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    "pcscd PC/SC Smart Card Daemon" ?

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    • SjMS Offline
      SjM
      last edited by SjM

      This is interesting.

      2.5.2-RELEASE (amd64)
      built on Fri Jul 02 15:33:00 EDT 2021
      FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE

      pfBlockerNG was starting cron jobs which didn't complete to the extent that it was consuming 100% of CPU time. Couldn't figure out what was going awry. I came across this discussion and saw the process pcscd was running on my system. After I killed pcscd the system is behaving as it should on about 4-7% CPU utilization!

      Weird.

      Next thing is how do I apply the patch to stop pcscd loading at startup? I don't seem to have the option to apply a patch under the system menu of pfSense.

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        mcury Rebel Alliance @SjM
        last edited by

        @sjm Install this package:

        a1578b45-5ec6-4504-b074-51378a178fd9-image.png

        Then apply the patch afcc0e9c97c1993ae6b95f886665fcb4375d26c7

        dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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          SjM @mcury
          last edited by

          @mcury laughing just discovered the very thing. 👍

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            SjM @mcury
            last edited by

            @mcury how many path levels do I need to strip? 1??

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              mcury Rebel Alliance @SjM
              last edited by

              @sjm I left everything default settings..

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              dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                SjM @mcury
                last edited by

                @mcury pfSense is again purring along like it should.

                Many thanks!

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                  bluepill
                  last edited by

                  Thanks for this thread - like others it has helped me a lot.

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                    drees @mcury
                    last edited by

                    Thanks, applying the patch and stopping/started IPsec fixed the issue for me.

                    Not sure how long it was going on, but I found two different pfSense boxes (a SG-1100 and SG-3100) with a site-to-site IPsec VPN with this issue. On the SG-3100, we were seeing weird delays/pauses in OpenVPN traffic. Logging in we saw high CPU load and found the characteristic large number of bzip2 processes compressing ipsec logs. On the SG-1100, didn't really notice anything, but did find that the snmp daemon had died.

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                      PeteRage
                      last edited by

                      Ran into this problem also. Disabled the daemon. My next step is to establish site-to-site ipsec tunnel. Is this pcscd required to establish an ip-sec tunnel?

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                        SteveITS Galactic Empire @PeteRage
                        last edited by

                        @peterage said in "pcscd PC/SC Smart Card Daemon" ?:

                        Is this pcscd required to establish an ip-sec tunnel

                        No.

                        Only install packages for your version, or risk breaking it. Select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings.
                        When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to reboot, or more depending on packages, CPU, and/or disk speed.
                        Upvote 👍 helpful posts!

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                          chudak
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                          "pcscd PC/SC Smart Card Daemon" is gone in 2.6.0!!!

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                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate @chudak
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                            @chudak said in "pcscd PC/SC Smart Card Daemon" ?:

                            "pcscd PC/SC Smart Card Daemon" is gone in 2.6.0!!!

                            It's still there, just disabled by default. If someone needs it they can enable it.

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                              chudak @jimp
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                              @jimp that's what I meant :)

                              Thank you !

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