Sorry to pile on, but I'm looking at the same problem.  I want a SPAN port, mirrored off my DMZ port, but I am unable to create the SPAN because it wont let me bridge a single port(DMZ).  Is there a better way to accomplish this? I'm thinking I might tinker with the vSwitch and this pfsense is running on ESXi, but I would like to understand how/if pfsense can SPAN a single port not a bridge.  Thanks.

It's pretty straight forward really. Add an extra virtual NIC to the pfSense VM. Now assign that as a new interface in pfSense, it will be named OPT1 but rename it as you wish. Set the subnet/mask etc. Add DHCP if you want to use that. There will be no firewall rules on the new interface so all traffic will be blocked. Add appropriate rules to allow/restrict access to/from your server. Steve

Sorry to bump this back to the top, but I'm still having this issue, and it's also happening on a new APU 1.C board running the latest version of pfSense. If I cannot resolve this issue, I would like to at least know when a pfSense box is rebooted, is there a way I can be notified of a reboot? Sendmail? What about having the pfSense box open a url on my website, which I can code to notify me that it's been opened etc etc?

The 'files' package allows you to store custom scripts within the config file such that they would be reinstated after a firmware upgrade. You can only store text based files though so no images or binaries. You may be able to store images in /conf , the config slice, and then point at them in the theme instead. I'm not sure I've never tried any theming. Steve

Thanks for your advice.  The ISP is allocating the private range of IP for each connect and I believed they did some routing or "something" within country and within different ISP so that everyone can reach this private IP but not outside the country. Questions. 1.  Is there anywhere I can change the pfsense behavior with custom configuration? 2.  If #1 is impossible, is there anyway I can run a cron to update via script manually         or which php script file in pfsense  that I can change to submit only this private IP?

Well oddly enough I solved it by rm /var/log/*.log then restarting the fw

I hadn't seen it. I guess I am only as good as the search terms I use. :( Thanks for the link. Jim

Ok, solved it by resetting the firefox profile… clears all my addons and stuff, but works now. alt + f, navigate to Help > Troubleshooting Information then click the Reset Firefox button. Best regards, V

@jimp: Do you have any packages installed on the system? If not, for curiosity's sake, does that error go away if you install one (something small like Cron would be sufficient) Hello, I did what Jimp suggested and it works fine. The Services Dashboard is now properly displayed. Thank You.

Does the checkbox at the bottom of this screenshot not do what you want?  

F1 Boot Prompt Duration https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=78439.msg427844#msg427844

Hi Steve! you are perfeclty right! I have Dns forwarder enabled, and I've seen the description (under dhcp server -> Dns servers): NOTE: leave blank to use the system default DNS servers - this interface's IP if DNS forwarder is enabled, otherwise the servers configured on the General page. but I admit I didn't understand the full meaning: maybe that "dash" misleaded me….  :-[ Thanks again for your reply!! Aronese

Thanks, I've applied the patch manually to my systems.

What are you doing that means you can't select option 8? Steve