Alternative to pfsense and untangle

[bobdole369]

Hi all,

Netgear FVS336G sucks bad. For some reason very slow throughput through it. So I tried untangle on a 2.4ghz dual core with 2GB ddr2-800. EVEN SLOWER! Turns out you need a fairly powerful machine to push 6mbit through untangle! OMG really? SO I tried pfsense thinking that its lighter, but as the machine only has USB keyboard - pfsense keeps losing the keyboard, like mid-typing. Never happens anywhere else.

SO anything else? FVS336G won't take dd-wrt or tomato. I just really need something else working so I can prove to the ISP that the problem is on their end and not this crummy POS.

(See its AT&T southeast business with static IP's. and in that config, the AT&T's "dsl modem" which is really a netopia router is configured with one of my public IP's on the LAN interface, while it picks up a "peer address" on the WAN side. NAT mode is disabled, and my router takes another of the public IP's on its WAN side. The LAN side is my own.)

SO, anything I can use besides those 2?

 

[imagoon]

m0nowall

smoothwall

ipcop

break down and by a real firewall.

 

[theevilsharpie]

SO, anything I can use besides those 2?

If the purpose of this is to diagnose a connectivity problem with your ISP, why not just temporarily configure your ISP's equipment according to their specifications and let them take over the troubleshooting?

 

[cbuechler]

Hi all,
SO I tried pfsense thinking that its lighter, but as the machine only has USB keyboard - pfsense keeps losing the keyboard, like mid-typing. Never happens anywhere else.

FreeBSD pre-8.0 can be quirky with USB keyboards. You may want to try a 2.0 beta snapshot from http://snapshots.pfsense.org. I generally wouldn't recommend running that in production yet, but it would be fine for a test, all the basic NAT/firewall stuff works fine.

 

[bobdole369]

why not just temporarily configure your ISP's equipment according to their specifications and let them take over the troubleshooting?

Because Rasheed, Or "Bob" as he likes to be called - is insistent that no problem exists, as the Internet works fine, just at perhaps 1mbit/100kb, when using the static config. However plugging in directly and using a dynamic IP yields the appropriate 6mbit/384kb that has been working fine at those speeds. This new slowness is new. I suspect my IP is getting hammered, yet the nice young Eastern fellow simply doesn't get it, and blames my equipment.

 

[seepy83]

Have you confirmed that you don't have any duplex mismatches when you are setting your Static IPs?

 

[arch113]

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Doesn't seem to have a problem using my usb keyboard, although I don't touch the server directly much (web configurable)

 

[drebo]

You were not clear in your OP, but does this problem exist when connected directly to the Netopia with a public IP address?

Also, a Cisco 1721 router with a WIC-1ADSL card is about $80 on eBay.

 

[bobdole369]

Sry all, the delay. I changed most of the office today to use another DSL link that we have. It works perfectly through a cisco router.

To answer drebo -



This is the result setup using NAT and thus not the static IPs.

And when I set up such that the only PC is my own directly to the Netopia, with my PC having a public address - I get the following: