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    Thank You pfSense! (useful info for PT readers)

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      miguelgoncalves
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      I didn't know where to post this but this is just a thank you note to the pfSense team for their awsome product.

      At my home I have an Internet connection (100/25 Mbps) and an IPTV service provided over fiber. I was becoming much more apprehensive with the router the ISP placed at my home after I found out it had several backdoors that allowed the company to enter my router and reconfigure it. I started thinking that they could even snoop into my own network.

      The first thing I did was to put my LAN behind an ALIX box running pfSense so that my ISP wouldn't get into my network. This configuration was doing double NAT (pfSense and ISP router) before reaching the Internet. I quickly found out that I could make pfSense get a public IP address on the WAN interface if I could make it do a PPPoE connection. This was quite easy.

      Then I read a few tutorials regarding my ISP's configuration when using DD-WRT and ported the information back to pfSense.

      At the moment my WAN interface has two VLANs (10 and 12). One is for Internet access and the other for IPTV. IPTV is distributed my IGMP so I had to use IGMP proxy. If someone is reading this in Portugal and is using Meo I will gladly share my full configuration. Just reply to this thread.

      My little ALIX is doing great. Watching 720p TV uses about 6.5 Mbps of bandwidth and I can still use the Internet perfectly.

      I would really like to know what will happen when they try to update their router's firmware and it's not there… ROTFLOL :-D :-D

      Thank you pfSense!

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        Klaws
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        @miguelgoncalves:

        At the moment my WAN interface has two VLANs (10 and 12). One is for Internet access and the other for IPTV. IPTV is distributed my IGMP so I had to use IGMP proxy. If someone is reading this in Portugal and is using Meo I will gladly share my full configuration. Just reply to this thread.

        Or someone in Germany having Entertain from the German Telekom (VDSL25/VDSL50). Difference is that here VLAN7 is used for internet traffic and VLAN8 for IPTV.

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          asterix
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          Check you WAN speeds behind the ALIX box. I doubt you will see anything beyond 50Mbps. ALIX cannot handle higher throughput.

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            miguelgoncalves
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            Actually I usually see around 85 Mbps…

            I might buy new hardware in the future but I actually don't mind this cap.

            http://www.speedtest.net/result/2562729690.png: this was over Wi-Fi N

            http://www.speedtest.net/result/2562732680.png: this was over wired connection

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              miguelgoncalves
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              This was using my ISP's speedtest facility… :-)

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                gridrun
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                Yup, I get around 86mbps throughput with an ALIX on a 100mbps cable.

                Tech stuff on my blog: http://niston.wordpress.com

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                  asterix
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                  Is this test on v2.0.2 or v2.1 ?

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                    pxb
                    last edited by

                    Hi Miguel, I'm very interested in the configs.

                    Thanks,
                    pedro

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                      xixoxau
                      last edited by

                      Hello,
                      I am from Portugal, oporto, and i found out about pfsense this week.
                      I have it running as a router on my meo m4o. Love it already!
                      Miguel could you be so kynd to tell me the settings for the iptv?
                      That way can completely remove the thomson router?
                      Many thanks
                      Plesae replay,
                      Best regards,
                      Paulo
                      :)

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                        satanic
                        last edited by

                        hi i'm intrigued ;) Portugal here too i would like to talk to you or hear from you

                        best regards
                        satanic

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                          romer
                          last edited by

                          Hello,

                          I'm also from Portugal, could you share your settings with me also?

                          Thanks

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                            vsimoes
                            last edited by

                            Hi miguelgoncalves,

                            Also from Portugal, can you share the configurations please?

                            VS

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                              ezyvirtualassistant
                              last edited by

                              what about in Aussie?

                              Ezy Outsourcing & Business Consulting

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                                tormenta
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                                Hi, Miguel

                                I'm from Portugal too, could you share your configuration.

                                You are still using MEO router for the IPTV service correct?

                                Your are creating a bridge by disabling the PPOE from MEO router and authenticating in PFSense box correct ?

                                I'm also looking to connect directly to the ONT … I can manage that with Draytek router ... but of course I lose the IPTV service if I have one ...

                                If you need the VLAN settings for MEO fibra PM

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                                  informatica_cmav
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                                  Hello Miguel,

                                  I have Meo in ADSL and I am trying to use PFSense too Can you share de IGMP Proxy config?

                                  Thanks

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                                    Raul Ramos
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                                    Hi

                                    @Miguel, thanks for this. Can you send me the config and/or the steps to put this MEO IP TV Working.

                                    Thanks

                                    pfSense:
                                    ASRock -> Wolfdale1333-D667 (2GB TeamElite Ram)
                                    Marvell 88SA8040 Sata to CF(Sandisk 4GB) Controller
                                    NIC's: RTL8100E (Internal ) and Intel® PRO/1000 PT Dual (Intel 82571GB)

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                                      great
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                                      Hi Miguel,

                                      Are you still using pfsense?

                                      I would be grateful if you could provide me your settings.

                                      Regards

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                                        jbalreira
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                                        Miguel, please send me your configuration.

                                        Thank you.

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                                          Tajudine
                                          last edited by

                                          Hello Miguel,

                                          Are you still sharing your configs? I would be very happy if you could share them so I can properly configure my MEO network with pfSense.

                                          Thank you

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