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  • WAN connection through hotel network (login page required)

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    You can do a few things. 1. Set up your workstation to be behind that vm in general. I do something similar with virtualbox on one of my work computers, and I have virtualbox using my NIC as the WAN for pfsense, and I have another virtual NIC that is 'LAN' or equivalent that my laptop uses as if it was it's only network interface. The pfsense VM's wan gets whatever is at the physical ethernet port of the machine, and then my laptop gets it's route through a virtual NIC and is behind pfsense. Yes, pfsense has to be booted before packets flow at all, so that may not be ideal. Works great for me, pfsense boots fast enough it makes almost no difference. Once you do this, you can usually pass whatever captive portal exists because you are natted behind the MAC and IP they are seeing. 2. Create a script that uses cURL to do a POST or whatever action is normally taken to get you into the system. For example, pfsense captive portal just wants a POST to a certain URL (when it's configured with no auth), and so you could do something like curl --data "" http://firewall.ip:port/ At that point, you figure out how long before they idle you off, and schedule your script to run accordingly. 3. Clone the MAC address of a device that already passed the hotel's auth This is a little trickier, I use an old smartphone for this. Basically, use the mobile device to pass the portal, then make your pfsense WAN interface bound to that MAC. I've done this many many times over the years with varying success.
  • VERY N00b Questions on Setup

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    I have a friend who runs an ISP.  He provides Internet to a condo building in Downtown Atlanta somewhere.  One of the issues he has run it to (and since solved) is end users plugging in their consumer router/firewalls "backwards"  with the LAN side connected to the WAN.  The built-in, on by default, DHCP server on these devices would take down the whole building. So, to make a point…yes you only want one DHCP server enabled or your network will not work right, at all.  Basically you'll DOS yourself. Modern switch software allows you to lock down which port DHCP requests can be replied from to guard against this kind of problem.
  • Upgrade vs new install

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    Upgrade are generally fine, but depending on how old the hardware is (especially the disk), it may be a good time to reinstall. Reinstall+restore should work identically to an upgrade except for a few bits that may be left over during an upgrade. Usually if it doesn't appear to work properly it's due to some difference in the image or configuration's console settings, interfaces, etc. Looks like you submitted the same question via the support portal this morning and someone responded similarly. Probably best to continue there if you'd like to pursue figuring out why the reinstall didn't work as expected.
  • Halfbroke ? Now what to do?

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    Weekend? This takes about 10 minutes, reinstall and restore the configuration backup.
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    Turned out to be pretty simple.  IPCop hosts table extracts easily into a comma delimited format and that can be converted into the XML of the XML layout of the backup file, that can then be restored. (I don't know how to format code on this board, so forgive me..) Simple batch job to do the conversion, then paste the output in between the appropriate sections of the backup file, then restore. I think the biggest issue here is that I couldn't find anything on this because I couldn't figure out appropriate keywords for searches. I know someone else has had this issue before and already solved it… #!/bin/ksh -x INFILE=$1 OUTFILE=$2 for LINE in cat $INFILE do IP=echo $LINE | cut -f1 -d, HOST=echo $LINE | cut -f2 -d, DOMAIN=echo $LINE | cut -f3 -d, print "\t<hosts>" >> $OUTFILE print "\t\t<host>$HOST</host>" >> $OUTFILE print "\t\t<domain>$DOMAIN</domain>" >> $OUTFILE print "\t\t<ip>$IP</ip>" >>$OUTFILE print "\t\t<descr>" >> $OUTFILE print "\t\t<aliases>" >> $OUTFILE print "\t</aliases></descr></hosts>" >> $OUTFILE done
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  • Another upgrade to 2.2 issue

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    Downgraded to 2.2.1 and no sync as well, Will downgrade to 2.2 and test
  • Upgrade to 2.2 stuck at bsdlabel 77% progress

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    I'd just like to give an update to my problem as I've finally able to install 2.2 onto my system. I had tinkered with the SCSI drives, cables, assortment of system tunables, boot loader configs, etc but nothing helped. I was able to reinstall 2.1.5 just fine, but somehow when it comes to 2.2 the system would get stuck at that dreaded "bsdlabel" command. Then one fine morning when the system booted up with the 2.2. Install CD, I noticed something odd with how 2.2 reported the transfer rates of the two SCSI disks attached to the Adaptec controller. It reported the SCSI disks as having a transfer rate of about 11MB/s. I can't remember how it was reported under 2.1.5, but I have a SCSI-2 disk there, which should give me a transfer rate of 20MB/s. But I also knew pfSense loaded the correct disk driver (ahc) for it. And so, I went to the SCSI BIOS and had a look at what I could change so that pfSense 'detects' the appropriate transfer rate. Under the Adaptec SCSI BIOS, the "Initiate Wide Negotiation" was set at a default of "Yes" and at the default transfer rate of 40MB/s. I disabled the setting by selecting "No" and with that the maximum default transfer rate went down to 20MB/s (the 40MB/s option was no longer there). With the above setting in the SCSI BIOS, the installation was no longer stuck at bsdlabel (in fact, the command just did it's thing within a second as it should) and I was able to complete the installation of 2.2 and restored the config. Hope this help someone with a similar setup and issue.
  • 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 upgrade now SSH and WebGUI not working

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    No idea what the problem was. I reinstalled 2.2.1 and restored a config backup so now I'm back to square one. I think I'll refrain from upgrading to 2.2.2 for a bit.
  • Install to flash module boots S..L..O..W.. RESOLVED FOR NANOBSD IMAGE

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    Hello again, Well, a big THANK YOU for the replies. Disabled serial port 1 and 2 in BIOS and have rebooted a few times from both slice one and slice two. The only thing now is to re-do all the settings but that's a trade off I'm happy to pay. Thanks again. Marked as resolved.
  • Fresh install for Soekris net5501 gets stuck on boot

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    I finally got around to trying this today. It booted and ran 2.1.5 just fine, and I had it auto-update to 2.2.2.  Upon rebooting, it had the same ATA problem and didn't boot. Back to the CF card with M0n0wall for now…
  • VOIP Phones not working SIP

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    They will hang onto the existing state. Did you make sure the checkbox under advanced, misc 'State Killing on Gateway Failure' is unchecked? Also make sure the provider is allowing the phones to register from the WAN2 IP.
  • Cluster upgrade from 2.1.5 to 2.2.2 Outbound NAT problems

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    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=88031.0 https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=87813.msg483500#msg483500 This should really be in the upgrade notes…
  • PfSense – bit of an issue!! Need some help!!

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  • Slow Boot on Upgrade i.e., one character per 1.5 seconds

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    cmb, seems that NanoBSD images are affected too: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=93010.0 Can you please update these too with the appropriate change?
  • Nanobsd non default installation

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    Do a full install, not nano.
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  • Update 2.1.5 -> 2.2.2 leads to errors

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    Yeah, that was my first thought but that's been fixed since 21st Apr so if you only updated yesterday you should not be running into that. Odd. Steve
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