Concurrent connections don't matter so much as total throughput. I'm not sure how much the numbers are reduced once you put traffic shaping on, but when sending in the clear an ALIX box like that can pass through about 80-85Mbit. As far as concurrent connections go, RAM would only matter in terms of state table size, and you can fit ~100,000 states in about 97MBytes of RAM. I'm not sure if traffic shaping adds any more overhead onto that.

I'd be glad to help you one on one if you purchase support. There is also a lot of detailed info on OpenVPN in the book. http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=509

@jimp: On the WAN config page there is a field for that in the PPPoE section. ISP changed the PPPoe password on us, called ISP got the correct password, everything works perfect!!! thanks for the help

Thanks for your timely response, GruensFroeschli. I haven't done that yet, so I'll give it a shot. I bet that is the problem. ~Rain724 Edit: It works now! Thank you so much GruensFroeschli, you rock!

I wanted to let anyone know who is having this issue that having the option Clear DF bit instead of dropping enabled on both sides of the VPN tunnel fixed the problem for me. There is another fix which I found in my own old documentation I had tried but it only works for the user policies and not computer policies. It has to do with editing the registry. Hope someone else will find this useful.

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

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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!!!