• pfSense + upgrade for Home User.

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    They were able to re-forward the token e-mail to me and I have it all set and updated to the plus version. Thanks for your help!
  • Emails every 30 seconds

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    @viktor_g Yea, I fixed that error with a patch here... https://forum.netgate.com/topic/169869/there-were-errors-loading-rules-solved-and-patched/7 The problem was the continuous emails every 20 to 30 seconds. The fix for me was to uninstall mailreports, disable SMTP notifications under "System -> Advanced -> Notifications" and reboot. Uninstalling and disabling wasn't enough, the emails kept going, a reboot is required following the disable and uninstall. After the reboot the emails stopped. I then enabled SMTP notifications and a couple emails came through but not continuously. Later I then reinstalled mailreports and everything seemed to be normal and continues to look normal as I'm not getting blasted with the same error in my emails. Keep in mind that prior to disabling and uninstalling I had already done a couple reboots. First reboot was after the upgrade Second reboot was to try to get the emails to stop Third reboot was after disabling SMTP notifications and removing mailreports. I wanted to at least post it on the forums that this had happened in case others ended up with the same issue as it could be a potential upgrade bug, but time will tell and now if others have the same problem they know what I did to get the emails to stop and return to normal.
  • SG1100 22.01 High CPU usage

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    Generally if you're hitting that it's because something is rapidly filling the logs causing them to rotate/compress so check the logs are not full of errors. Steve
  • PfSense dropping wan ip

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    All, Succeeding some further investigation the issue at hand seems to be due and related to the Gateway Monitoring Deamon requiring some modest adjustment in configuration parameters. I cannot say with categorical certainty it was due to the upgrade from 2.5.2 to 2.6, but surely did become evident in succession the upgrade. That said, some additional configuration changes were made to the router configuration thereafter as well, so perhaps something changed unintentionally. One thing to note: If you have your WAN and LAN ports both running over one Ethernet port using VLANs (as I do), then it is important to assure that a drop of the WAN IP address does not cause the port to get shutdown as this could make it very difficult to access. That said, nothing prevents access to the router from the console. Thus, the issue can now be declared resolved. Stuart
  • Upgrading from CE to Plus (Home or Lab), downsides?

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    As a home user not really. You can always reinstall 2.6 if you really want to. Steve
  • Is there a command to view current cpu clock speed?

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    @stephenw10 said in Is there a command to view current cpu clock speed?: How did it show those things enabled? The second output is after enabling it? In the BIOS? powerd relies on some driver to actually control the cpu speed, est(4) for Intel CPUs. And that relies on either hard coded values or, far more commonly, values passed to it by ACPI. It's not unusual for those to be wrong or missing unfortunately. Steve No both outputs are taken right after one another it shows the proc jumping all around to different clock speeds as the processor sees fit. My guess is the usage of hwpstate_intel is what allows the different visibility into the two different operating systems. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hwpstate_intel&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+13-current&arch=default&format=html
  • Pfsense theme 5 coloums makes the theme useless

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    Because 12 divides by 1,2,3,4 and 6 but not 5.
  • "pcscd PC/SC Smart Card Daemon" ?

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    @jimp that's what I meant :) Thank you !
  • Using pfSense for website hosting protection

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    @jimfreeze An IDS package like Snort or Suricata has rules that can look for things like SSH attempts or other web requests. There isn't a great way to block specific URLs but maybe you can write your own rules if you're really familiar with doing so. I would read up on implementing it in the forum here before jumping in, and not block by default for a while until you can observe what alerts are being triggered.
  • PHP error in outgoing NAT page

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    Hi! I cant describe how it happends.. its. long time ago... . Thanks.. this fixed it also for me! ""Remove empty rule <rule></rule> from <outbound>" in the config file."
  • Changing Resolution on VGA Console

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    @sergei_shablovsky hint.sc.0.flags should be "0x0080" for VESA, not "0x180", per the man page here: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sc&sektion=4 So for mode 279 (1024x768x16), in /boot/device.hints it should be hint.sc.0.at="isa" hint.sc.0.flags="0x0080" hint.sc.0.vesa_mode="0x117" and in /boot/loader.conf make sure you have kern.vty=sc
  • Random network connection issues

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    Unable to connect to some random sites like that is usually either an MTU issue or a bad subnet mask somewhere. Since you're unable to ping or even reach the first hop in a traceroute it's unlikely to be MTU so check the routing table for some bad route. Steve
  • Segmentation fault when attempting to upgrade 2.5.2 -> 2.6.0

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    Yes, it's only 5.2 that is no longer supported upstream and was removed. The expected behaviour is that the package would simply be removed at upgrade. But that is not the case currently. So if you have zabbix_agent52 installed it should be removed before upgrading until we get a fix in. Steve
  • vnstat makes weird stats on my pppoe0 interface

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    Mmm, those are not specifically defined. That is the correct file though, you can see where the process is started here: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vnstatd.sh
  • Can pfSense utilize client certs for authentication with LDAP server?

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    CE cannot, Plus can.
  • pfSense GUI/SSH unresponsive and some routing breaks

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    The console may seem unresponsive when you connect to it after this has happened but try entering ctl+t. That can often produce a response when nothing else will and shows what process the system is waiting on. Also if you can log the serial output during the issue there may be an error show there that cannot be written to the system log. Steve
  • Potential DNS Rebind attack detected

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    If the firewall is actually configured with that FQDN it won't throw that warning.
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    If your switch is pulling a DHCP lease you can see is current but you can't connect to it it might be time to reset it. Make sure you're using a client in the same subnet. It may well block connections from outside it's own subnet by default. Steve
  • Setting up high availability LDAP authentication using FreeIPA

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  • Showing Traffic Stats on the last 30 Days on Grafana

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    Thanks for all your help, I wrote my own solution now: https://github.com/Hornochs/pfsense_trafficstats_into_influxdb I parse in a python script the data of vnstat and push it into a database. I still have to figure out, why vnstats thinks on my pppoe interfac I have a transfer of 4 GB when I'm reconnecting.
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