• Need help with a weird issue of pfSense on my network

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    @stephenw10 You are a lifesaver, I was going crazy with this for the past 5 days (on & off) I disabled all of the RSC options on both the NICs & the virtual NICs in Hyper V, rebooted the server and the VM and when I ran the Speedtest it was able to complete the upload test without any error. I was also able to connect to PCs via TeamViewer and also send out emails. Thank you so much!
  • I am not reaching the required speed

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    @patch said in I am not reaching the required speed: To do this you need more physical NIC than the 2 you have. ...and it still may not help because you're running Realtek NICs and PPPoE. ~680Mbps is about what I expect from that. Confirm it by running top during a test to see the per core CPU usage. The receive NIC queue is probably at 100%. Steve
  • New ISP issues

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    Yeah seems OK so that starts to look like a DNS issue again. I assume DNS is failing on the client still?
  • DNS Search Binding Order - Intranet then Internet

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    Mmm, either uncheck 'DNS Server Override' and set 'DNS Resolution Behavior' to Use remote. Or set a domain override for penguinpages.local in Unbound to use the AD server. Steve
  • PFsense 2.6.0 problems

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    @luckman212 Ok, thank you for responding. I am now on 2.5.2 and happy for now, I will try this in due time.
  • PPPoE WAN stability issues with BT

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    Good result. As an alternative you can just tune the monitoring settings to better match your line. Some WANs have far higher latency under load. You might also try an FQ_CODEL setup instead of HFSC. Steve
  • VPN - Export Binding to FQDN vs WAN IP

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    @penguinpages On the Export page Use : Other , instead of interface IP [image: 1652539001735-8730e35b-5102-4431-a4d7-f0e2ab1a3456-image.png]
  • Pfsense system crash

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    @stephenw10 After replacing the SSD I have not seen any errors after 4 days of uptime, even with ntopng running, so problem was indeed the bad SSD. Thank you so much for your help in troubleshooting my issue!
  • RBAC to Role Mapping - Black List services

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    @stephenw10 Just wanted to respond with close on this issue. DNS and setup of pfBlockerNG-devel plugin helped solve and the youtube videos on it also were help in learning more tuning. AD Auth. Issue was first that I did not have groups named and decriptions matching in AD... which created a bit of rabbit hole.. Then when I just took time to recreate Auth type with AD recommended template, it worked. Thing to know is if you don't get groups respond on query, and can add/ change user group membership and see auth test track those changes.. STOP.. fix AD.. then move on to other things. Good Return Example: AD group membership matches [image: 1652535028805-9eeadbd7-30c2-4337-9634-47dc01004e60-image.png] Thanks for help and responses to this posting. As I learn more , hopefully I can help others
  • Will this issue eventually affect pfSense?

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    @stephenw10 thank you, this is reassuring to hear. Indeed an odd claim considering pfSense is already FreeBSD 12.3 based. I haven’t seen any such issues with pfSense, but I spent hours trying to diagnose the IPv6 dropping issue with opnsense before. I really wouldn’t want it to come to pfSense at some point.
  • pfSense 2.6.0 continuously restarts one interface

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    @stephenw10 Did upgrade the driver. As far as I can see, no additionnal error. I shall let you know if it is definitely stable. Thank you again for your help.
  • Only Upload very slow...

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    @stephenw10 thank you I try...
  • No internet/wan on a opt interface.

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    @stephenw10 ahhh you got it, I need to setup vlans in proxmox & pfsense... Been stuck on this for days, Thank you. You saved my home lab!
  • Setting up new device on LAN

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    @johnpoz My bad, I reinstalled pfSense.
  • Performance on third party hardware, not official Netgate

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    I reflashed the device and now it works fine. No more timeouts/delays and no more weird networking issues we were battling with in another thread.
  • NTP

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    @nd-t I would have never thought to run pfsense in AWS. How are your clients connecting to the internet to get to their pfsense instance?
  • captive portal /file manager

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    They are base64 encoded and stored in the config file. So backing up the config includes that. See: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/captiveportal/file-manager.html#managing-files Steve
  • Bandwidth issue behind PfSense

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    Speeds that low look like a link speed/duplex mismatch somewhere if you have removed the shaping. So look for something failing at layer1.
  • Pfsense 1:1 NAT with site-to-site ipsec

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    So the P2 will effectively end up being (in my example) 10.200.10.0/24 to 10.100.10.0/24. Each side 'hides' it;s local 10.10.10.0/24 subnet behind another, same sized, subnet. You could use any unused subnet for that I just chose 10.100.10.0 and 10.200.10.0. So on each side that would be the Binat address. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/vpn/ipsec/phase-2-nat.html However if you do not need access between the two subnets dircetly but only from the pfSense_1 OpenVPN subnet this becomes easier. You only need to BiNAT on the pfSense_2 side like: [image: 1652360612067-screenshot-from-2022-05-12-14-02-05.png] On the pfSense_1 side the P2 would be just be 172.10.10.0/24 to 10.100.10.0/24 To access the remote side VPN clients would need to use the equivalent NAT address. Steve
  • Monitoring my network bandwidth remotely?

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    @josephchrzempiec said in Monitoring my network bandwidth remotely?: The laziness in me just wants to see trafic nothing else that is all that page is - have you even looked at it? Its a graph showing you your traffic of the interface you pick that is it! [image: 1652356964222-traffic.jpg] If your really anal about it - you could just hide all the other stuff on the page with your fav web tool that allows that - say ad blocker.. [image: 1652357460215-newgraph.jpg] Just set the graph how you want it - and remove all the other elements on the page.. No need for scripts no need for programming - just point and click.. There you go.
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