• Using multiple cheaper residential-type internet connections

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    Thank you @gertjan for the reply. I'm a newbie and I appreciate all the info and experience :)

    By the way, StarLink has arrived and configured for failover for students and guests. The current Internet (the expensive, guaranteed bandwidth) access is configured as the failover for the rest.

  • HBO Max stopped working

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    Does anyone have an IP list for HBO Max to whitelist in PfSense?

  • WAN Port at 1000baseT <full-duplex>. but only 100 mbps speed.

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    @udasboot Excellent, very happy your persistence with the ISP got a resolution.

    Enjoy the awesomeness that pfSense brings to your network quality and capabilities!

  • package list empty - pfsense version v old but shows as up to date??

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    @pootle I don't recommend everyone do this because it is dangerous but you can shave the last 1/8" (3mm) off a shroud to get it to fit most things!

    Before
    IMG_2029 Medium.jpeg
    After
    IMG_2030 Medium.jpeg

  • Not sure why malwarebytes browser guard keeps blocking the Webgui

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    Solved : false positive verified by Malwarebytes -

    This was due to a database that dynamically applies new patterns in the wild to proactively block emerging threats and was obviously an FP.

    This should be resolved in the next database update (give it about 30 minutes)

    [https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/296960-false-positive-pfsense-router-webgui/#comment-1563675](link url)

    It will not be that fast is my bet but It is now confirmed and can move on
    Hopefully this helps someone else as well

    And thank you guys very much !! and for humoring me along the way :)

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    It didn't happen in previous releases because php didn't change major versions.

    The same thing (or similar) did happen when we moved from php5 to php7 a few years ago. We mitigated numerous php issues in testing but with a major version change like that there were always going to be some we didn't find.

    Steve

  • Is anyone rocking super sexy Grafana dashboards?

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    Dashboard looks nice.

    Unfortunately (still) no telegraf on SG-3100, just found this ...

  • BGP + Metallb (K8) Intermittent Long Load Times For HTTP traffic

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    Nice! Yeah moving the server to a different VLAN so the route is always through pfSense in both direction is the 'correct' solution here. 👍

  • pfSense and UFW

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    Many thanks for the detailed options and pointing me in the right direction bmeeks! You have definitely given me some good areas to research further.

  • Resolved - Unsupported (?) Configuration version 22.9

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    @jimp
    Yes, I have some of the recommended patches applied, including the one you mentioned, so a version of 22.9 is expected.
    I see that https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/versions.html now documents 23.05 as config version 22.9.
    Thank you for your clarifications to resolve my concern.
    Regards.

  • my /boot/loader.conf-are these supposed to be there?

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    @stephenw10 thank you kindly sir I was downvoted on the reddit for this same question I appreciate your time.

  • Pfsense/Netgate unable to login, Fatal error

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    Typical filename looks like this: config-pfsense.mydomain.biz-20220222183909.xml, where pfsense.mydomain.biz is to replace with the pfSense name followed by FQDN.

    Regards

  • Notes Package Backup and Restore

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    @stephenw10 Got it. Very much appreciate the info! Thank you!

  • Weird issue with SMTP

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    @bmeeks said in Weird issue with SMTP:

    https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14031#note-15.

    Aha !
    So, a non root instance couldn't overwrite with an empty queue file so it kept on sending the same queue content.
    Nice catch !

    Thanks for the patch code 👍

  • No WAN connectivity

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    What gateway are you being passed by the ISP? No route error like that implies it might be outside the WAN subnet. There's a advanced gateway setting for allowing a gateway like that: 'use non-local gateway'. If that's what is happening.

  • How to read RTTsd and why is it not the same everywhere in pfSense

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    Yeah if you don't disable the blacklist you will only get one queue for Rx and Tx on a vmx NIC. As you say for a PPP connection that won't make any difference but for anything else it will.

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    That is fixed in 23.05: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14117

    The patch for it is also included in the recommend patches list in the System Patches package.

    Steve

  • Crashdump // kernel panic //sleeping threads?

