Hi @Gertjan I checked but unfortunately nothing works I tried the commands "boot /boot/kernel " , "boot /boot/kernel/kernel", "/boot/kernel "
I can't read any file to check what could be the right boot command I m stuck at this boot prompt
@SteveITS We are working with the AWS pfsense appliance, so we can be confident that the basic configuration will be stable (unless I add NICs or something like that).
Our goal is to be able to deploy or restore the firewall without a human having to log in to load a backup file or look up a password or anything like that - just have the config.xml available and loaded automatically.
Yes, I have found that forcing a USB3 flash device to use USB2 often allows it to work. Additionally the opposite is often true. If a USB2 device isn't recognised try moving that to the USB3 port.
Not passing any traffic is not the usual symptom for a Realtek NIC that is detected.
There is an alternative driver but to install it you would need to use some other NIC temporarily or somehow copy the pkg onto the box directly.
@stephenw10 I tried it again to try to pull the logs. Instead of rebooting it actually stopped and complained about the base.txz not being valid. I re-downloaded and re-imaged and it worked fine.
The downsides of double NAT are:
Much more complex to setup port forwards
UPnP cannot work
Traffic is still limited by the firewall and NAT capabilities of the other router. Sometimes that can be significantly limited for state table size etc.
Yes setting the main router in bridge mode is the way to remove that. Leaving only pfSense NATing the connection.
But many of my home devices show loss of communication (hense correlation to Router). And my laptop reverted to APIPA.. Which implies not just lack of router, but some kind of request or cyle that triggered IP release but nobody was around to renew.
Sounds like your switching hardware or wireless went down.
For those finding this post later, my NDI was unintentionally changed through one of my actions and it didn't match what Netgate had for my installation anymore.
