I think its smarter to put an extra NIC card in the pfsense so that you have WAN  (assigned by ISP DHCP)  Plugged directly into modem LAN (for you)        -  10.15.20.0/24 OPT (for visitors)  -  10.15.21.0/24 Then plug an AP into OPT1 port for visitors.  Bind Captive portal to OPT1 If the AP gets a STATIC IP on the OPT1, you can allow just that 1 IP to LAN net (10.15.20.0/24) in Firewall Rules.  Then: In firewall rules for interface OPT1 block any with DESTINATION LAN net  (10.15.20.0/24)  (Before the pass everything rule) The AP interface should be available to you.

Your solution still works - it sometimes might work for an even wider audience than planned. My real office users have desktops in the domain, or laptops for which they do not have admin privilege. So they can't change their allocated DNS server and can't add 1,000 naughty name/address pairs to their hosts file. All DHCP for allowed/known devices are static mapped. General devices in the DHCP pool get addresses in a range that has internet access blocked. When someone arrives with a new allowed device they have to get the WiFi password, connect, then we find them in the DHCP pool and static map them to their proper allocated address. Of course, someone can connect by cable to a real wall socket, set at suitable IP address and get access - but these days most people want to get their mobile device onto the WiFi, so they are stuck at step 1 getting the WiFi password. I block any TCP+UDP to port 53 !LANaddress - then people with personal devices can set whatever DNS server they like, all the ones other than the one provided on the pfSense will simply not respond/work. These people with personal devices could still load up a hosts file with a list of naughty site names and IP addresses that they get from somewhere, but they know the organisation policy and that there would be big trouble if they were caught going to those lengths to access prohibited material. For me, the DNS provider filtering option is quite effective, simple to use and cheap!

Thank you sir.  Will have to wait for 2.1.  I've got 1.2.3 as the rock solid ones in production.

Looks like I have the double-whammy with both igb interfaces (Intel expansion slot) as well as Broadcom on board. Thanks for the quick response, I'll deploy this on the two firewalls I'm building for the local office. I'll definitely let you know if this fixes the issue. Thanks

We don't officially have any support for disk encryption, but FreeBSD does. It does require manually entering the password, otherwise as doktornotor said it would be pretty worthless. You can have security, or you can have convenience, you can almost never have both. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html You need an unencrypted section of the disk in addition to the encrypted section (or two separate disks), I don't believe it supports booting from an encrypted disk for some obvious reasons. If you're that worried about someone stealing the CF, then you either need to not keep such sensitive data on it, or invest in some good physical security measures to keep it physically safe and locked up.

Sure, XMLRPC works with or without CARP. Some people use it just to sync aliases and such.

I should note that this is 2.1 because of RADIUS/IPSec

The haproxy package on pfSense 2.x is already on 1.4.24. Just reinstall the package and you'll be OK.

Or I use the option virtual ips? http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/What_are_Virtual_IP_Addresses%3F

Like this? http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Comparison_to_Commercial_Alternatives Steve

@wallabybob: This is the sort of symptom you would see if mbufs (kernel network buffers) are (nearly) exhausted. pfSense shell command``` netstat -m reports mbuf statistics. It could be worth running a shell script on the console to loop giving a timestamp, reporting the statistics and sleeping for an hour. You could also run that in a SSH session to capture history while the console run will (hopefully) give you statistics after you lose network access. I wish mbuf counts were on an rrd graph in pfsense.  It is such an important thing to keep an eye out for.  It would be great to see the history of that over time. Thinking about it… It would be great if we could get a consensus on some very important things to monitor like this and get a script going to send an email alert when the values are approaching the maximum values.

Sounds like you somehow created open proxy…

Hi, just for information, my provider has changed is radius configuration. I obtain tha gateway and the dns. thanks for all

What does the pfsense status say about all of your interfaces on the main page? UP? down? Red?  Green? Also, in the drop down menu, for MAC addresses in your interfaces > assign, for the OPT1, what is the MAC?  How many choices for MACS are there?  If you count all the possible MACS is it , less, the same, more than interfaces on your system?  Are the macs you assigned to each interface different?  (not even sure if its possible to assign 1 MAC to 2 interfaces, but I'm wondering) And is 255.255.0.0 a typo?

Try use different IP on different Server from any router

Thanks for that - I'll remember to log out from now on!

The reset button is only probed during boot. If you press and hold the reset button while it's booting, it will reset to factory defaults. As doktornotor mentioned you can hijack that to replace the default config with your own, but then you could never actually do a true factory reset again (until you do a firmware upgrade and that default config goes back to a stock version)

Thanks wallabybob… Shows different than acd0 in VMWare but makes sense, will be trying that, will let you know how it works. Thanks for everyones responses!!!