@stephenw10 Thanks so much, Stephen, for your excellent help!

@jimp

I think I figured it out. I ran TCPView and noticed a process called Killer Intelligence Center that was connecting to my LAN (gateway) IP address. It's a gaming app that tries to optimize WiFi and network performance for gaming. I killed that process and the errors in my System log stopped.

I am trying to find out (on the Intel Support community) if I can change setting(s) in the Killer Intelligence Center to stop it from sending the bogus get requests. I tried turning off various settings / features but nothing stopped the bogus get requests.

In the meantime, I added a custom block rule in the Windows firewall which prevents the app from making outbound get requests. That has stopped the System log filling up with the errors.

Problem solved. Disk was full....

Took me a few minutes to figure that one out...

I ran into this for the first time last night after running a Gen2 VM for many years. I haven't had time to dive into it, but here is what I noticed.

Windows Server 2022 Standard Gen 2 VM, 4 cores, 4096MB RAM (not dynamic) 2 nics (WAN and LAN) VM version 10 pfSense+ 23.05 First had an issue when I upgraded from 23.05 to 23.09. When it rebooted, it came up with the error. It sat like this for several hours until I could get to it physically. In the boot menu, it had "kernel.old" as an option and that would allow it to boot. "kernel" would cause the error and hang. I installed pfSense 2.7 fresh and after it rebooted, it hung with the error. I noticed that if I messed around with the boot menu - just pressing keys to look at the options - when I pressed enter to continue booting, it would work. The next reboot would hang again. Creating a Gen 1 VM worked fine.

I have been running this VM for years without any upgrade issues. The only thing I changed recently was upgrading the VM version from 9 to 10. I have a backup of it where it is still version 9, so I'll try restoring it and doing the upgrade to see if it still hangs.

@stephenw10 I found an old post to follow settings to enter the External IP to Monitor. That led me astray because Pfsense version changes have moved settings. Anyway, I found it under Status\Gateways\Related Settings (screen top right)\Edit WAN_PPOE\Monitor IP for anybody else looking for it. I'll do a config backup so I don't have to remember the path again!

Hmm, OK. We are looking at it....

@jimp
Gotcha. Thanks for the very quick response.

Sorry that was aimed @Link01. The symptoms they are seeing are common when ramdisks are in use.

@stephenw10
Done.
Appreciate your quick assist on this.

@stephenw10
Thanks for following up, turns out I'd purchased though the subscription in products site, instead of the support tab (facepalm). So that's 100% on me, got ticket open for it and is now resolved. I should have looked harder for the support that asked for the NDI.

Thanks!

@jimp Thanks!

I did a clean install and am back up and running now. Thanks for your quick responses!

@SteveITS

Hello, I wanted to thank you for the help I figured out where I went wrong. Essentially I created the ports added the needed DHCP server setting had all that correct. What I failed to do was allow traffic from the wan to the second LAN port correctly. I had defined in the rules for the LAN2 ports LAN2 -> WAN was okay when in fact I needed to do WAN -> LAN2 okay. Now my DMZ is wokring. All my servers are on the pfSense only and all my other devices behind the router are connected to the pfSense.

@drkpny19 said in New pfSense install good down/bad upload.:

I will do another test when I get home. I’ll make windows desktop the server and pfsense the client,

You can also just use the -R switch to reverse the test direction.

What is the WAN port connected to? What speed is it linked at?

@bushman666
Thank you. This solution perfectly works for me. From 2.6.0 to 2.7.0 upgrade.

@AdriftAtlas

Untangle charge $150 for the Home Pro with limitations. Otherwise I'd look at Sophos XG Home, but I'm running pfsense for now on Sophos XG hardware, XG125 Rev3. It was sadly advertised as a 135, but fortunately the seller refunded me and told me to keep the unit.

Just need to sell off my XG210 Rev 2 unit.

@stephenw10 said in Drivers Loading During Booting Up:

Mmm, well it shouldn't happen

So, I upgraded to v23.09RC and it still takes the same time loading device manager and the cryptographic accelerator driver (E1000)...this seems to confirm it's something about the E1000 driver. Hope to do the QAT removal on Sunday.

@stephenw10
Thanks, I had same issue after upgrading to 2.7.0
I can now ping the CARP VIP from the backup node when adding this System Tunable setting.

Hmm, interesting. I've never seen a problem using a ZFS mirror. In testing I've remove either drive from the system and it still boots happily.

The only issue is there's no gui component (yet) to rebuild the mirror if you have to replace a drive. That has to be done manually.

Steve

Ok, done some learning and there is a -h flag available to make du a bit more readable to dumb humans:

So for example:

[23.09-RC][admin@Router-7]/root: du -s -h /usr/ 910M /usr/ [23.09-RC][admin@Router-7]/root: du -s -h /var/ 718M /var/ [23.09-RC][admin@Router-7]/root: du -s -h /./ 1.8G /./ [23.09-RC][admin@Router-7]/root:

Every day a school day... again ...or something.

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