Hi, The subject is known. Bad WAN, bad files system, broken DNS, etc. Use a the magic keyword "repo-pfSense-core.sqlite" and put it in here : [image: 1572869187639-c7ac8ca7-70f6-415c-bf73-61d4c9791943-image.png]

@bjohe Yes, since I have setup my WAN as default gateway I didn't have any internet dropout. In your case did you consider a hardware failure? Trying to debug my issue I have bought another (actually 2 other relatively cheap used LAN cards from ebay) and added to my setup trying to exclude the lan card failure, but in my case it was not the card.

Oh cool thank I was hoping that would work but wasn't sure. I remember something about when I tried to upgrade the current device I had to remove all packages or something. I never got it working well on 2.4 it was just too slow once it was upgrade so ive built a low power pc to replace it. Yeah all the network cards are different and there are more now, shouldnt be a big issue from what you've said. Many thanks will give it a go as soon as I get chance. Regards Rob

Indeed! Searching this site with the CVE identifier (CVE-2019-11043), I found this: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/147590/cve-2019-11043/5 I just had the feeling that the updates to pfSense are not frequent enough (I have it installed a couple of months now and I got no updates to the main software yet, only some packages). So, I was wondering if I was missing some critical maintenance action... I guess I can chill now... Thanks.

As in Rico above link, Bios and system time check this first please

Don't know what I did, but managed to get it to boot properly. Restored backed up config and GO !!

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/usermanager/locked-out-of-the-webgui.html

Thanks, all up and running now.

Perhaps the better solution would be to upgrade both to p3 if you're able to?

i'm sending all the logs to an external syslog server actually for squid you need to add in the "Custom Option" section something like access_log udp://ipserversyslog:514

@chrcoluk The number of asterisks shown is no indicator for the real number of password characters.

@bmeeks Thank you sir, for the recommendation. :)

Ooops, missed that! Yeah if you disable pf in the advanced settings that disables NAT and you need outbound NAT for any connection to work from the internal private subnet. Steve

You don't need to have purchased support to open a ticket. I just went thru this myself and they sent me a link for the download in less than 5 min...now if I could just get it working!!!

I edited your post as it was hard to read. I assume he means just in between two switches. Maybe as a layer 2 firewall? Steve

probably there is something wrong with your installation, a factory reset will only reset the config.xml to the default value but it will not correct errors on files. you need to reinstall

there is only one little problem, we can't see the picture

I have CenturyLink fiber, from outside it goes to their ONT that's in my office, then ethernet directly to my PC running pFsense. Centurylink uses PPoe, so I have to enter those credentials in pFsense as well as I needed to VLAN tag the WAN with what Centurylink uses (201). After that no problems. I get 940+ up and down on their gig line.