Yeah it was the usb, i now have it installed, thanks for your help

If the pfSense isn't getting a DHCP IP from it then it likely isn't, and you'd have to enter a static IP address that is in the NetGear's subnet, with the NetGear as its gateway.

@serbus said in WAN stop accepting traffic when LAN port disconnected:

obscure

That is pointless. It does nothing other than make your setup more complex and more likely to make mistakes and be less secure.

Well that seemed to be what people were suggesting in Google's forum. Nothing definitive.
You can disable it behind pfSense but otherwise I'm not sure how you might disable it in Android globally. I imagine you can find a wifi location without IPv6 though.

Try setting up the VPN for just you local subnet rather than all traffic and see if you still see issues.
I can imagine both local connections and the VPN are trying to be the default route. Usually OpenVPN just set's itself and there's no problem though.

Steve

Never would have picked that up ! Thx for heads up ... this is gong to be lots of fun ..

up and running.
Thanks a lot!

@goodthings said in fatal error - cannot restore 2.4.2 backup in 2.4.4:

Unfortunately I don't have portal access.

In an act of pure desperation I searched github for the function "function upgrade_174_to_175()" and found that it relates to ipsec phase1.

The (non-functional) 2.4.2 config looked like this:

<ipsec> <phase1></phase1> <logging> [...] </logging> </ipsec>

I compared it to other configs and manually deleted the empty "phase 1" element. The configuration upgraded successfully.

<ipsec> <logging> [...] </logging> </ipsec>

That was a bit of a nightmare. ☹

Thanks for this bit of information. I was reinstalling from a rather old configuration file and my XML file just had a <phase1 /> line. After removing that the configuration installed properly.

Without removing that my dashboard was extremely slow to load and my NIC assignments would not persist on reboot.

@edz it's not :)
It's a VMware Fusion virtual machine.
Much easier to do testing on VMs where you can do snapshots, and have better performance.

Sorry for late reply. I got it fixed by installing on an HDD and putting that HDD into the System. Then booting it and it worked.

Upgraded to 1343 with pfblocker-ng installed, no problem here.

Usually when you see this it's because you are resolving the IP from an FQDN not refined on the firewall, so maybe a dyndns client running on something else or just a static DNS entry.
You can disable that check in Sys > Adv > Admin Access if you know it's correct. Or you can add the hostname you are using to the list there so it accepts it.

Steve

@kimzer said in Fresh pfSense 2.4.4 install. Console spam and random internet loss:

Also, the console is spamming: "fwohci0: device physically ejected?"

"fwohci0: device physically ejected?" << its a firewire device

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/19587/livecd-boot-issue-fwohci0-phy-int-repeating/10

Seems a workaround is to boot from the USB drive, but first changing the boot options firmware from BIOS to EFI does the trick.

This does not help with the CD ROM though, the only reason why I need to change from BIOS to EFI when using a USB boot is so the system will recognize the drive.

Installation works fine now. We will see.

Yep, I second @rtoledo2002 advice as another non network expert.

Keep it simple.

Turn off wireless on your ISP gateway. I have a cable modem from my ISP with wireless and do the same thing. Buy a wireless access point. Many wireless routers can be put into AP mode as well. Plug the wireless AP into the Pf sense Lan. In my case, I plug it straight into the lan side switch of my sg-3100.

Everything works nice.

I mean re-install the firmware so you know you have a good OS/filesystem. Then restore your config into that.

Steve

@gwaitsi I disabled squid, and the swap goes back to zero.