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  PfSense in Oracle Cloud
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  Install qemu-guest-agent?
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  Has anyone tried this yet
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  Passthrough Intel Pro/1000 with ntopng only 500 Mbits/s
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  Used 4000000 but I'm unable to improve it further. I honestly don't know what I should tweak or what's going on. On this image below, orange arrow shows when I downloaded the file from the pfSense VM. Green arrow shows when I used my server (where pfSense is running) EDIT: Adding a video where you can see how it looks downloading from pfSense vs server (both connected with LAN). Looks like the pfSense is being limited to around 250mb? while the server can download at more speed for a limited amount of time. This is driving me crazy haha Video: https://d.pr/v/1OYQeP
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  Advice needed on virtualising pfSense
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  SOLVED: pfSense crashes when another VM is used with video card passthrough
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  pfsense on kvm -- slow network speed
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  @macduke I got it running, seems like everything is fine so far. I’m using unraid with virtio nics (also shared with the server as I only have 2 nic ports for now I have only got enabled the hardware checksum preference. I haven’t touched any other preference on unRaid or the VM
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  Span port on openstack
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  pfsense on a VM vmware workstation - noob
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  Do have configured pfSense via LAN interface and disabled it after? If so, that wasn't a good idea, as long as you haven't configured the WAN interface for accessing the firewall before. You will have to set rules on WAN to allow the access for the clients and for management. In addition there is also a rule on WAN by default which blocks any access from private networks. It's set in the WAN interface settings.
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  Pfsense 2.4 HA on Xenserver 7.2, a good idea?
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  The main reason is the windows client required to maintain XenServer - I pretty much never have to boot that windows VM any more. They also removed a bunch of functionality I used from the free product. I was "stuck" at XenServer 6.2. Citrix basically lost me. I do pay Proxmox but since it's just one socket (with 12 cores) it is quite reasonable. Even for a home lab. I have some Dells in the garage and it's on the list to build a Ceph cluster with them.
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  Does Enabling Powerd for a pfSense VM do anything?
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  @tibere86 Don't think so. In Hyper-V, I get the same response in the shell to "powerd -v" enabled or not. [2.4.4-RELEASE][root@fw.workgroup]/root: powerd -v powerd: no cpufreq(4) support -- aborting: No such file or directory
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  pfSense on Server 2016 Hyper-v, what do you use for autostop
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  @isaacfl Running on 2012R2, I use Shutdown. In the past I had tried Save, but I think I was getting a panic and crash before it saved and the disk would come up dirty. I would need to restore a checkpoint. Shutdown seems to work fine, though when host reboots are required, I do a manual shutdown from the H-V Manager first, and Always Start. On reasonable hardware, there's not too much time required to cold boot. HTH
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  Pfsense stopped allowing traffic after a vMotion. It seemed "hung".
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  Perhaps you might benefit from running two instance in pfSense HA mode, or using VMware HA.
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  (solve)HyperV 2012 vlans support(hn0)
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  @johnpoz So did I but you are missing the point. A config that works for four hours should work for four days too. The issue I have seen is that the Vlan trunk stops working after a few days. Not even arp will see the nic of the VM. The "workaround" I found was to add or remove a nic to the VM (just a non connected nic) and it will work for a couple of days again With 2016 the same config (actually it's the same VM) works if you can read this ;)
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  Pfsense kvm guest and host/guest internet connectivity
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  Now it's 2019 and this is still a problem :-) I have been struggling with this for a week; I couldn't work out why ICMP from the host and another VM through the pfSense VM would work, but nothing else. I could only SSH into the host if I SSH to the pfSense VM first. In order to have the host be able to connect out I installed Squid and set it up as a transparent proxy, but I shouldn't have had to do this. Researching, I finally found this thread. I'm replying because I just wanted to say that after I enabled "Disable hardware checksum offload" and pressed save, immediately traffic started flowing to/from the host, and the other VM which had basically been unreachable. No reboot or reconfig or anything else was required. I now see it's fairly well documented here.. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/virtualization/virtio-driver-support.html Perhaps it would be nice if pfSense could automatically disable hardware checksum offload on the virtio driver/NICs :-)
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  Unable to install pfSense on ESXi
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  @viragomann But that was after letting him select the .gz in the first place. It was smart enough to know it can't connect to a gzip, but not smart enough to filter out all non-ISO files in the image picker dialog? I just tried it myself with ESXi 6.7 and it doesn't show any non-ISO files. I couldn't select one even if I wanted to. Bizarre.
