The full config isn't held in memory, nor any parts of the actual config.xml that are usable. Your firewall rules should be accessible in /tmp/rules.debug maybe, may have to run "pfctl -vvsr" to get the list. That's the list in PF syntax though, it'd just be a reference you could use to recreate from scratch once you're on a fixed hard drive. Other services have config files in a variety of places but mostly on disk, the configs they're running with now that the disk is gone aren't extractable. Unfortunately you're probably stuck with the exception of the firewall rules.

I have also heard of cheap, software based NIC's causing those kind of performance issues.

I don't have v2 installation. Back when I was installing this server, v2 was still flaky, and since then 1.2.3 performed flawlessly. I've tried all major browsers, same result. I understand that my version is too old, maybe time to get out of my shell :)

Anyone please  :-[

The logs for cron are not configured in syslog – however, if you enable remote syslog, and tell it to send "everything" it will also forward the logs for cron to a remote box where you can see them. In a cron script, always make sure you use the full path to every command - even date, cp, rm, etc. That or at the start of the script, set your own PATH variable to include the directories where the binaries you need lie.

The pfSense WAN adapter? No. The wan side of pfSense can be a private network. Steve

johnpoz is correct. Block ALL ports and ONLY allow  the standard ports like 80 and 443. I haven't tried blocking hotspotshield with squidguard since i am running squid in transparent mode. try doing my suggestion and post your results here.

I moved it, no problem.

You probably need to add routes at sites A and C so that they know how to get to each other: via site B. Unless your are pushing routing information or running some routing protocol it's probably easiest to just add them as static routes. Steve

UPDATE: I replace the flash drive with a new one, same crash.  Replaced the Power supply with a beefy 500 watt that is a known good one, still crash.  I took the Sun quad port card nic out and it's been running every since. The problem has to be with the card itself or the drivers… SIGH...

root and admin are tied together http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41811.0.html http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41673.msg218621.html#msg218621 http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,29274.msg152300.html#msg152300 http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,53429.msg285826.html#msg285826

That's not the same problem as Zotek. Zotek has client machines that loose internet access when they are rebooted, not pfSense. What hardware are you running? Steve

@stephenw10: @johnpoz: Why would you not want more features and abilities is the question ;) Exactly.  :) Since you aren't familiar with managed switches you now have a great learning opportunity. In fact I would think you could use some of the security/separation features that you get in your WISP environment. About the only reason not to use a managed switch is that they normally consume more power. In some cases a lot more. Steve Exactly, am looking forward to learning all about this stuff. What is the security/separation that you mentioned?  Sorry for a simple question i guess, just not sure what you meant.  VLAN's i have heard alot about but dont really understand still or know how they may assist me at all, will need to learn about that