• No IPv6 connectivity after upgrade [RESOLVED]

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    pra45300P

    Thank you
    Have a good evening / night

  • RAM Disk enabled and crashes

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    LaxarusL

    @provels I thought 512 should be plenty enough but who knew???

  • PFSense 2.8 CE :: NRPE not providing correct status of services

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    @stephenw10 ok.when using the pfSsh.php, it is working. Ok Thanks. let me try to update the script check_pf_services.

    [2.8.0-RELEASE][santheerdas@XXX]/home/santheerdas: sudo pfSsh.php playback svc status openvpn server 1 Password: Service openvpn is running. [2.8.0-RELEASE][santheerdas@XXX]/home/santheerdas: sudo pfSsh.php playback svc status nrpe Service nrpe is running. [2.8.0-RELEASE][santheerdas@XXX]/home/santheerdas:
  • Assign a VLAN to my WAN interface

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    @patient0 Thank you very very much. Cheers

  • where o where is pfsense 25.03??

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    Well there have been numerous beta builds since then.

    There are a lot of key changes in the 25.03(7) backend and we need to make it as close to bug free as possible.

    I expect to see the next release in July. But that still depends on new bugs etc. There's no point releasing anything before it's ready. 😉

  • Issues with internet connectivity only for linux systems on a subnet

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    @stephenw10 who knows... thanks again! I was going crazy for two weeks now until I decided to reach out to this forum! i was asking coworkers and people on mastodon but all i needed to do in the end was arp-scan and see that there was a conflict with two macs on the same IP. Saddly I cannot upvote you because of my low reputation.

    For future readers please give stephenw10 an upvote for me <3

  • Confused about custom DDNS

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    stephenw10S

    Hmm, first I've heard of it. Though it's unlikely to be overwritten since it's a custom directory, no update tries to write there.

    I usually out custom scripts like that in /root.

  • swapon -a and swapoff -a

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    GertjanG

    Add to what is said above,
    The "swap off" will disable swap usage, see it as a flag information to the kernel.
    Not like "Windows", FreeBSD (the nix systems) use a dedicated swap partition, so you cant' see it, use it , or do something else with it.
    The "swap off" command just tells the kernel to start OOM processes as soon as there is not enough free RAM anymore, A process is elected to be 'terminated', using a selection criteria somewhat better as 'Russian roulette', but the result will be the same as nearly all processes are essential to the system : things will go downhill fast.
    On pfSense, the process with loads of RAM (the DNS cache) is often unbound, so unbound is asked to leave, leaving you without DNS (and unbound gets yelled at again ...).

    If "swap" gets used on a pfSense system, you can interpret this as a pretty solid confirmation that your system is 'to small' for the tasks you asked it to do. The solution has been identified, it's " add more RAM " .....

    "swapon -a" is actually that little extra safely net, that can do the little extra more for you when needed, and its warns you that you'll need to buy more DIMMs

  • Terribly slow boot times and frequent boot freezes

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    stephenw10S

    Urgh, yeah that's not good. It's difficult to break ZFS just by removing the power. So, yes, could be a bad drive.

  • SPA112

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    stephenw10S

    Interesting. I suspect that might have been a coincidence. But, as I say, adding static ARP can make troubleshooting more difficult. If a MAC is typo'd things just fail silently.

  • Since reboot no ipsec status anymore

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  • AEAD Decrypt Error on Netgate 2100 with OpenVPN

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    stephenw10S

    Yeah I'd guess it's random errors in the link occasionally corrupting a UDP packet. It depends what rate you're actually seeing but I probably wouldn't be worried if it's not continuous.

  • unable to set NVA pfsense between subscriptions Hub and spoke toploy

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    @stephenw10 ok I got to solve the problem changing my source of the route table URD from 0.0.0.0/0 to my subnet from my spoke subscription 10.20.0.0 from that is working the test vm with internet. now I will test performance to connect a cluster ks8 from each spoke. thanks for the support .
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    @phloggu said in pfSense 2.8: WebGUI unusable (due to cat and tail many logfiles in the background):

    The widget shows 10 lines, I had 99 logfiles at a size of 80MB each, non-compressed,

    The log files are 'PHP' parsed ... PHP is a 'one-core' process, great for building web pages, extremely bad when it has to deal with 'huge' text files. It will takes 'ages' - and / or usage all PHP memory (512 Mbytes max).

    If you really want to store/keep/use big log files : use a remote syslogger. Then you can go wild wild huge files with your firewall being impacted because you clicked 'one something' or just logged in.

  • Reaching Remote Subnet Through OVPN Client

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    @stephenw10 doh

    Thanks again mate - try this asap.

  • Dual WAN Setup - LAN interfaces lost their IPv6 adresses.

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    @stephenw10 I will give it a try, and give a feedback after.

  • Weird CPU speed

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    It seems this was partially fixed with 2.8.0 in that current speed does change and reports some real-looking values. The max frequency is still wrong though.

  • New to pfsense

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    stephenw10S

    But anyway you can see if tailscale is running in Status > Services.

  • after power loss wan requires reboot to connect

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    @JimS FYI, Possibly related, I am mentioning this in case someone has the issue. After a modem replacement I had to power cycle pfsense 2.6.2 after a power failure.
    I am now on 2.7.2 but have not had a power outage since so don't know if it's fixed. Could be modem timing mentioned above. In my case I could not access anything on pfsense.

    I posted this March 2025:
    The recent S33 modem failure and change to S34 caused pfsense 2.6 not to come back up after a power failure (3 this month so far!)I hope pfsense 2.7.2 can recover from a power failure like 2.6 did with the old modem.

    2.6 always recovered until the modem change, strange but true. Trying to login to pfsense 2.6 returned the dreaded "502 Bad Gateway Nginx error". Had to power off/on. Waiting to see what happens to 2.7.2. I'm thinking possible ethernet driver issue with a different chip in the S34 than the S33, which may be fixed in 2.7.2

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    Ah, good result!

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