• Problems with all floating rules setup?

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    @stephenw10 I'll get that submitted tonight. Thanks for talking through this with me. 🙂

  • slow guid from IP local network

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    For example using the Network tool in Firefox shows how long it took to open the page and which components took time:

    Screenshot from 2024-04-05 13-04-54.png

    Other browsers have similar tools.

  • TCP Transfers failing after ~65k

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    Ok so only for file transfers? You can access the server correctly otherwise?

    Do you see that traffic passed by the correct rule on WAN2?

  • Home page traffic graph shows ~half the correct number?

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    @Gblenn The patch seems to be working here, as well. Thanks to you and @stephenw10 for your help. Much appreciated.

  • New to pfSense --- looking for general help with setup

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    @stephenw10 --- After making the subnet change to the pfSense LAN, that resolved the connectivity issue. I now have an issue with the NordVPN config, but I'll create a separate thread for that. Thanks again for the help!

  • Gateway offline

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    The problem lies in the router, I tried another Internetconnection and it works fine. I'll contact my ISP. Thank you for your help!

  • Crash Report or Programming Bug

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    @stephenw10 I don't want to praise the day before sunset but the new RAM may have done the trick! So far, the router has been stably running for almost a day without crashing!

    Thank you for your support and for deciphering the crash report.

  • Cannot open /boot/lua/loader.lua: no such file or directory found

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    @Willever Not sure what happened but reinstalling is probably the fastest way back in terms of clock time.

    https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-4100/reinstall-pfsense.html
    (Free ticket)

    https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/restore-during-install.html

  • Incoming VPN connections not working

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    Nope filter-reload doesn't clear existing states.

    I'm saying if you use the kill states button in the state table page you should refresh the table afterwards to be sure the states were actually killed.

    If you use the trash-can icon next to each states it kills by state ID which should always work.

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    @Wylbur

    Again, things connected were continuing to work. Example. If duckduckgo were used for a search, that search would return hits. If clicking on a link in the hits -- would get message couldn't find that server.

    So my connection to a mainframe (encrypted interactive session) continued to respond.

    T-bird Email continued to fetch and send email.

    Don't know what got hosed up.

    [BTW did see where there is an SSH exploit -- pfsense susceptible to it?]

  • What to put in IoT vlan ?

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    @fjmp24
    Assuming all these devices are connected via wifi, my approach is to put all within a wifi SSID, which don't need to connect to any other. In this SSID I prohibit communication between stations on the AP.
    Access to other network segments is restricted on pfSense, if even any needed.

  • NTP no server suitable for synchronization found

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    The checksum is probably because you have hardware checksum offloading enabled. But if it's not that would be a problem.

    Those clients are set to sync against stratum 1 only? Seems unlikely.

  • Installation swapfile question

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    Yes, if you're using SWAP in 'normal' use there's probably a problem. The biggest use for SWAP in pfSense is to be able to store crash reports should you ever hit a kernel panic. So I would argue that having it mirrored should not really be that important. Should.

  • PHP error updating SYNC tab pfBlocker

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    Yup, that will require a different bug ticket. We are just discussing how to handle both issues.

  • Question About Network Performance

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    @antonioremigio1 said in Question About Network Performance:

    How do I know if pfSense is supporting this traffic from connected users or if it is bottlenecking?

    Check the graphs in Status > Monitoring. Are you seeing traffic close to the maximum bandwidth? Are you seeing CPU usage close to 100%?

  • Errors(?) on bootup and constant errors with nvme

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    @pnadd said in Errors(?) on bootup and constant errors with nvme:

    fib_algo

    That error is harmless.

    If the issue started happening after installing a new PCIe device and you're using an NVMe drive then I'd suspect some low level PCIe issue. Probably nothing you can do about that in pfSense if so.

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    @Gblenn you sir, are a blessing!

    I see now there was a diagnostic report in pi-hole that I missed ...

    Too hyper-focused on the pfsense side of things.

    Thank you <3

  • NTP server issue in PFSense 2.7.2 ?

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    @stephenw10

    Hi - hard to be sure, as there's not really any diagnostics or logging available on the camera UI's to test NTP, other than just setting the time to be wrong then trying to force an update, which I'm not keen to do manually on over 60 cameras...

    The proof of the pudding will be if they start drifting out of time again, but that will take a while to find out.

    I think in my specific use case of it only serving specific internal clients that disabling KoD is the best option.

  • Help debugging PHP Errors

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    Ok you're hitting this but with a slightly different underlying error: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15157

    In both cases the config file is somehow unreadable and the error/notice generated is calling badly creating those PHP errors. That's masking the real problem.

    Try resaving the Sys > Adv > Notifications page so the config does have a notifications section if you can. That may workaround the error so you can see the real issue.

  • pfsense dns redirect failure

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    @stephenw10 said in pfsense dns redirect failure:

    Otherwise you can add Alternate Hostnames it will accept in System > Advanced > Admin Access.

    That worked thank you

    I have a bunch of dns rewrites to blah.local so pfsense.local is just easy to remember

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