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Agreed, testdisk and photorec are pretty good, recovered lots of data off many dead sticks.

any proxy site is filtered here, just about every one that turns up a search result on Google, we also block spam.com on our filter... so if we go to spam.com and it shows our filter page we know we've bypassed our filtering.

Thats great TT, how wonderful is Pf... and @SYNACK... PF is no longer funky with PPTP, there is a new version that is fine! - If you install 2.2-BETA0 (i386) PPTP has been improved as have many other features. The BETA is going to be released very soon.

Im glad PFSense is serving you guys well! and hope you enjoy it as much as I have......

WOW thats bad!!!!

Capri's where good cars BUT personally, not my style I'd rather have ... actually no I'd have a Capri also.!!! Damn nice cars.... I'd put the Calibra next to the Capri..... Same league! Heading to eBay....

Good story right there, I remember my old mans Sierra Sapphire 2.0 ltr sport, it was in black and was the GHIA model and I believe was the saloon. On an 'F' Plate. It was an absolute Gem. He was in love with it - UNTIL he came to insure it and the insurance company gave him too choices.... Hand over the keys or risk your life.... It was a cut and shut. Dont see many Sierras kicking about these days, or the old Scorpio's - Good Cars, Good Engines.... All taken over by the Mondeo which isnt a bad motor.. my mate has an R reg Verona with 209,000 on the clock and it still sails through MOT and the engine doesnt sound like its about to give up anytime soon.

OK thanks peeps. Arrival of Gas Man will be imminent.

All you need to do is setup the VLANS on the LAN interface, go into captive portal and set it to listen on the LAN. That should work.

ok I might just do that, the boiler is actually up the stairs, the kitchen is right next to the gas meter so I'm guessing the Hob is closer on the ring from the meter.

No problem, let me know of your findings!

Yeah just add one, you can add more in VMWare later.

Add as many as you like, I usually add 3, WAN LAN and OPT. You can remove / add more if need be and use the web GUI to assign interfaces.

Yes, that should work. Try it. Just a little tip for those of you setting up pfsense, once youv'e got it installed stay on the pfsense console screen it'll ask you to setup your interfaces - they may have strange names like rl0 or em1 - if you look on the screen though it'll show you which one is which so just select which ones you want to be your LAN,WAN or OPT interfaces, once it's done set an IP (either static or DHCP) and login to the web interfaces on a PC just like a normal router. I wouldn't worry too much about getting the interfaces set-up correctly the first time as you can edit them in the web interface anyway, just aslong as you can get to the web interface via the LAN interface. The username will be Admin, the password will be pfsense. Below is any image similar to the screens you will see about setting up interfaces the first time. http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Installing_pfSense

Boilers and Gas..... I have a query, not sure whether I need to get a gas man out or not.. thought I'd ask in case some of you have experiences it before. I have recently had a new gas hob fitted (rented house), it's a bit cheap and nasty. However the main problem is when the rings are lit there is the noise of air and a faint whistle. If you turn the ring up full and turn it back down again the noise goes and everything seems normal, also if I turn the hot water tap on the pressure on the hob drops slightly. Then once the tap is closed the pressure returns to normal sometimes going back to sounding very 'air-ey' and sometimes gives a whistle. I think the boiler is definitely on it's way out - it seems like an old one and a bit of a PITA - it's a Sime Friendly 80e. Anyone comes across this ?

Just set pfsense as your default gateway.

Its been a while since I touched on Cisco but with Cisco Routers and VLANS you can do router on a stick and use a sub interface for example int fa0/0.1 would be a subinterface of FA 0/0. or change the 1 to the VLAN number. On the switches you'd go into Int FA */* switchport mode switchport mode access VLAN10 I think thats correct - that will assign that VLAN to that interface - I may stand corrected as it's been a longggg time since I did VLANS on Cisco, I do have VLANS on Cisco but it was done that long ago I cant remember. The switches I'm on about here are Layer 2 and not layer 3, on my Juniper EX2200 (Layer3) you just go into the port or group of ports and assign to a VLAN-ID and then just Tag out uplink port with all the VLANS for it to trunk them.

