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      pftdm007
      last edited by

      Additionally, I tried once again to setup the ATA on the LAN side and setup port forwarding on pfsense

      using http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=55676.0

      No go.  The ATA doesnt register at all..

      In both configuration, pfsense is the root cause of the issues..

      What kind of configuration do pfsense needs for a simple voip device to work?

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        pftdm007
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        Another reply….

        I am trying to set a DMZ for the ATA.  All tutorials or documentation I find, you need 3 network cards in the machine running PFS.  DO I really need 3 NIC's???

        Thats pathetic.  My $35 old linksys router could do DMZ in a second.

        Other than DMZ, how could I make this thing work?

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        • chpalmerC
          chpalmer
          last edited by

          Its important to note that differnent voip companies do things different. The standard that should be was scared off by the big lawsuit that Vonage lost.

          Can you try the siproxd package? Im not a big fan of Grandstream product due to various issues  but Im sure the double natting that your doing isn't helping the situation.

          My only Grandsteam product is actually behind a pfsense install sharing a network with a Vonage device (linksys) and doing quite well without siproxd. At my home however I have 4 numbers across 2 Linksys devices with the same company as the Grandstream that need Siproxd to work.

          Grandstream will give you problems being the first in line.

          Triggering snowflakes one by one..
          Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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            kejianshi
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            The only thing I've ever had to do to get my device to register well with a distant SIP server is make my system recheck registration every few seconds vs 3600 seconds.  I have several SIP devices behind pfsense and all work.  Where you have been using more NAT rules and stuff, you probably really should use less.  NAT rules only make sense if the server is behind your firewall and its not.

            I am using manual outbound NAT and I do have a outbound NAT rule that tells anything on port 5060 or 5061 to use STATIC port.

            If you have multiple IPs that can also cause a problem. I've heard that using "sticky connections" fixes that.

            Now - You said something earlier that made little sense to me.  You said you used your phone connected directly to the modem before pfsense and it worked?  Thats really bizarre UNLESS your modem is also a router and your pfsense is double NATed, in which case I'd expect alot of broken functionality.

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              pftdm007
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              Can you try the siproxd package? Im not a big fan of Grandstream product due to various issues  but Im sure the double natting that your doing isn't helping the situation.

              Of Course I will try the siproxd package with pleasure!  I will report back on that.  I agree 100% with you, GS products seems to be crappy at best.  Double natting?  Like I said, Im a total idiot when it comes to networking.  I can setyp a basic LAN but other than that, no clue!

              One thing I observed.  The ATA in bridge mode (supposedly just acting like a switch), if I connect it to the modem and the router is NOT connected to the ata (in other words modem -> ATA -> Nothing) and I wait for the ATA to sync and initialize, it will register on the supplier's network and the phone will work.  If I connect the ATA to the modem and connect the pfsense router to the ATA, and initialize the ATA, the pfsense router will get an IP but the ATA wont register to the service provider.

              TO me, it looks like the ATA was getting an IP from the supplier but NOT forwarding the IP to the LAN (the router in my case) which I thought should..

              In NAT mode, the ATA gets an IP from the supplier, and gives an IP to the router no problems..

              Grandstream will give you problems being the first in line.

              Agreed.  My network has worked FLAWLESSLY for several months.  At the moment I introduced this Grandstream P-O-S (sorry I tend to lose it) before my pfsense box, it was game over immediately.

              Where you have been using more NAT rules and stuff, you probably really should use less.  NAT rules only make sense if the server is behind your firewall and its not.

              I am using manual outbound NAT and I do have a outbound NAT rule that tells anything on port 5060 or 5061 to use STATIC port.

              Would you care to guide me thru this??? I know nothing about port forwarding and NAT so I know myself, I will end up screwing stuff up instead of fixing it.

              You said you used your phone connected directly to the modem before pfsense and it worked?  Thats really bizarre UNLESS your modem is also a router and your pfsense is double NATed, in which case I'd expect alot of broken functionality.

