:) Finally got it all working, turned out to be wrong settings in my servers dns. Thanks everyone for your help Cheers Jamie

A tracking issue has been created: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4508

Best solution is to put your modem into bridged mode and allow your PFsense box to do everything. Note down the modem settings for connecting to your ISP (PPPoe, SIP, username, PW etc etc) as you will need to put these settings into the WAN page of your PFsense box.

And what is the exact file name of the image you downloaded?  What did you write it to?

Well, I found 'set hint.run.0.disable=1' later on, after I was able to restore Internet connectivity at home :) That's a good tip, but you have to be careful - if missed, booting and crashing caused many filesystem errors in my installation…

Be sure to "harden Glue"…

You never define a gateway for LAN, only WAN.

You need to stop messing with config files via shell.

run(away)

I understood you. Thank you for taking the time to find a solution to this problem! I very much hope that in future versions will be implemented to support the transfer H323 protocol to the fullest!

Try this: http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Talk:Installation_Troubleshooting I had to set HD access mode to LBA on a box here but you're not using a HD. Will that box not boot from USB then? Steve

Seems like you hit some 'random weirdness' which is never a good thing. Garbled serial output is very often a serial cable or adapter problem which may not be obvious. Steve

Ill give that a shot, removing vlan 1 and making it just a pass though port. I thought the PVID on the switch defaulted to vlan 1.

I was able to get my networking working and the host can join the domain. I assume using the built in NAT from VMWare is enough and a firewall would not really benefit me any for this type of internal private network. Thanks for the help.

hmm…i have a serial to usb cisco cable here around...it might help.

My own stupid fault.  In the advanced pass through options I manually bound haproxy to port 80 to facilitate http > https redirection and specified the public ip of my production environment which is inaccessible from my test bench. I am not a smart man.