Now Available: pfSense® CE 2.8.0-RELEASE

bimmerdriver

@stephenw10 said in Now Available: pfSense CE 2.8.0-RELEASE:

And it's definitely still resolving new leases?

Yes, it appears to be working normally since.

mark_lab_user

I completely forgot that I was running 2.7.2 with manually installed realtek drivers for my $10 2.5Gbit cards. Needless to say the upgrade failed due to unknown reasons because I did not have screen plugged in at the time. So I bricked the system. But I don't have any screen captures. Also, I rebooted and specified "kernel.old" so that I could at least boot but then I could not get PPPoE to work. I just might walk away from the mess. Too many hours and real Netgate hardware is too costly. So for now, my only option was to call my ISP and ask them to take their garbage router out of bridge mode so I could get my lab back working sort of.

It was all my fault.

But one last word... Why did you not add the Realtek 2.5 Gb drivers? They have been stable forever.

stephenw10

We build the module as a package so if you had it installed in 2.7.2 and upgrade it will upgrade the package and you should have it still in 2.8.

But it appears that the driver now has two builds because the newest version is not stable with some hardware. You might have hit that since the package we build is the new version.

mark_lab_user

Thanks. Maybe someday I will get some Intel cards but even Intel had a serious bug if I recall. There is a certain Intel card/chipset that went horribly wrong if I recall. Just can't remember what version to avoid.

mark_lab_user

Is there an archive of 2.7.2 iso?
(I did find 2.7.0).

I am thinking about installing 2.7.2 under Proxmox 8.4. My current Proxmox 8.4 is giving me stable speeds of 2.35 Gbits per second with 'iperf3' tests to a Debian desktop machine thru a cheap 2.5/10Gbit switch.

stephenw10

https://atxfiles.netgate.com/mirror/downloads/

mark_lab_user

Thank you for your help. As you can see I am not ready to go to Opnsense yet. I think Proxmox will be prudent. Snapshots and portability when my lab stuff crashes such as yesterday.

chrcoluk

@mark_lab_user i226 seems pretty solid. It also got some good driver work done on it recently as well.

All intel gigabit cards should be solid as well, i210, i350 etc.

sTicKs23

Is it just me or the world's most trusted open-source firewall didn't post the RELENG_2_8_0 branch on GitHub anymore?
Are you guys using a different git repository or open-source is just a marketing ad for v2.8.0?

Gertjan

@sTicKs23 said in Now Available: pfSense CE 2.8.0-RELEASE:

RELENG_2_8_0

Let's say it's called 'master' (for now) - and check again ?

jc1976

@ramup

i ran the command you suggested and received the following error message:

jc1976

@stephenw10 said in Now Available: pfSense CE 2.8.0-RELEASE:

pkg-static upgrade

I ssh'd in and ran "pkg-static upgrade"

i then attempted to run the squid package reinstall gave me the following error message:

pcre2: 10.43 -> 10.42 [pf2ad]
readline: 8.2.13_2 -> 8.2.1 [pf2ad]

Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
brotli-1.1.0,1 [pf2ad]
cyrus-sasl-2.1.28_1 [pf2ad]

Number of packages to be removed: 91
Number of packages to be installed: 14
Number of packages to be reinstalled: 2
Number of packages to be downgraded: 11

The operation will free 522 MiB.
Failed

stephenw10

This should be in a new thread. This is really for the 2.8 announcement.

jc1976

ok, sorry..

i'm not seeing any thread that's particular to 2.8 issues.. can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

stephenw10

You can just start a new thread in General pfSense Questions.