              Well…. AFAIK the modem is only a cable modem but it is factory set.  I will try to get into the modem config and see that is there.  But yes , the ATA directly after the modem, the phone in the ATA, all is fine (phone wise) but the ATA has to be in NAT mode for the internet access to work.

              Heres a summary to clear things up:

              Config 1

              --> Cable modem --> ATA in NAT mode --> pfSense --> LAN

              Internet works, phone works (ATA registers with supplier), bandwidth is capped to 15Mbps

              Config 2

              --> Cable modem --> ATA in BRIDGE mode --> pfSense --> LAN

              ATA will sync with supplier, phone will work but pfsense wont get a valid public IP.

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                kejianshi
                last edited by

                Well - In my case I have several subnets here in the 10.x.x.0 / 24 range.
                So, what I did rather than make a dozen entries in my outbound NAT is to just make one.

                So, first off you would have to be running Manual outbound NAT.

                So, firewall > NAT > Outbound

                click "Manual Outbound NAT rule generation" Then save.

                (Don't worry - You can always re-click the auto setting later if you like)

                Now, you should get a bunch of rules that automatically appear.

                At the very top, I created a rule with interface as WAN and source as 10.50.0.0/16 (to cover all my /24 subnets) with destination port 5060 and static port checked.  That fixed my SIP issues.

                THE RULE HAS TO BE AT TOP OF LIST OR IT WILL NEVER GET PROCESSED.

                Mileage varies per user…

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                • chpalmerC
                  chpalmer
                  last edited by

                  lpallard-

                  What model cable modem do you have?

                  Do you have access to the voip settings on the grandstream?

                  also-  did you change the LAN address from default on either pfsense or the grandstream?

                  Triggering snowflakes one by one..
                  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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                    pftdm007
                    last edited by

                    OK !  Out of nowhere, after I had set my port forwarding and NAT on the pfsense machine, I plugged the ATA in my LAN, it got an IP from pfsense's DHCP server and then after a few minutes, the phone worked..  Not sure why it didnt work the 100 times I tried last week…

                    Anyways,

                    kejianshi, look at my screenshots to see my config.  DO you spot anything dangerous, out of the ordinary or wrong??

                    chpalmer,  my modem is Thomson DCM475.  Apparently, this modem is what they call a plain-Jane modem, no routing functions whatsoever done my the modem.  Its more or less just a device that converts cable signals to Network signals..  Anyways this is what I understand..

                    I do have access to the HT502 settings.  They're in the screenshots as well.

                    THe HT502 is factory set to get an IP thru DHCO on its WAN port (normally from the service supplier if connected BEFORE the router) but since in my case its connected AFTER the router, its getting an IP from pfsense.  It works perfectly.  As for the LAN port on the HT502, Im not using it (if after router) since I dont need to bridge or NAT throu it to "feed" another device.  That'd be required if the HT502 was placed between my modem & router which is not right now.

                    The LAN on pfsense is set to 192.168.0.100 to 110

                    Other than that, please ask I will try to find the info or post additional screnshots.

                    :)

                    NB: I do NOT have access to the HT502's advanced settings page and the FXS Port 1 & 2 since at the moment the ATA is provisioned by the service provider, they block access to these pages...

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                      pftdm007
                      last edited by

                      Other screenshots

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                        pftdm007
                        last edited by

                        As I expected, this was too good to be true…

                        I was talking on the phone and suddenly, everything died.  Now when I pickup the phone I hear "Device not registered".

                        The ATA lost connectivity to the outside.  See screenshot:  Not Registered.

