check .profile  and .shrc in the root directory. copying those to the other users might do the trick

Best Practices - father of 6 4) still in the house and I need to monitor bandwidth per IP or mac. Do a fresh and full install, install Squid and SquidGuard, SARG pfBlocker and perhaps Snort! Create user accounts in Squid with MAC and IP addresses. Install also Radius Server using certificates on the wireless or mobile devices from your family. Im not a geek Im trying to lock down our internet to provide a safer browsing experience in the house and liked pfsense I have it force filtering all DNS req to opendns and limiting browsing with that. Got to OpenDNS and create an account matching your family members. Is there a easy way to track daily/weekly/monthly all the data a specific ip or mac address are using? If you are using squid and user accounts you will see for each family member and each of their devices logs that can be watched with SARG, and pending on the OpenDNS service they would be only see things matching to their ages. Ive seen bandwidthd tossed around but heard that it got pulled. any other ideas for a NOVICE at this? What you want to do really? Watch what all family members were doing or handling their bandwidth? You could try out to; set up a small Mikrotik router behind the pfSense and work it out with queue regulation to handle the bandwidth you may also be able to set up a small Layer3 Switch likes the Cisco SG300-10 and work it out with QoS

Setting the MAC address on the bridged interface looks like it will do exactly what I want - thanks! Note that you can change the "Network 30" name to whatever you want by following the instructions here: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/28375-network-profile-name-rename-windows-10-a.html

I'm using speedtest.net, and I assumed as well that it would go through a single session, so by the same gateway. I don't have problems in testing the single WAN, I was just trying to find the reason of this behavior. thanksß

Wan DHCP is 192 168.1.1

I decided to test this tonight. Installed Avahi, left it on it's default settings. Added a single Floating rule as per the screen shot. The printer will add and work as a printer, but nothing regarding the scanner. Windows doesn't seem to detect it. I'll try in the morning connecting the printer to the LAN and manually adding a new TCP/IP Port and see if Windows is happy with that. Then move the printer back to the wireless network and see what happens when I update the IP Address. I'm still unable to see my Chromecast from the LAN and the Smart TV (wireless) can't see the NAS (LAN) So I've not got something set up right. Any other ideas ? thanks [image: IGMP.jpg] [image: IGMP.jpg_thumb]

Glad we got it worked out, great that you were in chicagoland, and thanks for lunch! ;)

Thanks. I realize that, but being new to virtualization, I wanted to be sure that I have the right overall concept.

Ohhh Eureka!~  Found the part in ntopng where I can see point in time reporting for bandwidth usage. There may be an easier way to navigate to there, but I did the following: 1.) At the bottom, middle of your screen you'll see live I/O (small) graphs. 2.) I clicked on the "Incoming" interface stat (arrow down) 3.) click on the time graph on the top nav bar for that interface 4.) On the Timeseries timeframe click on the blue scale to select the window you want to see stats for. 5.) Hover your mouse on the spike to show details on the right side of your screen. :) thanks!~

On pfSense 2.4 with OpenVPN you might have some luck with an SSL/TLS VPN that uses TLS Encryption+Authentication (–tls-crypt). It provides extra privacy and protocol obfuscation. That and moving it to another non-default port might help.

Thanks for the reply. I plan to look at this shortly, but I may have an issue if I use IGMP Proxy. I'll open it as a new thread to save any confusion. But it may have an impact on how I can use the Chromecast or AllStream to my TV (wireless) from my PC (LAN) Thanks

I use untangle with the home license  switched from pfsense for better filtering and utm features  and have it working with vlans fine so to tell the truth  I am very happy with ut and have not experienced  any slow downs compared to pfsense, So I really am not seeing the use case of pf sense here just use UT as firewall/router  also,  the less complications the better things work

"@johnpoz (repeatably:)) said, it didn't have anything to do with multicasting" I never said that once - what I said repeatedly is that it has nothing to do with PFSENSE.. Since pfsense has ZERO to do with clients talking to each other on the same network.. Pfsense is a GATEWAY!!  Of that network if clients want broadcast or multicast pfsense gives 2 shits ;)  And has nothing to do with that..

Activating the RAM disk options for /var and /tmp under System > Advanced on the Miscellaneous tab will reduce the amount of writes.  This is extremely effective on standby members of a two-node cluster on heavily-utilize internet connections!  Disk writes went from up to 100MB/s to nearly zero on the standby firewall in the HA carp cluster.  Since the firewalls are servers with plenty of ram, I set the ram disk sizes to 1 GB for /var and 500MB  for /tmp .

That iTel looks like a pretty good service if the use case is right.