Category:FAQ

2

• 2.0 New Features and Changes
• 2.0.1 New Features and Changes
• 2.0.2 New Features and Changes
• 2.0.3 New Features and Changes
• 2.1 New Features and Changes

A

• Aliases
• ALTQ drivers
• Android VPN Connectivity
• Are cryptographic accelerators supported
• Automatic NAT Rules Generation

B

• Blocking websites

C

• Can hosts on a NATed interface talk to hosts on a bridged interface?
• Can I compile software on pfSense
• Can I filter OpenVPN traffic?
• Can I have public and private IPs 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 restore a pfSense configuration to a different version?
• Can I sell 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 pfSense meet regulatory requirements
• Captive Portal hangs with iPad client
• CARP Secondary Unreachable Over VPN
• Cisco VPN pass through not working when behind pfSense
• Console Types
• Controlling IPv6 or IPv4 Preference

D

• Dashboard widgets won't update (Stuck at "Updating in 10 seconds")
• Disk is dirty, running fsck -y
• 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 non-i386 hardware platforms?
• Does pfSense support SMP (multi-processor and/or core) systems?
• Does the traffic shaper work with more than 2 interfaces
• Dual WAN Load Balancer

E

• Errors when writing NanoBSD images to CF

F

• FAQ List
• Features List
• Firewall Rule Troubleshooting

H

• How can I access the webGUI from the WAN?
• How can I completely disable NAT?
• How can I edit the PF ruleset
• 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 Load Balance Uneven WAN Connections?
• How can I log off
• 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 see the full PF ruleset
• How can I support the project?
• How can I tell how long a PPPoE connection has been up?
• How can I tell what version of FreeBSD my pfSense version is based on
• How can I use public IP's on the LAN?
• How do I block instant messengers
• 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!
• Importing OpenVPN DH Parameters
• Intel e1000 power save
• IPsec Compatibility
• Is 802.11n wireless supported
• Is a change log available?
• Is it possible to have multiple user accounts with different access rights?
• Is there a Compact Flash, embedded hardware, or Soekris or ALIX version of pfSense?
• Is there IPv6 support available

K

• Known Working 3G-4G Modems
• Known working configurations

L

• Lightsquid Errors
• Links
• Logs show "blocked" for traffic from a legitimate connection, why?
• Lost Traffic / Packets Disappear

M

• Multi-WAN and Compatibility

N

• NanoBSD on WRAP

O

• OpenVPN iroute in CSC seems to have no effect

P

• PfSense and FreeBSD versions
• PfSense and Online Gaming
• Policy on FreeBSD issues

R

• Remove F1 Boot Prompt
• Router is Missing from traceroute Output

S

• SFF IDE
• Should I use pfSense as my access point
• So is this Linux? ...or, what is FreeBSD?
• Squid Package Tuning
• Static Port
• Switching Kernels

T

• Time is not correct, but the time zone appears to be set properly
• Tuning and Troubleshooting Network Cards

U

• Unable to Access Some Websites
• Using an alternate monitor IP for quality graphs
• Using EasyRSA Certificates in 2.x
• Using IPv6 on 2.1 with a Tunnel Broker

V

• VirtIO Driver Support
• VLAN Trunking

W

• What about commercial support?
• What about using multiple WAN connections?
• What are "promiscuous mode enabled" log messages?
• What are Floating Rules?
• What are mbufs?
• What are TCP Flags?
• What are the 512M, 1G, 2G, and 4G NanoBSD files?
• What are the hardware requirements for pfSense?
• What are the limitations of PPTP in pfSense?
• What are Virtual IP Addresses?
• What do the flags on the routing table mean?
• What hardware is supported?
• What Hardware Monitoring Is Supported
• What is a bridged interface and how would one be used?
• What is HEAD, RELENG 1, RELENG 1 2, etc.?
• 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 is UPNP?
• 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 forwarded ports on my WAN IP from my LAN/OPTx networks?
• Why can't I access Windows/SMB shares on OpenVPN clients?
• 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 shape UPnP traffic?
• Why can't I view view log files with cat/grep/etc? (clog)
• Why did my traffic shaper queue/queuedrops RRD graph data disappear?
• 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 do my OpenVPN clients all get the same IP?
• Why do some WebGUI pages never finish loading in Firefox?
• 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 alias info popup stay visible after moving the mouse?
• Why does the DHCP Leases page show active systems offline?
• Why is squid using 100% of my drive space?
• Why won't my system automatically power down or reboot?
• Why won't OpenVPN push routes?
• Why won't Snort properly download rules?
• Wildcard Records in DNS Forwarder
• Will removing a CARP Virtual IP require a reboot?