Please use the installation guidance give on this link: https://protectli.com/kb/how-to-install-pfsense-ce-2-4-on-the-vault-2/

Try to thinking this way: just buy used on eBay IBM-branded RAID card (or LSI, Dell, Adaptec, MSI, SiliconImage), better PCI-X 2 or 2.1, install two HDD (I suggest bullet-proof Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB 3.5-INCH ENTERPRISE HARD DRIVE SATA model HUA723030ALA640), configure to mirror and sleep well another 5 years. :) You cannot write exactly where failure happened (in appliance or desktop), so I decide that You have desktop system. Better to spend $50 on card and sleep well 5 years rather spending hours with failed drive and dancing around ZFS.

@Raffi_ awesome, thanks for the info. I will most likely make the switch this weekend and update when complete. Thank you both for your time and info

The upgrade process doesn't care or do anything special depending on the filesystem. Honestly it would be faster and safer to just grab a backup and run the installer again to setup the mirror like you want. You'd be done in <10m with no worries about if you did something wrong.

Thanks, but I used our internal relay now.

Yup, that looks correct. Glad that solved it for you. Steve

Ok, I see you have the LAN interface of your 'homelab router' at 10.0.0.X, what is the mask? /24? You mentioned that on PFSense WAN, you gave it an ip in 10.0.0.x (/24??). That sounds OK. I keep wondering about the mask though, as you set PFSense LAN interface 10.1.0.X but if both aren't at least /16 you would have an address conflict, the network address needs to be something other than the 'homelab router' LAN network. How did you set the PFSense IPs, directly at the PFSense console (opening the VM directly in ESXI)? I would go back to PFSense in the ESXI console and confirm that you have 'Assigned Interfaces' correctly. Check that the VMNIC for the PFSense LAN is listed in the VM NETWORK where the VM resides and it corresponds to the correct physical NIC, and that the WAN VMNIC corresponds to the physical NIC that is connected to your home router. I had run PFSense briefly in ESXI 5 years ago when I was testing it out and making sure the right physical NICs are assigned to the WAN/LAN would be where I would start. Once you are sure of that, and that the LAN side has the correct IP and subnet mask, you should be able to reach the webgui.

Problem solved. You need to set "Westmere" or "kvm64" CPU type instead of host passthrough in libvirt/virsh/kvm/qemu configuration file "virsh edit $vmname" <cpu mode='custom' match='exact' check='none'> <model fallback='allow'>Westmere</model> <topology sockets='1' cores='6' threads='2'/> </cpu>

Kobus, Please let us know how you are doing with configuring your pair of Dell PCs as an HA pair. I have a pair of HP 8300 small form factor PCs that I might want to set up as HA. I haven't looked into it at all until I saw your post. Good luck with the project! Greg

Ah, glad to hear it.

Then you only need firewall rules for pfSense to route that traffic. The respective hosts may refuse it themselves of course. Steve

Even 2.3.5 has been ditched for good. See numerous forum posts about the why .... But, this question posts up a couple of times per week, so, several days ago I found a post that had a link to a place where you could download these ancient versions. So; it's like old artefacts. They are there : you have to dig ^^

@H3lly said in PC wont boot after i installed pfsense.: MSI K8N SLI Platinium That is the correct setup for that board which I don't believe has UEFI BIOS. I would check the SATA mode. Also: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/hardware/boot-troubleshooting.html Steve

Just like to give an update, downloaded latest USB install "pfSense-CE-memstick-2.4.4-RELEASE-p3-amd64.img" Rufus made a boot-able USB drive from my Kingston 8GB flash drive. Booted fine, but here is the problem: no zfs install option!! So installed it anyway, pfsense is saying no smart errors with the SSD.

@armandelli said in [solved]issue updating package on 2.3.x: Is there anyway to stop this from happening As the warning explains, the GUI part of the packages use a more recent PHP 7.2, the ancient 5.x has been abandoned. 'people' like you and me that make packages like 'Squid for pfSense' follow the latest requirements, because if not, the package becomes useless. These same people do not support 'older versions' (one is already touch enough). Installing recent packages that use the "PHP 7.2" GUI part on an ancient pfSense version (based on 5.x) will break your system.

It is old topic but guys still have problems. I had this problem on Intel quad port card and resolve it with disabling WOL (Wake on LAN) on all Ethernet ports. If you don't know terminal commands you can put your card in windows machine and in properties disable three WOL settings. I think one is disabled by default, but disable all WOLs.

@baggyp said in New to pfSense and am looking for help with my Solarflare 10g card: This is a home box I'm building just to give it a try and am not familiar with pfSense or Linux and any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated. pfSense is not running Linux as an OS underneath. It's FreeBSD. If and how your card is working with FreeBSD you have to check there: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/hardware.html#ethernet Also have a look at the dmesg output if the card shows up at all.

Well, with a small amount of work I was able to grab the most time-consuming stuff for import: IP aliases and DHCP config (including all the reservations). Works great so far. Now to continue testing and see if the panics I was seeing on the other firewall are hardware-related or (my suspicion) HardenedBSD-related. If I had more time I'd be a true nerd and make a configuration transmogrifier that lets you flip-flop between these two vendors.. :)

Found a solution at : https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=11869.msg54600#msg54600/ It worked for me.