@realityman_: Will do, good settings to know.  I don't believe my provider uses PPPoE so I shouldn't have that problem :) The best will be if you get a real static public IP address from your provider! Then all CPU cores will be in usage and this "problem" is not affecting you. The other custom settings might be a good realizing a good start with this hardware for you. Good luck and have fun with this hardware.

I have started playing around with pfSense on an older PC with two NICs so I am considering this option or getting a 2220 or 2440. The SG-2220 will not handle 1 GBit/s at the WAB interface as I see it right. And the PPPoE connection is only using one CPU core at the moment to handle the WAN speed. But if you don´t need the PPPoE part you will be really surprised.

@BlueKobold: Seems like the flash storage is bad in my pfsense sg-2440 unit so iam looking for a mSATA disk to be used instead. Write to the support email address from the pfSense shop. Create an account register your device call for assistance Anybody know if Kingston SSDNow MS200 mSATA  is compatible? It was the cheapest one I could find since i dont need that much storage or speed. Be sure that this mSATA is capable of the TRIM support. 16 GB = firewall only and some logs 32 GB = firewall and Snort 64 GB = firewall, Snort and Squid 120 GB and more = firewall, Snort, Squid as a caching proxy and HAVP Located in europe and don't have to send the unit to USA so thats why its easier just to buy another storage. From this pdf http://www.kingston.com/datasheets/sms200s3_en.pdf it looks like the ssd supports trim and 30gb shouldn't be an issue since its normally runs on the 4gb emmc flash.

I ended up just wireless bridging it to pfsense as per usual.  It never works very well, but it works.  Just have to reboot the device every few days. I really hate cell service.

After all my fussing around my configs are as such…. /boot/loader.conf autoboot_delay="3" vm.kmem_size="435544320" vm.kmem_size_max="535544320" if_igb_load="YES" kern.maxfilesperproc=32768 kern.maxfiles=65536 comconsole_speed="115200" hw.usb.no_pf="1" /boot/loader.conf.local kern.cam.boot_delay=10000 kern.ipc.nmbclusters="1000000" net.inet.tcp.tso=0 As a note to anyone else. If you add a card that uses the same driver/chipset that you already have your interfaces (in this case igb#) may very well move. In my case igb0,1,2,3 moved to 4,5,6,7 and the new card received 0,1,2,3.

I just saw this thread while researching this problem. https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=93393.0 It does not look good. The thread does tell me what the problem is. The Mass Storage device is defaulting to usb config 0. You need to find a way to change that..Maybe issue an eject command. usb_modeswitch usually handles that on USB cellular devices with Mass Storage showing. Not sure if it would help you..

@BlueKobold: "refurb" is most likely a lie if it is <$100, hell if you paid less than $150 aftermarket and got an honest i350 quad port anytime in the last year I'm impressed. Quad Port ~$126 Dual Port ~$72 Clones/knockoffs, and damned overpriced ones at that: a knockoff i350-T4 is ~$50 in bulk. Notice how you can't read the silkscreens on the major components? Granted some of them at least make a half-assed effort to scratch a fake "Delta" etc or paste in a picture of a real one. Not every real intel card has a yottamark (not all the OEMs bother) but its pretty hard to fake and a reliable indicator of a legit card. Not impossible, but outside the means of most shadow shifts.

Is there the latest firmware image on the modem? You could try out to connect the modem and your pfSense box to a small network GB LAN switch to surround or get rid of this issues.

if so will i need to reapply the configuration every upgrade? This might be able to realize it, but together with the upgrades it will be also able to get then more failures as normal and yes you must then change this even more and more again to your custom set up.

Hi You can find it here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=20095.msg510551#msg510551

@BlueKobold: WHAT ?!?! What you mean with this "What"? – I was surprised

Thanks for your update. Netmap looks like a nice feature.

@BillBraskey: @mer: One mans bonkers is another mans interesting experiment/mountain to climb :) FreeBSD has been x86/amd64 as the primary platforms for a long time.  PowerPC has traction in the mailing lists, as do ARM and SPARC (SPARC is up and down).  x86/amd64 are Tier 1 platforms (fully supported), PPC, SPARC64, ARM are Tier 2, so I'm guessing it may be a good bit of effort to get pfSense up and running on your specific hardware.  I'm guessing you'd get very familiar with the pfSense build process. https://www.freebsd.org/platforms If you have the time and desire, no reason to not give it a try. pfSense is my first contact with FreeBSD.  I assumed (wrongly) that it had the biodiversity and broad-mindedness that the Linux community has.  The more I read about it here and on BSD fora, the less I understand its continued existence. FreeBSD supported platforms include: i386 (Tier 1), amd64 (Tier 1), ARM (Tier 2), MIPS (Tier 3), pc98 (Tier 2), PPC (Tier 2), Sparc64 (Tier 2) and xbox (N/A).  Support has ended for alpha (was tier 4) and ia64 (was tier 2). pfSense has run on arm, but I'm not ready to release it for arm. Someone might take the pfSense source code and make it run on a platform such as arm, SPARC or MIPS, but the result will not be "pfSense". Linux and FreeBSD have different reasons for their existence and relative success. pfSense has run on

Was the modem properly detected after restart? Are there any errors in ppp log?

I had numerous issues with the firewall because I mistyped a configuration option upon first setup. This setting is not included in any pfSense backup, and must be performed BEFORE the watchguard firebox fully boots pfsense.  When booting a fresh CF or Microdrive on a WatchGuard box you need to interrupt the boot loader when it starts counting down from 4. You'll see the OK prompt. At the prompt enter: set hint.ata.0.mode=PIO4 set hw.msk.msi_disable=1 boot That will allow the card to boot and you can then add the lines to /boot/loader.conf.local You can create it and put the lines into it by executing this in the Diagnostics > Command Prompt Execute Shell command box: /etc/rc.conf_mount_rw echo 'hint.ata.0.mode=PIO4' >> /boot/loader.conf.local echo 'hw.msk.msi_disable=1 ' >> /boot/loader.conf.local /etc/rc.conf_mount_ro The Hitachi 4GB Microdrives are much faster than any CF card that I've used so far, and don't suffer from write limitations of flash memory (I've had to replace CF several times due to logging wearing out the CF card.) Also, they are $4 apiece on eBay - an actual tiny hard drive! When using a Microdrive, one can set NanoBSD to permanent read/write mode which eliminates slowdowns that users experience with the WebGUI.

I am sorry that I wasn't clearer in my description, and since this laptop is so old, it's hard to get a lot of documentation on it, however, I did happen upon one site that said it is a type II PC Card Slot Supporting CardBus only. That said, I searched though the supported cards on freebsd for cardbus NIC's and came across the one I mentioned. The website i finally found the info at was here: http://tech.madcatsden.com/Resources/DCSE/Portables/Inspiron/700m/Basicfeatures.htm

So i have tested both Usb-Sticks the Ralink and TP-wn321g under Freebsd 10.1-p24 and both sticks are working in the Ap-Mode. The Problem is also definitively PFsense, but why cant i understand have you Ideas?

How often you are booting your firewall? Right On!!!! Should be measured in weeks between releases!!!

And why you think it was locked? There is no reply button. What did you install? NanoBSD or a full install on HDD/SSD? Full install on HDD. STM150 is not suitable for pfSense. Thanks for your reply.

Does anyone has an update on this topic? It's been already a long time and this has not been fixed yet. I've searched for good USB/Ethernet adapter on Google, first post on reddit recommended DUB-E100. Ping goes through, but can't reach the webpage. Checked for solution and found this 3 years old thread.