I used http://netgear.com/Products/RoutersandGateways/WiredRouters/DG632.aspx?detail=Specifications several times already. Supports Bridgemode, bridgemode with router doing the pppoe only (probably what you need though I have not tested this yet) or routing mode including DMZ IP.

DMZ (opt1) : Bridge with none, 10.1.1.1 / 24 LAN : Bridge with DMZ, 192.168.2.1 / 24 wai is the lan bridged with dmz ?, this will make from 2 subnets only 1?

There are quite a few ARM board resellers, here's one without mini-PCI: http://www.embedian.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_17&products_id=181 And a selection for AP's: http://www.compex.com.sg/home/OEM/product_ap.htm Expensive developer board: http://shop.directinsight.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=799 So its probably more of a wait and see which manufacturer has a reliable and popular yield at reasonable price similar to WRAP.

@Willem: I am getting no carrier on the WAN, right after plugging in WAN it loses connection. I have tried to change config.xml like; <media>100 base TX <mediaopt>full duplex</mediaopt> Looking at ifconfig its says autoselect none</media> I doubt that these options are correct. Did you run ifconfig -m to see the valid options for your NIC? For example, a sis interface on a wrap shows these options: sis0: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>mtu 1500 options=8 <vlan_mtu>capabilities=48 <vlan_mtu,polling>inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe01:2c8%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 ether 00:0d:b9:01:02:c8 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier supported media: media autoselect media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex media 100baseTX media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex media 10baseT/UTP</vlan_mtu,polling></vlan_mtu></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast> You have to enter the options in exactly the same way they are output here, without spaces. But first do what Scott recommended, use a crossovercable and see if that makes a difference. Hardcoding settings usually causes just problems if not both sides are hardcoded.

@lsf: But even with 2x cloaking (20mhz channel) it does 100mbit +. Now that's impressive  :o. Thanks for clarifying the Atheros 802.11N ;). Anyways I've made up my mind. I'm going for a net4801-60 and a CM9. Maybe it's not THE mean machine but it sure will do the dirty work here at home. In the future I may look out for 802.11N. Cheers

Having the hard drive power down would only cause you a delay when it was needed and had to start back up. Hard drives really arn't loud these days. I ran an old 233 dell box with hard drive and it was barely audible unless up close. However if you want it dead silent get an IDE to compact flash adapter and a compact flash card. I have this setup in my nokia ip330 box, costs around 30 bucks for the card and adapter. Works great.

Yes, we will look at adding this in a future version. If someone wants to create a package, go for it and we'll commit it.

Don't think anyone has tried it, but if it works in FreeBSD, it can be made to work here.  You have to use the Developer's ISO, recompile the kernel to re-add your network interface, then add the interface type to /etc/interfaces.inc. Might be a few other minor hacks required, but shouldn't be anything too major.

@sullrich: Then I am not too sure at the moment.  I'll have to do a test install with Vmware shortly. Just made the partition smaler.. then It works  ??? Thanks for helping anyway :)

Depends. If you have just one AP - then there isn't much difference, although its simpler to mange the access (if restriction applies) on one system. Complicated Hotspot pages ? Forget about these AP’s, handle them from pFsense box. If you need a bigger surface (multiple floors) to cover, then using the WRTG(S)’s as simple AP’s, and pFsense to manage the lot – will be simpler. Some ‘simple’ filtering has to be done on a per AP basis (think about the Network Neighbourhood from Windows  - and protecting the AP’s them self). I’m using myself a pFsense PC-based system – and an OPT1 interface. The hotspot function is enabled on it – behind it is a switch and 5 AP’s (WRT54GS + Sveasoft firmware). This never failed on me.

That should work.

Yes, that's a pcengines WRAP and atheros based wireless cards. I have several of these units here running pfSense very well. See http://pfsense.com/mirror.php?section=/tutorials/wrap_install/wrap_install.htm how to set it up.

Hello again, i figured out that the miniPCI modem has an pct303a chipset - a so called softmodem. Martin

@Numbski: Just as a point of interest, I never did get Ghost to work properly with FreeBSD.  If you do manage to get this to work, you'll likely have to run growfs in order to grow the available disk space. I've just recently started playing with LVM2 on a Debian NAS device I have here, and although I was originally very hesitant, I have to say that the combination of md devices (not to be confused with FreeBSD's md's) and lvm's is quite a refreshing change, and it's a pity it cannot be used under FreeBSD.  Instead of being stuck with just /dev/ad0, you could make a pv (physical volume) out of /dev/pv0, then add it to your volume group, /dev/vg0.  Once there, then create a logical volume, say pfsense, /dev/vg0/pfsense, and install there.  Run out of disk space?  Add another drive, create another pv, add it to vg0, run growfs, life goes on. :\ Ah well, please ignore my postulations. ;) You really should check out GEOM.

i updated to rc2e, and i still get timeout, i'm just gonna buy another nic…thanks for the help guys ;)

uggggh don't bother respoding to this. I just noticed that there are bootp broadcasts from the previous cable providers gateway coming in on the LAN interface. Even though I had the guy check this at least 4 times he must have put the old cable modem on the LAN port instead of the LAN lol. Hopefully this is all it is.

Well that seems to have done it… using 50ft crossovers at both sites but now I have another massive problem, have to start another thread for that. Thanks again Hoba!

@hoba: Disable device polling. I agree - My P166 has intel NICs that support polling, but there's a continuous background load imposed, which turns out to be a good 30-40% of CPU on my box. Test it and see is the best answer.

Thanks for pointing that out to me Bill, Let me know when you got that snapshot ready ;) EDIT : I tested the snapshot and the driver seems to work good ! Regards Ponl

Hi all, I've got the same problem on a VIA EPIA M10000 running VMWare Server 1.0.0. Any news with this? Booting with RC1 livecd iso image stops with the same kernel panic at newfs. Already searched VIA and VMWARE forums for similar reports, there doesn't seem to be any. I've tried already disabling Acceleration and "memory page trimming" in the VM - didn't work. VMWare edition and Developer edition didn't work too. I'll try to get the Embedded edition into a vmdk somehow (maybe dd it from a knoppix live cd onto the hard disk), I'll report back my results. Marc