GrandStream HT502 BEHIND router

chpalmer

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.

pftdm007

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…

pftdm007

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
40116  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
40538  ??  S      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
40849  ??  I      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
40980  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
41205  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
42829  ??  I      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
42997  ??  D      0:09.75 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
43100  ??  IWs    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/minicron 240 /var/run/ping_hosts.pid /
43129  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
43158  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
43186  ??  D      0:09.26 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
43229  ??  R      0:11.26 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
43281  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
43530  ??  I      0:01.81 minicron: helper /usr/local/bin/ping_hosts.sh  (minic
43541  ??  D      0:09.40 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
43674  ??  S      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
43677  ??  I      0:09.61 /usr/local/bin/rrdtool -
43730  ??  D      0:31.64 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
43739  ??  D      0:09.46 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
43767  ??  IWs    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/minicron 3600 /var/run/expire_accounts
43771  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
43823  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
44076  ??  R      0:30.82 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
44086  ??  S      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
44098  ??  I      0:00.10 minicron: helper /etc/rc.expireaccounts  (minicron)
44167  ??  IWs    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/minicron 86400 /var/run/update_alias_u
44226  ??  S      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
44348  ??  D      0:30.33 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
44389  ??  S      3:08.20 /usr/local/sbin/dnsmasq --local-ttl 1 --all-servers -
44473  ??  D      0:31.46 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
44562  ??  I      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
44594  ??  I      0:00.01 minicron: helper /etc/rc.update_alias_url_data  (mini
44657  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
44676  ??  INs    0:00.02 /usr/sbin/inetd -wW -R 0 -a 127.0.0.1 /var/etc/inetd.
44736  ??  R      0:32.10 (squidGuard) -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.
44811  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
44910  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
45068  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
45118  ??  S      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
45263  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
45599  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
45796  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
46069  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
46356  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
46702  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
46944  ??  S      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
47136  ??  S      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
47311  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
47382  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
47469  ??  S      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
47705  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
47919  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
48205  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
48545  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
48681  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
48716  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
48874  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
49163  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
49502  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
49515  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
49847  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
50167  ??  S      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
50227  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
50540  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
50757  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
51098  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
51166  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
51192  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
51209  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
51454  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
51585  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
51676  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
51734  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
51769  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
52037  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
53482  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
53518  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
54795  ??  Ss    17:23.59 /usr/sbin/powerd -b adp -a adp
56210  ??  I      0:00.00 sleep 55
59021  ??  Ss     0:00.09 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
59708  ??  S      0:00.95 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
59959  ??  S      0:00.60 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
59965  ??  S      0:00.82 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
60073  ??  S      0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
60360  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
60528  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
61680  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
61798  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
61995  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
62170  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/havp -c /usr/local/etc/havp/havp.conf
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…

doktornotor

@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.

chpalmer

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.

kejianshi

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.

pftdm007

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

doktornotor

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.

kejianshi

I understand your frustrations. Me, being a relative newbie here get your point.
However, the reason the devs and others are not jumping through whoops to reply is because your issues have actually already been talked to death on the forums and they are really busy people. (I'd guess that anyway)

If I were you, I'd run pfsense as vanilla as I could and only add what is needed.
I'd say the same for all distros.

pftdm007

All right, I get the point. This is really eye opening and changed the way I see the pfsense project forever.

I still dream that some day, there are some REALLY SOLID packages for pfsense.

I kept tinkering with this because for a long while, I had success with the pfsense - havp - squid - snort - squidguard combination… Real success.

I still think all of this can be somewhow improved or fixed.

doktornotor

As suggested above - these are NOT pfsense-specific issues for the most part. You need to work with upstream to get those sorted out, improved, polished, more usable, less sucky, more shiny, more out-of-the box experience stuff. Those downstream pfSense guys just package the stuff together and ship it (in addition, providing some added value, such at the GUIs.) Unless the issue is one related to the packaging/customized configuration stuff… this won't get solved here.