To 2.6.0 and => 22.01 or not ? that is the question :)

nimrod

I saved my configuration just in case, and manually rebooted the unit. I started update process, and once it was done, machine rebooted automatically. System came up as usual, no problems at all.

psp

No issues here. From 2.6.0RC to 2.6.0 to 22.01.
Using pfBlockerNG-devel, Wireguard, OpenVPN, IPSec, 2 WANs, 5 LAN interfaces, Hybrid NAT on VMware ESXi and dedicated hw (Supermicro SYS E200-8D, SYS E50-9AP-N5).

Bob.Dig

I got problems on Hyper-V, had to go back to 2.5.2.

Cool_Corona

Not ready yet....

NAT not working inbound on non-standard ports and update check fails. NAT between VLANS not working.

Funken

@chudak

Hi,

I updated a ZOTAC ZBOX CI325 nano Mini PC (the ones with the re0 NICs) from 2.5.2 > 2.6.0. Everything went well except that my Wireguard tunnels didn't come up automatically. I had to perform a reboot of the box as a restart of the tunnels from VPV>Wireguard did not bring them up.

chudak

Upgraded to 2.6.0 with no glitch, very smooth process this time!

Stopped short to do => 22.01 upgrade.
The main reason I am not sure why I should do it.

Wonder what other users do/think?

Note - I am thinking to get a Nergate appliance just to support them, so far did not find a good option for my 4 port custom I5 mini PC replacement.

boelter

@bob-dig What sort of problems? Slow WAN? I updated to 2.6 on Hyper-V (2022) and WAN speeds tanked (2Mb/1Mb down from 1Gb/200Mb). Unusably slow after an in-place upgrade or vanilla install. LAN speeds are normal.

Bob.Dig

@boelter WAN-Speed is ok for me (full 250 MBits/s), inter (V)Lan communication is not usable. But someone else seems to have your problem, see here.

@boelter said in To 2.6.0 and => 22.01 or not ? that is the question :):

or vanilla install.

Good to know, thanks.

chudak

@boelter It's probably not your case, but I checked WAN speed on the wired box and a Windows VM on 1GB fiber and it seems actually better on 2.6.0
FYI

chudak

Snort failed to update, maybe unrelated to this topic
Just FYI

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/169929/snort-upgrade-stuck-on-2-6-0

daplumber

Just went from 2.5.latest to 2.6.0 then 22.01with no apparent issues.

Hardware is a Dell Optiplex Desktop with a 1TB SSD (it's what I had at the time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ so... )

Other than forgetting to input my GELI password on the console during reboot it went fast and smooth.

ZFS widget is nifty!

Bunch of packages:

Name Version
acme 0.6.10_1
arping 1.2.2_2
arpwatch 0.2.0_6
Backup 0.5_6
bandwidthd 0.7.4_5
Cron 0.3.7_5
Filer 0.60.6_5
iperf 3.0.2_5
mtr-nox11 0.85.6_2
nmap 1.4.4_2
nut 2.7.4_10
openvpn-client-export 1.6_4
pfBlockerNG 2.1.4_26
RRD_Summary 2.0_1
Service_Watchdog 1.8.7_1
Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.2_2
sudo 0.3_6
tftpd 0.1.3_3
WireGuard 0.1.6_1

Wireguard was actually installed after upgrade.

Houston, everything appears nominal...

chudak

@daplumber

Finally did 2.6.0 => 22.01 with no issues :)

I am still "afraid" to switch to ZFS, need to become brave and bite the bullet.

daplumber

Hmmm, missing an indicator on the ZFS widget for individual filesystems that are RAM based. You know, non-critical ones like /var... Did I miss something?

bPsdTZpW

@daplumber said in To 2.6.0 and => 22.01 or not ? that is the question :):

...missing an indicator on the ZFS widget for individual filesystems that are RAM based...

On the dashboard page, scroll down to "Disks" and click the ">/" icon. You should see /tmp and /var using filesystem tmpfs.

daplumber

@bpsdtzpw I have a ZFS root, what "Disks" section?

Here's my "zfs list":

[22.01-RELEASE][USER@MYSYSTEM]/home/USER: zfs list
NAME                 USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
zroot               88.0G   772G    96K  /zroot
zroot/ROOT          1.95G   772G    96K  none
zroot/ROOT/default  1.95G   772G  1.95G  /
zroot/reservation     96K   858G    96K  /zroot/reservation
zroot/tmp            120K   772G   120K  /tmp
zroot/var           6.82M   772G  6.82M  /var

I've tried to upload a screenshot, but it keep erroring on post. Screen Shot 2022-02-24 at 13.46.25.jpg

stephenw10

The Disks widget is separate:
Screenshot from 2022-02-24 19-58-07.png

daplumber

@stephenw10 OK I found the disks widget, for some reason it disappeared off my dashboard during the upgrade. Weird.

Why on earth would you NOT include basically the output of “zfs list” in the ZFS widget? I’m a ZFS fan, don’t mind me… :-)

stephenw10

Well it basically shows 'zpool status'. Feature requests welcome.

NollipfSense

@chudak said in To 2.6.0 and => 22.01 or not ? that is the question :):

@daplumber

Finally did 2.6.0 => 22.01 with no issues :)

I am still "afraid" to switch to ZFS, need to become brave and bite the bullet.

Congrats...that plus sign sure looks next to pfSense, doesn't it? The only issue here is dpinger stops and just clicking start, starts it right up.

Cool_Corona

Dont have the disks widget on 2.5.2....