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    Can pfsense do this?

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      Gob
      last edited by

      yes it can be done providing you can get pfsense talking to your wireless router with appropriate hardware.
      you need to look up Multi WAN and policy based routing to achieve what you want.

      If I fix one more thing than I break in a day, it's a good day!

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        rakenrol
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        appreciate the reply sir,

        what if i don't have any hardware?

        what i have are just the two modems, one connecting via usb, the other connects via LAN

        can this still be worked out?

        thanks!

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          wallabybob
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          pfSense 1.2.3 is based on FreeBSD 7.2. pfSense 2.0 is currently based on FreeBSD 8.0. You can check the FreeBSD hardware support for your devices in the FreeBSD hardware notes at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/hardware.html and http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/hardware.html respectively.

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            rakenrol
            last edited by

            my modems are not on the list?

            end of the road for me then????

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              wallabybob
              last edited by

              @rakenrol:

              end of the road for me then????

              Probably, as far as the USB modem is concerned.

              If your modem that connects via LAN acts as an IP router or a standard LAN bridge then you should be able to use that. It could connect to the pfSense via a standard LAN cable (might need to be a cross over cable) to a LAN interface thats supported by the appropriate version of FreeBSD.

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                rakenrol
                last edited by

                huawei E160 is being used to access internet wirelessly via usb

                ang the other one is the common wired internet connection

                can pfsense manage to make both functional at the same time in windows xp platform?

                can live cd be able to do this?

                is hard drive installation of pfsense means, there would be no OS?

                i still can't picture how pfsense may work in windows xp?

                thanks!

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                  Efonnes
                  last edited by

                  Do you mean actually running it on the same computer inside Windows XP?  If so, that is possible too, but you would need to run it inside a virtual machine.  Refer to the Virtualization installations and techniques forum for more information: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/board,37.0.html

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                    rakenrol
                    last edited by

                    yes. but this would mean i have to partition my hard drive? partitioning means re install windows xp

                    or not?

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                      Efonnes
                      last edited by

                      To run in XP, no, you do not need another partition.  Whatever program you run it in would use a virtual hard drive stored in an image file.  Some of the options available include VMware's products for Windows (VMware Server, VMware Player, VMware Workstation), VirtualBox, and Microsoft's Virtual Server or Virtual PC (though you may need to make some modifications to one of pfSense's startup scripts to work on Virtual PC/Server).

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                        rakenrol
                        last edited by

                        can someone post here the basic step by step procedure on installing pfsense within windows XP

                        what do download?

                        what type of installation should i choose?

                        thanks

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                          GruensFroeschli
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                          http://doc.pfsense.com

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