@dnickel It's draw.io It's pretty solid drawing app. @Derelict found the cause of error. Apparently my all my 3 subnets is in different AZs. Instance and Network Interface should sit in the same AZs to work.

Thanks. I can just run "/etc/rc.initial" and it fires up the shell. Strange. I'll test on another pfSense box.

@KOM I guess I can do a clean install, then if the config breaks it, just clean install again. Saves me a lot of work, if it works!

Yep. Although, even when swap exists, I advise to check now and then that the system isn't using it. If it does, add real memory, also called RAM. As soon as the swap gets used, your system (pfSense) will start to crawl. The memory on disk is thousands of times slower as RAM access.

That may have done the trick. I will keep monitoring. thanks.

@rsaanon said in pfsense with Spectrum Internet: @bmeeks That's a good thought, but I had done a couple of things to ensure that ISP was not coupling the MAC address of the PC to the connection where the ISP DHCP server will not serve out IP to a different MAC: I rebooted the modem and waited an hour to ensure that ISP DHCP lease is released back to the DHCP pool I spoofed the MAC address of my PC inside of the hypervisor/ESXi Based on the above two steps, I doubt that the issue is related to "learned" MAC address. Thoughts? Thanks! I agree if you spoofed the PC's MAC address and rebooted the cable modem, that should have addressed any "learned MAC" issues.

Thanks, this is what I meant

@atomicboy said in How to remove PFSense from Appliance: I was able to access the bios and set the USB port with the USB in it as the only option for boot up and not just the order of boot and this worked. Upon booting the USB, the program determined that there was not enough space on the hard drive so it provided an option for me to repartition the disk and I selected the entire disk which in effect erased PFSense. You found it

I think someone else had this same issue recently in that the graph reports double the actual bandwidth. Search the forums for traffic graph and see if it was resolved or is still outstanding.

I try to help out where I can. Even though I've been here five years or so, I still remember the feeling of being new and posing a question into the void and getting no response. If I think I can even point them in the right direction, I'll reply. You might notice that this forum has very few unanswered posts. Not all issues can be resolved via the community forums, but I think we have a pretty high success rate and that helps the project's reputation & success.

Sorry, no. I have to move a facility in late June and that is when it is going to happen.

@jimp Roger....Thanks

@stephenw10 said in New User to pfSense - some doubts: I think there has been some confusion here. Steve Well look at his quote. Thus he can answer for himself I suppose.. :)

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/143183/solved-cant-seem-to-get-my-apt-get-working-on-vm/7

@NogBadTheBad said in Does pfSense support SNTP: You still have to XMODEM IOS to a Cisco switch if there's no IOS in flash :) I think I saw that mentioned in my search for firmware updates. However, that would be a bit difficult to do without a serial port on that box. However, what is does to is create a web server, if the firmware can't be found. That web server can then be used to upload the firmware. I wonder if that gets turned on, when http upload is selected. I was using tftp, where I had to specify the IP address and file, but the missing firmware web server was 192.168.1.254, IIRC. I'll have to look into that.

@stephenw10 said in Cant seem to get my apt-get working on VM: Disable IPv6 on the pfSense LAN Thanks - It's resolved - I've disable DHCP 6 server and uncheck in my LAN interface everything is perfect now.

Did you inspect the pfblockerng.log to see what is done during that period?

Yes, that will work. pfSense sees it as any other WAN connection then. Steve

@jimp said in Bootup: Fatal Error Uncaught Error Stack trace: You can use the boot menu to select single user mode if you need to make those kinds of changes. Thanks

@OpenWifi said in How to stop throttling by my ISP: @chpalmer So how can i circumvent that How can you get full bandwidth from your ISP when they aren't allocating it to you? You probably cannot. But if you're using any old hubs in your network, moving to switches might help. What you're experiencing I believe is very common. This might help..... TomsGuide - What to do when your bandwidth is throttled