@stephenw10 said in 22.01 - Released or not released?: Mmm, it looks like the Next repo package might be showing that incorrectly. We are looking at it. Ohh no - please don’t let this be yet another delay in the 22.01 release…. :-( I have a bunch of boxes waiting on my desk I would love to start of in a ZFS based install before they are deployed. If 22.01 is delayed yet again, I guess I’ll have to go UFS on them and suffer the risk of consequenses whenever the power goes.

@stephenw10 said in pfSense running slow?: It really depends what change you're making. Some things might seem simple but actually trigger a number of other processes. Fair enough, that is true. One example I find peculiar is just changing the descriptive text of a firewall rule. This is sometimes quick, and at times can take up to 5s to save. I have noticed it is producing really much logs for blocked stuff, in particular for IPv6 which I don't use, perhaps that is what uses the CPU the times I find it a bit slow?

@vconroy said in Monitoring peak traffic on an interface over time: I am currently using Status > Traffic Totals to monitor total traffic on a few interfaces over time, but it doesn't give me everything I am looking for. Status Totals gives me the total bytes IN/OUT in a given hourly period which gives me the average utilization on an interface for that hourly period, but I also want to see is how often the IN/OUT traffic hits the bandwidth limiter I have set on that interface, in other words, how often am I maxing out that interface. I anyone has any ideas, love to hear your suggestions. Yes, that is exactly what I am looking for as well. I'd like to record the short peaks during a 12 month period. Did you check out the available options at https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/monitoring/graphs/bandwidth-usage.html ?

@openwifi said in NETFLIX NOT WORKING CAUSE OF DNS: I have these two rules to redirect any DNS request from my LAN network to my firewall Mmm, you have shown firewall rules but they do not redirect anything. Do you have port forwards for the DNS traffic too? Steve

Can we assume you have followed this doc? https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/radius-windows.html Is there anything logged in pfSense or on the server when you try to authenticate? That error sounds like there is simply some config missing, is that returned on the Diag > Auth page? Steve

@stephenw10 Back when we got bit by this bug a few times it didn't ever seem to load a good config. However, if you look at the configs there are generally several that are over 100KB+ (can't remember exactly) but the last few are just a few KB in size. Perhaps it does load the last config but it is also corrupted but it can't really do anything about it since there is no disk space to swap through. That's just been my assumption. As for the second unit, everything was fine after a reboot. Disk space is fine, no errors in the logs. Just couldn't access the box via gui or ssh or console. Strange. It was 2.4.5-p1 so I've upgraded it to 2.5.2 and we'll see how it goes.

@gertjan said in Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function idn_to_utf8(): RELENG_2_5_0 2.5.2 was built on that branch.

Then, yeah, follow that doc. Split-DNS is generally preferred if all you local devices can use it. Steve

When you try to connect from the server behind pfSense what is the error shown exactly?

@stephenw10 Turns out this is a known and long-festering issue for admins across the board. How to have multiple shells open, all generating history? Some shells support fancy stuff like eliminating duplicates... but here's the best I have found for pfSense: Edit ~/.tcshrc and replace set history = 1000 set savehist = (1000 merge) with set history = 1000 set histdup = erase set savehist = (${history} merge lock) alias precmd 'history -S' alias postcmd 'history -M' So far it works very nicely: Saves history after every command Merges multiple shell histories together

@nogbadthebad thank you for that visual clarification. I had to go into the Acme(1) section [which was "using" it] and remove it there first. Then I was able remove it from the Certificate Manager.

I mean... I'm not going to tell you to buy something fro some copyright/license infringing company in China. I declare bias here. What hardware are you using now? I assume it is working sufficiently apart from the very old install? Steve

@fullauto said in XML backup/restore between Protectli and Netgate?: I noticed that the 1100 uses about 14 percent CPU just idling. That's not unusual if you have the dashboard up and widgets on it. To get a real reading of idle usage use top at the command line and be sure not to have the dashboard up in a browser anywhere. Steve

@darkcorner When restoring to a new device make sure the new pfSense is the latest version...you want to be installing packages for the version of pfSense you have, and its default is to install for the latest version.

Well not sure exactly what the issue was, but after doing a restore of the PFsense backup, the device is working as expected. WAN port is up, client is happy and earth is back on axis. :) FYI - no need to put the Comcast router in passive mode. Just turn off DHCP/Firewall and Wifi. Thanks for the assistance!!

I'm very sorry for resurrecting this thread - but this thread is mostly the first hit you find if you google for something like "pfsense slow login" or "slow dashboard" and for me it initially did not help, checking my DNS-settings. after hours looking for a solution I stumbled over this reddit post - https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/lmubku/comment/gtj41yl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 disabled "firewall logs" widget - and dashboard now loads fast and login is also fast. The strange thing is, that I have another machine with a virtual pfsense installed (pretty much same hardware - cpu, ram, disk) and had the dashboard equally configured (and mostly all other settings are equal too) where this long loading issue did not happen.

It may be possible at the OS level. It could be simply the GUI input validation preventing it as unexpected. You could try creating a custom conf file for it.

What's it actually sending? Do you see anything in the logs in pfSense?

@gertjan sorry for misunderstanding i was trying to say that currently its installed on dell r710 server machine device which have on board 4 nic

Problem resolved. It was a problem with the mini OS X. I checked the firewall log and nothing. I also temporarily disabled the pfblocker and no help. I did find a thread on the Apple Community board that said to go into "system preferences/internet accounts/iCloud and uncheck the mail service. Then wait a minute and re-check it. That fixed the problem so none of this was pfSense. It was all the MAC. Thanks for your suggestion and it helped point me in the correct direction.