@divsys: [What version of pfSense are you running? [/quote] 2.2.5. Thanks for the autoreplace tip, that's probably what I would have done. I'll make sure to do it manually.

Newbie here.  Working through all things pfSense.  This was one of them. I put an old Dell laptop to use with pfSense for routing and radius functions.  Had problem where, from the main console menu, when I choose reboot (option 5) it goes until it stops the system and the last message is the "Uptime…"  then it just hangs.  I have to force a hard power off. Googled everything I could find, most folks suggested ACPI, so I went looking for it in the BIOS, but it's not there.  While I was there I noticed that this system had AHCI enabled for the HD controller, which is fine for windows and intel parties, but I dont' think it helps in pfSense under freeBSD!  Or am I wrong here ? Anyway, I changed the HD controller function back to the Dell default of ATA, not thinking it was connected.  When I booted and did a reboot, it worked. For what it's worth, something about AHCI seems to mess with the reboot process.  I'm running 2.2.5

Once u get vlans they are not that difficult understanding native and tagged vs untagged and different switch makers use terms a bit different but if you understand the basics just need to know what switch your dealing with

@Seif: I was hoping to find a way to make them work. The only way to make them "work" is the one you mentioned in the OP. I.e., force the ports to 100Mbit.

After following article i was able to boot pfsense but it wont survive reboot .. it will be at that screen requiring me to input ufs:/dev/da0s1a http://mundofreebsd.blogspot.com/2012/09/mounting-from-ufsdevadaxs1a-failed-with.html here is my fstab contents /dev/ufs/pfsense0 / ufs ro,sync,noatime 1 1 /dev/ufs/cf /cf ufs ro,sync,noatime 1 1 how to set them to make .. below are pictures after i entered above command .. (ufs:/dev/da0s1a)      

I am using one of these, and used it to talk to an X1000 console last week: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000067SCH I bought a bunch of them a few years ago for each site. Any similar spec cable should do the same.

See my reply in your other post about this same issue.

Hello i am new to this too . I have as a project to make a Computer work as DHCP ,  Firewall , DNS , http(s) proxy and L3 routing  and route traffic from trusted and DMZ to and the outside network of the school that has internet connection threw another proxy.  (Proxy support isn't working for me either) Is there any way to install the packages manually (even the pkg is not installed)?I can download any packages from my trusted network but i have no internet connection on pfsense.I posted here as its similar problem .

For posterity: The problem ended up being the wireless card. The Fit-PC2i has a Ralink wireless card taped to the motherboard where a PCI-E card would normally go, but it's connected to a small USB header. To even see it you have to completely disassemble the machine. After getting underneath the motherboard I disconnected the USB wifi card and installed an Atheros card in the PCI-E slot. It booted up fine. It's it's any help for debugging for devs, it was the RT2870  ver. 0.33 driver causing the crash. The wireless card was working fine in the current Gentoo installer kernel and current kernel.

I also had some problems at first with a USB NIC. Apple USB Ethernet Adapter for MacBook Air worked for me.

Would have to know what IP the crash reports came from to tell. The IP you're coming to the forum from doesn't have any.

A router is not a switch. Bridging interfaces tries to make it a switch but never succeeds. This has been discussed in all possible (and quite some impossible) configurations already.

No, Jamerson, all the replies so far are trying to tell you that the CPU usage that pfsense reports in it's dashboard is NOT the CPU usage that is actually occurring. Please find the graph of CPU usage in the Hypervisor itself, and check whether THAT is maxing out (or not).

How is your wireless configured?  Using an access point or a consumer router in router mode? If the latter all wireless users will be "authenticated" after the first user logs in because they all appear to the captive portal as the same IP/MAC pair.

Solved! I destined only 40 GiB to pfSense. The system can't boot with the entire disk. However, with 2.2.4 version worked (?). https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=24842.msg129059#msg129059

How wold your thermal sensors work in a VM?  Look to esxi for your thermal info on the hardware..  I don't think your system supports vt-d does it? I have not needed to do anything with mbfu, nor any other sort of specific tuning.. Then again not running on your hardware..

For starters why would you be using e3000 with 35 devices..  Why not just use pfsense as your router.. You could leverage those e3000 as AP.. But I would suggest you get some real AP..  The unifi line is very budget friendly and properly place them around the office where best coverage is obtained. You say you have esxi running pfsense - so connect 1 interface to your WAN and another to your LAN..  You have a managed switch, once you get some real AP you could break out your wifi to its own network sesgment.  Even multiple where you have wifi that is for employees and another for guest.  You could use a real form of auth for your employees like tied to your AD?  Or other form of eap so your using wpa-enterprise vs psk

Hey guys…. Got it finally working. Before install i plugged in both network cables one from my moden and the lan. Power cycled my modem. On boot the WAN adress was present this time. Assigned the LAN ip, subnet and range etc. No problem getting to the web GUI. Thanks for all your feedback and posts. This thread can be set to solved/ close  :)