You can install it yourself but you should not be able to purchase 3rd party hardware with it pre-installed.

It you do I would strongly recommend you reinstall it to be sure what you have is actually unmodified pfSense.

If the license expires you will lose access to the pkg repos which means you can no longer see updates or install new packages. It does not prevent existing services running.

If this is used Netgate hardware it will always have access to Plus, that does not expire.

Steve

Hmm, interesting. Be sure to check the ware level again. That's not a set of symptoms I've seen but it does look like a failure mode that could also be the eMMC. 🤔

@Gertjan said in WAN requiring root CA to be installed for internet access:

Ok to keep old software. But mixing new stuff (pfSense 2.7.2 uses FreeBSD 14) on old stuff, is like installing windows 11 on a PC without a TPM : you can (probably) force it, but it needs uncommon knowledge to do so.

I know, but the iron does not support 6.0 and later.

@bmeeks said in WAN requiring root CA to be installed for internet access:

@reqman said in WAN requiring root CA to be installed for internet access:

Unfortunately, a bit later the VM shutted down by itself. Tried the exact same procedure, but no go.

The problem is likely the vmxnet3 driver. Change your virtual machine to use the e1000 NIC driver and try again. You will take a performance hit using the e1000 virtual driver, but that should let the newer pfSense boot and run.

Very useful info, thanks. Will give it a try, when I find some time to reschedule this experiment.

@stephenw10 said in Wireguard with IPv6:

Nope you are not wrong. My ISP only provides a prefix so I have no routable IPv6 address on the WAN directly. That's BT, the largest ISP here in the UK.

Thank you stepehen. Helps a lot. :)

If you're running ZFS it may be old BE snapshots filling the drive.

If you can reach the command line you can check that with: bectl list

Otherwise it's probably logs from some package, check /var/log

Steve

Wow, there is considerable information you have provided, thank you! DNSBL reloads once per day at 15 minutes past midnight, 00:15. I am using KEA for DHCP services which does not contain the DHCP registration setting. Knowing the origional DHCP service is will be remmoved at some future point appeared to the best option. Service _Watchdog is not installed given the issues it creates. I added the service status to the dashboard for monitoring.

@stephenw10 exactly 7547 is the TR-069 service.

"is a bidirectional SOAP/HTTP-based protocol that provides communication between CPE devices and auto-configuration servers (ACS)."

Would seem quite possible that the isp device, ie the CPE is using this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-069

@viragomann they are being processed by the floating rule
maybe I should get rid of the floating rule, at least that might help with future trouble shooting.

@netpatje said in Lost power, can't boot!:

No config.xml f...

See if you have a config file in /conf/backup...menu option 15 if it lets you use that.

A reinstall will use ZFS which is more resilient towards power loss.

@jminnebo Not sure about certs specifically but one can restore parts of a configuration file. Or copy/paste in the XML.

@stephenw10 I had to force reboot at the time to get back online so unfortunately can't try now but if it happens again I'll run a capture and check that. Thanks!

@Gertjan I have provided the system.log covering the duration from when I initiated a reboot to the first two lines of the next boot after I had to pull power as the system appeared to have gotten stuck. Is there a different log file which you're interested to see?

@jrey Thanks so much for your help and input it is very useful info to have to be able to put this into perspective. Sorry delay in getting back to you, was also working on a rules issue which seems to now be resolved. I appreciate your time and patience on this. I hope all that we covered will be of use to others in the future. Thanks again and have a great week.

@georgelza said in Network performance issue using pfSense v.2.7.0 running as router:

pkg-static -d update

ok... we're back cooking with gas, as the saying goes, got haproxy installed and my external exposed services are working again.

Would have been great if the restore allowed me to re-attempt the installation of previously installed packages.

G

@milindhvijay

A test, and you need the console or SSH to execute it :

On the main menu, use option 8.

Then :

dig @127.0.0.1 google.com

This test executes a dns request on port 53, 127.0.0.1. Unbound should be listening on that port.

Another test :

sockstat -4 | grep 'unbound'

This shows you on which interfaces unbound is listening.
I see :

unbound unbound 83642 5 udp4 *:53 *:* unbound unbound 83642 6 tcp4 *:53 *:*

which means : unbound listens on every (like "all") interfaces, for IPv4 and IPv6, on port '53' (of course), using TCP and UDP.

This means that this :

dig @192.168.1.1 google.com

should0 give an answer = the IPv4 of Google

Btw : I presume your LAN IPv4 is 192.168.1.1 - take yours if yours is different.

This :

dig @192.168.1.1 google.com AAAA

should give the IPv6 is you have a working IPv6 setup.

@axot said in Intel igb optimizations (EEE):

igb1: Connected to a WiFI Router
igb2: Connected to NAS (can be woken up via magic packet and goes to sleep when inactive)
igb3: Connected to Mac Studio (wakes up from sleep when needed)

These are end-user devices and not switches ?!!
So, in case of a power glitch, all interfaces will flap. That's normal.

@keyser Oh I see, thank you so much for your explaination, I went toward freeradius webpage and they did listed TLS only supported cleartext password. I have also made sure to disable weak protocol like MD5 or anythig less than TTLS.

Thank you so much for your time

@sstatjm Curious... Did you ever get this sorted out? I am building out the 3rd node for a ceph cluster and planned to use it in Debian (Proxmox VE) and pass it thru to my VM of pfsense kinda like ive been doing on two other machines in a cluster + CARP setup :-\

@stephenw10
Hi Steve,

Ok, I got around to this this morning. Your steps were all that was needed to install the alternative Realtek driver.

Was able to

install the new driver, activate it, and was able to see from the log that the new had been loaded successfully.

Both firewalls are now updated. I will need to wait a while to see if this resolves my crash issue. Hopefully this will.

Learnt a bit about freebsd in the process.

Again, thank you for your generous help.

Regards

Rudolf

Better to be overly vigilant! 😉