For those interested you can also use Pf as a basic UTM, although I've never done it but you can get anti-virus packages and web filtering... and more but cant remember off the top of my head but Google pfsense as UTM and you'll see some examples.

The way pfsense works is you assign the captive portal onto an interface, so ETH0 for example so any traffic that hits ETH0 will be intercepted and hit with Captive Portal. So if you set you DG to the VLAN DG and that VLAN is assigned to an interface in PF (which it will be) and you set Captive Portal to listen on that interface your then your banging - any traffic hitting that interface will need to go through Captive Portal or be re-directed. @twin--turbo - if you need any help with pfsense let me know - iv'e spent many an hour working with it and it hasnt let me down so far. Below is an example of someone adding captive portal onto the LAN interface, the Web GUI has been massively improved since this image (luckily) http://www.fikirdenizi.com/uploads/1289829277_pfsense-portal-03.jpg Pfsense Interface Assign

agreed with twin--turbo, On a Cisco Router an ACL (or access list) is the way to go, unless of course you have access to something like an ASA or PIX then you can filter/firewall traffic between the VLANS.

ok best thing I can advise is this. I dont know how smoothwall works but, if you want a basic firewall i'd do it in pfsense, and yes it supports multiple local subnets by grouping the Inteface IP's or adding IP's in as Aliasses, id go into the switches and add another vlan, add the vlan(s) on pfsense also and put DHCP on pfsense to serve on the vlans, if you have your internet connection plugged into the pfsense box it'll route to it anyway and aslong as you set your rules and gateways up properly, if traffic on VLAN 501 is destined for the internet Pfsense will forward it out of the gateway you specify (ie the internet) so you can get internet access but also that VLAN will access other parts of the network if you wish it to.# Pfsense will route the vlans, give you internet access on the vlans if you wish, and you'll have either a simple or advanced firewall if you want.

No it doesnt you can set it not to ask for Username and Password and just redirect traffic to another location, we've had it setup like that before. Untangle is good but not as good as Pf, Its a lot heavier on resources and doesnt seem as intuitive. We have Pfsense on 3 different SSID's and on three different VLANS, the problem is that if you use the standard user manager in the Wb GUI then the same user can authenticate on any of the SSID's... not always desirable, but if you go to packages and install FreeRadius you can use that as the authentication for captive portal instead and can set RADIUS to listen to a certain Interface / MAC address and if you do it right If you have different VLANS tied to different SSID's you can get the authentication to work separately on each different SSID. PfSense can also act as an 802.1x server so it will drop you onto the right VLAN once you authenticate making locking things down alot easier. Pf also has the DG and Squid proxy for filtering (again in the packages) just click add package and configure. I have used DG and Squid on Pfsense before, the joy is you get a nice Web GUI. PfSense supports SSL also. I'd urge people to build a pfsense box and have a play... you'll be pleasently surprised at how powerful it is, I was also watching a DefCon vid the other night, some guys where trying to hack into enterprise level routers and got into some of them using back doors, all of a sudden one guy said something about they have never yet gotten into a PfSense router as they are so secure!, added bonus! And as I say we've got this up & running in a few hotspots around the city, with the captive portal page being fully customizable it works great! It's so easy to manage that we have non-admin staff able to manage the basic aspects of adding users to captive portal if they need to, any problems because openvpn comes with PfSense we just VPN in an solve any issues.

Captive Portal - PFSenseDocs

You could use PfSense it's free off the internet and serves as a Router / Firewall - all you'll need is a spare machine or build it in a VM pfSense Open Source Firewall Distribution - Home We swear by it and have installed it at some local hotspots... works flawlessly. You dont actually have to use the firewall part,,, infact it can be disabled all together in the advanced settings. PfSense is also built on BSD and has a very nice Web Interface, with it being BSD it's very secure.