Thank you to mhab12 and dotdash for your answers.  Appreciated.

I've been running with a hard drive to experiment with pfSense and tried 'rate' but the system didn't seem to stay functional for more than 30 minutes while 3 people were running torrents on the network.  There were timeouts on the LAN side resulting in zero traffic passing through.
   I rebooted 2 additional times with the same results.
   I removed 'rate' and installed both bandwidthd and darkstat.  The system is currently not as stressed but it is fully functional.  They both provide stats, but none as desirable (to me) as 'rate' – although I would prefer to be able to capture the 'rate' data because it flashes by rather quickly.

Are there any other 'rate'-like packages that provide relatively real time information on LAN utilization but are more stable?

Again, thanks to all for your information.

Steve

Ordered mine…in stock.

Ok danswartz thanks.

I have to figure out how to use pfsense inside my network.

Thanks again!!!

So when I uncheck it the traffic stops. I mean this checkbox.

Thanks for your post!!!It's useful for me!!!

That's your cable modem. How exactly is the WAN connected to the cable modem? The cable modem is replying from different interfaces.

this seems to be a bug. if under general configuration type is set to "dhcp" this error will occur. if i switch it back to "static" the rules get applied…

sorry for the long wait before the answer. I have not noticed the reply :)

linux client <-> lan:pfsense:lan<-> lan:internal router:lan2<->linux server

IPs are:
192.168.1.100/24 (client) <-LAN1-> 192.168.1.254/24 (default GW) <-static route to 10.0.1.0/24-> 192.168.1.111/24 (internal router) 10.0.1.254 <-LAN2-> 10.0.1.30 (server)

thanks

Found it.  Screwed up port forward rule.

eric

You'll probably find that snort is what you're looking for.

@Defenestr8r:

No, I haven't. Is it stable? If so, what's keeping it in RC status?

See http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=497