You can't remove a cert that is still in use. Change whatever is using it to the new cert first. Steve

You will only see IP lists in logs against passed by pfBlocker aliases. You can attempt to resolve them using reverse DNS but it will probably be of limited use. Steve

@johnpoz Yeah, just look at where the software in them is coming from. I've seen exactly what @Jknott is describing.

I would also check everything here: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/website-access-issues.html Your description could be an MTU issue. Steve

The introduction section from the docs sums it up nicely: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/general/index.html Steve

@geoffdh said in Changing from Asus router to pfsense prevents access to hosts on internal network: so I wanted to try and use the other 5 in the same way as the ports on my previous Asus router Not a good idea at all - if you want switch ports, use a switch.. Also I assume that velop is doing nat.. So doesn't matter really what its wan IP is, its still going to nat. You should use your wifi router as just AP if you want your stuff to all be on the same network.. You sure that is not doing nat - and is just an AP? Nice hand drawing btw! ;) For future reference - in a pinch you want to do some ascii network drawings ;) https://textik.com http://asciiflow.com/ online drawing for network https://creately.com https://online.visual-paradigm.com/drive/#diagramlist:proj=0&new=NetworkDiagram There are many many more options.. But your hand drawing is very nice!

@MakOwner said in Suggestions for linking two pfsense setups: So, I thought since I have sort of got this working well enough thanks to all your help, I'd share what I have done -- so far anyway. Thanks for all the help! I have had to revert to 2.4.4-p3 on both ends. 2.4.5 doesn't seem to play well at this point. Gateway monitoring seem to be the downfall for some reason. I'll wait for another update before trying again. Why does GW monitoring pose a problem ? It's usually just a "Ping of the GW". DHCP servers are active with very limited ranges on each interface. The office interface handles the DHCP interface handles the .30/24 on the link between buildings and provides the addresses for the management interfaces on the two switches. Each DHCP server is configured to serve addresses within a specified range and each /24 has a different range just for conveniance. .10/24 uses .110-.120, .20/24 uses .120-.130, .30/24 uses .130-.140 for example. Not a single DHCP collision or bomb - yet, anyway. All active physical systems use static DHCP assignment outside the assignment range so that it becomes very obvious if anything goes south. Special way to "reckognize" which DHCP server hands out the ip. But if it works for you ..... Once you trust DHCP , you could move to something more "default". I usually let my dhcp start at .129 .. 250 And uses 25..125 for static assignments (1..24) are for infrastructure like routers , switches etc. I added the .30/24 interface of the opposite system as a gateway on each pfsense. I added static routes to .10/24 and .20/24 networks as appropriate. Great ... Do you understand why you have to do that now ? Tell one pfSense how to "reach" a remote lan on the "other". On the .30/24 interface on each pfsense I added an any-to-any firewall rule. That is "fine" , basically making the "Connect net" transparent. You could fine tune that , later if ever needed. The .30/24 rules , are like all other "normal" pfSense interface rules "Enter" rules : See it as: "This permitted traffic" is allowed to "enter" the pfSense-box via "this interface" , everything not permitted is blocked , and will NOT enter the receiving pfSense box. From there I began working on DNS. The DNS resolver in 2.4.4 doesn't quite behave as I expected. What is your issue ? Still Unbound crashes ? Did you try the service watchdog ? After DNS is working like I expect I'll move on to configuring the direct link. ??? Remember when making changes to : Backup pfSense configs often. Don't make 10 changes at the same time. All in all a nice excersise , you certainly got your hands dirty. Well done , especially for not giving up. /Bingo Ps: If you ever want to "do it right" more flexible , you we should enable multi-vlan on ALL your switches. That would give you the flexibility to make ANY switchport in any building , a member of "ANY vlan". Ie. a server in building-1 , would be seen as a member of the building-2 Lan. But that would require that you are reading up on "tagging" on all your switches , including the old "access" switches you use. And start playing a little with vlans & tagging , before starting that up.

@maxxer Check previous discussion about similar issue and how to troubleshoot here: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/145578/ldaps-ad-bind

Yes, unless you are saturating the connection you should not be seeing packet loss. Steve

Just for the record, I've managed my case by placing static routes as I only needed Cloudflare routed to VPN. Why routing Cloudflare? Extensive threats against my clients, abusing CL as a way to evade detection by filtering either Country or VPNs.

Yup. If you know who you need to allow access to you could also use pfBlocker to generate Geo IP aliases, then allow access from only those you need. Or block block access from lists of known bad actors etc. You might also consider running Snort/Suricata to check that traffic. That quite a complex setup though, I would not add that immediately. Steve

If you don't have a gateway defined in a rule traffic will be routing according to the system routing table. That means it will go via the default gateway for an external destination but for a local subnet, LAN 2 here, it will be routed directly. You need a firewall rule on LAN1 that allows traffic from the LAN1 subnet to the server IP in LAN2 above the policy routing rule there. Steve

Yup could be something to do with policy routing IPSec over OpenVPN. Your Outbound NAT rules look correct though. Assuming your client is in the 192.168.86.0/24 subnet you have a rule with static source ports for port 500. Steve

@kiokoman said in "syslogd sendto: Host is down" error?: Status / System Logs / Settings Remote log servers you put something there I sure did, thx !

Ah, I haven't tried starting one of the options by default, without selecting something. I'm not sure how that would work if there wasn't actually a console attached. But it's just a shell script, you can have it do whatever you can code it to. Steve

Never use VLAN1. You can't be sure what switches will do with it. Here it look like you probably can't actually tag VLAN1 leaving the switch ports. It's quite surprising that it allows you to try. Most switches would not. pfSense allows you to use it because technically it's valid but: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/vlan/security.html#using-the-default-vlan1 Steve

OK, thanks a lot. I will reduce the RAM size.

Mmm, OK reviewing that I guess that even though you have not set static source ports specifically you have set the source port to match and the translated source port to the same value which will effectively make it static. That's the wrong way to do it though. Setting the source IP as any will catch traffic that should not be NAT'd and break things. You should set OBN to hybrid mode and then add one rule only with the source IP as the internal phone and static source set. Steve

@stephenw10 said in Switching providers and pfSense configuration: Draytek has a g.fast modem coming out that will likely be cheaper and better since the MT992 is locked down. No diag info. If they are actually offering FTTH in your area it's a whole different ball game though. Steve I'll have a look at that option. Thank you once again!