• after upgrade to 24.11: squid doesn´t start

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    @james-braga said in after upgrade to 24.11: squid doesn´t start:

    https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commit/009dc5f68e0cf1d1a767d1a9119bcbaface44823

    It's a patch to ports so you need to adjust the Path Strip Count to 4.

  • How to find what is writing to disk? posts found not working

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    @bmeeks Thanks for the post, but I saw that too. I searched high and low and so far nothing to explain why the “top -aSHm io -o write” command will not show details, only the header. I really need to find how to get the details of what is writing to the SSD (no EMMC here). Many others have done so.

  • swap usage shows 100%

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    @bmeeks @stephenw10 @michmoor

    Just an update. I removed SNORT package and swap usage went down to %7

    @bmeeks as you pointed I was using SNORT on a few vlan interfaces and subscribed to paid rules. Since SNORT is not going to be moving to newer releases in PFSENSE anytime soon and I have no technical justification to use it in my home network (LOL - I know, "But I wanted to learn"). Other real world problems take priority.

    Will open another thread about file useage, thank you all for the pointer hopefully others will benefit from this thread.

  • Is it *always* good to update pfSense?

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    @SteveITS said in Is it *always* good to update pfSense?:

    https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/25-03.html#dashboard

    Thanks Steve,
    The Redmine log appears to be quite positive. Meanwhile I reversed this patch:

    Subject: [PATCH] Refresh widgets at specified intervals. Fix #15725

    which made it a little bit better, but I am pleased to see that 25.03 will bring a definitive fix.

  • pfsense openvpn status

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    @26289 said in pfsense openvpn status:

    Any advice on how to fix this?

    tell use what you found here :

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    the log messages always tell you when things go 'wrong'.

  • Day of week not accepted on Cron package

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    @Gertjan said in Day of week not accepted on Cron package:

    would work fine for some, not most of us ^^

    I agree but that is what cron natively supports.

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    @comet424 said in my openvpn site to site i cant seem to ping or access other site doesnt stay stable:

    it always defaults to 137

    It does that if you click on the state count on the rule to reach the states screen. But if you just go to Diag > States from the menu it should not have anything. If it does I'd check you don't have some auto-fill enabled that's adding it in the browser.

    But I don't see any pings in those tables. What we want to see is the pings states created by a failing ping. So start a continuous (or very long!) ping sources from the camera interface address then check the state table at each pfSense to see what it's doing.

  • Is it normal to log this traffic?

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    @marchand-guy I would say most firewalls have a deny by default setup. However most/many software firewalls have a rule to allow their own subnet. Windows for instance accounts for that by defining different rules for public or private marked networks.

  • Use mail.php send mail but no subject.

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    @patient0
    Ohh.
    I got it.Thanks a lot.

  • VLANS and Unmanaged Switches

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    @joseb as @marcg pointed out, it depends.

    If the unmanaged switch is connected to a managed switch access port configured to pass only traffic for one specific vlan the unmanaged switch should continue to pass that traffic down to it’s connected nodes and any traffic coming back from those nodes via the unmanaged switch will get tagged by the managed switch on the way to wherever they’re going.

    This should be true whether or not the unmanaged switch strips tags or not. But you’ll only get traffic to and from the one vlan you configured at the managed switch port for all of your unmanaged switch. No different than plugging your computer into the managed switch port.

    @marcg has a point: managed switches can be had brand new, cheaply. I use Netgear gs308ep managed switches and they work well. And I don’t have to worry about the distinction. I send a trunk line down to my access switches and then set the ports up as access ports for the specific vlans I want for each endpoint or a trunk for a Wi-Fi access point.

  • Web Traffic Reporting Question

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    @ngr2001 said in Web Traffic Reporting Question:

    Perhaps this could be a feature request for PFSense ?

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    You could install it their way with an appropriate license key that will give you the features you want.

    https://www.ntop.org/guides/ntopng/third_party_integrations/pfsense.html

  • Restore config - problem interface assignment

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    @Gertjan

    It works!

    You need to turn on the new machine and check in which order the network cards are recognized.
    You edit the backup file of the old machine with the names of the interfaces in the right order you want and then perform the restore.

  • No IP in WAN with bridge

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    Issue was the isp router modem combo, bridge mode was trying to give private ip after initially assigning public ip. It would drop the public and then assign a private ip. I reset the modem to factory and re applied bridge mode after and seems to be wiring fine now.

  • pfSense and OpenVPN speeds

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    @stephenw10 I agree. I think I did iperf-tests some months ago that looked much better than the scp/sftp-stuff. Sure, it has to be faster, but it was way better.

    I will repeat that asap.

  • Cron "Day of the Week" doesn't seems to follow UNIX standard

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  • installing pfsense 2.7.2

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    @stephenw10 said in installing pfsense 2.7.2:

    Hmm, well that's interesting. I wouldn't have expected that to work at all. 🤔

    Me neither but maybe to do with a quirk of coreboot, if that device is flashed with it.

  • Dynamic DNS keeps using the old WAN IP

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    @Gblenn said in Dynamic DNS keeps using the old WAN IP:

    @tomasenskede Log in to your Bahnhof account and request a public IP, or call their customer service. It will only take a few minutes...
    They need your MAC address.
    I assume you have the router they sent out, so you could clone the MAC from that and then restart the WAN interface on pfsense. Perhaps you already have a public IP, but it is locked to that MAC.

    Otherwise fill out this: https://bahnhof.se/privat/kundservice/bestall-publik-ip/

    Thanks! I didn't realize the issue with the private IP at first. In fact, I had asked Bahnhof earlier about updating the MAC address and was told it wasn’t necessary. However, it turns out it still needed to be updated.

    Now it's fixed and running smoothly.

    Appreciate the quick and great support, guys!

  • System defined alias - see all listed

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    @stephenw10
    what? surely this is of the highest importance! 🤣

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    @1octet said in Amazon Prime Video issue -- resolved by restarting pfsense every few days.:

    I get the following error "prime video error code 7131".
    Is anybody else experiencing similar issue

    prime video error code 7131 is 'very' known.

    On the amazon support forum .... the question exists, and is never (?!) answered - have a look for yourself, I spend only 5 minutes over there.
    Some one said : It's a amazon error ! ..... and they don't know about it ? ( 😊 ) ?!!

    So, imho, knowing that pfSense 'out of the box', which means : no (like none !) settings changed, exception : the password, the error probably won't show up anymore.
    You've changed DNS settings ? That's a very known reason why people post here : stuff stops working well ^^ (It's always the DNS !)
    Adding pfBlockerng in the mix (and a load of DNSBL feeds) : yeah : 'errors' will show up all the time. That's normal. Check the Alert logs, and see if you need to white list some DNSBL (amazon) host name.

  • pfSense/ESXi route all VM via GRE TUNNEL

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    @stephenw10

    oh my man, These silly mistakes is wasting my time.
    The gateway was being considered as offline, So I had to disable gateway monitoring. and it solved the problem.

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    Thank you so much

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