Ugo's Blog

I finally had time to upgrade my home firewall (running on a WRAP) to 2.0.  The current release is 2.0.1, but I didn't want to run a FreeBDS liveCD to alter the image, so I used the premodified images available at  http://zhaw.ch/~maym .  Up to now, everything is running smoothly.  I just installed 2.0 on another CF card, then booted from it.  I had to configure the interfaces manually (using serial port), then I could log on to the default IP address, then restore my backup config.  Then it rebooted and everything was fine except that the DNS forwarder service didn't start automatically, I had to start it manually.  I'll eventually reboot to see if that was just this time.  Thanks to the pfSense team!

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I was looking for a folder comparison tool for Windows this morning and I found FreeFileSync .  Open-source, free, and quite instinctive and easy to use.  You select 2 folders, click "Compare" and it shows the the difference and the suggested action: Add this file on this side to the other side Replace this file on this side, overwriting the other side  By default, it compares by date/time, but it can also compare by file content (hopefully doing a md5 on the file...).  It is a lot slower, but can be useful in some contexts. It quickly gives you a good idea of what has changed on one side or the other.