@pf2.0nyc: temps in the room are 69-70* F and humidity is acceptable. That's nice but the significant temperature is the one in the CPU die. Perhaps you don't have enough air flow through your box, maybe the CPU heatsink is too small etc. There has been some discussion recently (in the hardware forum if I recall correctly) about use of the coretemp kernel module to monitor CPU temperatures. You might find some useful ideas in that discussion.

The DHCP server is on the PFSense box and clients connecting to the switch on any vlan will sometimes send 2-3 discovers to the DHCP server and the PFSense log will only see one of them or sometimes none at all. OK, for the ARP table, I think I found the problem. For some reason or another, my laptop's MAC address is the same as the PFsense box's interface. I'm going to try changing my MAC address and run some tests.

Hi, I am using the 2.0 final version and avahi is eating my CPU… any idea why?

Manual outbound nat means that you will specify how and wen pfSense will nat. If you delete all outbound nat rules, you are telling pfSense to just route outbound traffic.

Hi, same here. Do you have solved the problem?

@ozric: when i connect to the apo the notebook gets the right ip via dhcp, but there no portal. Is the pfSense OPT1 interface connected to the AP WAN interface or one of its LAN interfaces? Does the notebook get its IP address from pfSense or the AP? (Perhaps the AP has a DHCP server running.) What does the notebook use as its gateway? What does the notebook use as its DNS?

yes only serial part of putty isn't working - very odd but probably my issue. I'm not using a USB dongle - when I put hdd with XP pro in the same exact machine with same exact cable hyperterminal works fine so its something software related. I figured out a way to use hyper terminal on W7 so i'm all set… Thanks for the help & answers. Interested in trying to get that fixed but not the end of the world if it can't be fixed.

Yes you could. I had some routing problems when using bridge + routing but you can try. If you need more options, you can set all public ips at wan and Forward(or balance, or filter) the traffic To internal or dmz servers using: nat pfSense load balance apache+mod_security varnish haproxy And then apply traffic shape

@m4rcu5: When can we start testing with 2.1? Running stable is not so exiting as running beta  ;D so true…so anti climatic now... its not the kill, its the thrill of the chase...bring on 2.1 :)

You should use Site-to-Site VPN to achieve this. How to do that is described here: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/OpenVPN_Site-to-Site_%28Shared_Key,_2.0%29

I have experienced one or two boxes going doing because of power fluctuations and multiple restarts (which is another bad thing to Alix boards - no ON and OFF switch). The issue is not me being lazy but rather the client being totally dumb when it comes to the hardware and of course I would have to spend hours on the phone to get them to change the CF card. So, if I could have a USB back-up of the OS, I can give that to the client along with the box and then can simply replace the USB to get operation running which would not require me to fly down to their location :-) What boards similar to Alix do support USB booting? Or would it be an Intel Atom board? Thanks

If it's any solace I have the exact same issue on XenServer 6 beta and my 2.0 RC3 box is performing flawlessly as well.

SOLVED! Found some old config file - couple of days old, restored from it and after some time, so far the system is working, and connected from LAN to Internet. So I am sorry for making a lot of noise for no-thing. Anyways, thank you very much indeed for attention, and keep smiling, guys and girls! :)

Sorry i have no answer for you, but you have struck interest in me here.. i have just been wondering how i can go about creating a second mirrored pfsense for redundancy.. is that actually possible?  I have 1 physical pfsense box currently.. but i do have a VMWare ESXi server that i can run multiple VM's on..

Please post a snapshot of the output of pfSense shell command top -S -H when the system is 100% busy.

Thanks for your comments! It turned out to be my mistake because I tried to install the nanoBSD on a hdd and use a second partition for squid cache. I'm going to save the config and reinstall from scratch.

@jlepthien: Well all I can say is that no one should be doing it the way you did…I as an admin ALWAYS test such scenarios before I'd do a remote update on a production environment... Me too. But living where I live and dealing with what I have to deal with I didn't have an option this time :)

Just to let you know, i solved it. I'm no expert, but since trying to setup a VPN connection I have learnt a few things about routing tables, so it just struck me that the VPN connection pushed a new default route, so when i disabled the Open VPN client, I can ping and traceroute again.