The shellcmd method may have worked if you put the full path to arp: /usr/sbin/arp

You could use pfSense and then just reconfigure the RT-N16 as an access point. Not sure what is causing your RT-N16 issues though, so that may not solve the issue…

not sure if this is relevant any longer, however it appears the pfsense / dodo isp problem has been resolved. I'm running 2.1.3, however I suspect it might be dodo that sorted things out. Looks like they allow an MRU of 1492 now, pretty sure last time I tried this (a year or more ago) they were only accepting 1500 which was causing the problems. Anyway, I hope this may help someone if they are still having issues. 2.1.3-RELEASE (i386) built on Thu May 01 15:52:17 EDT 2014 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p16

Hi Shaulliv, I have a similar setup can you please advise how you got it working? Thank you,

Hollander, Something you might want to try with Outlook 2010 is using the Rules Wizard to create a rule that only leaves emails from your Contacts in the Inbox and dumps all the others in the Junk Mail folder. Of course you need to create and maintain the Contacts.  Maybe that would be easier given that you use BCM.  I haven't ever tried it. I have used a program called Outlook Email Address Extractor in the past.  It scans through Outlook Inbox items and extracts all the email address together with a count of emails in which each address appeared.  I used that as the basis for checking that I had everyone worthwhile in Contacts. I'm assuming that "Hot Marijke" and her friends aren't using the same sending email address used by your retarded government official correspondents.

Hi Shaulliv, Were you able to solve this? Thank you,

Yes, there are login accounts from the system.  Is that what you mean?

There is no way to do it from the webgui. The configuration is invalid but more and more ISPs are starting to use similar setups. See: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/972 Steve

Why are you not running 2.1.3? Not that there is anything specific that might be effecting this. Steve

Suggestion: use the "bounty" section of this forum for work like this: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?board=34.0 Be prepared to provide: good description of what you want provide a share of your eventual profit ($$) There are smart people hanging around here from around the globe, with some luck you can find someone who has time to help you AND is not restricted by law.

You can achieve that with "captive portal + Freeradius". There is a good tutorial on pfSense wiki https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/FreeRADIUS_2.x_package#HOW-TO_-FreeRADIUS.2B_Captive_Portal_configuration I've followed it and successfully implemented time and traffic quote for users.

I'm 100% sure it's the USB wife dongle. The clients are no more than 2 meters away from it. The strongest channel running is 13. The dongle is running on channel 1. From max 6mbps throughput going down to 4 mbps and starting to lag when the third client connects. Could be a driver issue though but installing new drivers on pfsense is just not worth the time.

@stephenw10: …though it's always disappointing to fix something without knowing what the problem was.  ;) Exactly. I hate fixing something without knowing what the problem was. It's like installing Windows again when all it was needed was to change a registry entry. But I guess it's better than nothing. Now I'm sure I'll have to open up a new thread for squid/squidGuard and then another one for snort. Thanks for the support, guys.  ;) Cheers

I'm not sure, I've never tried to do it. I was just pointing out that you will have to rebuild the image from source to change the slice name. If you want to do that this question would be best asked in the development section of the forum. Steve

We use the System Patches package heavily in development and testing, for adding customer-specific fixes/work-arounds, and for deploying fixes to customers between releases. My directory of patches is by no means "official" but it's close. Eventually those will probably make it into some form of patch list kept somewhere in the packages repository. I've thought about having it load a patch list/manifest file and offering some common patches, but the more I've thought about it, the more inclines I am to never go that far because if it's too easy, people will start slapping them on without thinking and not knowing what they do. :-) A thread is fine for keeping user-submitted patches. Might want to add a warning to the first post to caution people against loading random patches without understanding what they do.

Yea, it came preloaded with PFSense 2.0.3, which is what I just downloaded, and installed, and it worked. Now to upgrade to the latest release. Thanks.

You have a couple of options. What you have done will technically work, you will simply have them on different subnets and will need to configure things appropriately and enable firewall rules to pass traffic between the interfaces. You will essentially be doing Layer 3 routing through it and depending on the specs it may not be up to snuff to handle full bandwidth if you want to push large files to the HTPC. The other option is to get a small switch and put the firewall, AP, HTPC and uplink to other switch on it. You could try bridging the interfaces but I honestly have no experience with that option and can't help you there. Honestly I think option 2 is your best bet or option 1 if you can't get a small switch there.

Looks like it was a DNS issue, I've set 8.8.8.8 in general setup and set KC's gateway as the gateway for that DNS server and so far all is well!! No dropouts!! :)