@cmb: What I recommend is only bridging OPT interfaces, as then the bridged interface doesn't need an IP. I was thinking about that, but then LAN and WAN would be my manage / pfsync interfaces, which would be confusing name wise. @cmb: That's deceiving, it's actually broken in FreeBSD 6.x and greatly reduces throughput. http://pfsense.blogspot.com/2007/06/polling-and-freebsd.html I read this link before I enabled it and the idea seemed sound: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/09/freebsd-device-polling.html . @cmb: That should never be necessary for any purpose, hence there is no supported facility for making manual ruleset changes. True, it shouldnt be needed, just thinking that it would be nice to have just in case

When we started to use more than one IP using Virtual IP's we had to clear the ARP cache on the router connected to Pfsense.

It is running the latest…

Please search …. I think, have a keyboard AND screen attached to a network appliance is a very very bad idea because anybody can do anything (password or no password)... the best is to have a serial console ...

Thanks…I didn't look in the UPDATES folder.  Any thoughts on how to get this installed on a blank CF card?  Last time I had the full EMBEDDED image to write using physdiskwrite.  The update looks like the unzipped folder structure.[ [quote author=cmb link=topic=5510.msg32948#msg32948 date=1184362432] If that snapshot supports it, there's no reason 1.2b2 or any newer snapshots shouldn't support it (that I'm aware of at least). Support for this card has gone in and out over the recent snapshots.  Not sure why.  Tested 1.2b2 and card was not recognized.

Ok now it works. I'm not sure what the problem was, because I don't want to test more. It seems a combinations of some things. Furthermore I had a problem caused by a to fast running RAM, because of a SPD failure. Now all is fine :) In the PXE-Boot settings were also a failure. This works now too, but I tested it only with a VM, so the setup is still with BETA-1. If there is interest, I could provide a Qemu-Image with a FreeBSD as base to install pfSense via PXE.

I disabled all unused onboard devices in BIOS pfsense will now reboot and shutdown correctly. Thanks for help sullrich

Thank you Scott, That did the trick (a case of "Read The Funny Manual" i suppose  :-[) but… after doing the upgrade wich took half an hour, i was left with an unresponsive system. I tried rebooting a couple of times, but no luck. So i did the physicaldikwrite anyway and restored my backup. Everything seems to work, except for the captive portal on the WIFI interface. I disabled it for the time being to do some further testing. One more question is there a way to backup the rrd database to an external system adn restore it later? rgds, Hellsblade

http://snapshots.pfsense.com/ http://www.pfsense.com/mirror.php?section=updates Then use the update firmware option.

Thank you very much!

Diagnostics -> Backup / Restore

yes, of course…

@fcapizzo: I know you already fixed your issue, but I had the exact same issue when I first disconnected my WAN connection from my Netgear router to the WAN port of my box running pfsense, and I also have Time Warner as an ISP.  WAN would not obtain an IP address until I power-cycled the cable modem.  I wonder if the cable modem doesn't like changing the MAC address it connects to if it's already been connected to a different device previously. That has been my experience as well when changing Mac addresses on Insight cable as well.

I had the same issues as you.  I'm using one of those little Hacom systems for my pfSense install, and I initially wanted to use a super-fast 1GB CF card to install it, but had all those DMA timeouts.  Via Google searches I saw lots of suggestions to disable UDMA and to set the access mode of the port (for the Hacom using CF it's Master on the Secondary controller) to CHS.  That didn't help, but I tried a 256MB card and that worked.  However I didn't want to use a small 256MB card so I went to some stores and bought the cheapest 1GB CF cards I could buy.  Sure enough, some cheap 1GB CF card that was on sale for $12 worked immediately.  I even bought another one to have as a backup. I don't know if this will help or not, but you may want to first bring down the speed of the interface you're connecting the CF card to down to non-UDMA.  Second, try some other cards.  I suspect that the nice high-speed CF cards have less of a chance of working than the el-cheapo CF cards.  Just a guess.

ok i now but i wanted to see if some one answear. when i play my xbox 360 its require open nat but after a few start with the 360 the pfsenses loggs of upnp is being full and its stop working. so this is a big problem in the upnp and i hopes this will bee fix to the next release. in the old verison of upnp this problem was not discover  but in the new one i fond it.

1.0?  Please try 1.0.1 or a recent 1.2-BETA-1 snapshot from http://snapshots.pfsense.com/FreeBSD6/RELENG_1_2/

Fix in recent snapshots.

if you login by consul or by ssh then you see in the welkoms text the hints to make a cd iso or a update or a embeded iso put all you stuff in the pfsense jail and run then the comands shown to you to make what you want

@cybertron: 8Mb+ is that really really fast? I dont know what the measuring stick is anymore these days ;D  I should have quantified that.  By "really, really fast" I mean 50+ Mb.