I hadn't thought of the double NAT -  Juts gave up on PPPoE on the box after hours of failure. For me the upside was being able to reboot and alter the Pfsense box without killing the DSL session. Also my adsl was unstable so keeping authentication on the modem made for easier diagnosis BUT thinking about it now it could be that my inability to get a ppp session on the Pfsense box COULD be due to a internet supply problem as the fault I've been having was an inability to start a PPP session even with a stable DSL sync. I've just left running from the modem now as its been stable for a few days so maybe the problem was not with the Pfsense build?

you have the explanation at the top of the page by cmb

Apologies for a very late reply. Got it working.  8)

@Apexbiped: …. I know I saw in the settings that I can assign the gateway ie 192.168.1.1 in dhcp, so do that? Don't. (because "The default is to use the IP on this interface of the firewall as the gateway. Specify an alternate gateway here if this is not the correct gateway for the network. Type "none" for no gateway assignment.') @Apexbiped: Ya I thought the 16 was an issue just trying something different abut I got same issue with 24 because I did change it back ,192.168.1.1/24 and still issue the only static…. 192.168.1.0/24 and setting a /16 => please don't. Your breaking things. @Apexbiped: The macs that are "swapping" are the wrt1200, …. I'm using myself 5 AP's with DD-WRT for years now. My Captive portal is on OPT1 (where it belongs) - IP 192.168.2.1 (192.168.1.1/24 is my LAN segment). AP1 = 192.168.2.2 AP2 = 192.168.2.3 etc The DHCP server on OPT1 (Captive Portal) hands over IPs for my visitors from 192.168.2.7 to 192.168.2.254. What are your main DD-WRT AP settings ? Did you switch off the internal DHCP server on the AP ? (better be safe : never ever use the 'WAN' port on the AP)

Ok, got it. @Derelict : I saw that you can move, and thus separate posts, is it possible that you separate my post (edit : and move it to the Captive portal forum), and all the replies ? Right now, I have the impression I polluted the initial post of itson - things went HS ….

@JorgeOliveira: I'd say your problem is with Windows hiding the extensions by default and thereby causing misunderstandings about the filetype. You may find this useful: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hide-file-name-extensions Even so, Windows file explorer (by default) still lists the file type column. Also I think it only hides known file types.  So if it's unknown and can't list it in the type column then the extension should be displayed. Extensions not hidden here because it's difficult to rename to a different extension when they are hidden.

@johnpoz I was suffering of slowness on everything, even if the same website was accessed two/three times in row. Yes, replacing the HDD did the trick. Thanks!  :D

I made a quick blog post, any questions message me! Hope this helps some of you https://s3tix.wordpress.com/2016/06/12/plex-remote-access-with-pfsense/

Try to run 'pkg update -f' and see if it shows up then.

@tommyabroad: ….. I suspect the is still some ghost referernces to the 2.3.1_2 update that never was here. 2.3.1_2 existed a couple of hours. https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_3_1_i386-pfSense_v2_3_1/All/pfSense-2.3.1_2.txz did exist for a while. Read the entire thread https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=113435.msg630835#msg630835 ( and apply the proposed solution ).

More specifically: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=113435.msg630835#msg630835

Thanks, I had found another thread that showed the same issue so I removed the PHP core file this morning following the instructions. I did download it first in case you wanted it. I thought I had updated the thread, but was multi tasking and probably forgot to post.. Usage is back down to 3% for now.

A good "adblock" shouldn't interfere with local sites ….. Consider dumping it - or add you local network to the "white list" (if it has one). I believe this is the best ad blocker on the market. It's always been an input selector in 2.3. Your adblocker changed/broke. Ok. The adblock is working properly. What was different was only updating the pfsense and google chrome to version 51.0.2704.79 (64-bit). I use linux.

So after some code diving and whatnot, I have arrived at the source of the problem, which in turn leads me to a new problem. On my system, I have System > Advanced > Miscellaneous > "Use memory file system for /tmp and /var" checked. /etc/resolv.conf is a symlink to /var/etc/resolv.conf, and because my /var is mounted from /dev/md1, when pkg goes to chroot into the other partition in order to apply the upgrade, there's nothing in /var/etc and the resolver can't figure out what DNS servers to use. So now I arrive at my other problem. I can't actually uncheck that value. I unset it, the machine reboots, and it's checked again when I log back in. According to my configuration file, it's not set at all. I have to assume that this is because I'm using the embedded build, since I'm running off a USB stick. I have to assume then that this problem affects all embedded users. I'm not sure how to proceed here, short of maybe putting in a hack into the upgrade script to copy the contents of /var into /tmp/nanobsd_upgrade/var before it starts the upgrade.

It depends on the driver support for the controller and the drive config. A common way to screw up an old IDE drive was to have it in the master position but set as slave, or set as slave with no master, either of which could cause it to not be seen right by an OS. Also check your BIOS for options that control how the controller behaves, it might be worth a tweak. Though honestly if that's really an old IDE disk it's probably not worth trusting. Disks are cheap, especially small ones, not worth the hassle of using a really old disk these days.

Ok I found my problem … better reboot when you change the proxy config  ;D

I double check. with my pfSense 07. who is running right now on 2.3.0 The lan interface is disable and all my vlan are working great.

Got space on the mobo to drop in a PCI or PCIe NIC?