• No internet on LAN IPv4 with WAN IPv6 PPPoE

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    They will not give you even a carrier grade NAT IPv4 address?

    You should be able to access IPv6 sites from LAN OK as long as the ISP are sending you a fix delegation to use on internal interfaces?

    Are LAN clients receiving a routable IPv6 address?

    Steve

  • Download Manually openvpn-client-export

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    Yup you can't install a pkg for 2.6 into 2.7.0. If you managed to force that to happen it will likely break things.

    It should work fine in 2.7.2.

  • Radius and Ldap authentication for network devices

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    Hmm, so using Windows NPS your user is able to login directly in priviledge mode?

    How is that configured?

    Do you have logs from the switch?

    This probably isn't actually pfSense related if it's just between Freeradius and the switch.

  • order of updates

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    The packages should be updated during the upgrade anyway.

    The new pkg system with dynamic repos makes accidentally pulling in packages from the wrong repo thankfully far more difficult. Since 23.09.1 you've had to opt in to the new repo when an update is available.

  • Best VPN for UDP

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    Yes you will need a least that. But you may also need the IGMP proxy configured, possibly at both ends, so that clients can see the streams and subscribe to them.

  • Dynamic DNS client "extracted from local system"

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    @Gertjan said in Dynamic DNS client "extracted from local system":

    To know if the WAN IP really changed ? Easy. Store the latest succeeded updated WAN IPv4 address locally. This is the cache file. Compare the actual WAN IPv4 with the cache ;:

    Just going to take this opportunity to point out that this causes a problem in the case where we restore to a replacement router in our lab before delivery. DDNS is updated to our office IP. Live router will not update because its cached IP didn’t change. (Workaround is to manually modify the file on disk to fool it, as I recall)

  • radiusd General question about "client upgrade"

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    I went and changed to yes and the logs seemed to clear up.

    Thank you again.

  • Update to 24.11 System logs - DHCP

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    @stephenw10
    system - advanced - networking - ipv6 options - no checks, but... the WAN - IPv6 Configuration Type - DHCP6 so I changed to none.

    Thank you sir!

  • How to analyse logfiles - logz.io ?

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  • NTP status question

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    Thnx guys 👍

  • Diagnostics > DNS Lookup - takes very long time

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    ::1 is IPv6 localhost. Unbound should listen on that address by default but you may have disabled that. Or if you have enabled the forwarder instead.

    If you have upgraded from a much older version you might have it added specifically in System > General Setup and can remove it from there.

  • PPPOE WAN Dropping Randomly

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    @stephenw10

    Well, we're at 48 hours without an incident after switching the ethernet cable that connects the ONT to the router, so it's pretty safe to say you were correct saying it was hardware

    Thank you for your support, honestly I wouldn't have guessed a damaged cable would cause something so intermittent and short

    Kind Regards,
    Mylo

  • System Log shows Roku device rapidly switching MAC address

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    @stephenw10 that is insane.. I had a device that had a multicast mac set on it, company screw up.. It could work - but it could also cause some problems. It was a networking bridge for electric consumption meter, current cost by envi if I recall.. Had to be 10 years ago, I remember it working until I moved it something other than a dumb switch - then I ran into issues.. I remember having to do something with igmp snooping.

  • runaway delay average and std. dev. on WAN

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    An update for anyone who may be experiencing this issue.

    This issue is caused by ATT's RG firmware. The latency spikes and jitter are resolved on the BGW320-505 as of firmware 6.30.5.

    This issue was somewhat widely discussed at /r/ATTFiber. Shame on ATT for taking 8+ months to release a firmware which fixed it. And I was only able to get the firmware update by working with a redditor who had a high-level engineering contact at ATT, who was able to MANUALLY push the firmware update to my device. Who knows when it would have rolled out to me...

    Thank you to @stephenw10 for the help along the way.

  • System freezes after 20-30 days on the regular

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    @stephenw10 cheers. We shall wait!

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    I will say that I've only ever seen issues like that when using UFS without RAM disks enabled. Using ZFS or enabling RAM disks should prevent it for the vast majority of cases.

  • Tracking down syn,ack sessions

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    Graylog has taken care of this for me. Creating reports for top dst IP and ports

  • Internet lost in PfSense but VPN or everythingelse work well?

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    @mucip said in Internet lost in PfSense but VPN or everythingelse work well?:

    the monitoring and what is used for?

    And nice stats :

    79f298d6-5237-4445-8459-f960de6df354-image.png

    Monitoring the device in front of your pfSense, the ISP router, only tells you something about the cable between them 😊 and nothing much about your entire WAN connection.
    Monitoring for example 8.8.8.8 tells you something about the 'quality' of the connection up until 8.8.8.8.
    This will includes your entire 'ISP' WAN connection.

  • [SOLVED] Route pfsense itself over VPN.

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    @stephenw10 said in Route pfsense itself over VPN.:

    Hmm, well it sure seems like it's set to serial as primary console from what you're seeing. But as I say you should be able to see which is set at the vga console.

    Success !!!

    I made the mistake when creating a static route by typing ip address of openvpn server and then selecting the subnet. Selecting the subnet was a mistake that caused pfsense to be stuck at boot. I created new static route by typing the openvpn server address, chose the appropriate WAN and saved the setting. After reboot, pfsense booted just fine. I created additional static routes for the remaining vpn clients and everything just worked. Rebooted once again, no issues. Then i selected openvpn client as a default gateway and that was it.

    All tailscale clients are now going through vpn, and all vpn clients connect without any issues after reboot.

    Thank you very much Stephen. All this would not be possible without your help. Im marking this thread as resolved.

    Cheers.

  • WAN connection dropping intermittently

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    Nice! That does imply some ARP issue. You shouldn't really have to do that. But if you do keep that in place you should add it as a system Tunable:

    https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/config/advanced-tunables.html

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