pfSense to restrict bandwidth.

Steve

LightSquid is just a reporting tool that slurps Squid logs and formats them into charts.

most of your questions are answered here.
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/1:1_NAT
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_can't_I_access_forwarded_ports_on_my_WAN_IP_from_my_LAN/OPTx_networks

Thats great, thanks for all the fast responses. If I buy this I will bench test and report back.

Thanks :)

@Starko:

Sorry I never replied!
The error I got was selfmade. There has never been an issue with pfsense.

I worked through our backupped config.xml with Notepad++ and did an Replace all for the changed interface names (vr1 became em1 .. etc)

I was so lucky that out certs had the part "vr1" in it. So literally replaced parts of our certs, no wonder they were broken. After I replaced the interface names manually, the import worked fine on the new hardware.

Thanks for the follow up. Yeah be very careful doing "replace all", as cert contents commonly will match any short string you're replacing, which will of course break the cert. When I edit configs like that, I always make sure to confirm every instance of the string that's being replaced, as there are a variety of possibilities to break things like that.

that's what we are here for ;)

just in case anyone else stumbles across this here is the fix.

type ? and press enter, this will give the real drive partition number.

then type

ufs:/dev/adxs1a where x is the number from above.

boot.

shell into pfsense and edit \etc\fstab and make it match what you entered.

Issue is resolved.

It was user error…..Make sure your connection speed is 9600 and not the apu default.

Sorry,
forgot to insert command.

After setting up squid+dansguardian when i execute the following command in ssh to install samba I am getting error please see attached log file for the error.
pkg_add http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/packages/amd64/8/All/samba36-3.6.3.tbz

pfsense 2.2 is not based on freebsd 8.3 , its based on Freebsd 10.1

2.2 is in beta and might have issues … it might be better to post them in the "2.2 Snapshot Feedback and Problems" - section of the forum

Thank you very much I will try this out.

pfBlocker is what you want.

There appear to be a number of issues that can cause the 38% issue, all of them corner cases. It's hard to say what might be causing problems for you. However 2.2 is built on FreeBSD 10.1 so a lot has changed. There's a good chance that whatever is causing it will have been updated. Try a 2.2 snapshot and find out.

Steve

That's strange, I had the exact opposite problem, my flash drives were failing, I installed a $20 WD blue  3.5" HDD and never looked back.

Do you know for sure that your USB stick will boot on your motherboard? I only ask because I have seen several instances where I could not boot from a USB drive, trying a different USB stick with the same setup; the system would boot.

Most packages leave their settings in the config file. That way you can uninstall them and then reinstall to clean up an issue with the installation and not have to input the settings again.
That can work both ways - sometimes you really want to clean out all settings and get a really fresh start at setting things up! So yes, it would be nice if package uninstall had an option to also remove all settings.

30GB will do the job, thanks all :)