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    pfSense stops working for about 2 minutes after applying any new or changed configuration

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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      If it's in hyper-v did you not snapshot the VMs before the upgrade?

      Proving it's actually a regression after the update would certainly help in troubleshooting it.

      But otherwise I would run top -HaSP at the console and see what happens when you save apply a change.

      Is there nothing logged when the delay happens?

      Steve

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        rafael9908 @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10
        Hi Stephen. I don't work with production snapshots. The only thing I see on the logs is configuration refresh. I decided to rollback to pfs 2.5.2 with the same configuration to see what happens. It was working before, so I suppose it'll work again. I don't have any specific feature I'm interested on version 2.6.0. I updated just to get the most recent version. I'll let you know what happens after the "forced" rollback.

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @rafael9908
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          @rafael9908 said in pfSense stops working for about 2 minutes after applying any new or changed configuration:

          The only thing I see on the logs is configuration refresh

          But you do see log entries with a 2min delay?

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            rafael9908 @stephenw10
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            @stephenw10
            No I don't. It's like everything is working as it should but it takes two minutes or more for the connections to get established again. I don't see any gaps like these. Things just takes longer to get back.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              Hmm, OK. Well let's see if it's repeatable.

              Steve

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                rafael9908 @rafael9908
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                @rafael9908
                A netgate partner recommended me to go back to 2.5.2 saying there were some incompatibilities with the new version of freebsd and hyper-v...

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  Yes, that thread I pointed to. The RSC support added in the FreeBSD hn(4) driver had a pretty large bug! https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/12873

                  It's fixed now in 22.05 and 2.7 snapshots.

                  Steve

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                    rafael9908 @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10
                    I'm running an old version of Hyper-V. I have a 2012 R2 cluster. As far as I understood, that doesn't apply to me. I'm not in a good situation at all here...lol

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      Ah, maybe. You could be hitting some other issue I'm not aware of then....

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                        rafael9908 @stephenw10
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                        @stephenw10
                        After the rollback to 2.5.2 I'll let you know what happened.

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                          rafael9908 @rafael9908
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                          @rafael9908
                          after the rollback to the 2.5.2 everything is working as it should!!!

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                            Hmm, OK. And that was a clean 2.5.2 install with the configs restored?

                            Are you able to snapshot that and test the upgrade again? Or even test a 2.7 snap?

                            Steve

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                            • jimpJ
                              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                              Usually if something stops after applying changes it's because you have the option enabled to kill states when a gateway is down and a gateway is down. Check under System > Advanced on the Misc tab to see if that option is enabled.

                              It takes a while for your browser to realize the state is gone and make a new connection.

                              If you try again, check the gateway status to see if maybe one of the gateways is showing as down on the newer version where it didn't on the older one.

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                                rafael9908 @stephenw10
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                                @stephenw10
                                It's a clean install with the config restored.
                                At least for now I'm not going to do further tests with it. I had too much trouble. I'm gonna rest for a bit.

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                                  rafael9908 @jimp
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                                  @jimp
                                  I came across a post talking about this option. My configuration already had it disabled.

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