pfSense

Increase net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen to 1000 which is the IP input queue.

Reset slbd every 140 minutes as opposed to 300 minutes.

Set the ephemeral port range starting port to 1024 instead of 49152.

On a busy firewall it is possible to run out of ephemeral ports and then the system will block new connections until a port is available.

s/bin/sbin/

Reset SLBD every 5 hours to avoid 100% cpu utilization

Ticket #1316

We need to expire entries every hour, not every half hour. (snort)

Add overlooked sysctl's.

Add system tunables area which allows the user to fine control sysctl's.

Oops, we need /etc/ping_hosts.sh to run every 5 minutes.

Add NTP server field to dhcp config.
From: Alexander Schaber