Sure you can use a managed switch an put both connections into a trunk to feed your hardware. The easiest way (and probably the most common solution) is to use a low power system which could look like this: http://store.pfsense.org/VK-T40E/

Hello, as you suggested, I switched on pfSense 2.2 RC on my machine. I tried to compile the driver under VM with FreeBSD 10.1, it compiled well but the kldload didn't work, so I took the one provided by arrmo, and this time it works : the alx0 have a dhcp lease when plugged to a SFR Box. Now I will perform tests to verify tu upload and download ratio ;) EDIT : I configured my network as I planned (Captive portal + Freeradius + external MySQL database), and the debit, when I'm the only client, is almost the same as a connection not passing through pfSense. I built this for a LAN party in March, so i'll see in a few month if the custom driver bear the load ;) Anyway, thx for your help and advices !

@johnpoz: …you can not traffic shape if you run squid on same box?? IIRC that were past problems. When Squid was in transparent mode then traffic shaping didn't work out. But it wasn't my post and I cannot verify it currently.

The quality graph is measuring latency, packet loss etc. to an external gateway or monitor IP. So it is only relevant and possible on interfaces with a gateway (WAN-style interfaces). If you had a gateway to some other router on your LAN that has other intranet subnets behind it with static routes, then I guess that would also keep quality data.

Yes, ath0 is a wireless device, as you have guessed. On the webGUI, go to Interfaces->(assign) Available Network Ports dropdown at the bottom will show you the device names of any unassigned network devices that pfSense knows about.

that can also be easiley configured through the console menus. Zikmen

Ok. There's no FreeBSD driver for the Broadcom BCM43225 chip used in that wifi card and it's very unlikely one will appear any time soon. Broadcom have not released an specs for it so it has to be reverse engineered as I understand it. https://wikidevi.com/wiki/AzureWave_AW-NB290H 'Cascaded router' sounds like it might be the right option here but I need to do more reading. I'm probably not the right person for this since I'm in the UK and only vaguely familiar with uverse.  ;) Steve

test hard drive with mhdd (if sata, must be set to "as ide" in bios instead of "ahci") test memory with Memtest (and shake memory dimms while testing) the test should not stop as you shake the dimms. if it stops, use contact cleaner (DeoxIT) install windows on the workstation (to be sure the machine is working fine) Try another cdrom drive burn the disc again reinstall PfSense with default settings finally, give us an update. zikmen

test hard drive with mhdd (if sata, must be set to "as ide" in bios instead of "ahci") test memory with Memtest (and shake memory dimms while testing) the test should not stop as you shake the dimms. if it stops, use contact cleaner (DeoxIT) install windows on the workstation (to be sure the machine is working fine) reinstall PfSense with default settings finally, give us an update. by the way, why are you moving to machine installed pfsense instead of Virtualisation setup? zikmen

Hello, I'm not familiar with your actual setup of kvm and promox but i'm sure pfsense will be easy to fit in there. I don't understand what's not working exactly, specially when you talk about the public ip given by a router?  a router usually provide only a private ip, or a DMZ environnement that will make the workstation (PfSense in our case) think that he's outside the private network. I would need more details of your step by step procedure to understand at what point you'r stuck. Thanks, Zikmen

I'll be glad to assist you with this. In order to help, i will need some more details about your configuration to figure out the case. Internet line downspeed and upspeed measured with only 1 pc connected directly to the modem (speedtest.net), do a few test on different servers and grab an average. how many hosts or subnets hosts usage or purpose (download workstations, doctors watching youtube all day long, just checking meal recipies) Cable or DSL ISP Thanks, Zikmen

What are you trying to cache? Which Squid version are you using? What isn't working? What did you expect? This question would be better asked in the 'packages' subforum. Steve

Just a follow-up… I fixed it by plugging the cable modem right into the ESXi host vmnic, as opposed to plugging both cable modem & ESXi host in to switch ports in the same VLAN off the 2960. CDP/LLDP/keepalives were off, so not sure what caused it, but it's resolved.

Holy moley GhostBSD is really nice! And worked perfectly, thanks!

This: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_can%27t_I_access_forwarded_ports_on_my_WAN_IP_from_my_LAN/OPTx_networks

@jwelter99: I'd setup at least two vlans - one for the pc's and another for the VOIP traffic.  Once you have it setup to break this traffic across the 2 plans you may find other logical groups your want to segregate onto a vlan. This allows you to be more selective on your firewall rules - e.g.: voip has a different footprint versus desktop pc's, etc. As for switches you want to reduce hops when possible.  So I'd have a root switch that plugs into the PF sense box, and all your other switches plug into that switch. That's exactly how I would do it also.

Did you ever get to the bottom of this? I am getting the same error message in dhcpd.log (unable to add forward map REFUSED) and DHCP leases aren't getting registered in DNS. EDIT: Looks like I had some DHCP reservations on an old unused interface that were conflicting. I removed the reservations, restarted the DHCP service, then new leases seemed to get their reverse maps properly added. To force update all the existing leases I un-checked "Register DHCP leases in DNS forwarder" under DNS Forwarded, applied, then re-checked it and all my leases showed up. My apologies for the necro-post, but I couldn't find hardly any info on this issue except this thread. Hopefully this will help someone else. :)

If you can see traffic going, approximately equally, on all 4 WANs then the load balancing is working correctly. It may be that you are hitting some other limit further upstream. The modems you're using appear capable of 150Mbps if the correct data network is available. Do you know what data network type your ISP is providing? I don't have much experience with mobile broadband but when I have used it I found I was able to get close to the advertised bandwidth only at times of day when nobody else was using it. You might be better trying to use either different cells for each modem (directional antennas?) or different networks. Steve

@voxmagna1: Hi, I was wondering if members could say which USB NICs are working with pfsense? I have one which configures o.k with zeroshell bound to PPPoe, but pfsense will not autodetect it. The strange thing is I can see it getting picked up in the boot screens and if I unplug and replug it I get the line ugen4.4 <realtek>at usbus4 (disconnected)</realtek> so pfsense knows something is there. It is a clone of something and has no NIC name in its firmware. Works fine for me, dont need anything faster as our broadband is not very fast. http://plugable.com/products/usb2-e100