@stephenw10 I tried again today. This time I used my latest config backup in version 2.6, deleted the said rule and its duplicates (size 398KB), and then rebooted. It booted up properly with config size 399KB. I initially got no internet and later found my LAN interface rule, which allows any sources/ports was missing. Adding the rule back and the internet was back. I tried changing a few configurations and the config file has not grown like before.

I'll keep monitoring whether there will be any other side effects.

Thanks.

update on Oct 2, 2023: The problem has been permanently fixed, though I don't know how such Openvpn wizard creation xml section was there.

Thanks for your help Steve.

Ujjwal

@Vinatra configuration wise - we simply edited the config file and put in the IP of the Wazuh server
That was the full extent of any configuration

@stephenw10 thanks I will try it out. I appreciate it.

@cornerstonefound said in Noob q what ip should show in iplookup, still my dns ip or firewall lan ip?:

Btw, your profile pic is satanic

Ok -- sorry don't like it, I think its cute.. And btw it's the mascot of bsd, which is what pfsense runs on a flavor "freebsd". So guess your saying pfsense is satanic.. Maybe it will take your soul if you use it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon

His name is Beastie btw..

It has taken mine ;)

I know Jesus, he lives down the street - his wife makes great freaking tamales!!

@Trent2458 This ended up fixing it. I was trying to connect while on WAN, connected to my LAN and it started working

Both could be DHCP. The 4G router would be handing a DHCP lease to the pfSense WAN. pfSense would be handing DHCP leases to the clients on it's LAN.

The link between the pfSense WAN and 4G router could use static addressing instead but I would use DHCP initially.

Steve

@tman222 said in PPPoE - Single Core - SMT / Hyper Threading On or Off:

Xeon D-1718T

I went with the D-1736NT (8-core QAT) wrapped in the very familiar Supermicro short-depth design (SYS-510D-8C-FN6P).

I did look at the 4-core QAT version for the lower TDP but they were exceptionally hard / impossible to find in the UK and not much cheaper than the 8C. No doubt I will end up running a few things on it so the extra cores will probably get to stretch their legs at some point.

The rest of it will come from stuff existing I have kicking around - a couple of 16GB RDIMMs, Optane (M.2 and/or U.2), slimSAS to 4x or 8x SATA SSDs are all candidates. These things always tend to get 'played' with. Tempted to try Proxmox too.

Ah nice result! Yeah that can be hard to get past if you think you've already disproved something.

@stephenw10 This was the golden suggestion. All works now. In the advanced settings I changed to using VGA console as default console, so using VGA works again, which was the behavior I initially expected.
Thanks for responding!

Sure I can check that. Send it in chat

@dennypage said in Avahi not restarting at boot:

I expect that you are using DHCP to acquire an IPv6 delegation from the WAN, and then using it to configure internal interfaces via Track Interface.

Unless you are using fully static IPv6, I would recommend that you do not use IPv6 in Avahi. You don't loose anything by having IPv6 disabled in Avahi, and many devices that depend upon mDNS won't use IPv6 even if it is offered. IPv4 works just fine.

On pfSense 23.09d-20230921-1219 Avahi does now restart at boot with IPv6 selected.

Hurrah!

☕️

Powerd (with Speedstep) works fine but only if you disable SpeedShift since it takes priority. But you should use Speedshift on any CPU that supports it, it's much better in almost every way.

Hmm, what's shown in the logs when you connect/disconnect the ports?

@stephenw10 Sounds good. I have 16gb RAM and only typically use a tiny percentage of it, and I don't use those packages, so I'll take advantage.

@johnpoz said in pfsense down after a power outage:

@heathman56 Not meaning to kick you when your down, but ups is sort of a requirement with any sort of electronic gear. If you do it right since most networking gear is so low power your ups can prob run your network for 30-60 minutes, if not longer and survive 1st world sort of power outages without ever going down.

Yep. I have 2 UPS here, one for my main computer and one for pfSense, cable modem, WiFi and switch. In fact I had a power failure last week, where my computer shut down after 15 minutes of failure and then the power came back a minute later. After I turned my computer back on, I was right where I left off. My Internet connection never failed, as that UPS lasts longer than the computer one. I use APCUPSD to shut down the computers when needed.

Hmm, strange indeed!

Do you have an OpenVPN server running on the firewall? Does it show the clients connecting to it? What are they supposed to be connecting to?

What do you see logged when the webgui cert changes?

Steve

@johnpoz I didn't expect to be able to connect to the console with the MicroUSB cable, but I was able to make the connection successfully and reset the admin password. It was a great help! Thank you very much.