There is some support for 3G devices in 2.0. I don't recall the specific models supported, however.

Thank You! :D 8)

I once had for a LAN-party a setup with 4xGbit + 1x100 Mbit NICs. Each Gbit NIC had 12 VLANs on it. –> A total of 47 OPT (+LAN +WAN).

@trentdk: I'm just curious as to why the Linksys router was supposedly sending information (a lot, apparently) while purely downloading, whereas the pfSense router, more expectedly, does not 'send' anything while downloading. If you are downloading over a TCP connection (e.g. ftp, http) there is no such thing as a "pure download". The TCP protocol requires the transmission of ACKs to acknowledge data, hence there will be an apparent "upload" of "control" information as well as the data download. This is true regardless of the router. I suspect there isn't any precise specification of what the SEND light means, so it could be misleading to read too much into it.

Great post about how to set the embedded device into RW mode. This has baffled me for a while and has now allowed me to add files into the rc.d folder!! Thanks.

I fixed the problem by disabling hardware checksum offloading.

Not sure - the ZyXEL is also NATing, so it seems unlikely that that is the problem - unless something's not quite right with either the Speedtouch or pfSense.

Regardless of hardware checksumming on or off, It seems the dropout connectivity has reared is ugly head with Hardware Checksum Offloading disabled, after it was working for me for awhile. All I did was change the WAN interface link from 100 Half Duplex to 100 Full Duplex… Shrugs I am beginning to feel that this box is not cooperating or compatible with FreeBSD In the sense that we need it to be, I am thinking of giving up and trying other hardware, any last thoughts? I really apprecaiate the help so far but I don't think I can single this issue out so well if it keeps happening without any explanation of origin

Also might be helpful to post the system logs.

It can send them anywhere. I have some that send to something behind a different router, some that log over IPsec, some over OpenVPN, if the firewall can communicate with that host it can log to it.

I always intentionally yank the plug on my boxes, have done that thousands of times now and never had anything go wrong. It'll automatically run fsck to repair any filesystem inconsistency. Years ago write caching was enabled for a period and could definitely cause filesystem corruption, that hasn't been the case for years though.

I have pfSense-Full-Update-1.2.3-20090628-0242.tgz I forget what version that is though…

Not sure how this might help, but pfSense keeps the last 25-30 or so config files, which you could run through diff to approximate what you are after. On the filesystem, look in /conf/backup/