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    Unable to update without turning off firewall

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      eangel @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10
      Yes, UNTRUST is my WAN.

      Curl directly actually fails at the same point:

      curl -v https://pkg01-atx.netgate.com

      • Host pkg01-atx.netgate.com:443 was resolved.
      • IPv6: 2610:160:11:18::209
      • IPv4: 208.123.73.209
      • Trying 208.123.73.209:443...
      • Connected to pkg01-atx.netgate.com (208.123.73.209) port 443
      • ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1
      • TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
      • CAfile: none
      • CApath: /etc/ssl/certs/
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      • GertjanG
        Gertjan @eangel
        last edited by

        @eangel

        You are upgrading from what version ?

        A client device on LAN can visit ordinary sites using https = port 443 TCP ?

        No other devices behind the UNTRUSTED (WAN) under your control ?

        Is the date and time ok on pfSense ? It seesm like you can connect, but TLS never starts up.
        ( cert issues ?)

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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          eangel @Gertjan
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          @Gertjan

          I have upgraded from 2.6.0 via 2.7.0 to 2.7.2

          Yes. Accessing from the LAN side is ok.

          This is a lab environment and I have control over most of what is beyond the WAN.

          Date and time is ok. However, I do have an out of date certificate on the box, but I fail to see that it could be problematic only when the firewall is active. Do you think it could be the problem?

          Mario

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          • GertjanG
            Gertjan @eangel
            last edited by

            @eangel

            Wait ... you might have to type the special @stephenw10 command ....

            No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
            Edit : and where are the logs ??

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              eangel @Gertjan
              last edited by

              @stephenw10

              Do you have any suggestion? Could my expired certificate be causing the issue?

              Mario

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                I would expect to see a cert error there if it was a cert problem at either end. It's just timing out as I understand it though I don't see the actual error.

                The states show it is connecting but then just fails.

                Try a pcap on the WAN filtered by the destination IP then run the update.

                Could be an MTU issue perhaps.

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                  eangel @stephenw10
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                  @stephenw10
                  Thanks for answering. Unfortunately I don't get to work with this until tuesday next week. I'll do a capture then.

                  I agree that it looks like a packet size issue, but I don't see how it could be, as the packets getting sent should not change size just because I turn off the firewall?

                  Mario

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                    Well with pf-scrub it re-assembles fragments.... or tries to.

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                      eangel @stephenw10
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                      @stephenw10
                      Good morning,

                      I got to do the capture today. I must admit that I don't know what to make of it.
                      I'll try to attach it here.

                      Mario
                      packetcapture-vtnet0-20241210115532.pcap

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                        Hmm, interesting. Other traffic is passi8ng the firewall OK?

                        The pkg server never sees the ACK packet from pfSense so it just keeps sending SYN-ACK and never moves past that.

                        If you look at the MAC addresses you might have some asymmetry somewhere because pfSense is sending to 60:15:2b:fe:f1:11 but the replies comes back from 00:10:db:ff:10:00.
                        Which of those is the expected gateway MAC/IP?

                        You don't see anything blocked in pfSense?

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                          eangel @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10

                          Awesome! That was the answer.
                          I have 2 gateways in the same subnet connected to the router for test purposes, and somehow it was using the non-default one for outgoing traffic.
                          I never noticed that the traffic was asymmetric. Thanks for pointing it out for me.

                          Mario

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                            Aha, that would do it. Nice. 👍

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