What can you see from switch two? Of those machines on switch 2 that get IP addresses from pfSense, what can they see/do? Can they ping the firewall's LAN interface? Also what IP addresses are the switches themselves on? They both appear to be managed switches so will have IP addresses themselves. This means switch 2 may also have a DHCP server running (you'd need to turn that off). You may also have switch #2 on an IP address already in use on the network.

Also, have you run the traffic shaper wizard in pfSense or are you doing any traffic shaping at all?

Interesting, my wife told me that it is just fine on the nintendo Wii over wifi, but my xbox over wired is not working correctly, after uninstalling havp it worked perfectly on xbox, but I would like to have it installed and working. I am at a loss.

When you use a 'home' router as an AP - or put another way - when you are not using the WAN port, it becomes a simple switch with the 4 LAN ports and Wireless bridged together. Most of the configuration settings become of no use.

Perhaps you could use Layer7 filtering and create a rule for blocking bittorrent. FIREWALL -> TRAFFIC SHAPER -> LAYER7 and then you can chose "bittorrent" as protocol. Didn't use this in the past butr I think you can create a Shaper-Rule which allows/denys bittorrent protocols and then you can put this shaper rule in firewall rules and block bittorrent for all wifi users.

Port forwarding is covered in the documentation.

And to answer my own question. Create a URL Table alias and use this site http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/ and point the alias to the zone file you want to use. I experimented with adding all the IP's to a backed up config then importing it, and while it works, the WebGUI really isn't designed to handle editing it. With nested aliases you can even allow or block multiple countires per rule. From another post these aliases aren't updated automatically but it's coming (can't find the damn post now though that said that)

Unlikely.  An easy way to test would be to just tell the pfSense DHCP server to hand out 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as client DNS servers instead of pfSense's own address.  I do that in Windows Active Directory environments when the DNS server needs to be the Windows Domain controller. -M@

No worries, thanks for the information :)

@unregistered00: How can I access (and edit) the Pfsense box's hard drive using a Windows XP PC connected via LAN? I want to try this because I have problems with the Pfsense box that can probably be resolved by editing various files (e.g. loader.conf). From the web GUI try Diagnostics -> Edit File (I have never tried this). Or download WinSCP from http://winscp.net, create the file on windows and use WinSCP to copy it to the right place in the pfSense file system. You probably want to use /boot/loader.conf.local rather than /boot/loader.conf pfSense is based on FreeBSD which has many similarities to Linux but many differences, particularly in administration.

AWESOME!  I just cleared my Firefox cache and it worked there as well. Thank you!!!

http://www.pingdom.com

Thanks steve. Yeah I believe it was some malfunctioning software as well. I don't think I'll upgrade anytime soon, unless I continue to have problems. I just don't want to deal with the hassle of fixing a working box.