thank you all!

@Videonisse:

Based on recent info from Loopia Support, the recommended API to use is not https://dyndns.loopia.se but https://api.loopia.se/. One important advantage is that you then also can create a separate User for the DNS update and doesn't need to use your admin login for the Loopia Customer Zone.

But are there any specific reason why you want to use the old API?

https://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.loopia.se%2Fwiki%2Fuppdatera-dynamisk-ip-adress-med-loopiaapi%2F&sandbox=1

I'd much rather use the new API of course. But… how would I do that?

Anyhow, I've switched to OPNsense so it doesn't matter for me anymore.

My outdated knowledge of Cisco vaguely recall such HELPER feature, can always google it and find out exactly what it does then attempt to replicate in your environment. Things to also look at NETBIOS, NETBIOS OVER TCP/IP, WINS.

It might be better for you to seek such explanation from VMware. I noticed the same thing after installing Ubuntu on VirtualBox recently; however, I just went with what worked.

I think I figured it out.
Thx 4 Ur help.

Sam

You could bridge your WAN interface and WAN passthrough interface.

https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Interface_Bridges

any ideas?

What a bummer!

Whilst I had copied every setting the key one username needed the domain name in front of it. All sorted now.

On a side note it would be useful if the syslog printed the LDAP error message when something goes wrong. I had to edit the auth.inc file to get additional logging to see what was going on.

So, is it working now? If not, did you go to Services > DHCP server and enable the service on LAN?

one DHCP server per one subnet

What happens if you run /usr/local/bin/vnstat from the cli and have you got Status_Traffic_Totals installed ?

[2.4.2-RELEASE][admin@pfsense]/root: /usr/local/bin/vnstat

rx      /      tx      /    total    /  estimated
WAN (pppoe0):
      Mar '18    41.81 GiB  /    2.57 GiB  /  44.38 GiB  /  70.08 GiB
    yesterday      2.44 GiB  /  131.85 MiB  /    2.57 GiB
        today      1.40 GiB  /  103.39 MiB  /    1.50 GiB  /    2.38 GiB

LAN (igb0):
      Mar '18      8.63 GiB  /  48.17 GiB  /  56.80 GiB  /  89.70 GiB
    yesterday      6.28 GiB  /    8.63 GiB  /  14.92 GiB
        today    165.54 MiB  /    1.46 GiB  /    1.62 GiB  /    2.58 GiB

USER (igb0.2):
      Mar '18      4.83 GiB  /  36.86 GiB  /  41.69 GiB  /  65.84 GiB
    yesterday      3.43 GiB  /    5.18 GiB  /    8.61 GiB
        today    108.51 MiB  /    1.36 GiB  /    1.47 GiB  /    2.33 GiB

GUEST (igb0.3):
      Mar '18    10.70 MiB  /  16.83 MiB  /  27.52 MiB  /  40.00 MiB
    yesterday      1.21 MiB  /    1.89 MiB  /    3.10 MiB
        today      777 KiB  /    1.19 MiB  /    1.95 MiB  /      –

IOT (igb0.4):
      Mar '18    344.16 MiB  /    7.13 GiB  /    7.46 GiB  /  11.78 GiB
    yesterday    26.21 MiB  /  647.64 MiB  /  673.85 MiB
        today    10.36 MiB  /  39.67 MiB  /  50.03 MiB  /      77 MiB

DMZ (igb0.5):
      Mar '18      2.72 GiB  /    2.70 GiB  /    5.42 GiB  /    8.56 GiB
    yesterday      2.71 GiB  /    2.69 GiB  /    5.40 GiB
        today      854 KiB  /    1.26 MiB  /    2.10 MiB  /      --

VOICE (igb0.6):
      Mar '18    76.94 MiB  /  111.22 MiB  /  188.17 MiB  /  295.00 MiB
    yesterday      6.77 MiB  /    7.30 MiB  /  14.07 MiB
        today      4.27 MiB  /    4.60 MiB  /    8.87 MiB  /      12 MiB

TEST (igb0.7):
      Mar '18    58.24 MiB  /  53.63 MiB  /  111.88 MiB  /  174.00 MiB
    yesterday      1.43 MiB  /    2.10 MiB  /    3.52 MiB
        today      939 KiB  /    1.34 MiB  /    2.25 MiB  /      --

IPsec (enc0):
      Mar '18    31.54 MiB  /  946.15 MiB  /  977.68 MiB  /    1.51 GiB
    yesterday        0 KiB  /      0 KiB  /      0 KiB
        today        0 KiB  /      0 KiB  /      0 KiB  /      --

The traffic isn't right for my LAN interface as I think it puts the parent interface into promiscuous mode, my LAN interface is just used for switch & Wi-Fi management no way the total is 56.80 GiB.

[2.4.2-RELEASE][admin@pfsense]/root: /usr/local/bin/vnstat –longhelp
vnStat 1.15 by Teemu Toivola <tst at="" iki="" dot="" fi="">Query:
        -q, --query          query database
        -h, --hours          show hours
        -d, --days            show days
        -m, --months          show months
        -w, --weeks          show weeks
        -t, --top10          show top 10 days
        -s, --short          use short output
        -ru, --rateunit      swap configured rate unit
        --oneline            show simple parseable format
        --exportdb            dump database in text format
        --importdb            import previously exported database
        --json                show database in json format
        --xml                show database in xml format
  Modify:
        --create              create database
        --delete              delete database
        -u, --update          update database
        -r, --reset          reset interface counters
        --sync                sync interface counters
        --enable              enable interface
        --disable            disable interface
        --nick                set a nickname for interface
        --cleartop            clear the top 10
        --rebuildtotal        rebuild total transfers from months
  Misc:
        -i,  --iface          select interface (default: eth0)
        -?,  --help          short help
        -D,  --debug          show some additional debug information
        -v,  --version        show version
        -tr, --traffic        calculate traffic
        -l,  --live          show transfer rate in real time
        --style              select output style (0-4)
        --iflist              show list of available interfaces
        --dbdir              select database directory
        --locale              set locale
        --config              select config file
        --savemerged          save merged database to current directory
        --showconfig          dump config file with current settings
        --testkernel          check if the kernel is broken
        --longhelp            display this help

See also "man vnstat".</tst>

Access Point What's the point of doing it?

Ok. Thanks for the response. I will try it.

@SammyWoo:

@H20FRKS:

SammyWoo, are you saying building a pfSense server with better hardware will not resolve the through put issue I have?

Just the opposite.

Great thanks! I will continue my efforts to understand pfSense better and work on building a server.

Hi Steve,

I fully support your statement. Do not upload files to your firewalls from an unknown sources.

The driver was compiled on freeBSD 11.1 amd64 release.

Kind Regards,
Nick