                        Looking in pfsense logs:

                        Aug 25 13:44:11 	snort[12247]: [122:21:1] (portscan) UDP Filtered Portscan [Classification: Attempted Information Leak] [Priority: 2] {PROTO:255} 206.248.144.132 -> 192.0.227.200
                        Aug 25 13:44:11 	snort[12247]: [122:21:1] (portscan) UDP Filtered Portscan [Classification: Attempted Information Leak] [Priority: 2] {PROTO:255} 206.248.144.132 -> 192.0.227.200
                        Aug 25 13:43:55 	snort[35706]: [140:20:1] (spp_sip) Invite replay attack [Classification: Potentially Bad Traffic] [Priority: 2] {UDP} 192.168.0.109:5060 -> 206.248.144.132:5060
                        Aug 25 13:43:55 	snort[35706]: [140:20:1] (spp_sip) Invite replay attack [Classification: Potentially Bad Traffic] [Priority: 2] {UDP} 192.168.0.109:5060 -> 206.248.144.132:5060
                        Aug 25 13:43:38 	snort[35706]: [140:20:1] (spp_sip) Invite replay attack [Classification: Potentially Bad Traffic] [Priority: 2] {UDP} 192.168.0.109:5060 -> 206.248.144.132:5060
                        Aug 25 13:43:38 	snort[35706]: [140:20:1] (spp_sip) Invite replay attack [Classification: Potentially Bad Traffic] [Priority: 2] {UDP} 192.168.0.109:5060 -> 206.248.144.132:5060
                        

                        Could snort cause issues??  I stopped it and rebooted the ATA.  Will post back ASAP if this helped or not.

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                          kejianshi
                          last edited by

                          Your device should probably have the "NAT" box checked in its settings and also, I had to change my device to time out every 15 seconds instead of 3600.  Same for UDP time-out.  After that, it stayed registered.  If I set my settings same as yours, I'd be offline also.

                          Unless their service will boot you for checking in too often, its better to make those numbers smaller.

                          And snort…  Geeze.  Don't get me started on SNORT.

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                            pftdm007
                            last edited by

                            Yep, snort WAS the problem.. I think anyways.  I stopped it, cleared the blocked hosts, rebooted the ATA and bingo! got the phone again!

                            I'm not sure of the right way to prevent snort from doing that again…

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                            • chpalmerC
                              chpalmer
                              last edited by

                              Registration time is in the locked advanced pages so not an option without help from his voip providers tech support.

                              To bypass some filtering issues here I set up a second subnet to run my voip ata's on. Its all great if you have the room to install a third NIC into your box. Otherwise its VLANs and a managed switch…  :P

                              Im not sure if Siproxd will bypass snort or not. I only use it to run multiple ata's to multiple external servers. My provider has a production server and a byod server. Plus they are beta testing a cloud based pbx server which I am playing with.

                              Triggering snowflakes one by one..
                              Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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                                pftdm007
                                last edited by

                                To bypass some filtering issues here I set up a second subnet to run my voip ata's on. Its all great if you have the room to install a third NIC into your box. Otherwise its VLANs and a managed switch…  :P

                                Unfortunately, I do not have a second PCI clot on that machine so adding another NIC is impossible.

                                I also intend to virtualize pfsense at some point on a shiny new dual socket server with LOTS of RAM….  Im not sure how will this work but I know for sure it wont have 3 NIC's (I will be able to install several NICs as the server's mobo will have 6 PCI-E slots but will I need to??)

                                Right now, Snort is down.  Unless I know how to make sure it wont block the ATA again, it will remain down.

                                You see this is what Ive done:

                                Create an alias including all my internal IP's and some outside servers I want to keep free access to,
                                Under Snort's config, I went to white-list, added a white-list, and then used the alias I had created

                                I really thought this way snort wouldn't interfere with the hosts listed under this alias..

                                Apparently not.
                                Anybody knows why?

                                I did not have to try Siproxd yet because the ATA works flawlessly with my port forwarding setup and snort down.  If I can clear snort's interference out of the equation, and I have problems again, I will try Siproxd.  I just prefer not to mix too many variables together until I really knows whats going on.

