• How do I configure SPAN for the WAN port?

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    stephenw10S

    Promiscuous mode would allow all traffic to pass on the local interface. But that doesn't help traffic pass through the switch. I would still expect to see broadcast traffic there though.

  • Upgrading to 24.11 is failling for Netgate 1100

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    stephenw10S

    Yup the size shown there is not a good metric. There are several open feature requests to change to the actual used disk size but doing so is non-trivial.

  • files.pfsense.org SSL cert expired 2024-07-22

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    stephenw10S

    Still seems odd it stopped renewing. Let me see if that was intentional.

  • redmine.pfsense.org certificate expired 2025-01-19

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    @stephenw10 Confirmed fixed! Thanks for the update.

  • pfsense redmine - cert invalid

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    stephenw10S

    Ok should be good now.

  • WAN MAC Spoofing -- WITHOUT web configurator

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    @jhg You could edit the /conf/config.xml directly. Search for 'spoofmac' and the first instance should probably be your WAN.
    https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/config/xml-configuration-file.html

  • Empty Message-ID in SMTP Test email?

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    GertjanG

    @GPz1100 said in Empty Message-ID in SMTP Test email?:

    As I understand it, so long as there's at least one valid tlsa record, then it's all good?

    That's what I do, I publish the four (5 ?) "2.1.1" hashes that could be used by LE to sign my certificate. As long as one of them matches, the TLSA validation will work out : example :

    039e2d13-3531-42af-b85e-674d67acd371-image.png

  • Upgrade to version 24.11 hangs because disk full

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    patient0P

    @alban4 I'm happy it worked :)

  • OPT interfaces in HA not matching

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    patient0P

    @michmoor happy it worked.

    I wasn't sure how it handles adding other interface(s) later. And gave it a go on testing pfSense CE.
    If you ever add another interfaces (virtual, pppoe) it will end up as the lowest, free OPT. OPT5 in your case on the backup node.

  • KEA DHCP: Android Stops Working on UniFi

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    stephenw10S

    Ha

  • Backup from PLUS and restore on CE

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    stephenw10S

    Nothing fixed yet for a release.

    Currently it's using 23.7:
    https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/src/etc/inc/globals.inc#L85

  • Pfsense crashing randomly pfsnese plus 24.03

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    @stephenw10 ok thanks will schedule the update once I’ve backed up some files and got a copy of the firmware from TAC support.

  • pfSense Plus Activation Token

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  • How to best make update to pfSense effective?

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    stephenw10S

    You're only seeing that because you're running the custom package notification script. Most users don't see that and don't need to. The pfSense-upgrade package updates itself when it's run at upgrade.

    But you can update that anytime without issues. It's only used at upgrade.

  • Allow only ssh login for admin

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    GertjanG

    @CatSpecial202 said in Allow only ssh login for admin:

    Is it possible to enable SSH login via public key for the admin user?

    Not only possible. Its imho pretty mandatory.

    Any every server device you use, rent, buy create, uses initially a SSH connection, and the admin (mostly root) + password is send to you.
    Or you created these when installing the OS.

    Os soon as you enter the first time, you create cert. Export the public part to yoruself, so you can use it with your SSH client, for example Putty.

    The 'admin' user on pfSense should have this part :

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    and then you select (again : pfSense) :

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    and from now on, your SSH client will be needing the exported cert to be able to connect to pfSense :

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    and I have to type in the password == passphrase of the cert, not the admin password.

    Do this with pfSense, and any other device you can connect to over SSH - if possible.

    edit : don't even bother grating other users access to pfSense with non admin accounts.
    pfSense is a router, not some multi media file server.
    I always recommend severely creating an ssh admin pfSense so you can have access, when needed.
    Some will then never really use it afterwards.
    Other - like me - use it several times a day. As I use the same connection with for example WinSCP, so I can explore the file system, and look at things like using Windows explorer. Don't ask me why ^^

    If needed, block the SSH port TCP 22 to some known LAN IPs.
    Lock your own devices, the ones you can use to connect to pfSense, with a DHCP MAC lease, so from now on they will always have the same IP.
    Throws these IPs in a Alias.*Use this Alias to create a LAN firewall rule.
    From now on, only these IPs can use the pfSense SSH port.

    Read security nerds will use a dedicates admin LAN, and connect to this LAN with their device to access pfSense SSH.
    Now lock your pfSense into a safe. Lock the safe. Done. Now you're close to what they use at Langley.

  • SG5100 CPU spike every 2minutes from 3 to 100% after update

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    stephenw10S

    Hmm, that output looks as expected. There is no significant CPU load shown.

    Does it only appear when checking the dashboard in the GUI?

  • fetch on v2.7.2 gives certificate error.

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    @Gertjan
    Well, thanks. That did work:

    [2.7.2-RELEASE][root@router.somesite.com]/root: fetch --ca-cert=/var/etc/cert.crt https://router.somesite.com/android-chrome-192x192.png android-chrome-192x192.png
  • Problems with Muliwan on pfsense

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    @erfggi 👍 Thanks.

  • How do I find out what write continuously on my pfSense SSD

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    stephenw10S

    The size and usage are shown on the dashboard in the Disks widget.

    Screenshot from 2025-01-15 13-05-33.png

  • How can I mount a non-booting pfSense volume?

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    JonathanLeeJ

    @jimp say you use a second drive for logging should it be gpt and ufs what would be the newfs?

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