You can view all four on the dashboard by just opening the graphs. The monitor IP is what pfSense uses to determine if your WAN connections are up correctly. By default it uses the WAN gateway IP but you can change that if you need to. Steve

Thanks, Squid might be the way to go. Is there another way? I ask because I did try installing Squid today, per the instructions here, but then the internet didn't work from the LAN until I uninstalled it… Either I have to figure out how to fix Squid or find another way to do URL rewrites...

I changed the verification post count from 2 to 1 so users only have to do the verification for their first post rather than first two posts. Sorry for the annoyance, spammers are a big problem with popular forums like this. USB NICs in general aren't great, regardless of OS. The FreeBSD drivers for some of them tend to be pretty unreliable. This might just be that your USB NIC isn't well supported in FreeBSD, though I wouldn't expect the NIC to completely disappear in that case. Usually when there are driver issues, the NIC still shows up, but it just doesn't work right or at all. That might be a general USB problem with your system. One thing you might want to check is if you have the latest BIOS on the system, sometimes that fixes weird issues along these lines. VLANs might be a good option instead.

Hello, everyone. I too have noticed that version 2.1 has broken my old reconnection scripts. The login method shown in the documentation page for the config backup script apparently no longer works, and while using plink may still be a valid solution I'm not using Windows either (and if at all possible I'd like to stick to bash and wget/curl). So I'd like to have some help here, and it would be nice if the documentation got fixed as well. Thanks.

The NAT rules, like the firewall rules,are evaluated on a top down basis (AFAIK) so moving your manual rule to the top of the list causes it to be catch your traffic to the modem. This is an issue here but isn't mentioned on the PPPoE modem docs page because you seem to have both the modem and the PPtP tunnel end points in the same subnet. Thus when the pptp tunnel is established a NAT rule for that starts catching the traffic destined for the modem and sending it out of the default gateway (the pptp tunnel). At least that is my interpretation of it given that I've never dealt with a pptp WAN.  ;) Make sure your manual rule is specific enough not to catch anything that should be going via pptp and you should be fine. Steve

There are some other NTP enhancement discussions going on in another thread, you may want to look at what they're doing: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,67189.0.html

It should work just the same, really. The easiest way to diagnose it would be to run some packet captures as you attempt some authentication tests from the GUI and PPTP, to look for differences in the queries.

So why not use traffic shaping? Steve

This is awesome thanks guys, I have some late Christmas shopping to do!

Me too! My curiosity has been growing since. I will restore one of the PC images on a VM this weekend and report back. Thanks… I hope this helps someone with a similar issue - self inflicted or not LOL

Just upgrading the server software.  Servers came with Windows Server 2008 32 bit. We have been upgrading them to Windows Server 2008 R2.  Once all the software is back in the servers, the servers seem more responsive. We were waiting on upgrading the pfSense boxes from 2.0.3 to the newer version until later.  We upgraded the suspected pfSense box to 2.1 but it still did not fix the issue. At this point we planned additional down time for the boxes.  For some reason the box would not take a clean install off of the live cd for version 2.1.  So we did a clean install of 2.0.3 and then upgraded to 2.1 before anything was installed.  All the configuration was put back in slowly watching to make sure only the configuration that was needed got added back in.  This fixed the Internet provider private network for losing packets. We are still losing packets on the IPsec VPN tunnel but with the speed of the tunnel and the equipment having the ability to re-request the packets, the traffic is getting through at a reasonable rate.  So we are going to hold troubleshooting this part of the link until the upgrading of the servers is complete. pfSense boxes were re-tasked Dell PowerEdge 2950s( a little old-purchased in 2006-but still should be enough power for this) Dual CPUs - Intel Xeon Processor 5050     Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz     8 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 HTT threads 2 gigs of ram on-board Broadcom NICs additonal 4 port StaTech PCI express gigabit Ethernet network adapter card

When you say 'downloaded the hvap package and loaded it on the usb drive' do you mean you installed the package via the webgui? Steve

If you must have IPs with a unique MAC address, use CARP type VIPs. You cannot manually specify the MAC address, but it will get its own unique MAC. You cannot have the same gateway on multiple interfaces, but some people have setup several interfaces to the same WAN when they were required to pull IPs from DHCP. It has some quirks but can work.

If you are connecting to the PPTP server on pfSense, you would not need any NAT. Make sure the PPTP firewall rules (Firewall > Rules, PPTP tab) allow you to pass the RDP traffic, and also make sure that there isn't something local on the RDP target blocking the traffic (e.g. Windows Firewall)

Managed to solve this already so just wanted to provide feedback in case someone else also needs this. Reference: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=64414.0 Using the command line, create a file with additional hosts, like /etc/rr-hosts: 192.168.1.11 ltsp-server 192.168.1.12 ltsp-server Back in the web GUI in DNS forwarder options, under "Advanced" add: addn-hosts=/etc/rr-hosts After settings are applied, you can ping the hostname repeatedly and notice it alternate between the IPs each time. :)

Weird. I take it you've examined every config option and made sure they're identical. Take a config backup on a working LiveCD and restore it on Installed maybe?  Compare the relevant sections in the XML files of working and non-working configs to be sure they're identical?

In trying to make this reliable again, I re-installed squid3 as it had been before all these problems started. It seemed to be better in the 24 hours since I made that change, but has now become much worse. Instead of Chrome telling me the page cannot be reached, it is a squid error "The requested url could not be retrieved". This has been killing me on eBay and walmart.com this afternoon. Any tips what I need to do to find out what is causing this? Thanks, Jason

I think the problem may have been a dying speedtouch as the connection began dropping several times a day, swapped with another in same config and so far so good.