I got the ALIX.6E2 from netgate.com (their part: m1n1; http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-m1n1wall-6E2-black-P1051.aspx) and it started up without issue right out of the box.

I'll be configuring it over the next few days with a hope to do an install early next week. The owner is quite happy with the potential and, I think, I can configure it to (with some elbowing here ad there) to run samba for storing their music for the store.

On Dec 28, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Steve McGrath wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Brian Wall <kc0iog at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can PFSense perform stateful packet inspection?  One of the challenges
>> with bit torrent is that it can be tunneled on just about any port.
>> The only way to truly knock it out is to inspect the packet, looking
>> for the bit torrent headers, then kill the connection if it finds the
>> headers.
> 
> As of 2.0, which is still in beta, pfSense can do application-layer
> filtering. I've been using it at home to lower the priority of
> bittorent traffic without having to set all my clients to a specific
> port. The interface is a little funky, and documentation lacking, but
> it seems to work. Of course, it still can't do much about encrypted BT
> traffic.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> 
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