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  Setting up a home lab- need NAT to have internal virtual switch to go into the internet
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  @johnpoz just for learning sake, if this was a cisco router, how would one set the NAT? anyone happen to know the command? is it enable configure terminal ip nat pool name start-ip end-ip {netmask netmask | prefix-length prefix-length } access-list access-list-number permit source [source-wildcard ] ip nat inside source list access-list-number pool name interface type number ip address ip-address mask ip nat inside exit interface type number ip address ip-address mask ip nat outside end
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  How to use unraid mount tag in pfsense vm
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  I've never seen such a thing work with pfSense and a VM host. pfSense doesn't include the binaries to mount smb/cifs, I don't think nfs is there either (client or server). Are you trying to copy from the VM host to pfSense, or from pfSense to the VM host? Why not use scp/rsync? The VM host may be able to use ssh as a filesystem, connecting to pfSense. But that wouldn't work the other way.
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  Multiqueue Virtio?
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  @tibere86 I'm using Open vSwitch (OVS) instead Linux bridge on PVE. Show from your PVE: ip a s ethtool -I <interface-name-from-previous-command> and cat /etc/network/interfaces And why ethX ? Latest PVE using enpX. Or you wrote that just as example? :) Maybe you must also enable multiqueue inside pfsense VM ? https://bsdrp.net/documentation/technical_docs/performance http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/topics/dpdk/vhost-user/ If one wishes to use multiple queues for an interface in the guest, the driver in the guest operating system must be configured to do so https://cloudblog.switch.ch/2016/09/06/tuning-virtualized-network-node-multi-queue-virtio-net/ This should be done during interface initialization, for example in a “pre-up” action in /etc/network/interfaces P.s. Bingo! (Maybe this step not needed ?) Add something like in PVE network config: ... pre-up ethtool -L enpX combined N ... Then reboot PVE host and check is multiqueue enabled: ethtool -I <PVE-interface-name> And then https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/kvm-and-multi-queue-nics.27213/ set on PVE side in VM config file (pfsense VM must be stopped!): ... -netX virtio=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX,bla-bla-bla,queues=N ... Starting pfsense VM and enable multiqueue within https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vtnet reboot VM check is multiqueue worked https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/multiple-network-queues-on-vmx-interface.49080/ P.p.s. https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/virtio-multi-queue-balancing.43744/
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  How many bridges needed for pfSense vm?
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  Ok, thank you for the clarification. The setup seems correct then.
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  Nic down with vlan wan connection
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  You probably want to put the pfSense on its untagged interface (ao1) and let vmware do the tagging. In order to pass vlan tags to the VM interface I'm pretty sure you have to put VLAN 4095 on it in vmware. Moving to Virtualization.
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  Accessing Web GUI from bridged virtual WAN interface
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  It works, thank You very much!
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  configuration master/backup loadblancer and connectivity failure
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  (Solve)Hyper V 2012 Pfsense NIC deX efect?
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  Hi sorry. Forget this one, I had found the issue I was having, thanks.
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  Very slow traffic from other VM's through pfSense on XenServer
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  Hi. Much better https://xcp-ng.org/ + https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/
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  Proxmox, Ceph, ZFS, pfsense
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  Virtualizate an appliance in production
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  Do a fresh Install in your VM, take a Backup for the appliance in Diagnostics > Backup & Restore and Restore this Backup to your VM. More Information here: https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/backup/configuration-backup-and-restore.html -Rico
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  Installing virtual pfsense after update broke router hardware
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  The guide is like that because running with only two NICs total is not recommended. It states: Host has at least two network interfaces available for WAN and LAN. If you have used a NIC for the management port then you don't have two available. However it should work with two NICs total and no dedicated management port as you found. Steve
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  1 dual port NIC or 2 x NICs for LAN and WAN port?
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  @eiger3970 Buy any NIC you want, so long as it's supported by FreeBSD. Stick with Intel if you can. However not sure if pfSense is clever enough to allocate the 2 ports to LAN and WAN? pfSense doesn't allocate anything. You define WAN and LAN yourself during setup by telling pfS which NIC is WAN and which is LAN.
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  PfSense on Hyper-V - lower WAN speed
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  refer to this thread https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/ca93a8bc-500a-49e3-be6e-bf3407d8d798/hyperv-is-not-configured-to-enable-processor-resource-controls?forum=win10itprovirt i used bcdedit /set hypervisorschedulertype classic to fix the latency, intermittent, and bandwidth issues this is needed on win10 1803 and 1809 also in pfsense under System/Advanced/Networking make sure Disable hardware checksum offload Disable hardware TCP segmentation offload Disable hardware large receive offload are checkmarked with certain networkcards such as realteks
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  hyper-v on windows 10 1809
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  refer to this thread https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/ca93a8bc-500a-49e3-be6e-bf3407d8d798/hyperv-is-not-configured-to-enable-processor-resource-controls?forum=win10itprovirt i used bcdedit /set hypervisorschedulertype classic to fix the latency, intermittent, and bandwidth issues this is needed on win10 1803 and 1809
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  pfSense on Hyper-V Server 2016: Strange Issues, Need Help!
