I turned off the firewall completely. Yes I already turned off "block RFC1918 subnets". Don't know if this is any help, but I checked that my external IP from windows to USB Modem is 10.x.x.x and external like from dyndns.com it detects it as 110.x.x.x .

http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=472
http://devwiki.pfsense.org/RouterStationPRO
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,21330.0.html

Thanks!

Turns out, I forgot I had an old PIX 501 in the garage just collecting dust.  After a few minutes configuring it, I was able to repurpose an old device!

I'd recommend finding a board with Intel NIC's too, but if worse comes to worse, you could find a case that would allow for a PCI/PCIe card or one with a horizontal riser card.  I've had good luck here: http://www.idotpc.com/TheStore/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=35

I built some slim pc solutions which is all alluminium with LCD attached. I can get rid of the monitor and have the computer only. If you want to see it you can goto www.tammax.com . Can configure any spec even ION based too. The one on the website is Atom N270, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, WiFi bg, Ethernet 10/100, DVI & VGA and USB 2.0 ports. The LCD monitors range from 15" to 26" . Also there are single touch screen solution with stand or wall mounted. The whole thing is cased in full alluminium which the temp can be cooled efficiently with little ventilation. If I make sales from here I will contribute back to pfsense for each unit sold.

on this board I had to turn down the number of usb ports i was using in the bios and that helped try 4 or 6

The AR9220 doesn't work at all with FreeBSD, the card won't initialize. I have a couple we were going to use on a project, but ended up going with a different card because the problem wasn't going to be easy to fix and the customer preferred to spend that money on something other than getting the driver fixed.  You'll need to look at an alternate card, or if you're willing to spend about $3K USD to get the driver fixed for the ar9220 in FreeBSD, private message me and we can make that happen.

You should check X700 thread. X500, X700, X1000 and X2500 are same hardware with different licenses. Also i think SSL Core model is same box, but i am not 100% sure.

I'm a long time Checkpoint user, and new-to-PFSense user.

The PFS unit will not be swap-replaceable with the CP unit, without doing some setup at the remote end.
Typically, the main HQ controls the "enforcement points" configurations remotely.
They "push" a configuration file that syncs all them together, so if you swich out the CP unit for PFS, I suspect you'll be getting a phone call from HQ when they don't see the CP unit online anymore.

You'd need to co-ordinate with them, and they will need to create a new "compatible device" at their end with the parameters of your PFS unit for the VPN tunnel(s).

Be careful about NAT-T. CP handles that well.
PFS, well in the next release (R2) it should.
1.2.3 - not so good.

I think what mrbostn was trying to get at is that the Supermicro case doesn't have an interchangeable mobo I/O plate. If you get anything other than the supermicro mobo, you'll have to bust out the Dremel tool :P

EDIT: Actually, I was thinking of their "front I/O" mounted cases. That case that was linked earlier seems to have screws that may remove the rear panel. Cool. As far as OS compatibility, I would assume it would be fine. I just made a pfSense box using a Foxconn G41 board (intel based), and it worked great. Good luck!

Root your G1 + tether over wifi to pfSense interface = great success? 8)

Most recent version of BIOS. Probably something is wrong with this particular box as I have number of clusters with the same type of hardware and everything is ok with them.
Anyway the answer to my question would be "ACPI should be on".
Thank you.

Hi all,

sorry for crying wolf, but it definitely is not pfSense. I tried 3 cables, and different hardware, and the effect stays the same. Only thing was that it happene immediately after the upgrade. I'm now investigating different paths, but pfSense is – as usual -- running flawlessly

Klaus

As many as your slots (PCI or PCIexpress NICs) PLUS as many USB ports as you have (or are prepared to provide through hubs).

If you have VLAN capable switches you can use a single port NIC and have as many VLANs as you want (up to at least a thousand).

If you want more than a couple of interfaces you will probably find that a good quality VLAN capable NIC with VLAN capable switches will cost less than multiple good quality NICs.

Ok, I've done numerous tests. For simplicity, I'll refer to this pfsense/squid router as computer #1, and my other test computer as pfsense #2. All I was looking for was that the BIOS would read it. My first step in my tests was to unplug the CD ROM (just to cut those out of the picture) and also replace the sata cable with one that I KNOW works, in case it might be the sata cable that is bad. Here are my tests:

1. Plugging the hard drive into different sata ports on the sata hard drive on computer #1. This changed nothing.
2. Robbing Sata hard drive from computer #1 to test it in computer #1, again testing it in different ports. This changed nothing, and I KNOW that the sata HD from computer #2 works.
3. Plugging the sata controller card into a different PCI slot and doing the same as above. This changed nothing.
4. Taking the sata controller card from computer #1, and putting it in computer #2. I then hooked up the HD from computer #2 (which again, I know works). The computer did not detect the hard drive. I tried using different sata ports on the controller card, and that changed nothing.
5. Plugging the HD from computer #1 into computer #2 using the on board sata port (no controller card)… and the BIOS finally detected it.

So, I can conclude that either this controller card is bad (and it being new, I doubt that), or that I do not have the right driver installed. It came with a small driver CD, if I remember right. I just have to find out where I put it. Right now I have no idea even what make it is, or whether this driver will work with freeBSD (which I highly doubt unless its a bios firmware thing). Either way, I'm sure its got to be a problem with this sata controller card.

Now what?

EDIT:

I've been thinking... is it possible for the hard drive/sata controller card to work in an Operating System even if the BIOS did not detect it?

Edit:

I've concluded that the card must be bad and I think I'm going to just return it and get my money back.

I've been chatting on the pfsence IRC chat room, and a lot of the guys there said that they think my quest for speed is stupidity and that most hard drives and also sata controllers are way over rated. They said that I should just use IDE, as thats what I have. So, I've got a couple IDE hard drives and I think I'll just make it work. It saves an extra PCI slot for another NIC card, and that means I won't need a switch ;).

If you are not seeing a reduction in performance or a hike in CPU usage then its not worth fighting.

Seth built a 1.2.3 image on RELENG_7 (what will be FreeBSD 7.3) that you may want to try.

http://iserv.nl/files/pfsense/cmb/pfSense-1.2.3-REL7-Full-Update.tgz
http://iserv.nl/files/pfsense/cmb/pfSense-1.2.3-REL7.iso

WARNING - those haven't been tested much or at all, be prepared to reinstall if things go badly.

Also you'll want to try a 2.0 snapshot to see if you can replicate the same on FreeBSD 8.0 before reporting upstream.

If this isn't a critical system, you might want to try 2.0 to see if it's still an issue on FreeBSD 8.0. If it is, it should be reported to freebsd-net list.