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    Me too! 🤞

  • Help to debug reboot problem on 23.01

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    @stephenw10
    I just started to remove all additional scripts running from /usr/local/etc/rc.d
    and found that removing dyndns.sh does help.
    I can now reboot the system without problem.

    #!/usr/local/bin/bash while true; do IP_ADDRESS=$(ifconfig pppoe0 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}') if [ -z "$IP_ADDRESS" ]; then # PPPoE connection does not have a valid IP address logger "PPPoE connection does not have a valid IP address" else # PPPoE connection has a valid IP address /etc/rc.dyndns.update logger "PPPoE connection has a valid IP address, force DYNDNS" fi sleep 3600 done

    I don't really remember if that some manual script I have been some years ago installed, or it is part of pfSense+ but it is the same on the secondary firewall and just works… Can not explain what exactly triggering this issue with reboot. My clean VM just do not have any scripts… but… it's not PPPoE and there are no hosts configured…
    Ok. Changed this to:

    #!/usr/local/bin/bash case "$1" in start) while true; do IP_ADDRESS=$(ifconfig pppoe0 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}') if [ -z "$IP_ADDRESS" ]; then # PPPoE connection does not have a valid IP address logger "PPPoE connection does not have a valid IP address" else # PPPoE connection has a valid IP address /etc/rc.dyndns.update logger "PPPoE connection has a valid IP address, force DYNDNS" fi sleep 3600 done ;; stop) exit 0 ;; esac exit 0

    And reboot works just fine... so it possible that sometime ago I have just generated this problem that was so hard to debug. Anyway, thank you for trying to help me!
    Edited:
    Yes, definitely it was manual script added, just because for some reason dynDNS was not updated.

  • Crashdump for 23.01-RELEASE

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    Backtrace:

    db:1:pfs> bt Tracing pid 79686 tid 100334 td 0xfffffe010ce053a0 kdb_enter() at kdb_enter+0x32/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8900 vpanic() at vpanic+0x182/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8950 panic() at panic+0x43/frame 0xfffffe010bfa89b0 trap_fatal() at trap_fatal+0x409/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8a10 trap_pfault() at trap_pfault+0x4f/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8a70 calltrap() at calltrap+0x8/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8a70 --- trap 0xc, rip = 0xffffffff80f9352c, rsp = 0xfffffe010bfa8b40, rbp = 0xfffffe010bfa8b70 --- X_ip_mrouter_done() at X_ip_mrouter_done+0x31c/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8b70 rip_detach() at rip_detach+0x3f/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8ba0 sorele_locked() at sorele_locked+0x89/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8bc0 soclose() at soclose+0xeb/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8c20 _fdrop() at _fdrop+0x11/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8c40 closef() at closef+0x24b/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8cd0 fdescfree() at fdescfree+0x4b3/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8d90 exit1() at exit1+0x4c7/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8df0 sys_exit() at sys_exit+0xd/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8e00 amd64_syscall() at amd64_syscall+0x10c/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8f30 fast_syscall_common() at fast_syscall_common+0xf8/frame 0xfffffe010bfa8f30 --- syscall (1, FreeBSD ELF64, sys_exit), rip = 0x822b5786a, rsp = 0x820a03288, rbp = 0x820a032a0 ---

    Panic:

    Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 6; apic id = 06 fault virtual address = 0x0 fault code = supervisor read data, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xffffffff80f9352c stack pointer = 0x28:0xfffffe010bfa8b40 frame pointer = 0x28:0xfffffe010bfa8b70 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 79686 (pimd) rdi: fffffe00e204ad18 rsi: 4 rdx: 1 rcx: 0 r8: 0 r9: fffff80010067000 rax: 100 rbx: fffffe010ce053a0 rbp: fffffe010bfa8b70 r10: 0 r11: 800000044d83ed99 r12: fffffe010ce053a0 r13: 0 r14: fffff805734b4700 r15: 0 trap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 6 time = 1680781157 KDB: enter: panic

    Console also shows:

    config_aqm Unable to configure flowset, flowset busy! config_aqm Unable to configure flowset, flowset busy!

    It's probably this or related to it: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/12079
    Except it's in pimd rather than igmpproxy hence the differences.

    Steve

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