@danielino1981 said in Multiple LAN on Pf Sense: I don't want the VLANs If you don't want to use VLANs, you'll need a separate interface for each LAN. The Qotom comptuer I use has 4 Ethernet ports, so I could have 3 LANs without using VLANs.

@gertjan Thanks

if you run status > filter reload does it fix it? i have had that issue consistently on 2 different Netgate products

@72zoea said in Button to turn off internet for a group of devices: to quickly turn off internet Login to pfSense. Goto Firewall => Rules => LAN. Click on the [image: 1618387747203-70e8a4ea-e703-4545-91ec-563f181862c5-image.png] symbol, and then the green Apply. so, 5 or 6 clicks ..... as pfSense uses a GUI. You have to create a firewall rules that uses an alias as a source. The alias should contain the IP(s) to be block. Enabling or disabling this rule will do what you want. Btw, I do recall that there are other ways to learn how to clean up after tea. I was a kid before ^^ ( and there was no Internet during the vast majority of existence of mankind )

@nibblet said in New installation and packages.netgate.com issues: @teamits Ahh, thanks for that, that helps a lot, altho now I am left with an interesting pickle on how to solve this, as I don't believe the proxy server is clever enough to look up a SRV (it only sees the http request) record and there is no external DNS. However, I could probably setup an internal 'dummy' netgate.com domain with SRV records mimicking what's outside which may be enough to poke the firewall to pickup the right domain, the issue would be somehow keeping this up to date. At least I know why its not working now :-) how you solve this problem? thanks

Perfect .. that helped immensely .. Thank you!!

@tbaker9595 I'd be a bit skeptical you'd get that much throughput on pfSense...check the XG-1541 vs the same device list with TNSR here, particularly the "TNSR vs pfSense Software" button/tab.

@papdee Yes, I've seen that video already, thanks. I understand your latter point thanks for making that clear.

@papdee said in Bandwidth loss through pfSense firewall built on old dual homed PC?: maybe try using CAT6e That won't make a bit of difference. Gigabit Ethernet was designed before there was even CAT 5e and is rated for 100M over plain CAT 5.

@gertjan My iPhone is using DHCP. I have set DHCP reservations on the pfSense side. I push DNS server through DHCP to the clients and have setup a NAT rule to redirect all DNS traffic which does not go to the Pihole to redirect to the Pihole. What I meant with the above post that I changed DNS (and removed the NAT redirect rule) as a test. To filter out where the problem relies.

Thank you.

Here is the thing - does your rule show other than 0/0 now.. If not its not being evaluated. Sniff that interface on pfsense while your trying to ssh to that pfsense IP.. If you don't see anything then wherever your trying to connect from is not getting to pfsense interface

@andyrh said in Requirements for a specific DNS server for a specific host: force all clients to use my internal DNS (PiHole) servers. I wouldn't call that extreme at all ;) I do pretty much the same thing - most everything on my network uses pihole... Which forwards to pfsense and then unbound resolves. I like the ease of being able to see what queried what that the pihole interface allows for. I can see what devices are asking for what "a lot" for example very easy with pihole.. What has my tv being queries for example - clicky clicky there you go running log of what that specific client queried. Was it blocked, allowed, etc.

@zaniac thanks man, i'll give it a try

The reset button reboots it.