• Poor pfSense benchmarking performance, any guesses why ?

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    Right, so in the 3rd table you are using pfSense as one side of the iperf test directly. That will always give a bad result.
  • Device stopped working

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    Snort was blocking something and the block expired? Check the alerts. Something else caused it to reboot? Check the uptime. Review the system logs. Steve
  • Interface Bandwidth Units SI or IEC?

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    @tboston I believe that distinction is relevant only where powers of 2 are used, such as memory size. I don't believe that applies to data rates, which have always been in powers of 10. It's been that way for as long as I've been in the telecom business, almost 50 years. I certainly have never heard of bandwidth expressed in numbers based on binary.
  • WAN link up not detected

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    What is the modem? What speed does it normally link at? What type of interfaces are those? I assume you've tried swapping the cable? Can you test putting a switch between the WAN and the modem? Steve
  • Benefits and risks with Random ID Generation?

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    Yeah it's this: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pf.conf#TRAFFIC%09NORMALIZATION Though there no more info there. I've never seen it cause a problem. Steve
  • Error while trying to restore a backup

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    If you're restoring it in ACB it just uses whatever the configured password is and will fail with that error if it doesn't match. Steve
  • RE: How To Add My Own IPv4 Block List

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    John many thanks for that will check that out when free! Enjoy your day!
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    Technically you could do it by running pfSense as a virtual machine in Windows using hyper-V or VBox etc. But pfSense is a complete operating system, it cannot run as an application on your desktop. It expects to be running on it's own dedicated hardware but running virtualised can also work. Steve
  • I can´t upgrade or install packages.

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    @stephenw10 Hello, Thank you for reply. Q: Are you able to resolve any address? A: I tryed under diagnostics/ dns lookup, it takes 60 seconds or more to resolve. Q: Is Unbound running? (Status > Services) A: Yes, it is running. I figure out that i have 2 addresses in general setup dns, one is our remote AD / DNS Server, the second DNS was 8.8.8.8 I tryed to ping our AD DNS server without success so i changed it to 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 in general setup than switched from DNS Resolver to DNS Forwarder after that it worked. The AD DNS IP i set under DHCP Server IP with 8.8.8.8 too. Thank you for the help.
  • Plus for 3rd party hardware

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    Dennis from Netgate on Reddit stated that they are shooting for the end of this year. @techpro2004 said in Plus for 3rd party hardware: I am wondering about when plus for 3rd party hardware will be released. Thanks.
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  • Fatal error: Allowed memory size exhausted

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    Thanks, @stephenw10 Maximum Table Entries made no difference, as you expected. I will try pfBlocker right now.
  • SSH connect with key for backup

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    Ok so you did mean 'update' not 'backup'. What version did you update from? What method are you using for the backup? Steve
  • Can't change Public Static IP

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    If you are running an OpenVPN server in pfSense (VPN > OpenVPN > Servers) you do not need to change anything in pfSense. Traffic to it will be forwarded from the external router and it will accept it. What needs to change is how the remote side is connecting to it. If it's not using an FQDN that you can update via DNS it will need to have the new public IP entered directly. Steve
  • Cannot able to reset by button

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    @stephenw10 yes when i keep 115200 its working now before it was on 9600 by default thank you very much..
  • Assigning Public IP Address to Server on VLAN

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    If you need external clients to connect to the server you would need rules on the WAN to allow that. Rules on the VLAN would allow the server to connect out. That is assuming you have not assigned the bridge as WAN, for example, which is something you could do but probably just complicates things. Steve
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    @aryeduino said in Building a pFSense Hardware with Internal modem to replace current modem-router: Can I use the NIC 4 ports and the RJ45 connection that I have on the motherboard together? Yes. Since you already have a Proxmox host you should just use that for file sharing and keep the firewall separate. If you can it's better to have the PPPoE session on pfSense itself so that the public IP is on the interface. Steve
  • Centurylink PPPoE Fiber setup

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    @stephenw10 Got the WAN port working, everything is great now. I had to disconnect the old router from the ONT (I had been doing that previously and I'm certain that was not part of my original problem, which you have helped me solve). Thank you!
  • Check "notices" and "packages" via Nagios/Checkmk

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    @overlord If some PHP scripting is an option, see here for an example : Auto update check, checks for updates to base system + packages and sends email alerts .
  • Is abc.netgate.com down?

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    Thanks. I believe the issues you are seeing are largely due to pfBlocker which updates the pfSense configuration system (and hence triggers a backup) on a very frequent basis. I have increased the capacity of the server to the highest reasonable value which may help a little. A couple of years ago a mechanism was introduced to allow pfBlocker to bypass the backup system, but so far it has not found much employment. I plan to contact the developer as well as a member of our own development team to see if we can can some movement there. In addition, some filtering has been added to pfSense to help alleviate the situation. You should see that in the next release.
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