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      hardwaterh4ck3r
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      I can only get pfsense to work by using tcpdump (I just type tcpdump into shell and it works).

      Is there any way that I can either get it to work without using tcpdump OR force tcpdump at startup so I don;t have to worry about it.

      Another thing, after running fro about 4 hours, the speaker starts going haywire and beeps rapidly, any idea what that could be?

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        wallabybob
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        Another thing, after running fro about 4 hours, the speaker starts going haywire and beeps rapidly, any idea what that could be?

        Might be worth starting a separate topic for that issue.

        I can only get pfsense to work by using tcpdump (I just type tcpdump into shell and it works).

        Is there any way that I can either get it to work without using tcpdump OR force tcpdump at startup so I don;t have to worry about it.

        Something strange is happening. It shouldn't be necessary to run tcpdump to make it work.

        Have you been changing the switch ports you have been using? I'll be interested to hear how things go when you power cycle it.

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          hardwaterh4ck3r
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          I haven't changed anything at all.  I power cycled the unit earlier, and it would not function without running tcpdump.  As soon as I began tcpdump, I had internet access, and if I stopped tcpdump, I lost it.  Very very strange.  I really don't care that it has to run tcpdump to function at this point, now I need to determine if there is a way that i can script pfsense to run tcpdump at startup.

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            hardwaterh4ck3r
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            That's strange, I just lost connectivity through my pfsense box, but I reran tcpdump and my connection magically returned.  I'm really baffled by this problem.

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              Perry
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              That's strange, I just lost connectivity through my pfsense box, but I reran tcpdump and my connection magically returned.  I'm really baffled by this problem.

              Try with the command 
              ifconfig the name of your network card -tso

              /Perry
              doc.pfsense.org

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                hardwaterh4ck3r
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                I just put my LAN adaptor on promiscuous mode.  That seems to have fixed it, but is there a way to make it persistantly promiscuous?

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                  wallabybob
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                  By my reckoning something is broken here. You said you have a switch so the only traffic coming out of the switch port to the pfSense box should have the destination MAC address of the pfSense nic or the broadcast MAC address and both those addresses should be claimed by the NIC in non-promiscuous mode.

                  What NICs do you have in the pfSense box?

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                    hardwaterh4ck3r
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                    They are both onboard, and I believe they are both realtek.  I don;t have any documentation on this motherboard, and I can't find documentation on it anywhere.  I bought 3 of these boxes on ebay for $100 a pop.  They used to be POS systems, and I know that the motherboard that is in there retails for $250 by itself.  I know the name of the manufacturer, the motherboard name, but NOWHERE is the documentation for the equipment.

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                      wallabybob
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                      Realtek seems to be commonly used in this sort of embedded application.

                      Could you post the output from the dmesg shell command? (In web GUI, Diagnostics->Command). That should help identify the NIC and associated PHY.

