@Cry:

Does the system boot?  What's displayed on the (serial) console?

I have solved the problem. Actually, there was no problem with pfsense but rather with the fact that Windows Vista I am using (don't ask me why) is apparently incapable of displaying any data over serial cable.

After I used a WinXP machine, everything worked fine. The boot-up process was interrupted at a point where you should provide information on vlans and name the interfaces. After that, all the services come up and you can access the webconfigurator through a web client on default IP and password.

I also installed FreeBSD 6.3 and it detects both cards using the em drivers. It works for both, I tried using the net on both interfaces and it works fine. I have read that pfsense 1.2.1 will be based on freebsd 7 or freebsd 6.3. If this card is not supported by the current version, I might as well wait for the next pfsense release. I already downloaded the latest betas of 1.2.1. I will try to install it tomorrow and see if it detects both cards as well.

Regarding the throughput, I asked the question because this box will be handling traffic for an entire LAN of around 50+ users. I also plan to deploy one as a gateway router, handling our ISP bandwidth of 6Mbps while doing filtering, traffic shaping and IDS. Would this be too much to ask for the gigabit interface? :)

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7001.0.html

i cant just switch  arp->carp on vips becouse of webconfigurator rules.

anyway. i disable vip and set nat from  Lan-> WAN.
after that all traffic from Lan-hosts stops, only resolving address work correctly  :(

what a f.  maybe i missunderdstood some check-boxes in menu

what should i say. after all i tried at last i did it. and by the by i want to give thnx those two brothers. thnx guys. now i wanna tell you how i solve the problem. First I changed my hard disk. I mean sata to IDE. Then I make it Primary hard disk. before my sata hard disk was third primary hard disk and my dvd room was primary. so i change it to primary. i am sure if i can make sata as a primary then i can do it with sata also. My all problem was about to set of primary and secondary.thnx guys. take care

1.2-Release is based on FreeBSD 6.2

Various 1.2 snapshots may be based on 6.2 or 6.3

1.2.1-BETA and 1.3-ALPHA are based on 7.0

Only 1.2-Release is what I would consider a stable release (though 1.2.1 and the 1.2 snapshots may be stable enough for you).

Hey,

Thanks for the advice - we were already doing something very similar before, but tried things exactly as suggested here (plus set the DHCP server address, and tried a different network card for the wan interface) and something must have worked because it seems to be running fine now :) we were assigned an address and it's been great ever since. pfSense definitely solved the problem of the crappy VM-supplied netgear router not being able to handle torrenting (and barely being able to handle 20meg in general).

Cheers guys!

@ToxIcon:

Hi all I am new to pfsense and have a couple of question

do pfsense block all inbound connection by default after installation or do i have to set it up to do so.

It does, why would anyone create a firewall software that didn't do just that on default installation  ::)

I've fixed this now. My PFSense box is bridging with my DG834. I've assigned a public ip to the WAN NIC card & the LAN NIC Card. All my points point there gateway to the LAN NIC card which is then bridged to the WAN NIC. Everything appears tobe OK.

Hello,

Is this helps? : http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/board,37.0.html

cheers,

@m.econome:

I installed version 1.2 on a VIA 501+ …

On the console screen it shows the interfaces with configured IPs, if names etc. on top.
Do both interfaces you're using have a  '*'  behind their names?

Like:
  WAN*                     ->   fxp0    ->      12.34.56.789(PPPoE)
  OPT1(WLAN)            ->   xl0      ->      10.0.1.1
  LAN*                      ->   fxp1    ->      192.168.1.1
  OPT2(DMZ)*            ->   fxp2    ->      10.0.2.1

This would show a detected link at least and serve as a starting point for further trouble shooting.
I have no link at the OPT1(WLAN) if in the example given above.

@soul710:

still theres one issue. when booting, the machine hangs like 3 minutes when synching system time. is that normal?

I think part of what is happening here is that the system is synchronizing over the network with an external time server (ntp). Perhaps in your case it is timing out. "Like 3 minutes" seems a bit long for that pause but its a while since I restarted my box.

A driver from a 6.3 kernel won't work with a 6.2 kernel - you need to use the same kernel and platform.

Thanks for your help as well!

Oooops, it happened to me several times… ;D

Have fun m8!

cheers,

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,11016.msg61193.html#msg61193