The VLB sync patches you are referencing are for FreeBSD 4.x The structure of FreeBSD 6 (pfSense 1.2) and 7 (pfSense 1.2.1/1.3) is sufficiently different and the patches will not work. This is why I settled on m0n0wall 1.2 (based on FreeBSD 4) to run on my FireBox III. The only way to get the hardware working under modern FreeBSD would be to involve a developer familiar with the ata code, and I'm not sure there is much interest in getting this fixed. I saw someone was working on an OpenBSD based m0n0wall fork, but have not tried it. You could check it out here: http://www.thewaffle.org/

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

Thx a lot…..everything works fine now...

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7001.0.html –> http://devwiki.pfsense.org/OpenVPNasWAN

If the switch were ASUS GigaX 1024P then it's a bit confusing. Although the spec sheet doesn't say anything about .1Q but it does support .1Q, tag-base and/or port-base vlans. Eagleeye, you may want to configure your ASUS switch correctly, via CNM. Check your CNM manual, pp35, 4.7.5 VLAN setup.

I had the similar problem related to boot-time freezing related to several reasons. I had to enable the legacy USB support to fix that issue (provided that your BIOS allows that setting). For further setup hint, look at your MoBo and pull out every PCI/e etc device to see if the system boots normally (Live-CD) . Introduce the cards (and USB driven devices such as CF cards) one by one to see which one is the problem. I have Jetway J7F4K1G2E and BIOSTAR GF8200 M2+ (with AMD Athlon X2 -45W & Intel dual NIC pci-e) for my firewall/proxy. Jetway MoBo did not work with the PCI network cards. All sorts of freezing came down to PCI card issue. Still do not know why (although I have a hunch that it could be related to filmsy PCI extender or PCI-memory-overlap). I used a USB ethernet adapter to make it work. Go figure! For the Biostar MoBo I had legacy USB support issue as well. Also EHCI handout disabling needed. Good luck!

Can the pfsense LiveCD be extracted to a fat32/ext2 logical partition and be made bootable, either with 'GRUB' or 'SYSLINUX' ? Thank you.  :)

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

also anyone wanting to go the virtual machine root i found this program that is a gui for qemu www.kju-app.org its pretty good, universal binary.

For the sake of the archives (or if you still haven't resolved this) - this is ARP cache related on your ISP's side, the gateway of your firewall is hanging onto the old MAC address for that VIP for usually hours, you'll either have to wait or manually clear it in this circumstance.

Sounds like you're probably exhausting the state table, check your RRD graphs to see, and try increasing it.

Thanks very much for your help wallabybob, but I am going to have to cut my losses as it were and stick with the Smoothwall. Maybe when I have learned a little more about linux (or when freebsd recognises the fit-pc) I will have another go. Cheers.

Hi. I've uploaded both 1.2.1-latest and 1.3-latest onto my old LV-673 with Pentium-M. As far as I have done for both CF/HDD installations for both releases, only the differences are that I don't use CF-IDE things, and my CF is only $7 512M bytes crap, other than that I don't see any differences between embedded and full(?) images, both detect on-board stinky Marvell NIC just fine everytime, whatever kernel is installed. I wrote embedded to CF on Vista. cheers,

Good for you  ;) ;) ;)

@lklaus: Well, if you don't expect a conflict with your internal addresses, you can boot the alix board and add a virtual ip to your interface (I added 192.168.1.2 to eth1:1 [linux]) and could talk to the board via the webgui The problem is, at least with pfSense, that the interface on the Alix will not be up until you complete the 'assign interfaces' dialog via the serial console… The pre-loaded boxes from Netgate may already have this done, I'm not sure.

Hello, http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,11049.0.html :D :D :D :D :D