pfSense questions

[Ericloewe]

Looked further--no, it's under Diagnostics -> Halt system. WTF?

I vaguely remember that from when I used pfSense. The UI used to suffer from the same thing FreeNAS' still does (quick and dirty hacked-together UI that does way more than a UI has any right to do). I think they changed things around a lot in recent releases?

 

[Jailer]

It's not too much different. They just converted it to use bootstrap and prettied it up a bit. Supposedly the bootstrap conversion makes it easier to implement changes, at least according to some a lot smarter than me.

 

[Ericloewe]

It's not too much different. They just converted it to use bootstrap and prettied it up a bit. Supposedly the bootstrap conversion makes it easier to implement changes, at least according to some a lot smarter than me.

So it's still poorly-organized? Never used it long enough to develop muscle memory, so I was hoping they'd redo the whole thing in a more logical format before I had start using it again.

 

[Jailer]

Yup, same basic layout. My configuration and use is pretty simple so I'm meh about it but others do feel the same as you do.

 

[Ericloewe]

Yup, same basic layout. My configuration and use is pretty simple so I'm meh about it but others do feel the same as you do.

When I do use it, I'll have to setup a handful of static routes, VLANs (on WAN and LAN side), IGMP forwarder, site-to-site VPN (and PBX if they get a decent plugin for that again). *Deep breath* And UPS, different DNS servers for two WAN VLANs... And firewalls for LAN, IPTV and VoIP. And I'm sure I'm mssing something. I'd really appreciate a more usable GUI that doesn't make me jump around to configure the firewall.

 

[Jailer]

Yeah that pretty much sounds like pfSense hell there. Throw in some traffic shaping setup and I think you'd go mad.

 

[Ericloewe]

Yeah that pretty much sounds like pfSense hell there. Throw in some traffic shaping setup and I think you'd go mad.

Bah, at that point I'd spend some cash and run a VLAN to whatever needs IPTV on a shared link.