                                That has been my recipe with pfsense…

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                                  pftdm007
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                                  THings were too good to be true… Until I added a domain in squidguard target categoriues and suddenly the whole router crawled to a stop.. I knew what it was 1000000%

                                  See http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,63025.msg357852.html#msg357852

                                  Clearly nobody thinks this is a problem.  IMO something is severely broken in pfsense's packages.

                                  See the result of ps -A:

                                  20 million havp and squidguard processes running anybody think its normal?!

                                  $ ps -A
                                    PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
                                      0  ??  DLs  177:38.54 [kernel]
                                      1  ??  SLs    0:00.05 /sbin/init --
                                      2  ??  DL     1:50.16 [g_event]
                                      3  ??  RL     4:25.76 [g_up]
                                      4  ??  DL     2:53.40 [g_down]
                                      5  ??  DL     0:00.00 [crypto]
                                      6  ??  DL     0:00.00 [crypto returns]
                                      7  ??  DL     0:00.00 [sctp_iterator]
                                      8  ??  DL     1:03.50 [pfpurge]
                                      9  ??  DL     0:00.00 [xpt_thrd]
                                     10  ??  DL     0:00.00 [audit]
                                     11  ??  RL   23533:39.71 [idle]
                                     12  ??  WL   483:41.74 [intr]
                                     13  ??  DL     0:00.00 [ng_queue]
                                     14  ??  DL     7:57.60 [yarrow]
                                     15  ??  DL     0:42.49 [usb]
                                     16  ??  DL     1:39.58 [acpi_thermal]
                                     17  ??  DL     0:16.16 [pagedaemon]
                                     18  ??  DL     0:00.36 [vmdaemon]
                                     19  ??  DL     0:00.04 [pagezero]
                                     20  ??  DL     0:03.54 [idlepoll]
                                     21  ??  DL     0:17.68 [bufdaemon]
                                     22  ??  DL    15:17.22 [syncer]
                                     23  ??  DL     0:14.00 [vnlru]
                                     24  ??  DL     0:21.51 [softdepflush]
                                     40  ??  DL     0:19.84 [md0]
                                    245  ??  INs    3:21.70 /usr/local/sbin/check_reload_status
                                    247  ??  IWN    0:00.00 check_reload_status: Monitoring daemon of check_reloa
                                    257  ??  Is     0:00.02 /sbin/devd
                                   2396  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                   2715  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                   2738  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                   2845  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                   4907  ??  D      0:09.28 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                   5011  ??  D      0:08.78 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                   5319  ??  D      0:09.04 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                   5396  ??  D      0:09.29 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                   5529  ??  Is     0:00.13 /usr/local/sbin/sshlockout_pf 15
                                   5736  ??  D      0:08.72 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                   6035  ??  Is     0:00.00 /usr/sbin/sshd
                                   6365  ??  D      0:22.03 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                   6468  ??  D      0:23.23 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                   6515  ??  D      0:21.55 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                   6801  ??  Is     0:00.07 dhclient: re0 [priv] (dhclient)
                                   6848  ??  D      0:21.44 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                   7114  ??  D      0:21.84 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                   8100  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                   8230  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                   8480  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                   8808  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                   9023  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                   9289  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                   9496  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                   9753  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  10724  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  10778  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  10913  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  12344  ??  Ss     0:20.32 dhclient: re0 (dhclient)
