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  MOVED: EMP-8602 400mw 802.11a/g/b wireless mini-pci - driver
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  CPU power required for gigabit?
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  Currently wraps (266mhz) will push around 32 megabit.  So anything beyond a 500 mhz box with GOOD nics should be fine. By GOOD I mean Intel or something as nice.
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  VLAN config on NC7780
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  Good deal!  Glad its working.
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  Will net4801+Hifn7955 do the job?
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  I'll do the test next week if I can get my hands on a device with higher throughput than the soekris. Thanks for the help.
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  BOX BUILD
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  Check our recommended vendors: http://pfsense.com/index.php?id=40
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  Network card error
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  I just reset the resource configs, still cant see my network card :-( PS: yea I know I have to instal freeradius on my own, that is not that hard, but sometimes SQL functionality freaks me out…. never installs as it should, although on RedHat installs are easy
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  Hacom CV863A3U10E documented.
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  OK - to answer my own question… Based on this post [ http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/showmsg.php?id=73/62 ], I edited the /boot/loader.rc file on the ISO and added the following 2 lines to the very top: set hw.ata.atapi_dma="0" set hw.ata.ata_dma="0" Then burned the ISO and booted - pfSense now loaded in PIO mode and everything worked fine.  The setting was retained during the install. Question for the developers - Will the pfSense update process lose these changes or am I now good until I need to do a new full install? For reference I used a trial of a program called UltraISO to edit the file.  You need to extract the file out of the iso, edit it, then paste it back in and save your new ISO.  http://www.ezbsystems.com/ultraiso/index.html
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  Low power firewall specification help
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  With "only" 40 mbit/s you won't push this device that hard that you'll notice a difference I think. Realteks put more load on the CPU than Intels but that shouldn't be noticable in your scenario and your bandwidth. You even should be able to go 100 mbit/s with this device (at least between 2 interfaces). I get full wirespeed with my C3 1 GHz with 2 Via Rhine nics.
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  Slightly OT: Network switch failover?
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  Ah, so in order to do this, I'd have to have 4 nics in each server, 2 frontside, 2 backside.  Plus, those nics would have to support team failover on whatever OS they're using (mostly MacOS X Servers, and now I'm adding in about 10-11 FreeBSD servers). Yay…that's a lot of nics.  Some of these boxes don't even have that many pci slots.  I know for fact that several of the on-board gigabit ports are supposed to replace the need for pci slots, so they only have 1-2 slots available. Switch failover may be a lost cause in my environment.  I may just have to be ready with the swappable switch sitting there as a just-in-case measure. :(
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  MOVED: 11g turbo mode, not possible?
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  MOVED: channels of WLAN cards
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  MOVED: Wireless network card configuation
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  MOVED: WLAN txpower bug ?
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  Very long boot sequence after finding ipsd0 ServeRAID 4Lx (neo lite) [fixed]
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  Actually, upgrading to latest snapshot didn't solve the issue. But i found a fix! Basicaly these xseries spare an internal adaptec controller and a pci board with the ServeRAID controller. That internal controller has no devices attached to it in my server. Disabling the internal adaptec controller seem to chase that bad timeout.. Boot isn't delayed anymore after finding ipsd0 logical volume.
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  Strange Hardware Error
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  Well to answer my own question. I was reading around on the freebsd mailing list and found that the message is the result of a known, but harmless, bug in dc(4). Since its not a show stopper I'll let it slide.
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  Xircom cardbus ethernet
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  You may want to test a recent FreeBSD 6.1 beta and see if this an issue there as well while its still in the beta cycle.
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  Atmel AT76C503A based USB WLAN adapters
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  Patches do not apply to 6.1. Last update is 2004, this is not something we want in our codebase.
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  Gigabit thoughput harware requirements
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  Check out the high-end pci-x and pci-e nexcom boxes.  I have a feeling you will want the dual xeon model.
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  Devic polling
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  :D Thanks, thats fix it. Enabling and disabling polling with the web gui now works.
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  Installation of second processor
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  Thank you very much for the quick response.
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  100Mbit Hardware Config Anyone?
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  1 have 1GHz P3 and 512 Mb RAM with Intel Server DualPort Server Cards and have 100MBit wirespeed performance
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  IBM serverRaid 8E
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  The 4805 should work fine with the iso image, embedded has had a lot of stuff removed lately. If it's not supported in our kernel build i'm sure we can add the correct "device blah" line to the kernel. You can find the current kernel config here http://pfsense.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/tools/builder_scripts/conf/pfSense.6?rev=1.14;content-type=text%2Fplain
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  Soekris net4501 (just thinking out loud here…)
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  The kernel in the latest builds has been "trimmed" quite a lot lately. I think you will find that the newest builds are much faster due to several improvements (like APC, smaller kernel for faster boot, a few tweaks here and there).
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  Multi-gigabit small form-factor firewall? This looks like it…
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  I can tell you right now that a VIA cpu at 533 is not going to give you anything close to gigabit thruput. Other then that the board looks ok, and will most likely work fine with a embedded image.
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  Nortel contivity 100 install??
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  you can use the embedded or regular version of pfsense with the box. All you need to do is to load either image onto the compact flash or hard drive. After loading it on the boot device of your choice the video card doesn't help much other than to post check as there is no keyboard interface. Also, you don't need to have a pci video card as there is onboard video(trident chipset). I have yet to get the serial port working properly with pfsense nor the leds on the front of the chassis. When booted up all i normally see is the spinning thing.
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  Rl0: watchdog timeout
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  So far, I've seen this error only because of an IRQ-Problem with an ACPI System, running pfsense on. It seems to me, that the realtek-driver is not able to share IRQ's under some circumstances with other drivers… So, you might probably put the card in another pci-slot, and check, if the error occurs further on. Second, it may help to disable unneeded onboard components, as USB or LPT or a soundcard.
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  Soekris vpn1411
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  DMA errors
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  @jeroen234: disable dma in bios off youre pc use pio mode By bios doesnt have that option.
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  Big size hdd! cant install?
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  Okay thanks, I pulled the bug evaulation edition for beta 2.  Will try to get something new up soon.
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  Soekris 4801 w/lan1641?
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  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.
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  Using an OPT to monitor pfSense
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  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
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  Wrong driver loaded (I need de0 but I'm getting dc0 instead)
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  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 :)
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  Wireless Error - Stuck Beacon
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  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...
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  LAN ADSL MODEM WITH PPPOA PROTOCOL
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  General performance feedback on the sys. reqs
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  Very true. I have obviously mistakenly assumed networking == routing. :)
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  NIC Swap
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  @deadlygopher: ISA card ISA NIC = Trash, don't even think it.
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  Compact Flash read-only issues
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  I just trying it now… seems to work... thanks...
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  ISA cards & BSD
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  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.
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  Possible Wrap LED Solution
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  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. :)
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  Hardware compatibility with VIA Epia Series?
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  Help for this can be found in http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootOptions