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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved pfSense Packages
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      andrew0401
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      We use pfsense primarily for content and user control - it actually runs behind a seperate hardware firewall that handles most of our defebce needs.

      I suspect like many people the pfSense environment ises only a small percentage of the available disk space available (we used an old 1u server (twin xeon, 4gb and 2 x128GB disks) and pfsense 1.2.3 worls perfectly running squid,squidguard,havp, lightsquid - but using about 10% of total disk storage.

      Has anyone loaded a package that would present this storage to the LAN side for use by clients - SAMBA,NFS,iSCSI etc

      Thanks in advance

      Andrew

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        GruensFroeschli
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        No and it won't happen.
        A firewall is not a fileserver.

        However since you are already running squid: why don't you tweak the caching a bit so it stores more/longer?

        We do what we must, because we can.

        Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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          Perry
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          Some do mess with files on there firewall.
          http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,26974.0.html
          http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,5216.0.html

          /Perry
          doc.pfsense.org

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            andrew0401
            last edited by

            I know this is not designed as a file server - but our primary use is as a content filter, main firewall is seperate hardware.

            Thanks for the links - I suspect some experimentation is in order.

            Andrew

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