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The simplest way is to ping your provider with -t and use ctrl+break to see statistics. ie. ping get.no -t Or you can setup a software like prtg, which is very cool to monitor all sorts of stuff.
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I really like Tixati, sam guys behind WinMX.
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VM software besides VirtualBox and VMware?
twosome replied to DigitalFruitcake's topic in Networking
Microsoft has really pushed towards getting Hyper-V on the map by including it in standard licencing. ESXi in example is very costly once you have hosts with over 32(?) GB memory. Our biggest hosts which we use for terminal servers got 56 logical processors and 768 GB of memory. Virtual Machine Manager is as good as any to manage all the virtual machines like vSphere for ESXi. When you got a Hyper-V backbone it is much easier to build an on-premises Azure cloud too, endless opportunities. -
VM software besides VirtualBox and VMware?
twosome replied to DigitalFruitcake's topic in Networking
Hyper-V is starting to get mature. We are migrating about 1000 servers from VMware to Hyper-V now and are really happy with it.- 13 replies
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Yes, you would need a VPN Server that is on all the time to receive connections. As ygohome mentioned there is usually VPN servers included in all new routers (not the cheap ones) and NAS boxes. These are mostly in the form of OpenVPN wich is a free and very secure VPN service.
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I would also suggest Sophos next to pfsense. Attaching a screen dump of my dashboard.
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This is a hard one. You would need to set up routes not only in pfsense, but in your main router too. To tell where what interface your VPN is on and what network it uses. You would also need to remove all access rules on the WAN interface so that local networks can access the pfsense through its WAN interface. All this would work its self out if you used pfsense for all of it. Can you let us in on your plan here?
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I used to use USB flash with pfSense, they kept dying on me cause I cheaped out and bought crappy ones. So this proves that pfSense does a lot of small random writes that will eventually kill flash drives. However, I do use an SSD now, OCZ Synaps. An old cache drive with 50 % over provisioning. I think that is the key here. Buy a small SSD and do a huge over provisioning, maybe 20-40 % even. The Samsungs will use the unallocated space to even out the wear of the drive. The most performance gain you will see is if you use some sort of transparent proxy with caching like snort. And you will most certainly loose some of the vibration and noise over the HDD.
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Thats OK, as long as your WAN speed is < 100 Mbit a software NIC (mobo NIC) is perfectly good.
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Yes, you would need two NICs. For testing you can use only LAN for now, but you wont be able to much more than browsing around. And for that you can rather use a virtual machine.
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Hi! You will need to configure LAN and WAN settings on first boot. That is how the system will know which port is what. At det VLAN question you can type 'n' if you dont know what it is. pfSense is a perfectly loved and respected firewall, but as a fanboy of Sophos you should try out that too.
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With 20% overhead you will peak at about 90 Megabytes a second.
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I believe FreeNAS supports OwnCloud. For my self I use AeroSF, which is not supported on FreeNAS.
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The old ones are probably worthless. The newer one are useable, but if it uses scsi and not sata or sas, it basically useless to cause you will need to buy obsolete discs from ebay. I find networking very exciting, and I will encourage you to spend som time with it and get familiar.
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Ok, I am afraid this beats me. You have everything set correct by my book. If you add the user Simon to the administrators group, do you still get error?