                                  13208  ??  Ss     0:15.62 /usr/sbin/cron -s
                                  16871  ??  Ss     4:33.25 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s -c -c -l /var/dhcpd/var/run/log 
                                  17328  ??  D      0:17.47 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                  17662  ??  D      0:17.63 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                  17685  ??  D      0:17.99 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                  17777  ??  D      0:17.64 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                  17814  ??  D      0:17.42 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                  17934  ??  D      0:33.44 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                  18190  ??  D      0:33.49 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                  18243  ??  D      0:34.27 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                  18529  ??  D      0:32.95 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                  18705  ??  D      0:33.19 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
                                  20216  ??  S      0:00.67 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  20557  ??  S      0:00.47 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  20578  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  20768  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  20884  ??  Is     0:00.04 /usr/local/sbin/squid -D
                                  20949  ??  S      0:00.17 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  21239  ??  S      0:00.27 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  21403  ??  S      0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  21675  ??  S      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  21798  ??  I      0:00.30 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  21881  ??  S      0:00.09 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  22095  ??  Ds   307:46.96 /usr/local/bin/ntop -i re0,re1 -u root -d -4 -M -x 81
                                  22142  ??  Is     2:19.13 /usr/local/sbin/filterdns -p /tmp/filterdns.pid -i 30
                                  22209  ??  I      0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  22304  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  23045  ??  Ds    71:53.62 /usr/local/sbin/clamd -c /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf
                                  23741  ??  DL     0:06.21 [md10]
                                  24125  ??  Ss     7:37.85 /usr/local/sbin/apinger -c /var/etc/apinger.conf
                                  25631  ??  SN     0:00.00 sleep 60
                                  25762  ??  R      0:00.01 ps -A
                                  28072  ??  S      0:59.81 /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /var/etc/lighty-webConfig
                                  28602  ??  IWs    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/php
                                  30096  ??  IWs    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/php
                                  30530  ??  Ss     0:25.95 /usr/local/sbin/dhcpd -user dhcpd -group _dhcp -chroo
                                  32419  ??  S      0:06.04 /usr/local/bin/php
                                  32731  ??  D      0:50.29 /usr/local/bin/php
                                  38698  ??  S      0:01.39 (squid) -D (squid)
                                  38859  ??  I      0:00.00 (unlinkd) (unlinkd)
                                  39204  ??  I      0:00.09 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  39339  ??  I      0:00.07 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  39437  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  39503  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  39559  ??  Ss     2:04.82 /usr/local/bin/ntpd -g -c /var/etc/ntpd.conf
                                  39682  ??  S      0:00.07 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  39825  ??  S      0:00.09 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
                                  39965  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
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                                  43100  ??  IWs    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/minicron 240 /var/run/ping_hosts.pid /
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                                  44389  ??  S      3:08.20 /usr/local/sbin/dnsmasq --local-ttl 1 --all-servers -
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                                  44676  ??  INs    0:00.02 /usr/sbin/inetd -wW -R 0 -a 127.0.0.1 /var/etc/inetd.
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                                  16277  v0- S      1:16.15 /usr/sbin/tcpdump -s 256 -v -S -l -n -e -ttt -i pflog
                                  16308  v0- S      1:51.49 logger -t pf -p local0.info
                                  32161  v0- I      0:49.28 /bin/sh /usr/local/pkg/sqpmon.sh
                                  52753  v0- SN     4:51.06 /bin/sh /var/db/rrd/updaterrd.sh
                                  52813  v0  Is+    0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv0
                                  53228  v1  Is+    0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1
                                  

