• Adding a second WiFi to my network using qotom onboard WiFi

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    If you've added the interface and clients can connect to it then check they are getting an IP address from dhcp correctly. If they are then you are probably missing a firewall rule or possibly an outbound NAT rule if it not in automatic mode. Steve
  • Bad LTE performance after reboot (Huawei ME909s-120)

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    Hi @nblind Thank you for your support. I have already implemented the delay, that is correct. Unfortunately, my problem still exists. Currently I use a workaround. I reboot the device once a night and start a reset of the modem via cron 10 minutes later. So it works - for whatever reason..... Best Regards
  • Isolate Guest Network on AP

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    @cburbs Wow way too much time spent on this lately but finally getting it to where I want it to be. [image: 1609995306377-vlan.jpg] Vlan1: Management This is the Lan off the pfsense firewall. It has access to pfsense gui, all switches, ap, vlans. Vlan3: Server Unraid server running plex, LMS, a few other things Allowed: pfBLockerNG, DNS, Plex to HDHomeRun tuner on Vlan4, Internet Blocked: Firewall & Internal communication. Vlan4: Home Theater Denon Receiver, (3) piCorePlayers, (2) Nvidia Shields, Xbox, (2) HDHomeRun Tuners Allowed: pfBLockerNG, DNS, Plex players to Plex on unraid, piCorePlayer to LMS on unraid, Internet Blocked: Firewall & Internal communication. Vlan5: Work Work laptop, (2) VOIPs Allowed: pfBLockerNG, DNS, Internet Blocked: Firewall & Internal communication. Vlan8: Wireless (2) Iphones Allowed: pfBLockerNG, DNS, Internet Blocked: Firewall & Internal communication. Vlan9: Guest Wireless (2) Chrome books, (2) iphones, (2) kindles, PicorePlayer, roku, PC Allowed: pfBLockerNG, DNS, Internet Blocked: Firewall & Internal communication. Equipment: Pfsense box: HP Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz, 16 gigs of ram, HP 4 port ethernet card - Packages running: aprwatch, iperf, nmap, ntopng, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Status_Traffic_Totals, Telegraf Access Point: Netgear R7800 running Openwrt Switches: TP-Link TL-SG1024DE, (2) TP-Link TL-SG108PE Server: ASRock X99 Extreme3, CPU 2GHz 12 cores(24 HT), 32gigs ram Unraid Parity Drive: 4tb 15TB HD Space Cache Drive for Dockers Unassigned drive for VMs (Windows, Hassio, Linux) Things still testing: Iphone control while on Vlan8 to items in Vlan3(plex), Vlan4(Receiver, PiCorePlayers, Shields, Roku). Verify anything in Vlans 3+ can't get to pfsense box, switches, APs, Server. I am sure I am forgetting something.
  • TL-WN725N usb make my machine crashing!

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    What does the crash report show? Before you enable the interface does the module appear to load correctly? And the driver recognises the hardware? Steve
  • Can't see any wired/wireless clients

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    That Ethernet card will probably work fine. The wifi card will not work at all. There isn't any 802.11AC support in FreeBSD/pfSense, yet, let alone .AX. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/wireless/hardware.html#recommended-wireless-hardware Steve
  • Adding a wireless adapter

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    Thanks both! I've set an ASUS Router I had to AP mode and put it behind pfSense. My exact setup looks like this: Provider Router - pfSense - Switch - AP. QNAP is connected to the switch and I can access it with my mobile phone.
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  • The netgate-ish hardware with wifi capability?

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    Yeah, same here: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/158771/netgate-3100-and-crypto-accelerator-in-openvpn -Rico
  • Realtek 8812au / AWUS036AC Dualband USB3 wifi adapter?

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    Yeah most likely... Lets see if he still tries it after we have called him out..
  • Temporarily disabling all wireless traffic

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    Yeah actually it is all on the same subnet, per I think the easiest way is to disable the wireless traffic on the Unifi's scheduler, thanks for your input.
  • help me.driver/pilote

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    Generally you do not need to install drivers. Hardware is either already supported or it isn't. What device do you have? What do you see in the system logs when you connect it? What does usbconfig dump_all_desc show? Steve
  • Atomic Pi 5ghz problem

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    Yeah there are probably better supported wifi modules out there, also for the cabled ethernet. But for $35 i cant complain. Linux is probably a good option too as it has a bit better hardware support.
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  • help me

