Successful in booting 2.2 from another usb stick without any fuss. Must have been some compatibility issue with the first usb stick and 2.2 so I will use it for 2.1

Indeed it does!  ::) In NanoBSD the filesystem is supposed to be mounted read-only. It gets re-mounted as read write only when a config change is saved. It is designed that way to prevent excess writes to flash media. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/ Steve

I am trying to make change in GitHUB now for everyone.  I made this change but and others for 64 bit which I think spawned jimp to change it.  But there is that one change I made that didn't get into it.  I will try again tonight see if I can get github to work with me .. still learning it I was the one that fixed the LED's on the Crystalfontz displays so I did it in past lets see if I can do it again

In 2.2 you can use 'hybrid' mode which allows you to add your own rules but keep the automatic rules added for a new interface. Steve

You did not install… You are booting live CD.

I'm headed out for a few hours I'll reply to any other questions later in the day. Thank you

What error are you seeing? Nano or full install? 32 or 64bit? Steve

Aaah yes, now why didn't I think of that. Fixed. Thanks

Can you ping the OPT1 gateway, 192.168.1.1? What is the actual error produced when you try to ping from the OPT1 WAN? Is that your own IP address, 21.1.1.7/24? If not why are you using it? Anything in the logs? Steve

I would highly recommend that you stop right now and grab pfSense 2.2-x64 and start from there. I've setup a small lab in Virtualbox many times before and I usually create a 3-NIC vm with em0 simulating a WAN link on my LAN, em1 on intnet1 and em2 on intnet2 to simulate a LAN and DMZ (nevermind em2 if you're not doing a DMZ).  Then I create a small vm (Lubuntu or something) on intnet1 to talk to pfSense WebGUI and do all my testing and playing in the small vm.  Slap a LAMP serve rin the DMZ and play away.  BY default, your WAN is set to block private IP space, so you need to disable that if you want to access it from your real LAN, like testing a port-forwarded server in your DMZ.  Uncheck Interfaces - WAN - Private networks - Block private networks.

From what I gather both hard drives are fine. I ran Seagate tools on both using quick test and the both passed.

I can do it from lan, it doesn't matter since the configuration is being done locally.

The devs do not analyse every crash dump received, that is just not viable. If nobody comes up with a good idea about your hardware in the near future, you could PM one of the devs (jimp?) with the public IP the crash dump would have come from - then they can have a look.

one other thing i noticed was i had sent a pull request for UPNP and it was merged but seems it didnt end up in the snapshot i downlaoded which was dated 18th feb so i guess something wrong there too That was commit: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/8f637a0c4e323fe48f910aabf8e1662c307ac564 It was committed to master but then never to RELENG_2_2 branch. Maybe PM to Renato to see if he intended that change to wait for a later release or if it was just an error forgetting to merge to RELENG_2_2.

In most cases at home, WAN or LAN NIC cards, its all the same.  Just get yourself at least two nice compatible Intel NICs (can be on a single card). Not sure about you second question, but you can get gigabit throughput pretty cheap.  Possibly even rummaging in a junk yard for hardware.  haha. Sure - You can get your DHCP IPs from your modem, no problem in most cases.

@epimeteo: @ha11oga11o: Hello all, im trying to setup new pfSense to check it before i upgrade from 2.1. have another box which will be actually production one and i bought Intel PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter which is x4 PCIEX. Well, i put it on x16 port and on another OS like windows works fine. But when i install 2.2 Release, theres no WAY it start. No way to be recognized as vlan capable adapter. Sometimes, just sometimes if pfSense boot on good mood and do some cleaning, checking and asking to assign WAN again, i got it work like em0 and em1. Then after enabling it as LAN and OPT1 interface, reboot pfSense everything goes downstream. Same problems again… Im complete n00b about any advance consoling, digging on files on HDD with that OS, but i think i could do copy/paste :) Now, if someone had same issue or even have clue whats happening to me, can you please give advice or point me to right direction? Heres system log, but im not sure is that enough,... i filtered it with "em0" word and got this: http://pastebin.com/re48tN7G Many thnx in advance :) I have the same problem on an old ProLiant P4 server. To solve I had to configure better the IRQ under BIOS for the x16 port… hope that will help cheers Thank you for tip, but im not sure this s++++ty board could have that advanced feature. I saw that IRQs are shared with 4 NICs. I think 16 and 17. Ill try to fiddle with it (if there's section to do so), and post results here. thanks :)

For me satisfying is not chasing my tail for a week.

You shouldn't have to do that. Check that your DNS forwarder (or resolver) is bound to localhost. Steve