Thanks! I did as you advised. All the best.

Well thats been done … PS3 Media Server is Running on my NAS and is registered on my Local Domain and on the DNS as NAS. Also permissions are in place on the firewall to allow PS3 Media Server on all networks ( Domain, Private and Public ). I think i might just pull the sever from the Domain to keep my sanity LOL

Are they connected directly back-to-back or through a switch? It could be a duplex mismatch, a bad cable, who knows. If it can't get an ARP response, that's at layer 2 or lower (switch, physical connections, etc)

The upper limit depends on how much RAM you have and how much of that is available as Kernel memory. If you read into FreeBSD's documentation you'll find more in-depth info there, in pages such as tuning(7)

Is there any issue related to this feature? So we can up vote or follow it? Thanks

On pfSense Firewall you will need: a) System->Routing, add a gateway pointing to the Router. b) Routes - add static route/s to the subnets behind router, pointing to the router gateway IP. c) Firewall->NAT, Outbound. Select "Manual Outbound NAT". Add NAT rule/s to NAT traffic from the subnets behind router, onto WAN. d) Firewall->Rules, LAN - make sure there are pass rule/s to allow traffic with source = subnets behind router. Post details of your subnets, gateways, static routes, Outound NAT rules and Firewall LAN rules if you still have a problem.

Same problem here. Do you find any solution in the meantime?

Well you can still do it with different firewall rules, just set the required IP range as the source address. Of course there will nothing to stop users in the blocked group giving themselves a static IP in the unblocked group to get around that. Steve

You can use UPnP on pfsense..  But for something as simple as 1 port that doesn't change there is little point to it. Pfsense even allows for rules to be set so say only specific IP can ask for specific Ports - this way you can enable UPnP for 1 host, while not opening yourself up to have anything running on your network just opening ports willy nilly.

I wish some one would make a fix on this  :-\

The failback of OpenVPN to the primary should be fixed by: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/4bf23d320bc96eeabf2daf9024583f2cc5a6662a and there have been some changes in 2.1.1 that people reported have made PPPoE reconnect: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1943 If you have an install where you can upgrade to 2.1.1-prerelease then that should help a lot.

Did it ever perform to expectations? We've seen some modems that for whatever reason don't play nicely with the ALIX, resulting in performance issues. Putting a switch in between the ALIX and the modem fixes. It's an unusual case though, maybe heard of or seen it a half dozen times and there are many thousands of ALIX systems out there running pfSense.

im not sure if anything like this exists even if it does i doubt it will be freeware/open source. most of the commercial centralized AV packages still need small clients deployed to the machines on the network that contact the central server for updates/rules/schedules etc. i use commercial GFI and it works well.

thank you for your help clarknova. your explanation cleared my pfsense vlan confusion. everything works as expected now. yaboc

@Jones: How do you to a packet dump? Go to Diagnostics: Packet Capture. Watch on the LAN interface and then the WAN as you ping each host upstream. You should see all the ICMP echo requests go out and the responses come back. You can see packet loss this way and figure out where it's happening. You could also watch for strange traffic that could be causing problems. And the CF card… HA! When I first built this box in 2011, I paid $30 for an industrial CF card. Couldn't get that silly thing to work at all. So I went down to Walmart and got a $12 CF card that goes in a camera. Worked like a charm the first time. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all. They can be finicky.

@Jason: Set all user ports to Access mode with the appropriate PVID (do NOT use 1). Set the uplink port for your pfSense box to General (not Trunk) with a PVID of 1 and allow tagged packets from the VLANs you created above. Create however many tagged VLAN interfaces are needed in your pfSense box, including one untagged for the native VLAN, and then use firewall rules to determine which of your computers are allowed to access each network. I'll see if that works when I get home tonight, thanks.