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    Agree with your assessment. While true you can take any old soho wifi router and just use its AP features... soho wifi routers, include a routing function, switch ports and a AP in 1 box.. The switch is dumb, and therefor almost always the AP is dumb.. Or atleast configured that way via the native firmware. Other then allowing "guest" ssid that is not bridged to the switch ports. While the hardware quite often, but not always does support doing vlans. I have never seen the native firmware leverage them for anything other than maybe the "guest" network most of them allow you to create, which really is just not bridged to the switch ports vlan. Normally they do actual use vlans, this is how they isolate the wan and the lan. But the interface doesn't allow the user to change or manipulate them really in any way. So simple way to just use them as a dumb AP is just turn off dhcp on them, and connect them to your network via one of the lan ports. Now anything on wifi (not guest ssid) is bridged to your switch ports = AP.. So if you want to actual do vlans, either put 3rd party firmware on the device to expose way to configure the vlans. Or get an actual AP, then yes normally would support vlans..
  • Are Unifi Wireless AP's and pFsense compatible?

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    Finally got a time window over the weekend to reinstall the pfSense. This time, I went through the process as suggested by DAVe3283 and akuma1x. The details are below. First, on the pfSense, I setup DHCP static addresses for the AP's and the controller PC using their MAC addresses. Next, prior to shutting down the Untangle Firewall, I factory defaulted all of the AP's from the Unifi Controller software. Once they were all defaulted, I removed power from the AP's and also removed power from the ethernet switch they were connected to. Not sure if removing power was necessary, but, wanted to make sure the AP's would boot up and get a new IP from the pfSense with no issues. On the controller PC, In the Unifi Controller software, made sure the gateway setting and network settings reflected the new network information: 192.168.14.1 and 192.168.14.x/23. Powered down the Unifi Controller PC. Shutdown the Untangle Firewall and connected the pfSense Firewall in its place and powered it and the ethernet switch up. Used my laptop to connect to the webUI of pfSense via the ethernet switch. After the pfSense Firewall powered up and I could see that all interfaces were up from my laptop, I powered up the Unifi Controller PC. The Unifi Controller PC booted up and got its new IP. In the Unifi Controller software, I adopted all the AP's one by one and verified they received the correct IPs and were "Connected". They were consistently connected for over an hour with no further issues as I'd had in the previous install attempt. Verified client PCs were connecting the the APs and passing traffic successfully. Started fail-over testing by disconnecting WAN1. Made sure internet traffic was flowing through WAN2 and then back through WAN1 when I reconnected WAN1. It did, and I was impressed at how fast and seamless the transition was! After a couple of days, everything is still working great. Thanks to all who submitted suggestions - this one is solved!
  • wireless disconect .

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    @prayongssx001 said in wireless disconect .: Hello, I Prayut My wireless at home dropped off a lot. I don't know why Open and close several times, it still does not disappear. Thank you for the good answer. If you're running pfSense 2.4.5-p1 with a wireless card, check freebsd 11.3 hardware compatibility list. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.3R/hardware.html#wlan My memory from hanging out in these forums is that wifi cards are generally are not going to work great with pfSense. I don't know the technical reasons but if I had to take a guess, a wireless card plugged into a PC running pfSense (freebsd) is generally going to be a card meant for a client PC to connect to a wireless access point. Whereas with pfSense, you're asking this client card to BE the access point for potentially many clients. This card's typical job is to handle a single connection, not ten different connections. The most common recommendation is to use a dedicated wireless access point connected to pfsense via ethernet. If you have an old wireless router, disable DHCP on it and use the LAN interface on that to connect to pfSense. Edit: More information, https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/book/wireless/pfsense-as-an-access-point.html
  • Unifi APs intermittently disconnecting from internet using pFsense

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  • Multiple vlans for wireless

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    @Moonbiter said in Multiple vlans for wireless: I also tried throwing up a guest network, but again there doesn't appear to be a way to pass a tag along to pfsense. It doesn't appear to see it any different than my main SSID. Pfsense definitely supports VLAN tags. Configure a VLAN interface on pfsense and AP with the same tag. Then, if you have a managed switch between them, you will have to configure it to pass the tagged frames.
  • No internet access for wireless clients on External WAP

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    Yeah, 'bridge mode' there looks like a WAN setting. 'wireless bridge' is probably wifi as WAN in that context. You may just need to do it manually. Disable DHCP on the device and connect pfSense to one of it's LAN ports. It should already have LAN and wifi bridged at layer 2 internally. Steve
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