Really?  You'd rather spend $140 on a Hitachi microdrive instead of $29 on the Seagate?  This is not a poor-quality issue with respect to the Seagate.  It USED to work, now it doesn't.  Something changed in Free BSD to bork it.  By the way, I couldn't turn up any Fujitsu microdrives at all on Google or on Fujitsu's site, so I DK what happened to their product line.  Hitachi bought out IBMs product line, of course.  I think it's just them and Seagate now. I just wish that bug report had been marked with something other than "non critical" on the Free BSD site. P.S.  I'm not using a WRAP either.

The embedded version of pfsense displays kernel output via the console port.  You'll need to hyperterminal into the serial port on your device on order to see the rest of the boot sequence from that point on.  So basically pfsense continues to load but without video or keyboard support.  Get a null modem cable if you dont have one already and console in.

Thanks!

You need to download the full update file. Then just upload it at system>firmware. System will reboot after the upgradeprocess. Note that firmwareupdates are not supported for embedded platforms but only full hdd installs.

LOL, thanks!

I installed Webmin (lite) to do this. Works great an I only have to install the modules I need. Greetings, Marcel

Try the latest snapshot from http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD6/RELENG_1/ . Haven't seen the problems you are describing with 1.0.1 anywhere but upgrading to the latest snap won't hurt.

@yawarra_paul: Hi Scott, I'm going to give creating a "read-only during bootup" version a try since the versions we ship don't have a lot of need (or space) for installable packages.  As I understand it, when a new version comes out the whole CF usually gets reflashed. If it seems to work I will post the image on our website at: http://www.yawarra.com.au/sw-osimages.php for others to play with. Thanks for all your help, it is much appreciated. Best regards, Paul McGowan No problem, please let me know how it works out and thanks again for the xmas present!

I updated to the next release and that particular little nasty went away all on its own.  Maybe a file was corrupted and was overwritten during updates?  Maybe someone (throwing nasty look over the cubicle wall) was "looking" and slipped?  The world may never know. Thanks for your reply!! Scott

Do something like this: vi /cf/conf/config.xml rm /tmp/config.cache /etc/rc.filter_configure_sync

I seem to have found a possible solution.  It seems that by having two hard drives connected and using teh on board RAID controller was causing the issue.  I simply removed the second hard drive and the command ran fine.  Thanks.

This is not supported. If you want to do something like that you will have to find your own way (livecd with packages). There have been discussion earlier why this is not a good idea (search forum and mailinglist).

OK, so j0emv beat me to it. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/110407 I wish I knew enough about BSD to just fix the darned thing.  I hate waiting.  That little Seagate microdrive is perfect and I can't use it!

Please use the sanpshot from 23.03 with caution, at the time a feature called "schedules" will be implemented! Use the snapshot from 15.03.

Setup a remote syslog server then tell pfSense to send the logs to the other server. Currently there are no other methods of saving the logs locally but we will be addressing this soon.

I think you can watch to timeline : http://cvstrac.pfsense.com/timeline

There is a known problem with using pppoe interfaces in pools. It's not fixed yet.

@egarnel: The 7206vxr could sit behind the pfsense box and perform traffic-shaping and/or policing before it gets to the pfsense box internal networks –---> 7206 ------- pfsense [nat] –- internet We do something similar we have 3845 routers running as a glbp pair that shape traffic, police protocols, perform ip sla checks and then do policy based routing to send particular traffic out either of the pfsense servers or firewalls or nat routers - based on priority & availability. You can use class-maps & service polices to give certain protocols more or less bandwith, qos, etc...  For example:  We choke down bandwidth hogs to a trickle before they even reach the pfsense servers The 7206 is a bad ass router that can do a lot of stuff as above, as well as vlan support & firewalling. We have one here in our shop, it just cranks right along I have an ATM connection to ISP. So I can't put anything in front of my router because of hardware requirements. But your suggestion seems smart. But I think I will work on Hoba's suggestion.

ok thanks for your quick replies - I'll keep on experimenting :-) Update on problem: If I choose 99 in the menu - but from a ssh session as opposed from the "console" (keyboard/VGA screen) the Ncurses GUI works :-) If invoked from the "console" the system freezes - only possible option is the hw-reset button - it seems that the problem is related to the VGA shared-memory…