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    Wan default gateway is link#2?

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      Uranium-235
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      well i'm just wondering if you've ever heard of such a thing. link#2

      hardware: re-capped Epox K7G-Raid with 1ghz tbird and 512M ECC/REG memory. Two Dlink 530TX's, one atheros card I forget the name of. ruining on a CF CARD Been running flawlessly till just few nights ago when I first made this post

      yes its the first time I tried 2.0. I reloaded my old settings from the xml file from original pfsense, was that a nono?

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        You should be able to use your config file from 1.2.3 however there does seem to be some issues.
        There is a problem with illegal characters. The config file for 2.0 cannot contain some characters and if it does it won't be read correctly so if you had an odd name for one of your interfaces or aliases that could explain it.

        Steve

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          Uranium-235
          last edited by

          thank you, i'll see if I can get it working tomorrow

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            Uranium-235
            last edited by

            ok I got 2.0 installed, and after struggling with it, I realized I had a partially bum network card

            but I am still having troubles. One is I can't get wifi working without creating a bridge. I made the outgoing rules, and made the firewall rule like I would with 1.2.3 but it still does not work, though lan works good

            and a very strange thing happened. I can't access admin with firefox. On my wired lan I can't get it with chrome, IE, but it times out with firefox

            does the same thing when I try to access it on my laptop with wireless when they're bridged, it works in IE just fine. if I try to use it in firefox, it just times out. I switched to HTTP instead of SSL and it still does the same thing. does anyone have any idea?

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              Metu69salemi
              last edited by

              Are you using https-connection? have you deleted the old certificate?

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                Uranium-235
                last edited by

                at first I thought that was it, but I switched it over to http and it still does the same thing

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                  Metu69salemi
                  last edited by

                  Then you'll have to wait until the smarter one's can help you

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    You've tried from two different machines?
                    Same version of Firefox?

                    Weird!  :-\

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                      Uranium-235
                      last edited by

                      yup. One my desktop, on lan
                      other laptop on wlan

                      same version of firefox on each one, IE and chrome accesses it great (and yes I checked proxy settings too, all no proxy)

                      well thank you everyone for hanging in there with me, but in the end this p-i-t-a attempt at 2.0 ultimately kicked my ass. I put a kne and a lne card (both dc driver) and even though it gives me this wierd thing about setting dc1 tx idle mode, it still works, loaded my old xml file and everything is working great under 1.2.3. keep up the good work and I hope that you can make things under 2.0 a little easier cause I could never get two seperate outgoing nat rules working even after adding the same nat and fw rules I would under 1.2.3

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        A bit late now but just for reference 'link#2' appears to be how pfsense refers to interfaces in the routing table. See image. It shouldn't be your default gateway though.

                        Steve

                        ![routing table.jpg](/public/imported_attachments/1/routing table.jpg)
                        ![routing table.jpg_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/routing table.jpg_thumb)

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                          Uranium-235
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                          well it 'twas, even after a full reload with 1.2.3. not sure how that partially bad nic caused it

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                            Uranium-235
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                            well I finally figured the problem out. Wasn't a bad nic. I could ping google from wan, lan and wlan, but could not access with computers on each *lan. so, I reset my settings from scratch and started over, works great now

                            the internal routing mechanism stopped working right. Never sure what exactly was wrong, but somehow pfsense internally f'd up enough to partially route intermittently.

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