hmm ok, thank you.

yes and we do not know when the will do that ( will hit the maketplace) im also interested in buying one of such modems...but we have to wait when they are on sale

Hello all After spending all day yesterday learning about managed switches, Vlans, firewall rules and connectivity issues. I have come to the decision that i am biting off more than i can chew and if i do manage to chew it i will definitely get indigestion. Therefore I will install pfsense as a plain vanilla solution with 1 LAN (192.168.1.1) to which i will connect this to a 24 port managed switch (that i still need to buy) to the switch I will connect to my 4 serves and the home automation server directly and connect one port to the powerline in the loft. I will set with a static IP address for all the servers. and DHCP for the powerline. then the powerline in the loft will connect to the powerline in each room which in turn will connect either to a computer directly or to a simple switch. In the case of the living room i will connect the asus as an AP, my HTPC and my TV with a static IP. to a small switch. If it would help I can connect the asus AP to it's own powerine. would this be better? then the on the asus i will segregate the home wifi and the guest wifi. In the case of the home theatre room I will connect the projector via wifi and the HTPC *with a static IP to the a simple switch that will be connected to the powerline in that room . once this is all done and working i will start to develop the firewall rules to further secure my environment. and then learn of to design develop and implement vlan to segregate the IOT from the rest of my environment Once again thank you for your contribution and I apologise for being so long winded.

No pfBlocker running there. -Rico

@martin085 said in Stop interface reassignment on reboot: It seems really dumb behavior Correct. Using USB NIC's can be described as such ;) Hardware interfaces HAVE to be present at boot so the system can apply known firewall rules and other settings on it. See it as security related. Like : I find a firewall, slide in my USB NIC into one of the port, and gain access to the system ... Software based interfaces are somewhat different - they can be created on the fly after booting up (like OpenVPN interfaces). I recall you can add to this file : /boot /loader.conf.local some instructions to have your USB NIC activated even when it is not there during boot. Use the forum-search function to find them.

OMG, this network kills me... I tried tofix it somehow, but nothing helped, so i changed the provider.

This doesn't seem pfSense related. Moving to general/off-topic. Steve

You're welcome. Feel free to ask if you need information in detail. But check out the hangout videos, they are really great, providing answers to almost all potential questions -Rico

Hi ! All well, thanks. Look : https://forum.netgate.com/search?term=HG8245&in=posts&matchWords=all&sortBy=relevance&sortDirection=desc&showAs=posts Google Translate ?

@vielfede said in Cron does not work specifing time: it is a VM [2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@pfsLazzarini.localdomain]/root/scripts: date Fri May 8 00:09:26 CEST 2020 Being in a VM could mean the time is even worse than usual. Also you're on 2.4.4, should be on 2.4.5. A couple other things: Make sure the Hypervisor clock is OK, and if this is ESX, (a) make sure that ESX is up-to-date and a current supported version (e.g. 6.7), (b) make sure the VM hardware support has been updated to the highest level supported by the hypervisor, (c) make sure the OS type configured in the VM settings matches the pfSense version installed, and (d) make sure that Open-VM-Tools is installed and up-to-date.

Sure (regarding ICMP) - it is not relevant here as it is not dependent on the source network - they just block it outright, I should have excluded that info as it is not important. I did not think about that - I indeed do have a dynamic DNS host name for my IP... How could I have forgotten that! Thanks for clearing up my D'OH moment.