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Plus 25.03 Develoment Snapshots

Discussions about development snapshots for pfSense Plus 25.03

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@Hugovsky said in Radius seems not to be working:

Ive just installed 25.03.b.20250306.0140 and I'm having a problem with radius server.

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I saw something when upgrading to the latest "25_03_b_20250306".
FreeRadius showed in the GUI : it was stopped. Started it with the start button from the dashboard, but it was a no go.
I asked FreeRadius what the problem was.
For this, you need to stop it in the GUI first, and this was already the case.

Then, on then SSH/console access, start radiusd in the debug mode :
radiusd -X
and it shows something new : it couldn't start because some file was missing :

[25.03-BETA][root@pfSense.bhf.tld]/usr/local/share/freeradius: radiusd -X
FreeRADIUS Version 3.2.6
Copyright (C) 1999-2023 The FreeRADIUS server project and contributors
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE
You may redistribute copies of FreeRADIUS under the terms of the
GNU General Public License
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYRIGHT
Starting - reading configuration files ...
including dictionary file /usr/local/share/freeradius/dictionary
including dictionary file /usr/local/share/freeradius/dictionary.dhcp
including dictionary file /usr/local/share/freeradius/dictionary.vqp
including dictionary file /usr/local/etc/raddb/dictionary
......
et bang ... it errors out here.

Look at the file /usr/local/etc/raddb/dictionary :
# Local dictionary, does not need to include the master dictionary ATTRIBUTE MOTP-Init-Secret 900 string ATTRIBUTE MOTP-PIN 901 string ATTRIBUTE MOTP-Offset 902 string $INCLUDE /usr/share/doc/radius/dictionary.pfsense $INCLUDE /usr/local/pkg/dictionary.mpd
I want to use (INCLUDE) a file called "dictionary.pfsense" located in "/usr/share/doc/radius/" and sure enough, it wasn't there !
Strange, that same dictionary file is present in " /usr/local/share/freeradius/".

So, several solutions :
Copy the file from /usr/local/share/freeradius/ to /usr/share/doc/radius/.
Or, what I did : I linked it.

From now on, radius started again.

When I delete the this file (link) and re-install FreeRadius 0.15.13 - thats the version I have when using pfSense Beta 25.03.b.20250306.0140, it fails again.

A bug ?

edit : Here : "Chase relocating dictionary.pfsense", a 0.15.4 is in the works since last February, 2025 : https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commit/90818fbb6140e193318471896a36815ce34837ab

so this is where the bug is introduced ?

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/usr/share/doc/radius/dictionary.pfsense is moved to /usr/local/share/pfSense/radius/dictionary.pfsense

and forgot to update /usr/local/etc/raddb/dictionary so it points to the new location.
CE 2.8.0 Development Snapshots

Discussions about development snapshots for pfSense CE 2.8.x

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@bimmerdriver said in [When will 2.8 dev snapshot

There are numerous posts in this thread as well as others where users have made valid criticisms of the lack of a 2.8 development snapshot. I guess you disregard all of those posts because you disagree.

Pointing the obvious fact is not a valid criticism. To you it may be, because you have nothing else to say. There are no 2.8 dev snapshots. Dont cry about it, deal with it.

As your other comment, criticisms are not "subtle insults". They are criticism. It's not insulting to criticize. If you're "insulted" by users criticizing netgate, that's on you.

Other than pointing out what others have said, can YOU tell me what are the outstanding security issues with current ce version? If you can provide CVE number that would be great.

You should not be taking criticism of netgate personally. If you are, then again, that's on you.

Not at all. I just want people to elaborate on all those vulnerabilities and security issues that they are constantly mentioning in this thread.

netgate set an expectation for development snapshots many years ago.

Things change. Deal with it.

Many people, users and developers invested time into testing and even contributing code, which netgate incorporated into their paid product. They doubled down on the expectation by stating when the paid version was released that they would continue the "community edition". They clearly have not delivered. That's what users are criticizing.

Netgate does whatever they want. Crying about is not going to change anything.

This thread should have been locked long time ago. And i think that only reason its still open is because someone else will start another and scream censorship.

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Online / Offline Status Notification System via push

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How about posting what you have and let others work on it when they can ?
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Make livecd

• • cheffilipe

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Have a look at http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=pfSenseHome (developers related section at the bottom)
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Broadcom bfe driver seriously bugged

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@k3rmit:

Hi!!

Thanks for the link, i did found it anyway shortly afterwards having posted here on the forum, it should be published but blame on me for not having searched thoroughly.

I downloaded the last snapshot and installed it successfully. The good new is that bfe driver works, the bad that it isn't still perfect: here is the log output while bringing up the interface:
bfe0: link state changed to DOWN bfe0: BUG! Timeout waiting for bit 00000001 of register 41c to set. bfe0: link state changed to UP
Now the question is: can i trust this connection?? I will obviously do the necessary tests, but i'm wondering what's the scale of the problem with this driver and how much can i risk on it.

