pfSense, Squid and logging full URLs

By default the Squid package that pfSense installs will cut off the URLs if they are longer than a certain length. If you want it to log the full URL, add this to your squid.conf file. The config file says not to manually edit it, but I inserted this and restarted squid and everything continued working.

November 2, 2012 · 1 min · Shane Cunningham

pfSense box update #3

I had a feeling using a cheap $7 flash drive as the boot OS might be a bad idea. Turns out it was. The drive started throwing errors after about a month and a half of running pfSense for my network. I didn’t want to go mechanical HDD for a 24x7 low power box so I decided on a OCZ Onyx 32 GB SSD. More than enough size and speed for how I am using it. Hopefully this is the last hiccup with this machine and I can now get into some more advanced features of pfSense. ...

June 1, 2012 · 1 min · Shane Cunningham