I'm not sure I understand what your question/concern is. Putting this switch between your pfSense and your clients should of course work in a standard configuration. Your clients can get IPs assigned by DHCP from your pfSense. The question is: how does your configuration look like and will it work in that scenario. (best anyone can answer with the given details:  SRW224G4, pfSense, DHCP)

Thanks!

I'm also running full install on CF Card. It was an old one 512MB and after 5 years it died. I just bought a new one and everything is ok again. This time 4GB so the wear leveling has more space to allocate new blocks. And I also changed /tmp to RAMDisk, that should help a lot.

Bendsley, many thanks for your details on the Gigabit Ethernet Controller..  :D

What you have is fine. Either flash it to the NanoBSD image or do a full install on the CF card; buy an industrial CF if you're worried about write cycles, but it looks like you've got decent flash so you'd probably be fine anyway.

You can also run this command from the console or Diagnostics > Command: sysctl kern.smp.cpus It will show you the number of active CPUs (real, cores, virtual, etc)

try different cables or adapters, a lot of people say they have problems with realtek, sometimes its random (i have a realtek gigabit inf and every so often it wont work and i have to reboot, been fine for 2 weeks now)

@KWolf: Since this appears to be a problem with FreeBSD and I can't get the card to work on the actual FreeBSD release either, I'll see if I can't file some type of bug report You can file FreeBSD bug reports at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html

Thanks for the update. I am not too worried about it. I have a Dlink DIR-655 plugged into a switch as my AP right now. The card was only going to be used as a guest zone. I have a Dlink USB 802.11G usb dongle I could also try but I am not in any hurray. Thanks again for the help!

This worked.  Thank you.

Thank you for your help. I got the StarTech ST1000BT32 Gigabit Card and it worked fine - just plugged it in and I was good to go.

Thanks once again, Jim.  I used those two cmds and that did the trick.  So I guess I will set a cron job to do rotate the logs everyday or so.  Thanks again.

We have had great success with Tyan mobos and Intel NICs.  The actual Intel NIC chips are not the identical ones as they use on their 'server' boards, but will certainly do the trick.  I would get this system up and running, then asses whether or not you are seeing the performance you seek.  I would suspect that this system will be more than capable of handling your needs.