• Installation pflowd or any bandwith reports to every station

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    jimpJ

    pfflowd would send netflow data to some other netflow server you have on your network.

    If you want a package to show you per-IP bandwidth in the pfSense GUI, see https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/How_can_I_monitor_bandwidth_usage

  • Setting up transparent proxy in bridged mode

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    You can't do a transparent proxy on a bridge. It just doesn't work with pf. It's been mentioned/documented before, there may even be a ticket open. It's a limitation of pf.

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    The pfBlocker package code should reinstall cleanly automatically after an upgrade, and normally does.
    But note that pfBlocker "disables" itself after being installed/reinstalled/updated. It is "special" in this way (other packages just install and go if there are settings in the config file already). For pfBlocker, you have to go to its settings page and enable/save.

    But there is no harm in uninstalling first, then upgrade, then install again and enable. It just should not be needed.

  • Network driver detected from Live CD but not NanoBSD

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    Thanks for the tip.  If the kernels are the same between the two then it must be something to do with one of the boot config files like you mention.  I haven't yet figured out what is different between the two loader.conf.local files that causes the driver to not be loaded but at least gives me a good start so I don't go fishing down the wrong hole!

  • Since 2.1.2 hw.em.num_queues="4" settings -> Fatal Trap

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    Even 65536 is likely too high.

    quoting: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-kernel-limits.html

    The NMBCLUSTERS kernel configuration option dictates the amount of network Mbufs available to the system. A heavily-trafficked server with a low number of Mbufs will hinder performance. Each cluster represents approximately 2 K of memory, so a value of 1024 represents 2 megabytes of kernel memory reserved for network buffers. A simple calculation can be done to figure out how many are needed. A web server which maxes out at 1000 simultaneous connections where each connection uses a 6 K receive and 16 K send buffer, requires approximately 32 MB worth of network buffers to cover the web server. A good rule of thumb is to multiply by 2, so 2x32 MB / 2 KB = 64 MB / 2 kB = 32768. Values between 4096 and 32768 are recommended for machines with greater amounts of memory. Never specify an arbitrarily high value for this parameter as it could lead to a boot time crash. To observe network cluster usage, use -m with netstat(1).

    If each cluster represents approximately 2K of memory, 65536 = 134,217,728 bytes or 128MB or ram, just for mbufs.  In reality, a bit more than this (65536 * (2048 + 256), so around 144MB) is used.

  • Upgrading to new system

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    If you have diff NICs, it'll prompt you to re-assign them after restoring the config. Other than that it'll work seamlessly.
    https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Configuration_Backup_and_Restore

    I prefer manually changing the NIC assignments in the XML before restoring the config, but that's probably mostly a bias of working with systems that tend to be more complex than the average user's, with more NICs, VLANs, etc. and it's faster for me to update the XML than click through the assignments post-restore.

  • Hash CheckSum problem with liveCD 2.1.2

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    @stephenw10:

    If you look in the MD5 file:

    MD5 (pfSense-LiveCD-2.1.2-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz) = f020c4b03ae45eec13adc050d915aa5a

    The checksum is for the gzipped file not the extracted ISO. The MD5 matched fine for me just now.

    Steve

    I see I have exposed my 'noob-ness' yet again.

    I did indeed run the checksum on the extracted ISO instead of the gzipped file.

    Thank you very much for clearing that up Steve!

    I see that people are very active on these forums - what a great community.

    pffft

  • I'm having major difficulties

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    Hi,
    What hardware are you using?
    Which install type are you running? (32/64bit, nano/full/embedded, etc)
    Are you using the default IP address for LAN?
    Have you tried http and https?
    Have you made any other changes?
    Can you still ping the LAN IP address?

    Steve

  • Squid Proxy Configuration Issues – All Traffic Stops

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  • Problem with Squid3-dev, dansguardian and https Traffic

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    You can't transparently redirect HTTPS. You have to explicitly set the proxy in the browser settings or use an auto config URL.

  • Stuck on 2.1 after auto and manual upgrades to 2.1.2

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    I am stuck in the same spot, but investigating this- I see my available free space as only 907MB, the decompressed image is actually 986M. This is likely where I am getting hung up. I'll either have to find a way to clear some space or do a clean install and restore my config and rebuild packages  :-\

  • Upgrade from 2.0.1 to 2.1.2 corrupted one of my boot environments

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    Not running Nano? Looks like a custom install.

    Steve

  • 2.1 -> 2.1.2 upgrade - how long should it take?

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    Booted from a USB CD drive. Wouldn't boot completely; not sure why, last time I CD booted this system it had a SATA CD drive in it - perhaps some oddball interaction of it being a USB CD.

    Had tried booting from USB stick, but that wasn't working.

    Finally got it to boot by letting the CD boot to the point where it gives the various boot options (had been letting it go from there to option 1, and that was not working), and then choosing (3) boot from USB with the USB stick in. That finally let me install, and the system is now booting from hard disk to 2.1.2, just needs reconfiguring and cutting back from the temporary lash-up that's been replacing it.

  • [SOLVED] Problem installing 2.1.2 on Intel Tiano

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    @razzfazz:

    You're not trying to boot from one of the USB 3.0 ports, are you?

    Turns out I was. This did the trick. Thank you!

  • Pfsense and steam pipe

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  • Commits after 2.1.2

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    Check this page for instructions.

    https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/System_Patches

  • Wlan 2ssdis-2vlans

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  • 2.1p1-RELEASE version?

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    @cmb:

    @oggsct:

    Update: I was able to get this to install on 2 netgate devices but a third tried to go to the normal 2.1.2 and didn't change, shows that it is 2.1p1 and says there is an update available but the update never applies. Let me know if there is any information or logs I can provide to help, or if I need to break this into its own thread.

    If you're still having issues, yes, please start your own thread with the info so it's easier to follow up.

    Upon further digging the 2 that don't work are showing signs of a corrupted partition table. I will be replacing the compact flash cards in them. I don't see a need for a new thread currently. Thank you for your assistance and continued hard work.

  • AutoConfigBackup: Unable to restore.

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    Forgot to copy one of the stock files back into place after our debugging last week, sorry about that. All good now.

  • 2.1-Beta1 upgrading: gpart: table 'ad0' is corrupt

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    There's a bigger thread already for this same issue here:
    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=75069.0

    You can try some of the suggestions posted there:
    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=75069.msg410804#msg410804
    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=75069.msg411077#msg411077
    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=75069.msg410819#msg410819

    Post results in the other thread, locking this one.

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