• Best practice for subnet/prefix length for VIPs?

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    I provide a /24 subnet on IPv4 and /64 on IPv6. I also have the 3rd IPv4 octet match the IPv6 prefix ID. However, this is more for convenience than technical reasons. I also use the same number for the VLAN for my guest WiFi.
  • 25.07 pfb_dnsbl wont start unless i edit / save carp vip

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    @stephenw10 surprisingly it's on both, however I only have to edit then save on the primary and the service starts on both
  • What rule blocks this ?!?

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    @johnpoz said in What rule blocks this ?!?: short block You mean an invalid short packet? Edit: Oh the log reason is 'short'. Hmm I don't think I've ever seen that before. Yeah it's doesn't have to match a rule so no id etc.
  • SMART not checking drives.

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    Thanks Guys... that explains everything. The other drive is a M.2 Samsung 250GB, worked OK on that.
  • Keyboard stops responding after booting

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    K
    So you're seeing the boot process on a screen attached to the device with a CVGA/HDLI cable ? The kernel boot probably switched over to the serial USB console from that point on, so nothing shows up on the screen anymore. This might help you : Troubleshooting Boot Issues. @basketball superstars said in Keyboard stops responding after booting: is due to needing to disable DHCP You disabled the DHCP server on LAN ? Thanks for your answer. I got it.
  • pfsense 2.8 CE Crash Report

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    Hmm, so is that shown in the main system log? It may just not be in the console log.
  • Error "loading the rules" after reboot

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    Hmm, I'm not sure why you would need NAT there if each site is advertising the correct subnets. But yes that would be a problem if you needed to do it. In pfSense you need to assign an interface to apply NAT on it.
  • Torrents Resulting in WAN Packet Loss

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    planedropP
    @stephenw10 Yeah that's what I'm thinking, maybe the ONT itself can't handle it or something along those lines. I know many ISPs do throttle torrents, but you'd usually see that as the torrent traffic itself having higher latency and stuff, not just dropped packets on the entire connection, though it doesn't appear the later is unheard of. Pretty confident at this point it isn't pfSense, so at least that's good. May also see if my ISP can get a tech out, after I test both VPNs and possibly direct fiber connectivity instead of the ONT.
  • SSH with public key and new macbook pro

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    @ahole4sure said in SSH with public key and new macbook pro: could you possibly send a screenshot of what all is in your config file? :) ... no, I can't do that. It is full of information not to be shown in public. But I can paste an example and you'll find a lot on the internet. Include ~/.orbstack/ssh/config # my firewall, e.g. pfSense, non-standard port # and specify which ssh private key to use Host firewall-at-home 192.168.1.1 User root Port 20022 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa HostName 192.168.1.1 # my Synology DS920+ Host ds920plus User admin # default settings for hosts not matched # in above rules Host * User jane
  • XMLRPC Error after Upgrading to 25.07

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    stephenw10S
    Do you see blocked traffic on secondary? It sure looks like it's failing to authenticate there. Are you using a complex password? Are you using the admin user for the xml sync?
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    @stephenw10 Thanks. I monitored the WireGuard traffic on the underlying interface at the same time and sure enough every 15 seconds the remote peer sends a 32 byte UDP packet. This ties up with the client's setting 'PersistentKeepalive = 15' so it is just the keep alive traffic. Mystery solved.
  • Questions about log messages

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    They are still coming into the WAN just without the :5 octet?
  • 24.11 -> 25.07

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    @stephenw10 No it doesn't install a 3rd party repo. However... it could possibly Mess with shared libraries (libmd.so, libssl.so, etc.) getting replaced or misaligned. Create conflicts in /etc/rc.conf, init scripts, or pkg metadata. OS version expectations (pkg or pfSense-upgrade behaving strangely).
  • 25.07 ran for 24 hours and then ????

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    stephenw10S
    Hmm, well hard to be sure I'd guess that Unbound was restarted when pfBlocker updated and then failed to restart for some reason. However that wouldn't prevent pinging 8.8.8.8. So another possibility is that one of the pfBlocker feeds had some rogue entry blocking far too much when it updated.
  • OpenVPN bad encapsulated packet length question

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    @stephenw10 Thank you. I will do some research on this option
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    Skipping the untrusted certs there is expected in any install. CE is not supported in Azure.
  • pfSense 2.8 CE Azure

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    Yes upgrading CE in Azure is not supported. And that includes to Plus. The only supported deployment in Azure is from the tested Netgate image.
  • Unable to update from 23.09

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    stephenw10S
    Yes, in the dynamic repo system ugrades are supported from the previous two versions. So you can skip one version. For 25.07 that's 24.03 and 24.11 so you would have needed to upgrade to one of those first from 23.09.
  • PHP Fatal error after adding port forward

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    Technically is was but as long as we can still build for it without too much difficulty we will try. There are some packages that no linger build for arm32 and are not available there. At some point the work required to make it build will become impractical and it will no longer upgradable.
  • WAN out errors since 2.8 upgrade

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    stephenw10S
    Yup mpd5/netgraph ignores those errors. It should be fixed by this: https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-src/commit/7a623f854217be1dc7a04ce0b3f47303ea2ce7a9 That's in main so it should land in 25.11/2.9.0.
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