Old (overblown) news, there is already at least one other thread on the matter.

Thanks for your help. I will try this tomorrow and will post the result.

You can check the inode usage from the shell with "df -i" You might also want to have a look at this thread I started for a similar issue: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,26626.0.html

IIRC others have solve similar problems with a cronjob "/sbin/dhclient vr1"

From the physical console, reset the password.

Really simple introductory would be the Head First Networking (an O'Reilley) Then maybe CBT Nuggets Jeremy Ciaora CCNA ICND1 (video lectures, very good and entertaining, not dry!)

I (and quite a few other people) have had real problems with those Realtek NICs. Nasty st-st-stuu-uu-uuttering action if you get my meaning. AS someone else said  "They give new meaning to the term 'low end' " Everyone recommends the Intel 1000's and so do I.

well that is weird.  it sure sounds like the dhcp server is not running.  what does DHCP look like on the Status page?  If you try and fail to get an IP and set one manually, try looking at the firewall system logs to see if any error messages shed light.

I am not sure if mortified is the correct word but basically I did not Auto fill from NAT and my firewall rule was pointing to incorrect IP address ….. It works like a charm when it is set correctly !! ;D

Routing between the three LANs will happen automatically if this router is the gateway for each network. You can setup those firewall rules you describe with minimal effort. The other actions would be handled by the load balancing tutorial, with maybe the exception of FTP. If you need to use the FTP proxy, the interface for the FTP traffic must be WAN. The FTP proxy in 1.2.x isn't really compatible with Multi-WAN.

What does this configuration look like? Do you mean you plug a system directly into the WAN interface of your pfSense? If so, depending on the NICs, you may need a cross over cable rather than a straight through cable. In the case with the allegedly "bad" MAC address, do both ends of the link see it as in the "running" state? No, over switch.

No. To get such a log you'd have to use a proxy, or manually process every port 80 packet and try to parse out the URLs, which would be very CPU-intensive. There may be some other software daemon out there which can do this, but if so, I haven't seen it.

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They happen constantly. Either one every day, or more often if there are commits to the code which trigger the builder.