This isn't specific to PFSense. I think it is a FreeBSD issue. I had the same problem on a 6005 and DC5850. Ended up using something Intel instead.

Transip runs KVM for it's VPS-es and has pfsense available as an install option. Don't know of any other provider doing this. Maybe some others let you install your own ISO though.

@muhammadanish: Hi I am trying to fresh install on SATA HARDDISK Version: pfSense-CE-2.3.2-RELEASE-2g-i386-nanobsd-vga Please Check/Read:  https://www.pfsense.org/download/  (Pick Your Platform) Pick Your Platform USB Memstick Installer The USB memstick image is meant to be written to disc before use and includes an installer that installs pfSense software to the hard drive on your system. This is the preferred means of running pfSense software. The entire hard drive will be overwritten, dual booting with another OS is not supported. The USB memstick file is named pfSense-memstick-2.3.2-RELEASE-arch.img.gz. where arch is i386 or amd64, depending on the CPU architecture of your system. **Embedded (NanoBSD) The embedded version is meant to be written to disc before use and is specifically tailored for use with any hardware using flash memory (mostly Compact Flash) rather than a hard drive.** Flash memory can only handle a limited number of writes, so the embedded version runs read only from flash, with read/write file systems as RAM disks. The NanoBSD platform has two OS slices and a config slice. One OS slice is used to boot from, the other is used for upgrades, and the config slice is where the configuration resides is held separately. There are two variations of the NanoBSD platform: The default version which uses a serial console, and another that supports using a VGA console. Each of those variations also comes sized for different sizes of storage media. The filename for NanoBSD downloads is laid out as follows: pfSense-2.3.2-RELEASE-size-arch-nanobsd.img.gz. In that filename, size can be one of 1g, 2g, or 4g. The arch, as above is for i386 or amd64. The nanobsd part can is either nanobsd for serial console, or nanobsd_vga for the VGA-enabled version.

Try it. It will work fine. Particularly so if the interface names do not change. Not sure where you read that you cannot load a 2.1.X config onto 2.3.2.

Ok so figured out how to get this done with HAProxy.  I like it.  Thank you.

Same here, using the IPSec widget on the dashboard causes PHP-FPM to die after a random amount of time. Removing it from the dashboard for now…

Tried manually adjusting the xml via the console, but no luck. Adjusted the config via the Web Gui to make the interface hn0. Saved, powered down. Uploaded the new VHD and bingo, all good now. Thanks for the pointer.

Is pfSense LAN set for DHCP?  Do you have a DHCP server on LAN to serve it an address?

What size CF card do those have? (Check the dashboard) Probably they have a CF card size that is no longer offered due to size limits. Only 2GB and 4GB CF cards work currently.

Winbind will, somehow, encapsulate LDAP requests, although with some side effects (due to caching if I understand well) especially with group membership. This said, rather than looking for "how to", why not explaining more in detail what works and what doesn't in your configuration? I believe it will be much more efficient than asking for yet another documentation that you will follow but which may not fix issue you're facing.

Problem solved! During my last reset, I mistakenly configured the gateway with the wrong IP, so I created a second gateway with the correct one, but somehow both were being used. I did another reset (using the right gw IP this time) and all has been working perfectly. Thank you to the folks here and those behind the Gold support service desk!

What does the host time have to do what what time you set on the VM?  What timezone did you set pfsense in, where is is syncing its time via ntp?

You have high latency+packetloss …. Ouch.

Thank you for the comment. I did believe that the built-in driver would be solid at some point and your post has motivated to go back and convert all my E1000 to vmxnet3 adapters. Hopefully it won't have the interface reassignment issues right after upgrade, that I ran into a while ago :-> @cmb: vmxnet3 in 2.2.x and newer has proven very solid, I'm not aware of any problems with the built-in driver in FreeBSD 10.x versions and it's widely used.

I'm having this issue also. Two different systems at two different sites. Mine is failing on umber of packages to be installed: 1 Number of packages to be upgraded: 66 The process will require 2 MiB more space. 21 MiB to be downloaded. Fetching perl5-5.20.3_13.txz: ....... done pkg: https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_3_2_amd64-pfSense_v2_3_2/All/perl5-5.20.3_13.txz: Operation timed out >>> Locking package pfSense-kernel-pfSense... Locking pfSense-kernel-pfSense-2.3.1_5 It works when I manually wget the link.. both systems are running as VMs on VMWare ESXi. I upgraded my test router to 2.3.2 without issue about 2 and a half weeks ago  :-\

Well, a quick call to the ISP sorted it out. I was using the wrong gateway. (facepalm) What I haven't looked into is why my other two servers are working, albeit still going through the incorrect gateway. Thanks for the help!

Steve gave me access to his code for the Fireboxes, but I gave up, as I wasn't getting very far. I ended up using a splitter cable and a small potentiometer on the two fans on the cpu side and this reduced the noise quite a bit. However, after doing an update from 2.1.5 I found that I was getting a lot of errors in the logs, relating to the NIC's. It's a while ago so I can't remember all that I did, but I believe it was due to an update in the BSD OS. I went back to 2.1.5 and the problem disappeared. I don't know if the situation has changed in the meantime, but I am looking at other devices that have Intel NIC's and may well replace the Proventia at some point.