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  1. Update went smoothly but as others have experienced so far, the webGui doesn't accurately display the Array status, either spunup or down.
  2. Try Smoothwall 3.1 32bit with Zerina Mod (OpenVPN). I've used and installed Smoothwall firewall on over 200 boxes since version 2.0 and it's by far easier to use "out-of-the-box". Never experienced anything picky about it and far easier than Pfsense.
  3. I'll keep this short as I don't have the time to explain ALL the reasons why network security, especially in today's world, is extremely important. I think you need to re-evaluate your question. Basically for the same reasons why uPnP is a bad idea. You're assuming that network security vulnerabilities with ICMP/Ping is an issue on the WAN side and never on the LAN side. You have to think security from the inside-out as a best policy. Also you're assuming that users of the network will never, even if by accident, visit a nefarious website or manually install some sort of malware on their pc, android or iphone. You're also assuming that any device installed in the LAN, for example security cameras made abroad don't ping for LAN devices or don't "phone home" (with results); not to mention zero-day and other vulnerabilities. (if you have a firewall with active logging, you will see what I am talking about in black and white). I have seen users pc's infected with several vulnerabilities that could have adversely affected several networks but didn't because simple things like uPNP and ICMP/Ping have been disabled on the LAN side along with active IDS/IPS. Let your 10 year old kid, nephew/niece or grand-kid visit as many minecraft websites possible with minimal network and pc security and post your results here after a week or so. That's if you can get the PC to work. I sincerely hope that unRAID users are not simply deploying unRAID servers on their LAN without at least installing a perimeter firewall solution on the network (pfSense, Smoothwall, IPFire, IPCop, etc etc, if not a commercial solution), as simple as that network might be, and do not rely on the ISP's router/firewall, and do not rely on something as simple as DD-WRT on wifi routers to protect the network; especially when Plugins like Plex and MediaBrowser are enabled and serving content on the LAN and WAN side. If anyone here on these forums treats network security as an inconvenience, then you shouldn't be running a server. Good luck. A couple of examples and reading material: http://www.sans.org/security-resources/idfaq/icmp_misuse.php
  4. Using unRAID version 6.0-beta12. Is it really necessary to have unRAID ping the gateway? In my case it is a firewall with ICMP Pings blocked and also IDS/IPS active. During initial boot unRAID stops at CPULOAD momentarily, for 52 minutes; thereafter everything continues as normal and plugins download and install. I could see via HTOP that unRAID relentlessly pings the gateway while attempting to download each plugin. After 52 minutes it looks like the Pinging ceases and then unRAID is able to download plugins as normal. If I enable to allow Pings on the firewall then there is no issue and everything operates as normal. I don't ever remember this being an issue prior to 6.0-beta12 Perhaps I misunderstand the reasoning for the pings beyond the obvious, but if the gateway ip addy is already saved to network config why ping the gateway? If the gateway were not accessible to begin with this would have been already verified by other means. No other server on my network is affected by blocked ICMP pings only unRAID. I believe a couple of people on the forums have mentioned that their unRAID server takes a long time to be able to access the webGUI. Perhaps this can be a reason why.
  5. Just a heads up that my unRAID server with PhAze plugins exeriencing the same issues. From this page: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=36527.45 This is likely from the changes in the .page sections for beta-12. You can no longer have .page and .php files of the same name. The php code should be inside the .page file. Those 'plugins' will have to be updated to be beta-12 or higher compliant. Please report the bug(s) to the plugin author(s).
  6. from Webgui: Click on Settings --> then click on Identification. Also, both servers should have unique ip addresses and on the same subnet. For example: Tower1 = 192.168.100.100 Tower2 = 192.168.100.101 with a subnet of: 255.255.255.0
  7. I resolved an issue(s) with errors after updating from Beta8 to Beta10/Beta10a. I don't believe the errors were caused by Beta10 or Beta10a but with the previously flawed Beta8 ( it was beta8 i believe that had some serious issues). Anyway I removed my unraid server from service for a couple of days and ran reiserfsck on all my drives (reiserfsck --check /dev/mdX, and if the drive required it I ran reiserfsck --fix-fixable /dev/mdX... One drive required reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/mdX Once the drives completed the reiserfsck process I did a Parity-Check, and all was well. FYI - I opened 4 shells and ran 4 drives at the same time. No problems.
  8. Very nice. Looking forward to testing it out.
  9. I use btsync to synchronize files from several sources to my unraid box. For example, I create a folder, work_docs (/mnt/user/backup/work_docs), in my unraid server via btysnc gui, and then I copy the "read+write Key" and paste it to the btsync app on the pc where my work docs exist. In this case my documents folder in Windows. All the files eventually upload to the unraid server and is synced. I also have the option to sync another work pc with the same files using the same read+write key. My iphone and android devices also have btsync apps installed and I sync all my photos to my unraid server as well, they all have different folders on unraid: /mnt/user/backup/iphone I only use btsync to back up docs and photos. Presently I have up to 10 pc's and devices syncing to my unraid. http://www.getsync.com/
  10. apparently his next release week be a packages Linux release so I'll be able to finish the plugin with that hopefully. The plugin works if you manually install it right now but it has no way of finding new versions or the current version installed. Thanks PhAze. Your work is greatly appreciated. Looking forward to another outstanding plugin in MediaBrowser 3 (btsync plz. :-) )
  11. Other than the message that MediaBrowser 3 waiting for Devs, wondering there is an update on this? Just wondering... Thank you.
  12. Perhaps we have another vulnerability.... http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/bug-in-bash-shell-creates-big-security-hole-on-anything-with-nix-in-it/ I performed the test on unRAID 6.0-Beta9 as described in the article, and it seems to be affected. Not sure if this a big deal with unRAID and how it is used.
  13. Good to know. Thanks. From what I often read on the forums to keep the array as healthy as possible I see more emphasis on preclearing disks before use, and parity check monthly, but not sure how often is it recommended to run reiserfsck, if necessary? Thanks again.