Ugh... cannot make the software work

[babzog]

I was able to install it (easy enough once I logged in as installer) and finally got a connection from my laptop to the firewall but, I cannot seem to make it “go”.

* I entered my pppoe settings, it will not connect.
* I configured dhcp, it will not give out dynamic leases.
* If I reboot, I have to logon to the firewall and ping a static IP, seemingly to “activate” the network.

What on earth could be so screwed up here? Have I missed a series of spells? Does it smell my fear of FreeBSD?

[babzog]

Gave up after reading others were also having PPPoE issues with prior versions. Burned the latest image of smoothwall 3.1, installed, was up and running in less than 20min.  Hope the QA is tightened up on this project as it looks like it could be really good.

[mimugmail]

You gave the community not enough time to troubleshoot.

I'm quite sure DHCP and ARP is related to the migration is could easily be fixed with a reboot of the client machines. This can't be a huge issue.

Regarding pppoe we have to dig a bit deeper, reading logs, checking if VLANs are set etc. but this takes time.

[Davesworld]

Gave up after reading others were also having PPPoE issues with prior versions. Burned the latest image of smoothwall 3.1, installed, was up and running in less than 20min.  Hope the QA is tightened up on this project as it looks like it could be really good.

Smoothwall? Which one? Express? Commercial? There hasn't been a new version of Express in 3.5 years and it was getting long in the tooth 5 years ago. I used it briefly in 2003 but did not like the crippled version versus pay big money for all features model which is why it forked and most of the original developers left it for the fork as well. OPnsense is very powerful and there is a huge learning curve after using tinkertoy firewall distros. The QOS is enough of a reason to stick around even if you actually have to learn something to take advantage of it's sheer power. 

If you wanted help, give enough info for people to work with. PPPoE should work fine if you don't put too much info eg adding ip addresses when you did not purchase static ip addresses.