Happy to hear.... Gloomrider was makin me dizzy.. :-)  Just teasing... thanks for the feedback though.. 

I have an Alix 3E 2D3 with:

Version 1.2.2
built on Thu Jan 8 23:09:11 EST 2009 
Platform embedded

I am planning to upgrade to latest NanoBSD and understand that I need to flash from scratch.

Can I restore all or parts of my configuration or do I need to recreate the configuration (Rules/1-to-1 NAT..etc)?

I am offsite and want to check the size of the compact flash and amount of memory installed on my Alix.  Is there a way to see that via the GUI or SSH/Telnet?

Thanks

Please remove bounty

Your reasoning makes sense. 

Have to admit...pretty cool so far.... 

What type of traffic are youtrying to stop?  Inbound?  Outbound?  HTTP?  SMTP?  A decent firewall is going to do a good job and throw in proper spam filtering or opendns web filtering and you have a good enough system in place without the need of tediously blocking subnets.  I also read that this is not accurate since proxy's can be used to circumvent this.  By the fact that there is no interest makes me think that this is easier to accomplish with other products which most people implement to protect their networks....

Just tried it on something which showed as allowed.

  pass  Jun 4 04:38:19    WAN    :4.142.100.44    :9.12.246.209    ICMP

Status : EasyRule

Message: Tried to block invalid IP:

I assume this is by design....

Do you really want to add this rule -> Do you really want to add this DENY rule? or if allowing Do you really want to add this ALLOW rule?  I don't know if that would be very complicated but I can just see someone clicking and not paying attention...just a suggestion.

I will definitely test this as I see it as possibly being very useful.

What will this do to firewall logs which show IP's which are blocked based on the default rule 79 i think?  If the default rule is blocking something will allowing the blocked rule by clicking on the button allow that rule?

I have no problem with it getting the smack down! 

Oh...I thought you were referring to the wireless one...Thanks for crushing my hopes and dreams Cry Havok....

 

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Yes...one NIC but 2.0 is supposed to work with one NIC as an appliance.....Maybe you could use USB NIC...though I have heard bad things about using USB NIC's.....Price is very nice though.....

Even if I don't use the wireless (Possibly install other wireless card) As an appliance it does look very sleek and a complete system with 3 yr NBD warranty as an appliance in 2.0 (Possible VOIP or DNS appliance based on pfSense)  Maybe I will buy one and test........