Hi, is there any other way to do it ? CMD line ?

In the interest of keeping people updated who might also be experiencing this issue, I've upgraded to a beta of 1.2.3, and things seem to be working alright.  The issue appears to be an issue with PHP, as detailed in this link: http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=12608 I'm not enough of a guru to do a spot PHP upgrade, so I figured moving to BSD 7.1 (as 1.2.3 is moving to it) would help with the issue.  Whaddya know, it seems to be working so far.  ;D

Alright, I managed to solve the issue. My WAN was on the motherboard's builtin card (broadcomm something) and LAN was on a 3Com PCI card (marvell's chipset iirc). Anyway, I tried something random and swapped the interfaces so that WAN was on the 3Com and LAN was on the builtin and I'm no longer experiencing connectivity issues.

FreeBSD, and thus pfSense will try to efficiently use all of your RAM. "Free" RAM is wasted RAM. Why would you want it sitting there empty? You might find that it reports high usage, when in fact a good chunk of that may be in use for caching to speed up processing. It won't swap unless it has to do so, but it will if it really does run out of RAM. If it's using some RAM for caching, and a program needs it, it will handle that without swapping. If you have console/ssh access, look at the first few lines of "top" and it will lay out how much RAM is being used for specific purposes.

Hi ermal. I will read the manual of pf and see how to implemented this. I appreciated your info, thanks again!!!

The dashboard package replaces the main page of the pfSense router with a fancier version that has customizable widgets. There are widgets that show system information, traffic graphs, firewall logs, interface status, service status, and more. For a while the filter log part of the dashboard was broken, and I made some changes to the code that fixed it. As a part of those changes, I also added the command line parser I mentioned. The version with the CLI parser should be online now, I posted it late Saturday night.

i already did a chmod 777. Nevertheless thanks for reading my post.

Hi, After a bit of research - here's what I found: In 7.1 there is support for some USB based 3G cards in the usba module. The problem seems to be switching these modems from storage mode (for driver install under Windows/OS-X) to serial mode. one way around it is to use usb_modeswitch - but you would have to remove the usbmass module. the other way would be to use u3g So, there seems to be some chance to get it working…

Great, that's almost exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! I'll keep this thread updated with my progress.

Hi. Thanks for your many answers. I think my searchwords are wrong…... ??? Ok, thanks for the fantastic posts. ...OpenVPN is my next challenge. I read some docs but it doesn't works until today. On my next holiday I work on it.. ;) Lars

Does anyone happen to have a syslog-ng config file that duplicates the output from pfSense's syslog.conf file? I think I found a start here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7793.0.html *referenced here for anyone that might be interested.

Yes this is possible. Just set up VIPs on the WAN. limitation: currently you can only have additional static IPs. NOT dynamic IPs. DNS entries for each IP is nothing the pfSense controlls. You have to talk to the admin that manages the DNS server on which your domains are listed.

The answer then is - not with the base install.  You'll need to add some FreeBSD packages and your own scripts to do this.

Hi there, I'm getting a similar problem with a cron job I have setup and each time the embedded device reboots it will overwrite the crontab back to default. This may be a crappy question to ask, but it looks as though there are a few crontab entries in the config.xml file under each . Why don't these show up and would I expect my to not show up when i run crontab -l because it's running from somewhere else. Thanks

Found the issue or at least what I think the issue is. I was using the 4.2.2.1-6 DNS server. I was looking at some information regarding how Google can geographically locate your dns query and give a response based in this information, so I decided to change the forwarders to Comcast. It appears using the Comcast dns servers has fixed the issue. Is it possible Comcast slows or aggregates response times across their network to external dns servers? (This would conform to network neutrality would it?) Anyway just wanted to post it wasn’t a pfsense issue but rather a Comcast issue from the looks. Thanks to those who helped and inputted, Peter

@GruensFroeschli: The failover and loadbalancing pools are used within firewall rules. When traffic arrives from the LAN and gets handled by the firewall rule(s) the traffic gets passed over to the balancing/failover pool specified in the firewall rule. The traffic then gets balanced/failovered according to the specified pool. Thank GruensFroeschli  very much. I understand now. I had tried to test failover in the pfsense host, that is not correct.  My setting of failover is OK, but my testing way is wrong. Now I have tested it from one of LAN computers, it works well. Thanks again.