Problems Installing or Upgrading TNSR Software

install pfsense on opnsense DEC2700

patient0 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:05:06 GMT

@shood said in install pfsense on opnsense DEC2700: Did you face any problems after installing pfSense on DEC OpenSense? Nope, all working normal. But I did use only the 10Gbit ports (ax0, ax1).

Configuring Network (WAN - LAN )

Azr7 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:27:23 GMT

@Said.Fathy , Hi Said .. I'd strongly recommend Lawrence Systems' youtube channel... it's the best as far as pfsense is concerned.. from beginner to pro https://www.youtube.com/@LAWRENCESYSTEMS

If there is only one interface at installation time, the base gateway alias is incorrect.

42 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:02:44 GMT

@agostonl119 I found this for pfsense 2.4.x - should still be valid as I do not think vlans have changed much in the past 2 years or so :-) https://thunderysteak.github.io/pfsense-single-nic-vlans I'd give it a whirl.

ACPI errors during boot unable to proceed with the installation

patient0 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:48:41 GMT

@pfsin excellent, happy it worked.

gatePROTECT GPA-400 PFSENSE install issue

vaan — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:37:32 GMT

@Gertjan THANK YOU sir for answering

netgate xg-1541 unable to start

2019603604 — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 02:42:34 GMT

I checked the power supply, the LED on the main board is on when I press the power button but it doesn't start. Does anyone know how to solve this?

SNMP

fractal_boy — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:04:21 GMT

@scourtney2000 make sure you can ping Solarwinds server sourcing from your loop1

TNSR interface link speed

stivi — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:56:17 GMT

@stivi I have found this: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides-21.05/rel_notes/release_21_05.html "Added a command line option to configure forced speed for an Ethernet port: dpdk-testpmd -- --eth-link-speed N." Is this possible in tnsr?

About supported mellanox nic

LukeCage — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 12:37:14 GMT

Hello everyone,

We plan to use the following ethernet card

Our uplink, that is, the port and connection coming to us from the provider is 40gb, will it work when we install this card and plug the cable from the 40g port on the 100g module?

When we set the interface as 40gbps in other software, it works when we plug the cable from the 40g port into this card.

I wonder if this is possible in tnsr?

https://www.fs.com/products/119647.html

NVIDIA Mellanox MCX516A-CCAT ConnectX-5 EN Network Interface Card, 100GbE Dual-Port QSFP28, PCIe3.0 x 16

Choosing the partions for TNSR 23.02

Dobby_ — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:43:23 GMT

I wan to report back to that point, I got a greater mSATA with 256 GB space and were installing all partitions once more again, and now all is fine for me, with no hassle or problems running out of space. frank@lankeeper:~$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL loop0 squashfs 63.3M /snap/core20/1822 loop1 squashfs 111.9M /snap/lxd/24322 loop2 squashfs 49.8M /snap/snapd/18357 loop3 squashfs 116.8M /snap/core/14946 loop4 squashfs 9.6M /snap/canonical-livepatch/209 sda 238.5G ├─sda1 1M ├─sda2 btrfs 5G /boot ├─sda3 ext4 20G / ├─sda4 ext4 20G /home ├─sda5 ext4 20G /srv ├─sda6 ext4 20G /usr ├─sda7 ext4 20G /var ├─sda8 ext4 20G /var/lib ├─sda9 ext4 20G /usr/local ├─sda10 ext4 20G /srv/www ├─sda11 ext4 20G /srv/ftp ├─sda12 ext4 20G /srv/rsync ├─sda13 ext4 15G /tmp ├─sda14 swap 4G [SWAP] └─sda15 ext4 14.5G /var/tmp

Can’t add interface to dataplane

ruuqofaroth — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:08:02 GMT

@mloiterman I was never able to get the AQC107 card working in my box, as it doesn't seem supported by the DPDK version used in the current TNSR release. I ended up running ESXi on the router, and using VMXNET3 adapters for all NICS (other card for LANs is an X710-T4L) and that worked for me without a speed hit. This allowed the AQC107 card to use it's 5Gbps speeds, which I needed for AT&T Fiber.

dataplane dpdk dev not enabeling interfaces

chryzo — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:58:39 GMT

Looks like there is a problem with the kernel - "downgrading" to 5.15.0-60-generic fixed the problem.

TNSR 22.10 Install gets stucked in Installing kernel...

veras — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:36:36 GMT

@russellc Related to logs, you can ssh the system installation environment. It will make it easier. I worked around this issue by installing the old version (22.06) and running an update to 22.10. Unfortunately, the Netgate support didn't help much.

TNSR CLI access denied for basic config-related commands

gigabitguru — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 01:32:52 GMT

@derelict Derf, yep I mentioned the kernel version. The TNSR version is 21.07.0-1. Anyway, sudo clixon_cli worked to get the commands operational (and that's using my custom user, not tnsr) [Now I see the part of the docs that caused this issue, since I created a custom user during install: Default TNSR Permissions where only root and tnsr users are allowed into the CLI. For others' reference, here's how to fix that (once in the CLI via sudo): configure t nacm group admin member USERNAME exit configuration copy running startup exit More info on NACM config here in the docs After that, just entering clixon_cli without sudo will work just fine...

Installation on AWS/EC2

david97643 — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 16:06:17 GMT

I'm following this tutorial, but when I get to:

tnsr# show interface

I receive no output from the CLI. I read somewhere that it is a known bug, but I have no idea how to get around it.

Regards

David

TNSR on VMware

TodorPetkov — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:42:59 GMT

I came across this post https://forum.netgate.com/topic/157917/tnsr-with-esxi-vmxnet3-unable-to-load-interfaces/3?_=1630333615883 and reinstalled the VM in BIOS mode. After this I can see the interface. I will mark the post as solved. Thanks,

shop sends image of 21.03.1-1 instead of new 21.07

Derelict — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:47:00 GMT

@jegr That should have been corrected early yesterday. You should get 21.07 if you do it again.

installing pfsense in aws

JeGr — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:47:32 GMT

@derelict if the OP means pfSense then perhaps we should move that to pfSense forums

Upgrade help

lastactionhero — Thu, 06 May 2021 22:54:34 GMT

That was it.

Interfaces not showing in Dataplane KVM

lastactionhero — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:46:42 GMT

I too was able to resolve my issue. I apologize for hijacking this thread thinking it was similar underlying issue. The difference between working and not working was when using virt-install, I need to use --cdrom for specifying the install ISO. Using --location ends up not working. While the installation completes, network interfaces do not. Virt-manager worked because it was using cdrom and not location. Works: sudo virt-install --cdrom tnsr.iso Does not work: sudo virt-install --location tnsr.iso

TNSR newbie

montenegro — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 01:41:05 GMT

@derelict this worked -- thanks so much !

Grub issue

stratagem-ben — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:58:03 GMT

@dabernie Maybe a little more information - what error exactly are you seeing? What bare metal system is it?

TNSR Home+Lab ISO on KVM with Mellanox ConnectX-4 passthrough

Ralms 0 — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:35:40 GMT

@dabernie said in TNSR Home+Lab ISO on KVM with Mellanox ConnectX-4 passthrough: where did you get your qcow2 image ? Although the OP has it on an "images" folder, that refers to the Virtual Machine disk. The actual image is an .iso.