@guardian: All my package manager became totally nonfunctional after a restore. I wanted to restore my configuration but uninstall pfBlocker temporarily but couldn't because the package manger wasn't working. Maybe this was your issue? https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/6603

Works as expected  :)

I can't say too much, not sure how much is meant for public consumption, but it's safe to say the situation you describe is a common situation we have accounted for.

If the automatic values are sufficient, you don't need to tune it.

Why would you need to install a web package just to serve files???  Nginx is already serving WebGUI.  Use that.

Electrical appliances don't work so well when their power cord is bumped out of the socket by your S.O.  >:( Poor router barely held on until it's power cord was bumped completely out just now. sigh

Hi Sorry I missed your post. It did it again today so I have the dump. crash.txt

Have tried to remove the address from the ARP, reset the MAC/IP settings but still no luck. So the next steps is going to be: **- Replace an old small little switch located in the room where the troublesome machine is located (Multiple machines located close by) If still no luck then I have to conclude that the Ethernet port might be somewhat faulty and then** *** EITHER *** – Replace the machine through guarantee (it is 2 months old) *** OR *** – Add in an USB3-Ethernet adapter My fingers are crossed for having good luck with the replacement switch…  8) Knottolf

1)you plug it in & install 2) run through the default wizard 3) setup vlans 4) configure vlan interface 5) configure firewall rules for those interfaces this is a fairly basic situation thats in use on thousands of systems

Then you are doing something wrong. Works fine. Never seen anything like what you are describing on any installation. This one here is a mix of DHCP pool, DHCP Static mappings, and static assignments outside the pool. NAT does not care how an address is assigned. Maybe using statics you're making a duplicate? System log should have some sort of entry in that case.

The backup is done automatically on every change. You can restore any of those recent automatic backups from CLI menu - 15) Restore recent configuration. What's NOT there and what's absolutely non-trivial (despite your imagination) is replacing an arbitrary part of the config with something else. Will  not comment on the monetization crap, waste of time.

the answer is yes

You might also consider spinning up a Kali VM and use OpenVAS in place of Nessus if it's for personal use.

Actually the explanation above is wrong and misleading. A kernel crash would show a very specific message on the primary console that the kernel couldn't continue its execution with some explanation like "Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode" and drop you to the kernel debugger on the primary console. This is not what is happening when you encounter a "core dumped" message. This is when a userspace process does something that the kernel doesn't like and gets killed by the kernel. For example the process  tries to divide by zero or it tries to access part of the process memory space that hasn't been yet allocated for it by the kernel. The reasons for "core dumped" vary, sometimes it's a programming error, sometimes it could be a hardware error as well but most of the time those errors happen as a result of programming errors or misconfiguration of the software.