https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4276 https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4326 https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4405 https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4524 https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4529 most of those won't be an issue but 4276 will if you plan to use L7 on 2.2.x

Hi, Thanks for your replies Guys.. My Notebook Interface is 1Gb, so it's running ok (so far).. I prefer to have all the VLANS Tagged and disable untagged traffic on the port  that connects to the Notebook (PFSense Box). so only tagged traffic is sent from the switch to the notebook, basically I'm using 3 interfaces on the switch, 1 belongs to the LAN Vlan and connected to another non managed switch, another port connects to the ISP and it belongs to the WAN Vlan and the 3rd port is connected to the notebook as a trunk that accepts only tagged traffic and it only has 2 Vlans (WAN & LAN). So far it is working OK, but please if you hear or read of a possible flaw when using VLANS appreciate your advice. Cheers  :)

I was hoping for a nicely formatted display similar to the arp table webpage. Anyways cleaned it up a bit to make it easier to read. arp -a | awk '{print $1""$2""$4}' | sed 's/_/ /g Thanks.

Figured it out : we had smtp notification enabled and the SMTP server configured was not accessible in this test setup. pfSense was always trying to warn about the main gateway being down. When I disabled notifiaction, I was able to open the rule edit page without any delay. The most useful thing that I learned is that the php errors are logged in /var/log/system.log (on my system at least). Once you see the error, it is easier to fix. Thanks for the help !

And what is the AP connection to pfsense - are you directly connected to nic in pfsense or switch?  If only 1 machine goes to shit while others are fine, then it sure not a mismatch on the duplex wired connection, etc. The high ping times could be something wrong with the wifi.  Something wrong with the laptop, etc.  Run a sniff what kind of traffic you seeing? Sniffing on the pfsense nic connected to the AP should tell you what kind of stuff its seeing.  Is there a broadcast flooding going on, is someone running p2p..  Did pfsense see the icmp and really take 500 ms to put it back on the wire? etc. etc..

Weird…..after a reboot, I lost my HAVP group setting again......

Try running a packet capture on the WAN. Look for the DHCP requests from pfSense and the replies from the upstream DHCP server. Try putting some other DHCP server connected to the pfSense WAN (the e4200 perhaps) does it receive an address then? Steve

pfSense is FreeBSD, not Linux. Since it is a Dell server chassis it should have a DRAC card. Maybe and maybe not.  It's an option, and it has licensed features.  The basic DRAC was quite limited, if I remember correctly. but the speed of the network is not as it once was. Do you mean Internet access is slow, or client to client on the LAN is slow? My big question is "How can I check the server for any hardware problems?" There should be a status LED on the front panel that will turn orange or red or flash if there is a problem.

shouldn't this work? http://answers.splunk.com/answers/142652/how-to-get-splunk-to-work-with-freebsd-10.html

Your drive seems dead. Post some information about the HW.

Well, this is odd. Second SSD is now complaining the same as the first. Both SSDs used to sit in my NAS (ZFS) as cache drives so either they both got porked while in there or this motherboard is killing them or psSense is killing them. Both SSDs are 4 years old (found the invoice, was hoping on warranty). Guess a new on is needed and will see from there. pfSense is still running so no rebooting until spare drive arrives…

you are trying to fix a layer2 problem by using a layer3+ solution …. this will never work very well. the solution you actually want involves dynamic vlans & 802.1x authentication. (see this juniper page for a short explanation: http://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos11.4/topics/concept/802-1x-pnac-dynamic-vlan-understanding.html )

On pfSense console menu (12) developer shell, you can: playback gitsync If you know what you are doing and why, you can GitSync to get the latest changes from the GitHub repo. e.g. for testing coming 2.2.2-DEVELOPMENT script changes without instaling a whole development snapshot.

Only if you've disabled filtering on the bridge members. You can limit and shape on bridged interfaces as far as I'm aware. Bit old but for example: http://blog.davidvassallo.me/2012/10/23/traffic-shaping-pfsense/ There are some restrictions though, such as: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/3824 And more importantly in 2.2: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4405 Steve

Haha. I am sorry, but I was not close to a terminal with WebUI access while I asked that question. So I assumed there was a textbox present instead. Good, then this answers my questions. :) ~repne