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A ALTQ drivers Aliases Are cryptographic accelerators supported Automatic NAT Rules Generation C Can I have public and private IP's on my LAN interface? Can I install pfSense in an existing FreeBSD installation? Can I restore a backup without the WebGUI? Can I restore a m0n0wall configuration to pfSense? Can I upgrade my pfSense through the web interface? Can I use 1:1 NAT on my WAN IP? Can I use FreeBSD ports with pfSense? Can I use m0n0wall's firmware upgrade to install pfSense on a firewall running m0n0wall? Can I use my existing wireless router with pfSense? Can I use pfSense's WAN PPTP feature to connect to a remote PPTP VPN? Can hosts on a NATed interface talk to hosts on a bridged interface? Creating widgets D Do NAT port forwards override 1:1 NAT? Does pfSense include an IDS or IPS? Does pfSense support 64 bit systems? Does pfSense support NAT-T? Does pfSense support SMP (multi-processor and/or core) systems? Does pfSense support non-i386 hardware platforms (MIPS, Alpha, XScale, ARM, etc.)? Does the traffic shaper work with more than 2 interfaces Dual WAN Load Balancer F FAQ List FAQ cisco vpn pass thru not working when behind pfSense FAQ how can I see the full pf ruleset on my box FAQ how can I tell what version of freebsd pfsense is based on FAQ how do I block instant messengers Features List Firewall Rule Troubleshooting H How Can I Load Balance Uneven WAN Connections? How can I access the webGUI from the WAN? How can I completely disable NAT? How can I forward ports with pfSense? How can I get a feature added? How can I increase the state table size?

H cont. How can I monitor bandwidth usage? How can I override the DNS servers for PPTP clients? How can I reload the config after manually editing config.xml? How can I support the project? How can I tell how long a PPPoE connection has been up? How can I use public IP's on the LAN? How can i access my PPPoE Modem on WAN How do I clear the DNS Forwarder cache? How do I install pfSense to my hard drive? How many interfaces does pfSense support? I I enabled the PPTP server, but I cannot pass traffic into my internal networks I locked myself out of the WebGUI, help! IPsec Compatibility Intel e1000 power save Is 802.11n wireless supported Is a change log available? Is it possible to have multiple user accounts with different access rights? Is there IPv6 support available Is there a Compact Flash, embedded hardware, or Soekris or WRAP version of pfSense? K Known working configurations L Lightsquid Errors Links Logs show "blocked" for traffic from a legitimate connection, why? M Multi-WAN and Compatibility N Network Address Translation P PfSense and FreeBSD versions PfSense and Online Gaming Policy on FreeBSD issues S SFF IDE Should I use pfSense as my access point So is this Linux? ...or, what is FreeBSD? Squid Package Tuning Static Port T Time is not correct, but the time zone appears to be set properly U User Guide V VLAN Trunking VMwareAppliance W What about commercial support?

W cont. What about using multiple WAN connections? What are TCP Flags? What are Virtual IP Addresses? What are mbufs? What are the hardware requirements for pfSense? What are the limitations of PPTP in pfSense? What do the flags on the routing table mean? What hardware is supported? What is HEAD, RELENG 1, RELENG 1 2, etc.? What is UPNP? What is a bridged interface and how would one be used? What is policy routing? What is the default password? What is the different between Proxy ARP, CARP, and Other Virtual IPs? What is this weird/garbled output on the console of my router running SMP? What kind of flash should I use What license does pfSense use? What should I ping for IPsec Keep Alive? When Will A Release Occur Which version of the SVG plugin should I use for the built in SVG graphs? Why are some passwords stored in plaintext in config.xml? Why can't I access Windows/SMB shares on OpenVPN clients? Why can't I access forwarded ports on my WAN IP from my LAN/OPTx networks? Why can't I have static mappings inside my DHCP range? Why can't I ping some OpenVPN adapter addresses? Why can't I query SNMP, use syslog, NTP, or other services initiated by the firewall itself over IPsec VPN? Why can't I view view log files with cat/grep/etc? (clog) Why did pfSense fork from m0n0wall? Why did you choose FreeBSD instead of 'insert OS here'? Why do I get "login on console as root" messages in the logs? Why do I have empty OpenVPN client or server definitions? Why does autoupdate report a new version on the newest snapshot? Why does enabling NAT Reflection break web surfing? Why does my system using 1:1 NAT still appear to access the web via the pfSense router's WAN IP? Why does the DHCP Leases page show active systems offline? Why won't my system automatically power down or reboot? Why won't snort properly download rules? Will removing a CARP Virtual IP require a reboot?