@stephenw10 , Thank you very much for the direction to the necessary information. According to the documentation on the link, I configured DNS forvarder properly, rechecked the settings of all hosts. Oh, miracle !!! Some had a DNS server 8.8.8.8. I fixed it and it worked. Thank you very much for your support!

@qsystems said in Conditionally poor throughput to linux client behind pfSense: It seems like an issue with the combination of pfSense/Spectrum/and that linux system. How are the cables? Defective cables can cause that sort of problem.

Not necessarily a problem. I would expect the portforwarding rule to only be on inbound traffic , hitting the ISP router. Meaning if you portforward ie. port 80 , it will still allow users on the "inside lan" to browse to the outside internet. It's highly unlikely that they would get a source port of 80 or 443 assigned as outbound port on the ISP router. You are correct here - but I should add the following caveat. I believe most things (like web browsers) assign random ports in the range of 1024 to 65536 or whatever the maximum port number is. (16 bit integer, I don't remember exactly?) So, what I meant to say was this... Surely just directing all traffic with destination port in the range of > 1024 would break other users connections? Consider this example: A computer with address 192.168.0.35 connects to a webserver with return port of 1024. If port 1024 is always forwarded to IP 192.168.0.200 (for example) then the response from the webserver requested from IP 192.168.0.35 will never reach that address... because it will be forwarded to 192.168.0.200. Unless there's a caveat I don't understand here?

@stephenw10 Thanx Steve I see the use for URL Table aliases, in blocklists etc. But i won't build "core" firewall rules that depends on a web service, on each load. Then i'd rather do the web clicking. But a nice feature i overlooked, if i ever need a huuuge "dynamic" blocklist. /Bingo

@Gertjan said in configure PfSense ftp: @tafovizo said in configure PfSense ftp: Hello. How to configure an exit from the local network (client) to an ftp server on the Internet on PfSense? The default LAN rule handles outgoing FTP just fine, that is a device on LAN using and FTP client, accessing a FTP server on the net. Edit : that is, most FTP servers are hosted on the Internet using a NON RFC1918 IP, and the visiting clients are mostly behind a router like pfSense. Read something like https://www.deskshare.com/resources/articles/ftp-how-to.aspx why you really want to ditch FTP where it belong : the national museum of ancient technologies. Thank you ;)

Mmm, I see what you mean. If you disable a static route during run-time then you might expect problems since that route is then removed and would not be re-added until OpenVPN us re-started. But if it's disabled at boot I would not expect it to do anything. Re-opened it to discuss. Steve

You will always see double NAT through OpenVPN unless you have paid to get a public IP which some services offer I believe. UPNP does not pass requests upstream so you can cannot open ports on the VPN, it will never appear as open. You need to set static outbound NAT for the xbox both out the WAN and over the VPN. Steve

[2.4.5-RELEASE][admin@244dev.stevew.lan]/root: pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:11:x86:64/latest/All/arp-scan-1.9.7.txz Fetching arp-scan-1.9.7.txz: 100% 333 KiB 340.8kB/s 00:01 Installing arp-scan-1.9.7... Extracting arp-scan-1.9.7: 100% [2.4.5-RELEASE][admin@244dev.stevew.lan]/root: rehash [2.4.5-RELEASE][admin@244dev.stevew.lan]/root: arp-scan Interface: vtnet0, type: EN10MB, MAC: 9z:86:v8:d6:7b:52, IPv4: 172.21.16.180 Usage: arp-scan [options] [hosts...] Target hosts must be specified on the command line unless the --file option is given, in which case the targets are read from the specified file instead, or the --localnet option is used, in which case the targets are generated from the network interface IP address and netmask. You will need to be root, or arp-scan must be SUID root, in order to run arp-scan, because the functions that it uses to read and write packets require root privilege. The target hosts can be specified as IP addresses or hostnames. You can also specify the target as IPnetwork/bits (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24) to specify all hosts in the given network (network and broadcast addresses included), or IPstart-IPend (e.g. 192.168.1.3-192.168.1.27) to specify all hosts in the inclusive range, or IPnetwork:NetMask (e.g. 192.168.1.0:255.255.255.0) to specify all hosts in the given network and mask. These different options for specifying target hosts may be used both on the command line, and also in the file specified with the --file option. use "arp-scan --help" for detailed information on the available options. Report bugs or send suggestions at https://github.com/royhills/arp-scan See the arp-scan homepage at https://github.com/royhills/arp-scan