                                  pfsense is causing me too many issues and headaches.  I think Im gonna find another firewall project or go back to a simple plain Jane router…

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                                    doktornotor Banned
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                                    @lpallard:

                                    pfsense is causing me too many issues and headaches.  I think Im gonna find another firewall project or go back to a simple plain Jane router…

                                    Sorry, but installing junk and blaming the OS just makes no sense. HAVP sucks, is broken, is not worth it, is not protecting you in any meaningful way. It uses ClamAV with absolutely pathetic detection rate, yet plagued with loads of false positives, which eats tons of resources, makes downloads suck. Any free AV on a workstation makes couple orders of magnitudes better job here. Installing HAVP, squidguard, snort on the same box? Are you mad?

                                    You are causing all this grief to yourself. " simple plain Jane router…" - yeah, that's what you get with vanilla pfS install - before you go on a resource killing spree with all those things mentioned above. They are NOT required. They are NOT needed. They are harmful in most cases. They make you babysit the firewall 24/7.

                                    Doctor, it hurts when I do this... Yeah, so don't do that.

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                                      chpalmer
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                                      my tinkering is causing me too many issues and headaches

                                      There- fixed that for you!

                                      A plain Jane router is just that. No firewall.  SIP doesn't like NAT. It can be made to work if your patient. Try Vonage. It will work fine. That tells me that there are other underlying factors going on with some SIP providers.

                                      DO I really need 3 NIC's???

                                      No. You don't.

                                      Triggering snowflakes one by one..
                                      Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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                                        kejianshi
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                                        Well - There is routing, which pfsense does very well.

                                        Then there is firewalling, which pfsense also does well.

                                        Then there are add on packages, which do various other things like clamav and caching squid proxy and those things are neither routing nor are they anthing to do with firewall..

                                        And then there are the UTM features of pfsense.  Not know what you are doing WILL break your install.

                                        While I don't share the dislike of clamav, I do have a dislike for all AV in general.  They are resource hogs.
                                        Better to use OSes that don't require you to run it and just load AV on your play/gaming machines.
                                        Probably nobody who doesn't NEED the last 2 sets of features at the router should touch those.

                                        Almost no one needs the UTM stuff at home, but if you go there, don't say pfsense is broken.  Some really patient fairly expert people get those features to work just fine.  The key being expert + patient.  Like you really keep an eye on it.

                                        These systems are not automatically better the more you add to them.

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                                          pftdm007
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                                          Geez!  doktornotor calm down !!! ;)

                                          While I have shown signs of frustrations, my frustrations really were about the packages not the base platform.  If any of you took 2 seconds to look at my other thread where I EXPLICITELY mentioned that on the base platform I had ZERO problems, but with HAVP, Squid and its crappy guardian, I had issues, you would have understood my POV.

                                          I have repeatedly said that I was more than willing to give my time for FREE to help troubleshoot and analyze what the hell is going on with these packages because they're not working well.  Is this not what Opensource projects needs in the end?  Contributors and people helping for FREE?

                                          It is not pfsense that frustrates me, it is NOT even the packages so much , its people attitude.

                                          You post severe problems you have, you spend the necessary time to document it and write a meaningful thread about it, you explicitly ask developers and other "experts" to at least say a few words, and all you get is:

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                                          Which on the 13 replies, 11 are MINE.

                                          Thats fine.  I get the point.  pfsense is meant to be alone to work properly, no packages added.  Then I suggest pfsense devs add a big fat warning in the package manager:

                                          Warning!  Adding packages may (will) break your pfsense install

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                                            doktornotor Banned
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                                            This is just funny. You need a rather flaky and sensitive VOIP stuff working behind firewall, and instead of setting things up so that it works and calling it a day, you go, overload your box with extremely intrusive, extremely resource intensive and rather horrible to maintain bloat and come back to vent your frustrations about how broken it is. Seriously. Just do not do that! You are causing this whole trouble to yourself!

                                            Now - yeah, snort does NOT work out of the box, never has, never will. And quite frankly my point of view is that it is just pure evil for any home/SOHO environment, not to mention the effort constant babysitting required. (This thing has been dropped from multiple firewall distros for a damn good reason, your rants being a prime example. The mailing lists and forums basically flooded with complaints from people thinking that IDS/IPS/UTM is a musthave, point-and-click, plug and play stuff.) Getting similar intrusive and complicated setups working does not take hours nor days… Do not have time and patience for that? Well, see above, just don't install such things. And regardless, take as a fact that it may just as well never work properly with things like some buggy flaky VOIP device, depending on the device itself, the SIP provider, the ISP, etc. etc. etc.

                                            Finally, these issues are nothing pfsense specific. Snort is exact same intrusive and disruptive everywhere else, HAVP (and the ClamAV thing behind it) does not magically become any better, nor does squid/squidguard when run on say Debian or Fedora instead of FreeBSD/pfSense.

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