Great thread you started. Im still new to the pfsense product line having come from other vendors. In the beginning, i was frustrated that there was feature incompleteness when compared to other products but I have since changed my mentality a bit The obvious fact that it's free and there is paid support behind it makes me feel comfortable deploying Just understanding the use case for the product. I see pfsense as a router and firewall (L4) first and foremost. The VPN functionality when used in an "as-is" deployment is very good. The problems start to come in when you now have a business requirement that a 10+ year old firewall OS doesnt even have a feature set for. Need traffic visibility? Nope. Simple things like, which IP is the top talker between 8am - 4pm. No historical data is found. Sure you can use darkstat but cmon....its more of a hack and it provides no meaningful data. There is no application awareness despite what the marketing on the netgate site will tell you. OpenAppID rules have not been maintained on pfsense since 2017. The metadata conf is updated yes but not the text rules. I could go on but why bother. My hope is that the pfsense+ train is where the added functionality will appear. I know it's something that people dont want to hear but if they charge for it down the line but has feature completeness in key areas identified in this thread then ill pay. pfsense CE will continue to be free. As others have said on other forums and even here, it's a great product but one should only deploy in SMB scenarios. If your company has any I.T. budget then more than likely they are going with a named vendor.

@davidylau TP-Link have (earlier) had a bad reputation , due to Vlan1 leaking. And them not seeming to care ..... You might consider the D-Link DGS-1100-08 too https://www.amazon.com/D-Link-Ethernet-Managed-Internet-DGS-1100-08V2/dp/B08P2C2GXF/ I have 20+ of these D-Links , and they are easy to configure , and does what they should .. Max. 32 Vlans i think in the 1100-08 , enough for home use. /Bingo

It's almost certainly just use the frame buffer and outputting at it's default resolution. I doubt a different version of pfSense would behave any differently. You might just try a different monitor. Some TVs just don't handle the low res and refresh rates well. That board has a serial header. You could fit a serial port and use the serial console instead. You could just install in something else and then move the drive across. You would only need to use the console at all if the NICs are different. Steve

@elmo1943 I did the same.... I got rid of that stupid Netgear router that doesn't really support VPN anyway and bought: 2x Trendnet 5-port unmanaged 2.5G switches. 1x Plugable USB ethernet adapter. 1x TRENDnet 2.5GBase-T PCIe Network Adapter, TEG-25GECTX. New router: 4X 2.5GbE Intel I225-V Ethernet Firewall Appliance Mini PC, Intel Celeron J4125 MOGINSOK AES-NI VPN Router PC HDMI VGA 4GB RAM 64GB MSATA SSD. Now my whole network is nice and fast.

@stephenw10 All right now.

@glen89 dude a simple search - your posting the same exact thing on multiple sites. Your whatever has ZERO to do with pfsense. This forum has to do with pfsense - not some issue you might have with some other site. Your thread on reddit already removed.. Nobody here has anything to do with that site.. Your issue clearly has zero to do with pfsense or its dhcp or dns. Moving to general off topic -- you post one link to some spam nonsense and your gone..

What exactly did you try? Please give details otherwise this just looks like spam and will be treated as such.

Thanks, missed this post

If I understood your question correctly. Ports can be opened or closed to allow or deny data transfer between devices. If you do not close them, an unauthorized user can access the data. Here you can see the details link text

I'd like to think no-one has an AFP server exposed to the internet. But....

@gertjan said in [solved] What destination-ports Web-browsers actually use?: I did look up what 'PBR' is, but these guys couldn't make me any smarter. Wow, it is actually in there. And Friday is tomorrow but you are probably one of those who thinks the week is almost over at wednesday mornings. ^^