Okay thanks, I pulled the bug evaulation edition for beta 2.  Will try to get something new up soon.

The CARP IPs can be handed over from one firewall to the other. What happens in the background is that the failover node grabs the macadress of the CARP IP after the master has died, so nobody in the network will notece that actually another machine took over. same IP, same MAC. The LAN CARP IP that is used as the gateway will act the same.

The price for the nexcom is right. It has some benefits like serial redirection (you even can access the bios at com1) and a rather short 19" 1U case (many switches are even deeper). I configured a 1U mini ITX system with 4 nics and a via C3 1GHz cpu but ended up around the price of the nexcom, at least when using non crappy hardware. And the nexcom comes completely assembled even with serial cable. Add RAM, a cf-card or a hdd and you are ready to roll.

Hell, IS shouldn't even be part of the corporate network.  You'd be amazed at how many fewer support calls you get once IS get's off the corporate network.  Magically, things stop crashing.

–Bill

Just a note if you have to hard code your ethernet speeds to check out:

http://faq.pfsense.org/index.php?action=artikel&cat=10&id=38&artlang=en&highlight=hidden

You can hard-code the speeds into the config.xml file but we do not provide a GUI knob for this due to the incredible amount of times this simple thing gets messed up resulting in any os being blamed :)

ok, thanks, will try new westion when I will be done with other peoblems susu as BRIDGING and DHCP
I cant get the board to work… all interfaceas are living bythemself...

Very true.
I have obviously mistakenly assumed networking == routing.
:)

@deadlygopher:

ISA card

ISA NIC = Trash, don't even think it.

I just trying it now… seems to work... thanks...

Retried over and over. Finally ISP's modem failed to respond under any gven OS on my side. They must love me. I never ever use anything "standard" in my ventures and I usualy ask nasty questions noone knows an answer to.

I know I can get it to pull the gateway from config.xml for the inernet connection test.  Should I add an entry in config.xml for the external site or just leave it yahoo?  I guess a DNS server would also work.

I only have my WRAP for a few days this week before it's shipped off to a client.  Having a lot of fun with it though. :)

Help for this can be found in http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootOptions

@sullrich:

@rds_correia:

Any good M$ software to check for CF read/write errors out there?

That's a good question.  I've never run across anything such as this.

Simply create a dump file the size of the CF, with a value of hex 0xAA ( 10101010 ), and write it to the flash card. Then verify that there are no errors when comparing against the dump file.
Now write another dump file of hex 0x55 (01010101), and do the same.
This will veryfy that all bits on each byte of memory are set/unset and written/verified correctly.

-Karl

It does work, however, kernelpolling has a lot of timings that should be tweaked to the appropriate platform/cpu performance. m0n0 aims at slow hardware and has an image for each platform which makes it possible to supply different sets for different hardware. As  pfsense has only a general image supplying different optimizations is not that easy (unless we add some kind of pulldown menu with different optimizations or even a tweak page). This is something we already have discussed and even  tested different settings with a wrap (see http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=Tuning ) and might appear in a version after 1.0.

Sorry about that but I didn't check this thread for a while.
My box specs are in my signature.
I have reflashed my box with 0.97 and all seems fine right now.
Maybe a CF card issue.
Gotta buy a Sandisk instead of this cheap stuff…
Cheers

update, I swap the 580TX to 570TX, and it boots and detect fine.. strange  ??? Maybe my 580TX is faulty

Actually I started one of the "other" topics.  I never did find out what the problem was.  And the problem I was having then is different.  As the blink wasn't random flashes it was at a specific interval of about 2 seconds.  This can be anywhere from less than a second to flashing very rapidly even when nothing is connected.

I fixed the problem last time by starting fresh with a new version.  I guess I could try that again.

I was just posting incase someone else had experienced this.  I've gone on holiday for a month and a half so I can't get back to fix/diagnose it anymore unfortunatly.  Was worth a try.

good to hear :)

@cybrsrce:

Will there ever be support for AXE?

ALTQ-capability of the driver itself is an driver issue. You would have to ask the drivermaintainer for that.

Hya Karl :D,
Thanks for clarifying this for us ;).
Oh I almost forgot: welcome to the forum  ;D
Cheers

@hoba:

Packagesupport might be split in 2 sorts of packages (suitable for all platforms / suitable for embedded builds).

Sexy  8)
@hoba:

This definitely won't make it in 1.0 though.

No worries, we wouldn't want to postpone 1.0 just because of that ;).
Cheers

Most Atheros based cards are good.
Wistron Neweb CM-9 cards work fine. (minipci)
Senao 5354 MP PLUS ARIES2 4G (minipci)
Dlink DWL-AG530/AG520 (PCI)
3com 3CRDAG675 (PCI)

In general you can refer to this list: http://www.madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility since the freebsd HAL and the MadWiFi HAL is the same. (cards reported working on madwifi-ng might not work !!)
But forget about pcmcia/cardbus cards, they might work on linux and not on freebsd and vice versa.

Nevermind, I removed the PCI Card and Reseated it.  Everything is working now.

Via epia boards ?
There are a lot of platforms out there.
Problem is to support all this we need to cross compile a bunch of versions. For now your best bet will be a via epia board if you are looking for some performance while still keeping it small.
Or you could have a look at the nexcom boxes. www.nexcom.com.tw

@Jesse7:

The other endpoint is my DSL router.  So I guess it needs to be in half duplex mode.  Thanks hoba very helpful.

Generally ADSL modem routers use half duplex.  Mine does as well.

Thanks. Is pretty much what I thought.  I did do some reading around before posting, I was just hoping someone maybe had a workaround.

I am happy for it to be shapped.

I replaced the image with 0.92 and it now see the wireless ath0.. Thanks guys.

If you still need the dmesg on this new release, let me know.

Richard

@lsf:

Get the newest version (0.92), it has a newer HAL/driver for ath.
And it should support that card.
Also add all the dmesg lines regarding ath.
And a pciconfg -vl from the shell would be nice.

Soon.  We have a smaller version but we are working out the builder scripts issues.