Free RAM is wasted RAM. If the system is just using it for caching and whatnot, that's better than letting it sit empty. Run top -SH for a bit and see what the memory breakdown looks like there.

That is an artificial limit in the GUI, largely since high numbers haven't been thoroughly tested/vetted. You can either edit the value in the config.xml directly to be larger and then reboot, or edit the page so it draws many more numbers to choose from. (or change it to a text entry field).

When you have it set to TCP it just tries to connect to the port, it doesn't check that a response is proper, only that a connection can be established.

That may be one of the modems that requires an "eject" command to happen before it triggers into modem mode. Google around for references to cdcontrol or eject with 3g on pfsense and you should hit on some other people who have worked around that.

The interface counters are obtained via pf now, did you perhaps disable pf for some reason?

@DesertPanther: Should I use the 32 or 64 bit of pfSense? I want to make use of all the hardware that I have. To use more than about 3.GB to 3.5GB of RAM you should use the 64 bit version of pfSense. @DesertPanther: Also is the current version of pfSense based on FreeBSD 8.2? No, FreeBSD 8.1.

This sounds like it might be applicable to your situation: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,5253.0.html

Did you ever confirm/resolve this? I'm having the same problem and my <20KB/day of syslog entries under 1.2.3 has blown out to ~150KB/day with these entries. Thanks

Confirmed on my end too.  If you delete the RRD data, the quality file(s) is not regenerated.

You are asking the questions, but have this mentality of what the answers should be. The second post answered your original two questions perfectly. Now you are changing the details of the original questions, which ultimately changes the answers that you either do not like or do not understand. If you are new to all this, which you said you were, I suggest reading up on what firewalls, content filtering, routers, and proxies really are first. After understanding what they are and what the limitations and capabilities are of each, you can then formulate better questions for which we can help. Cheers.

@techy21: Hello, I am new to pfsense firewall. Though I was able to configure snmp settings on the pfsense firewall, I could  not configure snmp trap from pfsense firewall based on the number packets being dropped. Where is the snmpd conf file ? /etc/snmpd.conf seems to be different. Though I was able to poll and get the statistics, I guess getting a trap for critical events would make sysadmin life easy :) Hope somebody ventured into this path and help me ,,,thanks for your time. warm regards, Bhaanu

Maybe you can create a route or gateway for that openvpn tunnel and try again

@marcelloc: You can download dvd torrent iso from many SO,including freebsd(http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html) just google for it. You can also create an account at any fileshare sites over internet and download anything you want. Or install iperf on your firewall and find someone who has 50/35 datalink or more to test it with you. This is what I usually do to test a connection.  Typically a Linux distro though, they tend to have more peers.