see post-reply #1

So you have no firewall logs at all then? Sounds like you've disabled all logging, or at least logging of default block and other rules. Turn on local logging again, and make sure default blocks are all logging.

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Seems to be more of a HP issues at this point… Will work with them. Thank you for all the advice... It did help to clarify some things for me. Sincerely, Kell

Squid and limiters don't work together.

@NOYB: Though I'm not sure why this Thu Apr 9 date though and whether or not it is an indication of a problem. That's the date on which it was compiled … looks like you are using pfSense 2.2.2

@cmb: Check the "disable" box for the instances you don't want to run. Otherwise they will be started during boot, and at a variety of other times while the system is running depending on what you do to it. Thank you cmb. I totally forgot about that setting. Appreciate your help.

Yep. Agreed. Something for me to experiment with now and create a proper DMZ.

@Supermule: I get the same on VMX0 (vmxnet3) driver and the console is flooded with timeouts. Changing the VM to E1000 NIC instead makes it go away instantly. That has no relation to OP's issue, please post your own thread if you'd like to pursue (and if you're still running some ancient ESX version, upgrade it first).

So you have 2 vlans already on eth2, vlan 10 and vlan 20 - and now you want eth0 to be part of vlan 10, and eth1 to part of vlan 20? Dude if you need more ports in your vlan - connect to a switch with the port configured for that vlan.  Interfaces on pfsense router are NOT switch ports..

I guess…I don't see anything else really on the upgrade guide that deals with potentially outage-causing issues like this, and they have whole sections on HA considerations. You could also say, most people doing HA already have lagg groups configured. And while that is also true, it also doesn't excuse the omission of this critical piece of data. Thanks for the followups and suggestions though, I don't mean to sound ungrateful, this is just a bit too sloppy for what I've come to expect from the pfsense team.

Thanks dotdash - I've already updated the default gateway and disabled the WAN interface as that connection will be going away at the end of the month.  I did consider modifying the config as you suggest, I was just wondering if there was a quicker and easier solution.  It's not really a big deal other than some minor GUI implications; some things default to the WAN interface or nothing if WAN is disabled.

Are you talking about the real definition of a DMZ or the little blue plastic router definition of a DMZ?

@Callahan: Fixed the issue. Just borrowed a brand new DrayTek Vigor 130 from a friend to replace the DrayTek Vigor 120 (tried 2 of these so assumed it wasn't the modem). Using the new DrayTek 130 fixed the issues it seems. At least I can climb back to 15mbps down again. So leaving this post in case it helps anyone else that has the same setup as I have. ADSL = MTU 1492, Cable ie non UK (or Virgin possibly never looked/checked) is normally MTU 1500,  Draytek 120 only does 1500 iirc, dont know if 130 supports MTU 1492 out of the box and there might be a hack circulating to force the 120 to use an MTU 1492 but it might have involved a firmware update.

Its no longer a conspiracy when it happens to one's self. I guess Snowden is all a fabrication & conspiracy as well and I didnt read it the media, but his reports certainly explains some of whats happened to myself and customers when looking back through support calls. All a figment of the imagination I guess, and next I'll be renamed Walter Mitty.  ::)

Different files referred to in the links but potentially two different methods to save settings after reboot might be found here. https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=94511.0

You do understand the helper/proxy for ftp was removed awhile back.  Depending on what your doing you can grab the package dok mentions or you have to manually create the rules. Sounds like your connecting outbound to servers on the public.. Passive should just work without any issues unless you have restrictive outbound rules. Or are you serving up the ftp and clients are having issues connecting to them behind pfsense?