• “Shared” IP Addressing

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    I think I have now received enough cautionary feedback to convince me that it was an ill-conceived proposition. I will abandon the “shared” IP plan and follow better, if not good, practice. I like the alias suggestion and that will overcome my reservations about “redundancy” in rules. Thanks to all for your heads up.

  • baby jumbo frame WAN MTU problem

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    I finally solved this problem - so thought I'd update this topic just in case it helps someone else !

    The unstable WAN MTU problem persisted through a number of pfSense upgrades, and was still an issue on version 2.7.2-RELEASE.

    The thing that fixed it was to install the Realtek drivers using -

    pkg install -y realtek-re-kmod

    which installed -

    realtek-re-kmod-198.00_3 Kernel driver for Realtek PCIe Ethernet Controllers

    and then setting the WAN MTU to 1508 (including +8 bytes for PPP overhead).

    After a day of experimenting, the system seems stable, and the WAN interface MTU is 1500

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  • Random Massive Lag Spikes

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    It could just be the modem crapping out, yes.

    Can you try a different port at the pfSense end?

    Can you test putting a switch in between the pfSense WAN and the modem? That would prove which end is dropping the link.

  • Cloud installed pfSense not detecting second WAN interface/IP

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    @naiw the instructions from Vultr sound like targeted at Linux systems (ip a, /etc/sysconfig/ -> RedHat). You may ask them for FreeBSD instructions or better for pfSense.. But I don't think automatic config will work with pfSense at all.

    They assign the second IP to your instance and you have to manually create an alias, as @stephenw10 mentioned.

    More infos (although old, 2016): On this forum: Two totally separate IP's on WAN - how to configure on VULTR. The result was the same, create an alias.

  • Cannot ping gateway but internet works???

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    Thank you both for the responses. This makes sense. I had not thought that ping might be disabled on the gateway. I took @JKnott suggestion to find the first upstream server using tracert. All is well again!

  • No https access to WebGUI

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    stephenw10S

    Any alerts/errors shown in the gui when you logged back in?

    Anything in the system logs?

  • Pfblocker Blocking TLD Objects

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    You don't need a leading dot for that.

  • pfsense Crash report

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    @patient0
    Hi,

    Thanks for the your information.

    Now we tested with intel NIC. Its working now.

  • Netgate 8200 onboard memory: eMMC or NVMe

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    Yup the 8200 does not have eMMC.

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  • Netgate 4200 crashes with WAN DHCP for FibreStream Internet

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    stephenw10S

    Mmm, almost certainly a link negotiation issue then. On igc NICs the options there are limited because it can only link using auto-negotiation. You can set the available speeds it negotiates at which is what the speed setting in the gui does.

  • ramdisk bug ?

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    stephenw10S

    You may need to reboot twice to seen that set since it only gets; applied at boot.

    However, yes, there is a bug on some systems where the default values are always used. It only happens on some filesystems where a race condition occurs. It's fixed in 25.03-Beta.

    When using RAM Disks I usually start out at double the default values. 1G + 2G is very large. If you have hungry packages though you may need large drives, but not that big!

  • No email alert/notification on gateway down

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    stephenw10S

    Yes, you can set it as a gateway. You don't have to route anything to it if there's no subnet behind that peer to route to,.

  • Error regarding ubus

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    @Zeldar We believe one of our users is also experiencing the same behavior with their laptop reaching out to the FW and I just verified that the "Killer Performance Driver Suite UWD (3.1222.7103)" and "RivetNetworks.KillerControlCenter (3.1624.1026.0)" applications are installed. In your case, did you keep the driver and remove the intelligence center? or was there only the single app.

  • Crash due to CGNAT conflict with Wireguard

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    @Laxarus You show an IPv6 address on your WAN. You'd use that for the VPN. Also, it doesn't have to a OpenVPN. I assume Wireguard will work over IPv6. The question is whether VPN.AC supports it at the other end.

  • L2Tp/IPsec VPN with LDAP authentication

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    stephenw10S

    L2TP can only use Radius or local auth as far as I know. So you need to use NPS to interface it with AD (LDAP).

  • PFasense+ downgraded to CE.

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    stephenw10S

    Unless you redeployed the VM it should not have changed. Simply changing the upstream device would not affect it.

  • Fixing Ad blocking and getadmiral.com annoyances

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  • Packet Loss during online backup

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    Nice 👍

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