@meowmere If the connection is 'bad', pfSense will take the WAN connection (interface) down for a moment, and activated its again. The connection = WAN uplink will be re established. @meowmere said in pfSense fresh install but no internet?: sometimes it also has 50-75% loss pfSEnse is sending a ping every half a second or so. If only 25 % come back, I guess it's time you question your ISP about this. Or : change another ping destination ? Example : [image: 1727171879053-89a59476-5caf-4d02-929b-762417c4ae8f-image.png] ( under System > Routing > Gateways > Edit ) I use 94.23.251.x as I control that IP/device.

Yes you would need to run that at the time you were seeing those states. You only have a single WAN there? One thing that could provide useful evidence for both these situations would be to setup pflow exporting. That would show if there are any conflicting states when a non-natted connection is created. It should also catch failing to close out old states.

@magician-balmy-stainable said in Local VPN won't connect when on LAN port?: I was previously stopping Suricata from the Interface Settings Overview but now I understand how to disable it. Using the Start/Stop/Restart icons on the INTERFACES tab only impacts any current sessions. Once you reboot, there is a shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ that automatically starts Suricata on any interface where it is enabled. Since you were only stopping the currently running instance and not disabling the instance, the shell script was starting it up normally upon reboot. @magician-balmy-stainable said in Local VPN won't connect when on LAN port?: It seems like Suricata may no longer be the issue. I'm not convinced Suricata was ever your issue. I think you have a configuration issue. It's possibly something like @stephenw10 mentioned where you might have overlapping IP subnets or some kind of rouge gateway set up so replies from your LAN interface are directed someplace other than the network where you are attempting to access the firewall GUI.

Not all NICs support the link detection at assignment time. But that shouldn't prevent you assigning and using them. Just assign em0 and test it.

Yup, though I don't expect anything to have changed in the 7100 to be honest. The drivers are largely unchanged.

@4o4rh Are you monitoring the gateway? Edit Gateway -> Monitor IP (pick something outside, past the first hop at your ISP) A lot of people pick one of the big DNS providers (like for example 8.8.8.8) Use something that works best for you. Status -> System Logs -> System -> Gateways should have all the info you want with regards to packet loss and disconnects.

@johnpoz Thanks, this is the list i'm using. Am going to add yours too :) [image: 1727031324587-edae1531-7fe9-4af0-83b4-f720dc7e4bec-image.png]

@dareys Thank you everyone for the help. I now have setup a NETGATE Pfsense VPN running on AWS, as per the diagram on the right, temporarily freeing me from the local hardware requirement. FYI. [image: 1727029328566-116a288b-9f35-4994-8f3b-fe6f75acf15a-imagen.png]

@stephenw10 Thanks for the info. I came across pfMonitor which is a central management for pfSense devices. https://pfmonitor.com/index.php Do you know what are the differences between pfMonitor and the upcoming Multi-Instance Management from Netgate ?

@stephenw10 will try standard boot instead of efi, this is a Qotom Mini PC Q20331G9 1U.

I wouldn't consider my opinions more educated than others - I just had more time to make mistakes compared to other folks due to my age - and tried to remember a few of the things that went boom in my career. @chpalmer said in pfSense Installer Hinders Offline Network Deployment: I would ask if you had actually downloaded any of the installers before arriving at your venue?? I am having my ol' and trusty images by now plus a couple of ISO files on a Ventoy stick to save me some trouble as even a readily installed device can fail and you need to reinstall on a fresh disk in a pinch. Been there, done that. @chpalmer said in pfSense Installer Hinders Offline Network Deployment: But my advice is to always look for what could bite you in the days before during the planning stages.. Borrowed hardware on a budget is a sure way to bite you. Question is not 'if', it's 'when'. Especially when you receive certain parts just on site. We do get sponsored hardware at some point which are questionable as well and you get them a couple of hours before the opening. So firmware and stuff is really handy and a small fileserver in the admin vlan hosting that stuff is a must have at that point. My worries is really about the future deployments to come especially on some crucial infrastructure like a firewall...

@kwangmien There is a section in this forum for IDS/IPS where you find all you need on Suricata and Snort. Then there is another package called pfBlockerNG which I guess is what you might be thinking of as web filter. https://forum.netgate.com/category/53/ids-ips https://forum.netgate.com/category/62/pfblockerng No software licenses required and there are both free and paid versions of the rulesets used. And for pfblocker you would benefit from getting a MaxMind license, also free.

Changing the nic type and opting out of the CGNAT network address space seems to have corrected whatever issue I was having.

That implies the client cannot ARP for the IP. That could be because the LAN stops responding entirely but no way to be sure without more tests.

Wow...this is still going...

@stephenw10 Issue #15734 created. -nic

@aaronssh said in FW rules for subnet-only traffic?: Adding this rule to allow traffic within the subnet solved my problem This rule does work but is suboptimal. "More correct" would be to change the second _net to _address.

The Nord DNS servers are only accessible via the VPN. So setting it to 'none' or 'wan_pppoe' in general will fail. I have no idea how you have the lancache server setup. I would assume anything you want to use that has to also use it for DNS. In turn its own dns queries can only be either via the VPN or not. So I'd expect to only use it for VPN clients or non-VPN clients. In general. Though you could use domain overrides in Unbound to forward specific queries to it.

@johnpoz the firewall router to which the workstation from which I ran the command is connected is pfsense

@WhoAmI68 said in Sed stream editor on the filter.log file: I am using this sed stream editor "sed -i '' '/65.20.170.33/d' /var/log/filter.log" to delete the match line from the filter.log file. sed reads the file, 'seds' it and rewrites the same file ? But what about this ? AFAIK : can syslog 'grep' what it is outputting ? Thus filtering the messages. ? If so, have a look at where /etc/syslog.conf is created, add your grep instructions and call it a day ?