• Network problem with Intel 82580

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    Hi,

    The problem is resolved.
    It was a problem of route missing in backend to access to frontend. Now, it's works.

    This post can be marked in "resolved".

    Thanks to Steve to your advices and your patience to help me.

    Regards

    Vincent

  • Small form factor hardware with 4 NICs?

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    Thanks! The Soekris has a larger case than I was hoping for, but meets my specs.

  • Trendmicro Network Viruswall 1200 install *SOLVED*

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    That's great.  :) Shame it's too late for the other other guy who sold his box.  ::)
    So did you get all three NICs working?

    The board manual mentions that the BIOS supports console redirect though it doesn't give any details. It may be disabled by default. Trend may have used a custom BIOS modified from the Advantec version. However if it is enabled where you normally press DEL to enter the BIOS setup you usually have to press TAB via the serial console. That's because DEL can't be sent over serial. You'll just have to experiment with some serial speeds.
    One thing you can do is use the flashrom package in pfSense to extract the bios image and them open it from a Windows box with modbin6 to see what the defaults are. Then you can try modify it and flash it back if you're feeling really brave! (don't unless you have some good reason  ;))
    Since it seems that there is no watchdog timer to disable or modify (which would normally be used to activate the by-pass if the box crashed) is there any reason in particular you need bios access?

    How are the LCD and LEDs connected to the board? Which header are they using? There is a pfSense package for lcdproc that may work and LEDs can also be coaxed into life with some experimenting. Internal photos may help.

    Steve

    Edit: The default console speed seems to 38400 8N1. That's according to the manual for the FWA-600, a box made by Advantech which uses the same board. This also has a better description on the LAN by-pass functionality and console redirection.

    Edit2: Yes that manual has a MUCH better description of the BIOS functions. It looks like there is a LAN by-pass control in there after all.

  • Hardware requirement for gigabit throughput PFsense unit

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    check this http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,45439.0.html

  • Instalation pfsense on Dell poweredge R420

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    Unfortunately, here in the colonies, most ISPs are rejecting "universal" compatibility and are instead striving to adopt propriatary equipment/configurations so as to ensure they create a corner on a "bundled" market and don't become "dumb pipes."

  • PFSense on a HP Microserver

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    FYI

    Bought and configured:

    MICROSERVER G7 AMD N40L 2GB 1X250GB LFF SATA NODVD HP NC112T PCI EXPRESS GIGABIT SERVER ADAPTER pfSENSE 2.0.1

    all hardware components are recognized without problems and it runs smoothly.

  • How many NICs needed when using VLAN?

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    Thanks, great :-)

  • Revised New Build

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    Steve:

    I finally figured out how to access the Viking card through pfSense–see the new thread I created earlier today under the "Firewall" forum.

  • All in one UTM box at home

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    After reading through the SSD thread, I'm still thinking of buying a SSD. It seems like my installation will take much space, even with logging turned on, so probably a disk that is 64 or 128 GB.

  • Snort Hardware Requirements

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    @Nonsense:

    I am wondering if activating Snort is really necessary in my home environment (I have set no ports open)?

    My answer is not hardware related, but:

    I assume you mean all ports from Internet is closed, but all ports outward is open.

    If/when your computer is compromised by malicious code, I can bet that it happens while surfing the web and a webpage will take advantage of a vulnerability on your system. (PDF, flash, browser, java or similar). The malicious code might have a call back function so it connects to a server that either upload new mailicious code, adware, or are able to control your machine. This connection will be done in intervals and will never be initiated from they outside, but from your computer. So having all ports blocked will not help you.

    Snort, might be able to detect this traffic, but that depends if you are willing to use time to tune Snort and actually use time to investigate the alerts. If not, you will not have any advantage of using Snort.

    You would probably use less time by having your system patched all the time and run scans of your systems now and then. Minimizing the risk of actually being compromised by surfing the web.

    While I'm at it, here are something I would recommend (even if you didn't ask):
    Personal Software Inspector (PSI) - Free for personal use. Scans all programs installed and report of outdated programs. Really useful
    Qualys Browser check - Checks if your browser (Chrome, FF and IE), plugins, FW, AV, WU are vulnerable or outdated.
    Firefox plugin checker

  • Pfsense Box - Single Nic verses Dual Nic setup

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    @stephenw10 …. Well said

    There are many scenarios that will be playing out over the next decade globally, as corporations/governments will have total control over the majority of commodities/services/goods etc. They will create the perfect Storm.

    Need I say more?

  • Ignore my crash report please

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    Don't worry about it, we get quite a few of them but we don't investigate them all because most of them are issues we know about or flaky hardware. Most often we'll only dig through there when a customer or user submits one and asks for it to be reviewed.