Well this got out of hand pretty fast, haha. At least it was a good learning experience. It's not easy to get memory stats out of this thing! I have not finished editing to make sure everything is perfect and portable but for now this works well on an sg-1100 which is the target system(s). On to the next project! #!/usr/bin/env sh #The purpose of this script is to collect system information for use with mailreport package. #TODO: See notes in comments - rounding memory calculations with bc #Variables for searching logs datesearchclog="`date '+%b %e'`" datesearchpfb="`date '+%m/%d/%y'`" #Basic system summary cat /etc/platform /etc/version echo -n "Last config change: " ; date -r `awk -F '[;:]' '{print $4}' /cf/conf/backup/backup.cache` && awk -F '["]' '{print $4}' /cf/conf/backup/backup.cache echo echo "SUMMARY - See load avg last 1, 5, and 15 minutes" ; w #CPU utilization checking cpuload="`uptime | /usr/bin/sed 's/^.*: //'`" cpuload5="`echo $cpuload | awk -F '[. ]' '{print $3}'`" if [ "$cpuload5" -gt "1" ]; then echo "WARNING! 5 MIN CPU LOAD HIGH:" $cpuload5 echo "Top CPU" ps -auxw | head -1 && ps -auxw | sort -nr -k 3 | head -5 echo "Top TIME" ps -auxw | head -1 && ps -auxw | sort -nr -k 10 | head -5 fi echo #MEM information and utilization checking #vmstat -ah top | head -4 | tail -1 totalmem="`sysctl -n vm.stats.vm.v_page_count`" if [ "$totalmem" -gt "0" ]; then inactivemem="`sysctl -n vm.stats.vm.v_inactive_count`" cachedmem="`sysctl -n vm.stats.vm.v_cache_count`" freemem="`sysctl -n vm.stats.vm.v_free_count`" usedmem=`echo "$totalmem - ($inactivemem + $cachedmem + $freemem)" | bc` memusage=`echo "($usedmem * 100) / $totalmem" | bc` #round with bc? physmem=`sysctl -n hw.physmem` physmemh=`echo "$physmem / (1024*1024)" | bc` #round with bc? echo "Mem:" $memusage"% of" $physmemh"M used." if [ "$memusage" -gt "60" ]; then echo "WARNING! MEMORY USED HIGH:" $memusage"%" echo "Top MEM" ps -auxw | head -1 && ps -auxw | sort -nr -k 4 | head -5 fi else echo "ERROR READING MEM PAGE COUNT!" fi echo #DISK information and utilization checking df -hl / /var/run diskused="`df -h / | /usr/bin/tail -n 1 | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $5 }' | /usr/bin/cut -d '%' -f 1`" if [ "$diskused" -gt "60" ]; then echo "WARNING! PERCENT DISK USED HIGH on /:" $diskused"%" fi echo #LOGS - provides more detail and filtering than mailreport package offers echo "Filtered Log Output" [ -f /var/log/pfblockerng/error.log ] && echo "Log output: pfblockerng Errors (pfblockerng/error.log)" && grep -e "$datesearchpfb" /var/log/pfblockerng/error.log && tail -n 20 #/var/log/pfblockerng/error.log ; echo echo [ -f /var/log/filter.log ] && echo "Log output: Firewall (raw) - Admin Interfaces GUEST (filter.log)" && clog /var/log/filter.log | grep -e "$datesearchclog" | egrep "1566350082" | tail -n 20 echo [ -f /var/log/filter.log ] && echo "Log output: Firewall (raw) - Combined Blocklist (filter.log)" && clog /var/log/filter.log | grep -e "$datesearchclog" | egrep "1597881531|1597881664" | tail -n 20 echo [ -f /var/log/filter.log ] && echo "Log output: Firewall (raw) - GeoIP Regions (filter.log)" && clog /var/log/filter.log | grep -e "$datesearchclog" | egrep "1599316667|1599316737" | tail -n 20 echo [ -f /var/log/gateways.log ] && echo "Log output: Gateway Events (gateways.log)" && clog /var/log/gateways.log | grep -e "$datesearchclog" | tail -n 20 echo [ -f /var/log/ntpd.log ] && echo "Log output: NTP (ntpd.log)" && clog /var/log/ntpd.log | grep -e "$datesearchclog" | tail -n 20 echo [ -f /var/log/routing.log ] && echo "Log output: Routing (routing.log)" && clog /var/log/routing.log | grep -e "$datesearchclog" | tail -n 20 echo [ -f /var/log/system.log ] && echo "Log output: System (system.log)" && clog /var/log/system.log | grep -e "$datesearchclog" | egrep "fail|emerg|alert|crit|err|warn" | tail -n 20 echo [ -f /var/log/watchdogd.log ] && echo "Log output: watchdogd (watchdogd.log)" && clog /var/log/watchdogd.log | grep -e "$datesearchclog" | tail -n 20 echo

