To answer this post, yes it can communicate with other ethernet ports.

Great, I answered that already.

Applying settings and/or packages does in no way modify pfSense.

If I was misled by your reference to the document "Can I sell pfsense" then I apology!

Did an active/standby upgrade/patch this morning.

Gotta hand it to them. Even the remote access ipsec tunnels stayed up during the failover events.

@divsys:

The other thing that sometimes works is to "Uninstall" the drive in Windows Device manager, although that tends to be a little kludgier (read "riskier").

I take the disk offline in Disk Management. I don't remember if you manually have to bring it online after plugging it in to the other PC. I'm not suggesting this is 100% safe either but Disk Management tends to warn or block if you try to do things like accidently remove a disk while in use or being used for swap for the running OS.

@bbcan @overlordsofthewiki
perhaps this could/should be updated?
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Pfblocker

also might be nice to provide a sortof up-to-date list of working free/paid blocklists that work with pfblng.

One detail that could be important: Users browsing the forum that are not logged in cannot see attachments, so using inline images can be better for some cases.

You just drop the URL to an image hosted elsewhere inside the tag, like so:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/0LlOg66.png[/img]

I suppose, but I'd rather head off anyone eager to tout that as a security measure in this day and age, too many people already thought NAT was a security measure in IPv4. Sure it might have helped or been part of a larger strategy, but it's not something that should be relied upon.

If devices use privacy addressing or hop addresses the collected data will only be useful during a small window anyhow.

@cmb:

Connecting to them with what protocol/port? With that description, guessing UDP 123, NTP time sync traffic to pool.ntp.org members.

Thanks, I haven’t checked which protocol/port. I will try that, but first I changed the NTP server to see if the problem stops.

I don't want to re-fuel this thread, just like to say "Thanks!" to cmb/Chris for his statement.

Of course my reply was meant in a funny way - I was laughing when I wrote it. Just imagine a smiley at the end of the line and it gets clear.
Otherwise I would have ignored the post and gone away silently.

@cmb:

though slightly out of line

Maybe because English is not my mother tongue.

Upgrade to 2.2.6, that was fixed at some point since then if it's what I think it is.

Hmmmmmm….  Yeah.  Sucks he left.

Ah. Here are a couple from Serve The Home: http://www.servethehome.com/tag/netgate/

There are also customer reviews on the pfSense and Netgate store product pages.

We have a Netgate.com site in development, expect more in that space.

edit: add line about customer reviews

Have look who provided this quality code

Not Scott Adams?

Not looking too good for Free Beer with winners in California, Tennessee and Florida…

I started it here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=105184.0

Any thoughts on what the "two leading" encryption chips are?