  • Pfsense server hardware settings

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    FYI:  Here's a post on adjusting your MBUF values.

    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,37754.msg194854.html

  • Pfsense Laptop - Ethernet ExpressCard Compatibility

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    @Clear-Pixel:

    After doing more research on the Thinkpad T61 & T400 I found very little to support that the on-board nic will function reliably.

    I found a few references to the T400 in the FreeBSD Mobile Computing forums:

    Notebook / Laptop compatibility list

    Lenovo T400 report

    T400 - fully compatable

    Since pfSense is FreeBSD based it's probably a safe bet to say it will work with it too.  It's up to you though.

  • D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server Adapter problem: only 2 of 4 ports

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    Excellent.  :)
    It's probably worth noting here for anyone replicating this that the pciconf command is system specific. Don't just copy it without reading through this whole thread.

    Steve

  • Ultra low power i3 system, 8.5w at idle.

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    This is a great article, and the guy should start a business! I'm sure there could be demand for a monitor/pc that is silent and drinks very little power. I also learned that I overprovisioned my server hardware in terms of power supply (although I had suspected so at the time…) with a 150W picoPSU, perhaps I should have gone for 90W instead...

  • 10 mbps full duplex

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    I had the exact same issue with a realtek 1Gbps port in our datacenter where they force 10full.  The solution was to put an Alix box in there that would actually work at 10full.  Been there for 3 years now with only 2 reboots both of which were upgrades to PFSense.

  • Net6501-30

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    Thank you very much for the answers!

    They have been very helpful.

    I got clear that a 6501-50 would be more future proof (and more adecuate for a 100Mbps WAN)..

    I was really about to buy it (I just needed to press the button), but then I made the "mistake" of evaluating the DIY option..

    Even thought I loved the idea of the 6501 (efficient, compact, fast…) the price was not that "adecuate" :D

    the 6501-50 costs 370€ over here..

    I have just paid 212,36€ for the DIY components.. 2500CCE + 2x2GB RAM + PicoPSU-80 + 96W brick + M350 + Wall mount bracket

    I have a OCZ mSATA over here.. I hope it works (iif not the costs will increase slightly)

    For this price I had no other choice than to buy it... it's overpowered (big time) for my needs, but I guess I can now overdimension my requirements (Snort, Squid...) :)

  • Intel Centrino Wireless N 1000

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    @Sc0rian:

    I assume it can take any expansion mini pci-e card.

    I would guess so. Mini PCI-E slots can provide PCI-E signals or USB signals or both. I guess if it was USB only the documentation would say so.

    @Sc0rian:

    Which one would work for me?

    I suggest you look on eBay for a mini-PCI-E WiFi card with Atheros chipset and 802.11G support (but not 802.11N). The FreeBSD drivers don't seem to work so well with newer cards. I suspect lack of 802.11N support is likely to indicate an older chipset more likely to work.

    You should be able to find a card for under US$15 (inc postage). At that sort of price it shouldn't be too much pain to upgrade the card to one supporting 802.11N when the software support for 802.11N in FreeBSD and pfSense becomes available.

    A few weeks ago I would have suggested the TP-Link WN321G (USB) which I have used as an AP for some months but that seems to have disappeared from retail outlets near me but dongles with same chipset (Ralink RT-3070) still seems to be available on eBay.

  • Which hardware?

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    @tirsojrp:

    @matguy:

    you can usually find Intel Quad Gb PCI-Express cards for under $100

    Now that's eBay on a really good day…

    Today must be a good day: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Intel-H092P-Quad-Port-PCIe-Gigabit-Network-Adapter-Card-w-Bracket-AS-IS-/360504210525?pt=US_Internal_Network_Cards&hash=item53efb9b45d

    Edit: Apologies, it appears that it may be defective, mentions something about possible broken capacitors.

    This one looks good, though, which may be branded by someone else, but the same card for Exactly $100 with free shipping: http://www.ebay.com/itm/YT674-Intel-PRO-1000-VT-Quad-Port-1Gb-Server-Adapter-PCIE-PCI-E-/150940272128?pt=US_Internal_Network_Cards&hash=item2324bdc600

    You can also find good ones pulled from Dell servers that don't have PCI brackets, but that doesn't sound all that useful to me unless I'm planning on buying a low profile bracket anyway.  Nevermind on that one too, looks like someone bought a whole lot of broken cards and is selling them on ebay.  The top half mentions "As is" like a lot of other pulls, but further down it mentions that they're probably broken.  Made my initial research flawed.

    The $100 one looks fine.

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