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    1.2.1-BETA success stories

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      kev009
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      Works fine here, Compaq Deskpro EN with 3 em interfaces and onboard Intel 100M.  I sure miss squid however, it was cutting down about 15% of local http traffic!

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        nickshore
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        Seems to be working well on the FX5621 platform.

        We supplied one to Scott so he could get the gigabit eth working.

        See our webiste for details of the box:
        http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=11714

        Nick.

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          familyguy
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          Supermicro motherboard (PIIIDME)
          Dual P3-850 processors
          1gig ECC SDRAM
          80gig barracuda IDE drive
          integrated 10/100 Intel 82559 Ethernet controller (currently not used)
          Linksys EG1032 PCI 10/100/1000 ethernet NIC for LAN
          2 x Netgear 10/100 cards (FA310…the old DEC tulip chips) for 2 WAN Links

          I was having issues with 1.2-RELEASE and traffic shaping.  With the latest 1.2.1 build (as of 7/20/08 am) everything works great!

          It is now the main firewall for an office of about 60 folks.  I'll leave it as just a plain Jane firewall for a few days and then try to use it to loadbalance multiple links from diverse ISP WAN links.

          Kudos to the development team.  If any of you guys wind up in NYC, I'll gladly provide food/drinks/entertainment.  :)

          Best,

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            sullrich
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            Hey great to hear all these success stories.  We're going to work on getting package issues resolved and try to get a RC out this weekend!  Yay!

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              cybrsrfr
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              I installed pfSense 1.2.1-TESTING-SNAPSHOT
              built on Thu Jul 24 23:13:20 EDT 2008 on my home firewall today.

              It is working great. I have tested the following:
              NAT  (AON)
              Rules
              DHCP
              OpenVPN point to point
              PPTP
              DNS Forwarder
              Wireless (Linksys wusb54g) ural0

              My wireless is setup as an Access Point with WPA2 PSK.

              I'm not going back to pfSense 1.2 from here on out its 1.2.1 or higher. I'm convinced pfSense 1.2.1 is ready for its first Release Candidate.

              pfSense running on FreeBSD7 is so exciting. I plan to do a lot of testing on the wireless.

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                chazers18
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                Fresh install
                AMD 900 declocked to 810
                640mb ram
                3 3com cards
                hd install

                just installed like normal and uploaded the backup from 1.2.

                30 or so pc sitting behind the firewall and 10 vpn mobile users so far so good.
                will edit and report after a good burn in

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                  vinpep
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                  Successful upgrade from 1.2
                  Motherboard: SuperMicro P6DBE  2x Pentium2 400mhz
                  Adaptec 2940 SCSI HBA
                  4.4gb Seagate HD
                  1Gb SDRAM
                  4 port Adaptec Starfire NIC (only using ports 0 lan and 3 wan)

                  Packages:
                  Squid
                  Squidguard
                  Dashboard
                  Imspector
                  phpsysinfo
                  NUT (not configured yet)

                  Upgrade was flawless and now pfsense does not crash when wife watches Netflix View Now !!
                  Momma's happy,,,,,,Everybody's happy !!

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                    UnderCover
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                    booting, running great the only issue i am having is carp is not syncing correctly

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                      inferno222
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                      We implemented an "emergency" pfsense system last night in our data center.
                      Version: Built on Mon Aug 25 23:17:47 EDT 2008
                      CARP works with a pci-express d-link 560T card (was not detected in 1.2)
                      Servers are HP DL320 G4

                      Only using Snort package at the moment. pfsense pretty much saved the day.

                      Now we have 3 connections handled by pfsense (2 office, 1 datacenter)

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                        Juve
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                        We've got one cluster running fine on Dell PE1950 with quad ports pci-e Intel pro1000VT cards (not recognized in 1.2).

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                          databeestje
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                          carp cluster on a PE 860 and PE850 is running fine.

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                            fastcon68
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                            Upgraded from 1.2 to 1.2.1 and had no issues.  So far no issues all IPSEC tunnels up and working and will continue testing.  Great product keep up the good work.
                            RC

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                              Takaratiki
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                              Might be a dead post, but for what it's worth,

                              Dell Optiplex 733mhz
                              256 MB RAM
                              3 random NIC's (including a battered Intel hunk from a bargain bin)

                              Currently works fine as a student firewall and DHCP server for a ~100 person user base. The clarity of pfsense has allowed me to easily identify underlying reliability issues with the network which are currently being fixed. Reliability has not been an issue so far either in testing or implementation, though we'll see how it handles a more complex, multi-LAN/WAN setup next month (not on battered hardware, by the by).

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                                ariel
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                                a dead post? hope not!

                                Today i found that access via web was dead and the webConfigurator wont start anymore so.. i decide to update to 1.2.1 from 1.2, looks like everything is ok.. webconfigurator works,VLANs and Loadbalance too (that's the primary job of this pfsense), i use the RC2 build from today [ 04-Nov-2008 12:41 39M ]

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