Any real downside to doing this as long as the pfSense box has enough resources?

Hello jimp, I noticed that your sg 1000 has a micro SD card installed on it. I can't seem to install the firmware on an micro SD card using the recovery firmware provided on the members log-in page. The  firmware recovery only erases and reinstalls on the emmc. Are you booting from the SD card? I emailed pfsense and they said it was not yet possible to install on the micro SD card. I was wondering if you were able to install on the micro SD. Would you kindly teach us how to do it? if indeed possible… Thanks very much for you time and assistance

Very well. I am extremely surprised that the SG-1000 is sold with a MicroSD card though. I've experienced these issues with SD cards before, but usually using read-only has helped these run for several years. Its a shame that the live-cd version isn't produced anymore.

Thanks

I suggest you to move to the other services, like http://freedns.afraid.org/ I have been a client of NO-IP for more then 10 years without any problems, but they have changed the policy of service use and now you have much more problems using their free services.

Thanks!

Are you certain that is all? The symptoms fit a common misconfiguration where all privileges were selected (ctrl-A, for example) and the "Deny Config Write" privilege is among them. Check the users and groups and make sure none of them have that privilege.

@gsiemon: My portal dashboard is currently showing a Gold subscription expiry of 3 April 2017 and my newly registered SG-1000 seems to have an entirely separate expiration date (12 months after the date I registered it). Same for me …  :)

I figured it was probably something stupid…fat fingering the mask was a sure way to get there. Thanks for all of your help!

Days?  heheh dok there are some that don't get it after weeks ;) heheheh

You don't. /etc/rc.initial is not localized.

No, you do not add any static routes for interfaces connected to pfSense itself. Other than that, produce a network diagram.