Yes seeing this in 2.4.5-p1, already tested with 2.5.0.a.20200911.0650 yesterday and it's the exact same. -Rico

Do you mean alias or firewall rule? Using Easyrulelike that would normally add a new block firewall rule on LAN. What exactly are you trying to do by doing that? If it's the same IP you should just enable or disable the rule from the GUI. Steve

@TCP-IP said in Usermanagement: adding a user in pfsense who has only this privileges: Hi, Do you mean something like that? https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/usermanager/group-manager.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOiJ0N2k1mM

Before i found Pfsense i have already hardwired my iot's. So now the only new addition has been smart switches wifi cameras. motions light and temp sensors. The issue would be wifi plus due to the my current limitations the server will be in the basement if i end up settiing up mesh of wireless network the cost ends up going high. This is stuff i have just lying around so i would use this plus if in the future i want to wire my house to have another network for work purposes i can run a cable to my switch is located in a convenient place.

@gawainxx said in Need help setting up a script to run and log tracert and ping tests when latency and packet loss exceeds a certain point.: so it's detecting the ISP modem as the GW. Well if pfsense is having problems pinging your ISP device.. Then its either that device, or the connection to said device.. That would have nothing to do with the actual internet connection.

It actually shows you that error or it just returns no groups? Do those groups exist in pfSense with identical names? Why are you running that old version of pfSense? You should upgrade when you can. Steve

in Diag > Command Prompt use the download field to get it from /var/etc/ntpd.conf. Steve

You should not have to but you could try to manually recreate the key: https://forum.netgate.com/post/510554 Though if it was doing that immediately after the initial install I would suggest something went wrong there. Did you try just re-installing? Steve

Ah, so more likely then it's not a conflict but that your ISP is handing you a technically invalid gateway that's outside the WAN subnet, which is only a single address. Fun. There is an option to allow that for providers who decide to ignore the standards. In System > Routing > Gateways edit the dhcp gateway and set 'Use non-local gateway' in the advanced section. Steve

Urgh. Good luck! At least you have some sort of answer I guess. The fact existing connections stay working really makes it seem like some sort of state exhaustion. that would still have to be somewhere upstream though if pfSense is doing PPPoE, the USB router would not see those states. Steve

So when you put in the sg1100 vs the other one - you actually rebooted the cable modem.. When you change devices connected to a cable modem you almost always have to power cycle them.