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LAN Party Forums => Support Group => Started by: zx2slow on November 25, 2010, 12:54:36 PM
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I'm alone on thanksgiving and I figured it would be a great opportunity to get my geek on...
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I snagged a box off of ebay, I was going to buy a router but this was cheaper and I always wanted to run a pfSense box.
Its a 1U server, I swapped the +12V and +5V rails for the case fans so its pretty quiet. It has:
2x 2.66GHz Xeon w/HT
4GB RAM
40GB HD
2 1Gb Intel NICs
1 10/100 Intel NIC
I figure that should move some packets. I plan to ignore the 10/100 port and have one Gb interface as WAN and the other as LAN, does that sound legit, what else can I do with that wayward port?
1.2.3 vs 2.0 Beta4, what should I run?
Do I need to do anything to turn on the web interface?
Anyone have any tips or tricks or know any gotchas?
Am i missing out on anything by using the default/easy install option?
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I did the east install of 2.0Beta4, web interface is on by default. I configured my LAN interface 10.0.0.1/23 and set the DHCP range to 10.0.1.1-254. Now I just need to figure out how to setup static leases.
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You can setup static leases right from the dhcp client menu under status. Just click on one of the buttons that has a + on it to the right and you can set it up by MAC. pfSense is cake.
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Alternately, under Services - DHCP Server, you can set them up manually...it's at the bottom of the page.
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Oh...and Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thanks and happy turkey day!