I've installed FreeBSD since 3.3 from CD/DVD and have not experienced anything like you are saying.  This is from media purchased from BSDMall and ISOs I've downloaded and burnt myself on different platforms.

If you used the same media on all 3 systems, perhaps that is the source of your problems.  The boot delay?  Perhaps due to BIOS/firmware probing of the hardware and the drive itself is taking a long time to respond.

This is FreeBSD installs, not pfSense installs.

A Google search shows people seem to have been able to run pfSense with these boxes, so I'd look for some change from the "ordinary?"

Check for BIOS versions/upgrade?

Update -

So I'm not sure what the root issue was, however I decided to upgrade to the latest version. My network is fairly simple so reconfiguring is not difficult at all. I created a memstick image and nuked the installation and started fresh. Worked right out of the box. I added a few tweaks, like not letting my router serve 192.168.0.1-254, I limited it to a handful of IPs, etc.

So, now I have a clean install thats working, and I have reinstalled my packages. Next step, once I have time, is to configure it for PPPoE and get my Zyxel into bridge mode. I've searched quite a bit on the topic, but if anyone has any experience with that particular dsl modem/router and pfsense, any suggestions would be great. Thanks!

That all got reworked for 2.3, so hopefully less confusing now.

On 2.2.x, when the box is checked, states will not be killed.

If you purchased two appliances, they likely come with support.  Contact ESF and get their recommended procedure.

Yeah it seems like your old hardware used a different baudrate then your new SG-2440.
What is actually configured? It should be set to 115200.

https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Console_Types

The use case is for residential network gateway. Does the RRD data provide some functional usage, or is it for analysis only?

The reason I am evaluating this setup is that for non-tech types it is easier to just burn a disc than to write an iso to a USB device, and they can even do their own backups of the config.xml file, plus pretty much everyone I know has a cache of CF cards they aren't using.

Is this what you're looking for?

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=7458.0

You'd probably do best to install the latest version rather than 2.1.x. But here's a mirror site if you really must use something unsupported:

http://files.nyi.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/old/

This concerns a package, and isn't a pfsense.

See here : pfSense Forum » pfSense English Support » Packages (Moderator: submicron) » Postfix - antispam and relay package

Without encryption you can get a bit more than that on ALIX, around 80Mbit/s if you're lucky.

With its RAM you'll be limited by the number of simultaneous connections (states), by default it will only allow ~21,000 concurrent states which would roughly translate to ~10,500 end-user connections (one state entering the firewall, one state leaving). That can be nudged up a bit, but that box is tight on RAM already.

How many users you can support depends on how many connections each of them will make. Light users may only need a couple dozen states each, heavy users and torrenters may need thousands.

Hi im very interested in performance numbers / benchmark of the new apu2 unit. Specially ipsec aes-ni performance.
Could you do some testing and post it? =)

BR Alex

Hey vcd really appreciate the lengthy reply and will try out your suggestions this weekend.

Hopefully I can at least get it installed as you have and use the thing.

Thanks again

That means the system can't download a file from us. Most often in current versions, broken IPv6 connectivity on your system is the cause, it thinks it has v6 connectivity but doesn't. System>Advanced, Networking, check "Prefer IPv4 over IPv6". Reboot, then try again. Second most likely, DNS on the host itself is non-functional.

@Elludium_Q-36:

Maybe it only affects those who aren't Gold Members!

::) No, the software has no clue whether you're a gold member.

Still have the tutorial?  I would like to go over it.  ALOT of the guides I've been trying to follow are rather incomplete or assume you should know something missing.

Thank you for all that replied. It was the NIC that is the culprit.
I did not at first suspect it because pfsense was able to detect it.

I had this same problem. My certificates were also there and the sha256 matched. I finally rebooted and the problem was fixed.

As Jahonix mentioned, are you sure you have your network cards plugged into the correct networks? Swap the cables over and see if that helps.

Also, you don't mention what DHCP address you're getting on your WAN connection. Is the PFS picking up an address correctly on the WAN? And if so, is the WAN network address range similar/the same as your LAN address range?

There are deployments of pfsense in much much much larger than your tiny network ;)  No offense intended..  With much faster connections than 200mbps.

If you just want it to firewall between your local networks and the internet - yeah can do that just put at C, if you want it to firewall between A and B then put it it either place and it will firewall that where you put it from the internet and your other location.

You could also just put a pfsense in all three spots..

But the simple solution is to just replace the cisco all together..