@hugovsky Thanks. No, I haven't tried bare metal, I was really hoping to use this 8-Core server to do both pfSense and Virtual Servers (seems like it would be beefy enough). Is the consensus that pfSense isn't really going to see gigabit speeds in a virtualized environment? Appreciate your feedback! Randy

Just contact Netgate sales and see what they have to say. They're the only ones who can possibly give you the information you're seeking. It might be too early for them to say or perhaps they're just waiting for your email/phone call. Regardless of anyone else's position, or education level, or people they know, only Netgate can answer the question you asked. I've been curious to see what the pricing model was going to be. Best of luck!

@bpsdtzpw said in internal LAN routing: which I thought was curious. I had expected 192.168.1.1 192.168.2.1 As I mentioned before, those are the same device, so only one hop. This is the way all routing works, not just with pfsense.

@tsawyer I've been using pfSense for about 8 years and have helped out here on & off for more than 6 years. I've never read a pf book and don't think it would be that useful to you except as an intellectual exercise. You almost never need to work with pf directly from cli. Do your basic setup step by step. Get one thing working at a time. Make one change at a time. Figure out generally what you want to accomplish and then read up/watch video or ask here how to do it. A lot of new users make the mistake of deciding (incorrectly) how to do it and then asking specific questions to get them to the inferior result.

Thanks John. I'll proceed and assume hardware is ok, but be alert to possible future disturbances like this. I'm thankful for the good backup features of pfSense.

@jarhead what I was getting at is the default setup from fios when they install it is that they don’t use the Ethernet port; they use the coaxial cable. But if the router they gave you was plugged into the Ethernet port then it’s a moot point—you got lucky that they didn’t use the coax connection. My guess would be to call fios and tell them that you want to use your own router. Verizon (frontier) likes to make it difficult for users that want to use their own equipment. I know because they pushed back when I told them to enable the Ethernet port on my ONT, but they eventually opened it up for me. Same when I wanted to use my own cable box—I bought my own CableCard along with it and FiOS told me they couldn’t activate it (more like wouldn’t)—I had to rent their CableCard for $5/month if I wanted to use my own cable box. But I digress. Assuming the NIC in your pfsense box is good and you’ve verified the cable isn’t the issue then I’m thinking it could be one of two things: Fios needs to do something on their end to allow your router onto their network, or... If you’re running 2.5.x there are known issues that tend to bork WAN connections—been plaguing me for a while and I haven’t gotten around to downgrading, so I’d try the latest version of 2.4 if fios says you’re good to go on their end.

@bingo600 said in segment wifi traffic (guest, IoT, trusted): with a recent firmware it Wasn't all that recent - quite some time ago that feature was added. I don't recall the min required firmware or controller software. But if your running the current version you can yes run tagged management... Here you go https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046773733-UniFi-Using-VLANs-with-UniFi-Wireless You have to adopt via untagged.. But "As of Controller software version 5.8, access points and switches can be set to tagged VLANs" While I concur it should be a requirement for equipment to support if expected to be use in a true enterprise.. Running a vlan untagged is not really an issue where unifi stuff would be most used, small business, small offices, homes, etc. It mostly would be a concern where some sort of company security policy required tags.. I have not bothered to change my home setup. While I have multiple tagged vlans, the vlan that my APs are on for managment is untagged for the connection to the APs 5.8.X was released stable over 3 years ago.

Same issue here... It was working fine for a few weeks (since my last trouble with network driver) Webgui : Nginx time out... Pfsense response to ping ssh login allow but nothing after the password... On the screen.. keyboards does not work properly but the menu is not present... I did a hard reboot...

@akegec thanks ... no luck so far. I'll see if I can find the post you are referencing.

@jknott there is one Asian saying that I know from former colleague. "Like rice paddy, the more contains they have, the more they bow." [image: agriculture-1552390__340.jpg]

@jknott lol I think my fingers were buffer overflowing my brain.

@akegec That's kind of an open question. The basics should be pretty much the same for everyone. The question becomes what's significantly different form IPv4. For example, there's nothing comparable to ULA with IPv4 and the same with SLAAC. You also do not normally see multiple IPv4 addresses on an interface, something that's normal with IPv6. If you're running SLAAC and ULA, you will have up to 17 valid addresses on an interface and that's with just 1 ULA prefix. You could have multiple of those too. Another thing that's different is you have router priority, to determine default router, etc. Where do you start, when you don't know what someone needs?

@gertjan Thank you for the detail and suggestions. I will cable up the console so I'm ready next time. Understood about politely shutting down the hardware. Yes, I'm running vanilla pfSense, I've run update from the GUI once or twice when there was a new version. I think that "darkstat" is the only extra package I have explicitly installed (and that was just last night). Just looking for something to display bandwidth in use. Yes, the SG-1100 is the low end of the Netgate boxes, but it should be more than adequate for my SOHO network (only 60 Mbps service from ISP).

@clags it's difficult to tell. it could be anything. Try to fresh install pfsense and don't use old config. Take a note when that happens. Let's hope it' not the hardware issue.

Hi Guys, Just to update on this old thread...for those having the same issue. I got an Intel Dual NIC card from ebay and just installed it, so far so good, i guess the realtek card was the culprit after all. Say my amazon photos would start synching or i would update a computer's feature release (large file), internet would go down, i would have to run setup wizard after which it would come back up every time. Thank s for all your help,

Turns out we had a few too many incorrect login attempts (someone forgot a password) and they IP banned us. All is working again. Thanks everyone

Ha!

@johnpoz said in My Security Cams do not working: Sorry if that maybe came off a bit harsh ;) Not at all, everything is cool