• pfSense Hangouts are available on YouTube!

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  • Share your pfSense stories!

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    Mine may be typical, maybe not..... Took over a large sennior living facility with a pretty robust it infrastructure spread between 4 IT rooms, 23 access points, 12-14 switches, and 200 internal devices and 200 guest/resident devices, all being run by a Sonicwall TZ350. I had been wanting to reallign everything network wise for some time but the TZ had 2 ports that were failing. I had worked with ClearOS from back in the ClarkConnect days and started searching for something similar. I found PfSense and it just fit what I wanted to do. I tested it a bit on an old Athalon64x2 rig for proof of concept and had planned on installing on a mini pc or something, but I wanted 6 nics. Standing in my main IT room I looked down and in the bottom of the rack were 4 HP DL380s, 2 of which were decommissioned 2 years ago. It's such huge overkill for hardware that it's hard to explain, but who wouldn't want redundant power supplies, raid 60 with 25 drives and remote system monitoring through ILO? lol I spun one up and loaded PfSense and started tweaking. 2 weeks ago I switched over and have been working out gremlins since.. Overall it's gone well, just one snag that a couple members here have been very kind in helping me work out. Thank you to this page for all the help. [image: 1697753147328-pfsense1.png]
  • Experiencing and troubleshooting network latency issues?

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  • Tftp-proxy between two subnets - reply blocked

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    Still no luck with 2.8.1 and can't catch anything with pfanchordrill. tftp-proxy enabled on the LAN interface, server on a separate interface.
  • Netgate pfSense Plus has detected a crash report or programming bug

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    @kprovost Unclear how to upgrade. System says it's on latest release and doesn't offer upgrade. What am I missing? Brain doesn't work as well as it used to!
  • pfSense with multiple Proton WireGuard tunnels

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    Hmm, so like tailscale. Did you ever try that?
  • Console menu for user, over ssh ?

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    Yes please open a new thread for this. What you're seeing is unrelated to ssh as a different user.
  • Is it possible to use a CE 2.8.1 config on CE 2.7.2?

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    Thanks for the responses. When I have some downtime I'll give it a shot and see how it goes. Most of what I've been updating in 2.8.1 deal with firewall rules, aliases, NTP, and removing a few unnecessary packages. I'll always have my baseline 2.7.2 config backup to restore to if it goes sideways.
  • Need help setting up new fresh install of pfsense with lagg and 5 vlans

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    @johnpoz said in Need help setting up new fresh install of pfsense with lagg and 5 vlans: As to working with lag ports.. I would suggest you get your vlans working with only 1 physical port before you attempt to add connections into the lagg/lacp/portchannel/etherchannel setup etc.. This is very wise advice…
  • loader.conf defaults

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    @provels I don't think it gets restored at every boot. The values are retained even after the upgrade. Though I suspect additional values can be added or removed via upgrades. SSH Option 4 will also not work to restore them. Maybe only if you have a prior configuration saved as boot environments. Maybe complete reinstall and restore config will get them back to defaults?
  • Switched to AT&T fiber, IPv6 tunnel broken

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    Your public IPv4 address also needs to answer ping as well. If your isp is doing cgnat for example, you more than likely will not be able to bring up a HE tunnel.
  • CE 2.8.1 bsnmpd Memory Leak

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    @keyser said in CE 2.8.1 bsnmpd Memory Leak: Pretty conclusive in the fact that the leak comes in “chunks at times”. Yup seeing exactly that here. Still digging...
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    @hamsterplc "du -hd2 /var" should do it.
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  • New commit and merge in FreeBSD source code of MAP-E

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    @jwt I know you're doing a great job!
  • pfSense > Frontier modem connection question

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    Ha, well at least it proves things work as expected in the end.
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    Yeah, it would probably expose an attack method if the replies could be seen as success or failure. And, yes, I agree the original issue seems like it was more than that. Glad you got it working now though.
  • pfSense laggy after WAN outage

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    Yes that would be a good test. It would rule out some link negotiation issue with the WAN NIC.
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    @stephenw10 Thank you for the reply. Yes that would have been me playing with the lan cables. I will keep monitoring.
  • I moved my pfSense Spectrum from Altafiber

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    @JoeAshley What model modem? If it is a telephone also modem it might have a battery in it. Can you confirm either way? (Post the model here if you are unsure.) With the ISP router out of the mix.. if you go to Diagnostics/Ping.. Can you try to ping something like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 and see if that comes back.. Then try to ping a host name from the same tool.. Commercial or Residential account?
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