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  Did you get your hyper-v pfsense running? If not, feel free to post again. I have a couple of pfsense instances running on a hyper-v server, so it's definitely possible to get it working properly.
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  port mirroring pfsense stream to virtual ids analysis machine
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  i found the link below and a few others on the net but this one explains what i'm trying to do, at least from a vm perspective: dailysysadmin.com/KB/Article/965/port-mirroring-cisco-switch-virtual-machine-vmware-esxi-host/ made those configurations & mirrored the pfsense LAN switch port to security onion. checking now if i have the VLAN option correct but for now seeing a lot of traffic on the securityonion " ens192 " interface, the one without an ip that, i think, captures on all interfaces. getting there. i want to get the actual traffic to securityonion for analysis, say versus streaming pfsense syslog to securityonion. so port mirroring the pfsense LAN port is the way to do so, yes?
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  IP-Based Failover with AWS Marketplace pfSense App
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  @netblues Hi, following up on this, below is a small and crude (sorry...) script for setting up a basic UDP LB with Nginx on-board pfSense. This script assumes that the directory /root/NGINX exists, and you have your custom nginx.conf file in it. #!/bin/sh if [ -f /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nginx ] then echo "Backup and rename nginx service" cp /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nginx /root/NGINX/nginx-dist mv /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nginx /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nginx.sh cp /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf-dist /root/NGINX/nginx.conf-dist echo 'nginx_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf.local fi echo "Update nginx config" cp /root/NGINX/nginx.conf /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf echo "Restart nginx" service nginx.sh restart ...and this is the diff between the default nginx.conf and my custom one, which balances two AWS instances (addresses intentionally changed): [2.4.4-RELEASE][ec2-user@MY-pfSense.localdomain]/home/ec2-user: diff /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf-dist /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf 0a1 > load_module /usr/local/libexec/nginx/ngx_stream_module.so; 15a17 > user root wheel; 122a125,142 > > stream { > > upstream lb_instances { > server 1.1.1.17:1234; > server 1.1.1.147:1234; > server 1.1.1.140:1234; > } > > server { > listen 2.2.2.1:5678 udp; > proxy_pass lb_instances; > proxy_bind $remote_addr:$remote_port transparent; > proxy_responses 0; > } > } > It seems that the failover feature is an Nginx+ feature, which requires a paid subscription. Thanks a lot for your help! Erez
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  pfsense virtual machine on esxi not detecting more than NIC
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  @elyp Got it working. I had to blow away the whole virtual machine, and recreate it in esxi. Even though I had previously tried adding more nics in esxi, and then reinstalling pfsense all over again from scratch, it wasn’t getting more nics. So problem seems like it is on the esxi side with adding more nics to this type of vm after initial vm creation.
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  Azure - Marketplace - Virtual Appliance pfSense environment
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  10.0.0.0/8 172.16.0.0/12 192.168.0.0/16 -Rico
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  pfSence network order and VM ware 15
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  @unsunghero The sort answer is unfortunately, NO. pf is an enterprise grade firewall solution. It is never meant to be a plug and play box. It can do many complicated things, but then its like driving a racing car. You have more things to do apart from the steering wheel and the gas pedal. Here is a great reference for all things pfsense https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/book/ It will answer all your questions, but then you need to invest some time and effort.
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  1&1 IONOS Cloud Server - Routing Socket - Network is Unreachable
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  @rico said in 1&1 IONOS Cloud Server - Routing Socket - Network is Unreachable: Glad you have it working now. I would not open Management Port 80 and 443 to the whole Internet. Maybe you could lock it down to only a few Source IPs in your Firewall Rules. The best Solution is to use some VPN. -Rico Thanks Rico - I have a static IP so locked it down just down just to this one. Thanks again David
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  Timing issue with HyperV 2012R2 core
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  This isn't directly related to your probably but you probably don't want to use a VM as a time source as the VM and the Hyper-V host tend to fight about the time...possibly the cause of the jumps you mention. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/virtual_pc_guy/2010/11/19/time-synchronization-in-hyper-v/ "...the rate at which the time in a virtual machine drifts is affected by the total system load of the Hyper-V server. More virtual machines doing more stuff means time drifts faster." Aside from that 2.4.4 upgraded FreeBSD so you might look into the NIC settings on the host. I am not really pointing to you anything specific but maybe there were driver changes in FreeBSD related to Hyper-V NICs. Oh, how about this bit in the blog post for 2.4.4-p1? "Fixed issues with Hyper-V hn(4) network interfaces and IPv6 as well as issues with ALTQ."
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  Hyperv Pfsense NAT public to lan NOT WORKING
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  pfsense vtnet lack of queues
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  Mystery solved! Thanks @jimp