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It's fixed!  2 things fixed it (in my opinion).

Removing the modem/router box from my ISP in the middle.  Today my ISP provided a media converter for glass fibre to RJ45 so I don't need their modem router anymore.  Even though I had PPPoE Passthrough enabled on their modem, I have a feeling it was somehow blocking my own router getting through.

Setting trunking on the VM switch port/group.  I would never have thought of that! Thank you so much

It's now working beautifully.  500Mb down and 750Mb  upload with an MTU to google of 1500.

Thanks so much. 
Matt

PS: if anyone is interested in my settings I can try to write them down, just reply here and let me know if there's interest in it.  Running pfSense on Esxi VM directly via F3100 media converter to xs4all glass fibre

@Shuh:

Ip cameras are in the office, but nvr are out of the office. I need to record from these cameras. (((

Then use a VPN, there is no excuse for opening these devices to the world.

what have you entered in your /boot/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf.local?
do you use the realtek shipped with pfsense or a newer one?

you should try the tip with the new driver on this post: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=103841.msg766227#msg766227

Ok so to update;
I wanted to go to 2016 anyway, along with other NICs, virtual and physical, along with VPN apps doing who knows what to 2012. I decided just to go to 2016 and start from scratch.
All is well now!

Diagnostics > Packet Capture.

I've got a comcast business modem where I have put the Sophos XG WAN interface in the DMZ and everything works just fine when packet filtering is turned off on the pfsense side. The goal is to use pfsense to isolate/route between the different vlans and have sophos maintain the firewall aspect.

I have gone through that and haven't had success even with pfsense as the Edge and in the DMZ of the comcast modem the problem persisted. From what I can tell I don't see a NAT issue (Sophos XG is handling correctly, and PFsense does not have NAT enabled) but are there other areas in PFSense I can check for that?

–-Topology Update---

Comcast modem <> Sophos XG (Edge Firewall. This is listed in the Comcast Modem DMZ) <> PFSense (Handles vlans and inter-vlan routing. Currently has both packet filtering and nat disabled which is causing the vlans to be able to speak to each either versus follow the rules that are in place.) <> Various vlans.

Yes, of course you may assign additional IP aliases to WAN and forward it to the server.
It would also work if the primary is pulled from DHCP. So if you have a static mapping it will be fine to provide a service.
However, the IP aliases have to be static.

OK, so I got it working
But it seems there's DNS leaks.
Anyone know how to get rid of them?

In what scenario would you need/want to create a bridge on a vm?  Zero sense..

interested in this too… current deployment is on an island that suffers from downtime, would be nice to implement and let guests/staffs know that the ISP is having issues

@crisdavid:

Hello,
Not sure if this has been talked before but I would like to know how it would be possible to redirect a user's web browser to a local page to indicate the WAN connection is down. Had a ASUS router with this feature and would like if pfSense could handle this.

Any ideas, guides or help is appreciated

crisdavid: were you able to find a solution to this??

@ecfx:

I am just absolutely disgusted what I have found here:
http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2017-1828
http://web.archive.org/web/20160314132836/http://www.opnsense.com/

no comment.  :-X

I don't care about legalese. The trailer was LOL, RELEASE THE FILM. Make Movies Great Again!

I would take a look at the 3100 if you want an update.. It just came out few months back really, and should be good for a few years to be sure. And is way under your budget.

Hi,

Unfortunately the problem seems to still occur. Although a lot less, I noticed something though```
em1: <intel(r) 1000="" pro="" network="" connection="" 7.6.1-k=""> port 0xe000-0xe01f mem 0xff840000-0xff85ffff,0xff820000-0xff83ffff irq 17 at device 0.1 on pci1
em1: Using an MSI interrupt
em1: Ethernet address: 00:1b:78:5c:4f:99
em1: netmap queues/slots: TX 1/1024, RX 1/1024
vgapci0: <vga-compatible display=""> port 0xf140-0xf147 mem 0xff900000-0xff97ffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xff600000-0xff6fffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: <intel g33="" svga="" controller=""> on vgapci0
agp0: aperture size is 256M, detected 7164k stolen memory
vgapci0: Boot video device
pcib2: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge=""> irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0
pcib2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcib3: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge=""> irq 17 at device 28.1 on pci0
pcib3: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pci2: <acpi pci="" bus=""> on pcib3
re0: <realtek 8111="" 8168="" b="" c="" cp="" d="" dp="" e="" f="" g="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet=""> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xff720000-0xff720fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2</realtek></acpi></acpi></acpi></intel></vga-compatible></intel(r)>

"10.10.0.0/16 does the job after all."

Does the job of what - a firewall rule?  A summary route - those are really the only valid uses of such a CIDR.. Do you have 65k some hosts you need on the same network? ;)

Use a more appropriate CIDR would be my suggestion.. Say a /24 or /23 if you have a lot of hosts..

You can have two dhcp pools but you cannot tell this client should select from pool A and this client should select from pool B. So all the clients you want to be in pool B give them fixed ip. But remember if any other client which was suppose to get dhcp address from Pool A, fix his ip to pool B then he'll be allowed.

So to avoid this you should either use Managed switch or go for vlan.

If you have all wireless devices, then setting up vlans is quite simple. Only thing then required will be device which can tag the clients. Most of the APs now a days come vlan tagging facility.

If you have desktops then you have to invest in managed switch.

I can help you setup vlans, incase you decide to do so.