I became a Lexmark reseller and once I had sold around 80 Lexmark’s to a client a large distributor sold them printer at below my cost. I had switched the customer from HP to Lexmark. It appears Lexmark’s intentions are to get the business any way it can. By providing large discounts to large distributors small reseller cannot compete. The only thing we can do is provide them new business by the large distributors underselling us once our customers have purchased Lexmark. They can then finger point and say hey it wasn’r Lexmark we can’t stop our distributirs from selling printers for what they want to.

There printer perks program was time consuming and painful. They have recently made changes to eliminate cash and pay you with bonus points.

My suggestion is unless they make some positive changes to guide your customers away from their products. Lexmark is in a win win situation even if you lose a customer they still have the business.

In response to the person asking how to setup dual wan in pfsense 2.0(beta) here is what to do.

1. Go to System\routing. On the gateways tab add a gateway for each of your interfaces, eg: WAN and OPT1

2. Under System\routing. On the groups tab create a group and assign each gateway the priority of “Tier 1″, the trigger can be “member down”

3. Go to Firewall\rules. On the LAN tab, edit the default rule. Press the button for “Gateway” under advanced features and change it to the name of the gateway group you created in step 2.

You should be up and running.

This was confusing to find since dual wan was moved from Services\Loadbalancer to the System|Routing tab. Monitor IP’s are now configured on the gateway tab.

Pfsense 2.0 isn’t ready for prime time but it has some nice features I couldn’t resist.