• pfSense dropping connection to WAN or something

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    If it's something in pfSense it will almost certainly be logging something when the problem starts. It could be a link state change. But it could be a route or IP address change. Or if you're running something dynamic like Snort or pfBlocker it might be related to a list update for example.

  • Setup to allow admin access only from OPT1. Is this correct?

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    @stephenw10 ok, thanks. I will try to set it up that way.

  • IP Camera VLAN

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    @stephenw10 I bought a pack with cameras and the NVR and as the NVRcould also provide PoE as well as the switches I set it up that way, so you’re right there is little to no benefit to adding the extra switch. In fact, it would be more beneficial to replace the oddball camera and add its replacement to the NVR!

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    @stephenw10

    Awesome thanks!

  • speedtest-cli 403 forbidden error

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    fireodoF

    @johnpoz said in speedtest-cli 403 forbidden error:

    Not exactly sure what --secure option does.

    speedtest-cli --help

    and you'll find out what it does :-)

    --secure Use HTTPS instead of HTTP when communicating with speedtest.net operated servers

    Nice weekend,
    fireodo

  • 10GB Fiber network, yes/no?

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    @pwood999 said in 10GB Fiber network, yes/no?:

    @chudak Out of curiosity what speed are you actually seeing on the 10G connection. If it's standard XGS-PON, that usually maxes out around 8.5Gbps data payload due to overheads in the PON system. If the ISP is using 25Gb PON, then they could theoretically deliver 10Gb data rates.

    I don't have 10GB fibber yet :)

    On 1GB I see ~700MBps on iPhone 13 Pro and full 1GB on wired connections

  • Help, Random "Hot Plug" Events!

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    @mark77ap

    Wow, the cable? Well, I tried two different 6 foot CAT6 cables (one unknown brand and another Amazon basics). Both were UTP (unshielded). Maybe I'll have to try some other cable brands, or different types of cables like CAT6e or CAT7 or even some STP (shielded) cables. I'll have to swing by my work and "borrow" a few to test with 🤔

    I'm glad you were able to solve your dropouts with just a cable, that's great news! I hope I have the same luck! 🙂

  • Higher load on one 4100 using same config and another 4100

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    stephenw10S

    Indeed we have seen a few reports of that but have never seen it here. If it happens again and anything is logged at that point or, even better, if you can find a way to replicate it please let us know.

    There have been similar issues in the past but not for quite a while.

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    The key line there is that the boot drive, ada0, detaches from the drive controller. That obviously stops it booting.

    That looks like a drive or controller failure. It could be something as simple as a bad SATA cable though.

  • AutoConfigurationBackup Host

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    First of all thank you for your reply @stephenw10 !
    Ok - this was an odd one. We had a firewall alias for testing purposes to block updates to the ACB service. And yes - there way a typo ;-)

  • PHP-FPM webgui crashes and freezes

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    @stephenw10

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  • Crash report

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    stephenw10S

    It's this: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14648

    Try checking those sysctls directly.

    Steve

  • How to view traffic graph in WAN?

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    @stephenw10 Thanks got it!

  • How to restrict Wi-Fi sharing via Mobile Hotspot ?

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    If you are creating multiple rules for different ttl lengths remember to increment the sid: value for each rule.

  • has access to internet, but clients do not

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    A fresh install is always at the factory defaults anyway (unless you did a config recover during install?) so it would make no difference.

    Go ahead and restore your config and you should be good.

    The OK> prompt implies it wasn't able to get past the bootloader. And that is most commonly caused by something nuking the entire partition. Without more logs though it's hard to say what that might have been.

    Steve

  • WOL Doesnt Seem To Be Working

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    @stephenw10 said in WOL Doesnt Seem To Be Working:

    Ethereal

    Your dating yourself with that name ;) hehehe

  • Disable start up interface reassignment

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    Ok, that would be expected because changing the NIC type means that the assigned vtnet2 interface no longer exists.

    I'm not sure why it asks for OPT1 and OPT4 unless those were assigned as the bridge/ovpns interfaces.

  • DNS/DHCP strategy

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    @Gertjan Thank you so much for taking the time to analyze my question and provide the screenshots. I appreciate. However, your scenario does not quite correspond to my use case. I'd rather devise a way to enter a device in a database and then automatically propagate its reserved IP, DNS name, etc.

  • node_exporter is not working properly on 23.05

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    error is related touname and not for meminfo.

    adding -- "--no-collector.uname" in extra flags has stopped errors. I ahve not seen any impact in data gathering as well as no grafana dashboards are not impacted.

  • NUT upsc and hosts.conf fine but upsstats.cgi does not show the ups

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    @netboy Never mind I had an entry error in hosts.conf!!!

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