It might be better for you to seek such explanation from VMware. I noticed the same thing after installing Ubuntu on VirtualBox recently; however, I just went with what worked.

I think I figured it out. Thx 4 Ur help. Sam

You could bridge your WAN interface and WAN passthrough interface. https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Interface_Bridges

any ideas?

What a bummer! Whilst I had copied every setting the key one username needed the domain name in front of it. All sorted now. On a side note it would be useful if the syslog printed the LDAP error message when something goes wrong. I had to edit the auth.inc file to get additional logging to see what was going on.

So, is it working now? If not, did you go to Services > DHCP server and enable the service on LAN?

one DHCP server per one subnet

What happens if you run /usr/local/bin/vnstat from the cli and have you got Status_Traffic_Totals installed ? [2.4.2-RELEASE][admin@pfsense]/root: /usr/local/bin/vnstat rx      /      tx      /    total    /  estimated WAN (pppoe0):       Mar '18    41.81 GiB  /    2.57 GiB  /  44.38 GiB  /  70.08 GiB     yesterday      2.44 GiB  /  131.85 MiB  /    2.57 GiB         today      1.40 GiB  /  103.39 MiB  /    1.50 GiB  /    2.38 GiB LAN (igb0):       Mar '18      8.63 GiB  /  48.17 GiB  /  56.80 GiB  /  89.70 GiB     yesterday      6.28 GiB  /    8.63 GiB  /  14.92 GiB         today    165.54 MiB  /    1.46 GiB  /    1.62 GiB  /    2.58 GiB USER (igb0.2):       Mar '18      4.83 GiB  /  36.86 GiB  /  41.69 GiB  /  65.84 GiB     yesterday      3.43 GiB  /    5.18 GiB  /    8.61 GiB         today    108.51 MiB  /    1.36 GiB  /    1.47 GiB  /    2.33 GiB GUEST (igb0.3):       Mar '18    10.70 MiB  /  16.83 MiB  /  27.52 MiB  /  40.00 MiB     yesterday      1.21 MiB  /    1.89 MiB  /    3.10 MiB         today      777 KiB  /    1.19 MiB  /    1.95 MiB  /      – IOT (igb0.4):       Mar '18    344.16 MiB  /    7.13 GiB  /    7.46 GiB  /  11.78 GiB     yesterday    26.21 MiB  /  647.64 MiB  /  673.85 MiB         today    10.36 MiB  /  39.67 MiB  /  50.03 MiB  /      77 MiB DMZ (igb0.5):       Mar '18      2.72 GiB  /    2.70 GiB  /    5.42 GiB  /    8.56 GiB     yesterday      2.71 GiB  /    2.69 GiB  /    5.40 GiB         today      854 KiB  /    1.26 MiB  /    2.10 MiB  /      -- VOICE (igb0.6):       Mar '18    76.94 MiB  /  111.22 MiB  /  188.17 MiB  /  295.00 MiB     yesterday      6.77 MiB  /    7.30 MiB  /  14.07 MiB         today      4.27 MiB  /    4.60 MiB  /    8.87 MiB  /      12 MiB TEST (igb0.7):       Mar '18    58.24 MiB  /  53.63 MiB  /  111.88 MiB  /  174.00 MiB     yesterday      1.43 MiB  /    2.10 MiB  /    3.52 MiB         today      939 KiB  /    1.34 MiB  /    2.25 MiB  /      -- IPsec (enc0):       Mar '18    31.54 MiB  /  946.15 MiB  /  977.68 MiB  /    1.51 GiB     yesterday        0 KiB  /      0 KiB  /      0 KiB         today        0 KiB  /      0 KiB  /      0 KiB  /      -- The traffic isn't right for my LAN interface as I think it puts the parent interface into promiscuous mode, my LAN interface is just used for switch & Wi-Fi management no way the total is 56.80 GiB. [2.4.2-RELEASE][admin@pfsense]/root: /usr/local/bin/vnstat –longhelp vnStat 1.15 by Teemu Toivola <tst at="" iki="" dot="" fi="">Query:         -q, --query          query database         -h, --hours          show hours         -d, --days            show days         -m, --months          show months         -w, --weeks          show weeks         -t, --top10          show top 10 days         -s, --short          use short output         -ru, --rateunit      swap configured rate unit         --oneline            show simple parseable format         --exportdb            dump database in text format         --importdb            import previously exported database         --json                show database in json format         --xml                show database in xml format   Modify:         --create              create database         --delete              delete database         -u, --update          update database         -r, --reset          reset interface counters         --sync                sync interface counters         --enable              enable interface         --disable            disable interface         --nick                set a nickname for interface         --cleartop            clear the top 10         --rebuildtotal        rebuild total transfers from months   Misc:         -i,  --iface          select interface (default: eth0)         -?,  --help          short help         -D,  --debug          show some additional debug information         -v,  --version        show version         -tr, --traffic        calculate traffic         -l,  --live          show transfer rate in real time         --style              select output style (0-4)         --iflist              show list of available interfaces         --dbdir              select database directory         --locale              set locale         --config              select config file         --savemerged          save merged database to current directory         --showconfig          dump config file with current settings         --testkernel          check if the kernel is broken         --longhelp            display this help See also "man vnstat".</tst>

Access Point What's the point of doing it?

Ok. Thanks for the response. I will try it.

@SammyWoo: @H20FRKS: SammyWoo, are you saying building a pfSense server with better hardware will not resolve the through put issue I have? Just the opposite. Great thanks! I will continue my efforts to understand pfSense better and work on building a server.

Hi Steve, I fully support your statement. Do not upload files to your firewalls from an unknown sources. The driver was compiled on freeBSD 11.1 amd64 release. Kind Regards, Nick

I was able to get back into the router after setting my static IP address (and then unsetting it afterwards).  I was able to restore my router using a backup to the point BEFORE I tried to implement OpneVPN. This issue is resolved.  Thank you all for your help.

Reflashed the BIOS to 4.0.12. Ran a memtest for a week, 0 errors. Stopped the memtest this morning. Let PFSENSE boot, withing 5 minutes it crashed. Below is the log in the pastebin link. https://pastebin.com/hHSnpnmg