My outdated knowledge of Cisco vaguely recall such HELPER feature, can always google it and find out exactly what it does then attempt to replicate in your environment. Things to also look at NETBIOS, NETBIOS OVER TCP/IP, WINS.

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.