@stephenw10 Anyway the hardware failure happened because I was installing pfsense. When the installer offered me making the last acceptance which was “ok” then I activated and the black screen is appeared.

I went to an repair store. They are guessing 99% the motherboard is dead.

Some pics might make it clearer hopefully.

Again, I have no control over anything in the Internet or green 'Prod' areas on the diagrams.

Base enironment
Test base.jpg

Current setup (1:1 Nat) - AD slow and DNS not working, high maintenance).
Test Nat.jpg

Preferred setup (Bridge / flat network).
Test Bridge.jpg

Getting the bridge to pass traffice between the 'Lan' ports and the 'Wan' port seems to be problematic (it is not working).

Test PFSense setup
Test PFSense setup.jpg

A couple of questions after drawing all this out....

What interface should the bridge be assigned to ?.

Should the IP stay ont he Wan (VMX0) or the bridge if I am filtering on the interfaces rather than the bridge.

Hope this is a bit clearer.

Thanks

@viragomann yes I have an ubuntu image that works just fine but when I added pfsense, i couldn't access any web pages except the gui of my router

/23 not uncommon for a public IP from isp..

What did you think you should have? /22 or even /21 not all that uncommon..

@stephenw10 Thank you, this is an important answer, too. 👍

@Df1988_2005 said in New install - Default creds accepted but stays on login screen:

v6 routing for internal preferably with OSFPv3

pfSense also to run upon relatively low-performance "iron",
but don’t think that, we can to strangle into a VM environment which is only

(1CPU / 1GB) 😉

OSFPv3, hmmm, if you want fast routing you have to increase the performance (definitely)

@linedan said in Problemes upgrading from 2.3.4 and install of packages:

somehow could install the openvpn-client-export-package!

Example : check out pfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 Now Available

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As the Netgate blog already states with any pfSense upgrade : IF there is a pfSense upgrade available, install that first.
Never ever upgrade packages after a pfSense upgrade came out.

As you can see in your image above, your pfSense is based on FreeBSD 10.3.
Or the repository mentions it's based on FreeBSD 11.3.
This means FreeBSD packages (for pfSense) and packages for pfSense that are pulled in are based on 11.3. They will have dependencies that won't work out.
For example, a PHP library that is compiled against FreeBSD 11.3 will not work on a FreeBSD 10.3 system. This means : the GUI will go down.

So, no "openvpn-client-export-package" for you : the risk is to big.

I advise you to have the box send over to you.
Or find some one on the other side that can do a bit more as n clicking "Like" on a screen, and you guide this person.
Go for a re install, as cleaning out a system with a 'mixed identity' is possible, but very time consuming.
It also needs a great deal of knowledge of the OS.

I understand that, because of the distance, you won't upgrade every time when a new pfSense versions comes out. It's ok to wait a couple of weeks or even months.
But hanging around with a 2.3.4 creates new problems. Knowledge about that version has faded out (on the forum )...

I strongly advise you to look around on the forum. Others popped up with upgrade problems from 2.3.4. Some found solutions.

You should look at: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8355
Specifically the last post I just made about NanoBSD being deprecated which leads you down this goatrope path.

You can check for Snapshots here: https://snapshots.pfsense.org/amd64/pfSense_master/installer/

-Rico

@stephenw10 Hi !
Just the 'queue appears hung' and server unreachable on the interface.
Fabien

@rickytow Hi rickytow

To fix your problem and regain admin access follow these steps.

Type number 3 at the console of the device Press Enter/Return.

This process resets the admin users password for access to both the console and the web interface to the default value of "pfsense"

@stephenw10 Could be a fault with the switch it's connected to as well.

@Mundon said in NanoPi R2S:

NanoPi R2S

That board has an ARM CPU: Rockchip RK3328, Quad-core Cortex-A53
The only pfSense ARM CPU's supported are Netgate's own boards.

Look for a used PC with a 64-bit x86 CPU.

/Bingo

You can use the shellcmd package to start programs at boot.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/development/boot-commands.html

Custom loader values should be put in /boot/loader.conf.local. Create that file if you don't have it yet.

Steve

it install everything is necessary for pfsense to work, dependencies included
example:

[2.4.5-RELEASE][root@pfSense.trmultiservice.lab]/root: pkg-static install pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-devel-2.2.5_37 Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue... pfSense-core repository is up to date. Updating pfSense repository catalogue... pfSense repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. The following 9 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): <------ 9 dependencies New packages to be INSTALLED: grepcidr: 2.0 [pfSense] iprange: 1.0.4 [pfSense] jq: 1.6 [pfSense] lighttpd: 1.4.54 [pfSense] lua52: 5.2.4 [pfSense] pfSense-pkg-pfBlockerNG-devel: 2.2.5_37 [pfSense] py37-maxminddb: 1.4.1_1 [pfSense] py37-sqlite3: 3.7.7_7 [pfSense] whois: 5.2.17 [pfSense] Number of packages to be installed: 9 The process will require 9 MiB more space. 2 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]:

if no "New packages" are available than there is no dependencies needed or they are already installed

Hmm, interesting. You would not normally be able to just change the WAN to PPPoE (from dhcp?). The ISP and the ISPs router would need to already be configured for that.

Steve