Thanks for the support!!

If you still have issues you may want to post to freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list for assistance.
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Panic mutex

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Its been 3 days of running the dev_bootstrap.sh …. cvsup does a lot of downloading and then I get some panic and "kdb> " on the console.
Is it ok to just restart the PC? because that seems to restart the process but I dont know if I am making any progress.

Any tips for a dev newbie? I have had power interruptions and isp messing up quite a lot so that is disrupting the process.

The cpu is a VIA C3, 900MHz, 256 MB Ram, 40 GB hard disk.
the iso I m trying right now is developers/pfSense.iso dated 12-Jan-2007 10:53
Previously I tried using older verions of this iso.

Would it be better for me to use pfSense-Developers-1.0-LiveCD-Installer.iso.gz ?
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Start to custom pfSense

• • arix

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Please search. There are multiple threads covering this already.
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Different filtering for bridges

• • prodius

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ok, thx for the answer.
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Translating pfSense

• • decibel83

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The needed code is only in the head-version (developement version of the next major version). It's not in the 1.x-series.
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SSH Key only Login [patch]

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This won't appear in before the next MAJOR Version.
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Step by step to begin a developer in pfsense

• • joaohf

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The developer iso will do all this automatically once you install and boot it up in the background. Be patient, it takes a while.
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How to make a diff file for pfsense ???

• • jeroen234

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the complete comand will be:

diff -rub oldfile newfile > file.diff

old file is the file u have downloaded from the pfsense cvs
http://pfsense.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pfSense/
or from the pfsense package cvs if it is a package
http://pfsense.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/tools/packages/
new file is the oldfile + you chances

file.diff is a file with in it only the chances you have made to the oldfile taken from the newfile
this is the one pfsense core team want's
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Witness enabled?

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Your running the developer edition. It is targeted to pfSense/FreeBSD developers who may want to debug an issue.

Compile a new kernel based on pfSense.6 if you want to get around it. Search your dev edition /home directories for it and copy it to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/config/

See the FreeBSD handbook for more information related to kernel compiling.
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Error installing (filesystem is full)

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err..I only wanted to install the development source for pfsense. Didn't know it will also install the whole freebsd sources.
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Head embedded build script

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Embedded image update mechanism

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Is there anything special about an update image? I just took the .img file I normally flash onto a CF, mounted that on my freebsd box, and tarred and gzip'd the root of that. Are there certain files that should be removed from an update? Is there any easy way to build an update from an existing image other than the way I did it?
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How upload file in Package?

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@dvserg:

It's real html code. I store this from IE File->SaveAs and change only IP address my pfRouter to NICKname.
I can give you any HTML code by any page from pfsense with UPcased tags along 1 minute time ;).

There you go - You should not save the page to a file to get the HTML source. Almost any browser modifies the original HTML code so the page still can be viewed locally. That means the HTML code that you did save to a file isn't equal to the HTML code displayed within your browser.

To get the unmodified HTML source you should always use the view source option from the context menu of your browser. This context menu can be unveiled if right-clicking onto a HTML page that is currently beeing displayed in your browser window.

Regards
Daniel S. Haischt
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Easy VMware images

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To update this for the 128MB embedded images the vmware virtual disk file should be
# Disk DescriptorFile version=1 CID=95a2f971 parentCID=ffffffff createType="monolithicFlat" # Extent description RW 239144 FLAT "pfSense.img" 0 # The Disk Data Base #DDB ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4" ddb.geometry.cylinders = "1024" ddb.geometry.heads = "64" ddb.geometry.sectors = "32" ddb.adapterType = "ide"
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Build failure (openpty)

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Developer bootstrap failure.

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@Numbski:

Anyhoo, I'll be patient. Qemu won't be super fast, I know that.

There's a good reason why Q (on OSX it's called Q and not Qemu which makes a difference) is kind of slow. It runs in pure emulation mode because the accelerators kqemu (closed source) or QVM86 (OS) didn't make it to OSX as of today.

Regards
Daniel S. Haischt
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Adding personal content to the .iso

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@jeroen234:

i don't have rw cd's only r cd's

but if freebsd don't suport this then you can never mount a cdrom rw like you are trying to do now with the cdrom image

Dunno if FreeBSD supports the UDF filesystem, probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to find out. Either way, that's not quite an ISO filesystem anyway :) But it sounds like it can't mount an iso9660 fs as read/write (I was only pointing out that the prior example was mounting read only so it couldn't have worked regardless). FYI, the flag for mounting as writeable is '-w' - dunno if it makes a difference, but it may be that -r takes precedence over -w in -rw.

–Bill
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Working on packages that needs sendmail

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@fernandotcl:

I wrote some stuff here that mails the user with a PHP SMTP script I found somewhere in the web, I guess it's a better option.

Hi,

Would you mind share this solution with us..? I'm also interested in this.

Hank

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