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                        hardwaterh4ck3r
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                        $ dmesg
                        Copyright © 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
                        Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
                        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
                        FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
                        FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p8 #0: Thu Jan  8 22:07:30 EST 2009
                            sullrich@freebsd7-releng_1_2_1.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/src/sys/pfSense.7
                        Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
                        CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz (1800.08-MHz 686-class CPU)
                          Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6d6  Stepping = 6
                          Features=0xafe9fbbf <fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,tm,pbe>Features2=0x180 <est,tm2>real memory  = 1039007744 (990 MB)
                        avail memory = 1002946560 (956 MB)
                        ACPI APIC Table: <intelr awrdacpi="">ioapic0 <version 2.0="">irqs 0-23 on motherboard
                        wlan: mac acl policy registered
                        kbd1 at kbdmux0
                        ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
                        hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Jan  8 2009 22:07:11)
                        cryptosoft0: <software crypto="">on motherboard
                        acpi0: <intelr awrdacpi="">on motherboard
                        acpi0: [ITHREAD]
                        acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
                        acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed
                        acpi0: reservation of 100000, 3dde0000 (3) failed
                        Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
                        acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
                        cpu0: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0
                        est0: <enhanced speedstep="" frequency="" control="">on cpu0
                        p4tcc0: <cpu frequency="" thermal="" control="">on cpu0
                        acpi_button0: <power button="">on acpi0
                        pcib0: <acpi host-pci="" bridge="">port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
                        pci0: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib0
                        pci0: <base peripheral=""> at device 0.1 (no driver attached)
                        pci0: <base peripheral=""> at device 0.3 (no driver attached)
                        vgapci0: <vga-compatible display="">port 0xe900-0xe907 mem 0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff,0xe8100000-0xe817ffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
                        agp0: <intel 8285xm="" (85xgm="" gmch)="" svga="" controller="">on vgapci0
                        agp0: detected 32636k stolen memory
                        agp0: aperture size is 128M
                        vgapci1: <vga-compatible display="">at device 2.1 on pci0
                        uhci0: <intel 82801db="" (ich4)="" usb="" controller="" usb-a="">port 0xeb00-0xeb1f irq 16 at device 29.0 on pci0
                        uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
                        uhci0: [ITHREAD]
                        usb0: <intel 82801db="" (ich4)="" usb="" controller="" usb-a="">on uhci0
                        usb0: USB revision 1.0
                        uhub0: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb0
                        uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
                        uhci1: <intel 82801db="" (ich4)="" usb="" controller="" usb-b="">port 0xed00-0xed1f irq 19 at device 29.1 on pci0
                        uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
                        uhci1: [ITHREAD]
                        usb1: <intel 82801db="" (ich4)="" usb="" controller="" usb-b="">on uhci1
                        usb1: USB revision 1.0
                        uhub1: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb1
                        uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
                        uhci2: <intel 82801db="" (ich4)="" usb="" controller="" usb-c="">port 0xe800-0xe81f irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0
                        uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
                        uhci2: [ITHREAD]
                        usb2: <intel 82801db="" (ich4)="" usb="" controller="" usb-c="">on uhci2
                        usb2: USB revision 1.0
                        uhub2: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb2
                        uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
                        ehci0: <intel 82801db="" l="" m="" (ich4)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">mem 0xe8180000-0xe81803ff irq 23 at device 29.7 on pci0
                        ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
                        ehci0: [ITHREAD]
                        usb3: EHCI version 1.0
                        usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2
                        usb3: <intel 82801db="" l="" m="" (ich4)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">on ehci0
                        usb3: USB revision 2.0
                        uhub3: <intel 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb3
                        uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
                        pcib1: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 30.0 on pci0
                        pci1: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib1
                        re0: <realtek 8169sc="" 8110sc="" single-chip="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xe8030000-0xe80300ff irq 18 at device 4.0 on pci1
                        re0: Chip rev. 0x18000000
                        re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
                        miibus0: <mii bus="">on re0
                        rgephy0: <rtl8169s 8110s="" 8211b="" media="" interface="">PHY 1 on miibus0
                        rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
                        re0: Ethernet address: 00:1b:b9:90:86:59
                        re0: [FILTER]
                        rl0: <realtek 10="" 8139="" 100basetx="">port 0xd400-0xd4ff mem 0xe8031000-0xe80310ff irq 19 at device 5.0 on pci1
                        miibus1: <mii bus="">on rl0
                        rlphy0: <realtek internal="" media="" interface="">PHY 0 on miibus1
                        rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
                        rl0: Ethernet address: 00:1b:b9:91:75:9b
                        rl0: [ITHREAD]
                        ath0: <atheros 5212="">mem 0xe8020000-0xe802ffff irq 20 at device 7.0 on pci1
                        ath0: [ITHREAD]
                        ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
                        ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:b5:fa:9a:63
                        ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
                        isab0: <pci-isa bridge="">at device 31.0 on pci0
                        isa0: <isa bus="">on isab0
                        atapci0: <intel ich4="" udma100="" controller="">port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf000-0xf00f at device 31.1 on pci0
                        ata0: <ata 0="" channel="">on atapci0
                        ata0: [ITHREAD]
                        ata1: <ata 1="" channel="">on atapci0
                        ata1: [ITHREAD]
                        pci0: <serial bus,="" smbus="">at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
                        pci0: <multimedia, audio="">at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
                        acpi_tz0: <thermal zone="">on acpi0
                        speaker0: <pc speaker="">port 0x61 on acpi0
                        fdc0: <floppy drive="" controller="">port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
                        fdc0: [FILTER]
                        sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
                        sio0: type 16550A
                        sio0: [FILTER]
                        sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
                        sio1: type 16550A
                        sio1: [FILTER]
                        sio2: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 10 on acpi0
                        sio2: type 16550A
                        sio2: [FILTER]
                        sio3: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 11 on acpi0
                        sio3: type 16550A
                        sio3: [FILTER]
                        pmtimer0 on isa0
                        atkbdc0: <keyboard controller="" (i8042)="">at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
                        atkbd0: <at keyboard="">irq 1 on atkbdc0
                        kbd0 at atkbd0
                        atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
                        atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
                        ppc0: <parallel port="">at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
                        ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
                        ppbus0: <parallel port="" bus="">on ppc0
                        ppbus0: [ITHREAD]
                        plip0: <plip network="" interface="">on ppbus0
                        lpt0: <printer>on ppbus0
                        lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
                        ppi0: <parallel i="" o="">on ppbus0
                        ppc0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
                        ppc0: [ITHREAD]
                        sc0: <system console="">at flags 0x100 on isa0
                        sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
                        vga0: <generic isa="" vga="">at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
                        Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1800076919 Hz quality 800
                        Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
                        Fast IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
                        hptrr: no controller detected.
                        ad2: 4112MB <wdc ac24300l="" 20.03w20="">at ata1-master UDMA33
                        Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a
                        re0: link state changed to UP
                        re0: link state changed to DOWN
                        rl0: link state changed to UP
                        rl0: link state changed to DOWN
                        re0: link state changed to UP
                        rl0: link state changed to UP
                        pflog0: promiscuous mode enabled
                        re0: promiscuous mode enabled
                        re0: promiscuous mode disabled
                        re0: promiscuous mode enabled
                        re0: link state changed to DOWN
                        re0: link state changed to UP
                        re0: promiscuous mode disabled
                        re0: promiscuous mode enabled
                        re0: promiscuous mode disabled
                        re0: promiscuous mode enabled
                        re0: promiscuous mode disabled
                        re0: promiscuous mode enabled
                        re0: promiscuous mode disabled
                        re0: permanently promiscuous mode enabled</wdc></generic></system></parallel></printer></plip></parallel></parallel></at></keyboard></floppy></pc></thermal></multimedia,></serial></ata></ata></intel></isa></pci-isa></atheros></realtek></mii></realtek></rtl8169s></mii></realtek></acpi></acpi></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></vga-compatible></intel></vga-compatible></acpi></acpi></power></cpu></enhanced></acpi></intelr></software></version></intelr></est,tm2></fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,tm,pbe>

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