Seriously, whats the secret to getting this working

Gertjan

…. I can assure you pfsense works on multiple flavors of VM just fine..

Well, I know. Probably thousands do so already. But I never did that myself. :)

heper

personally i find it easier to run it on a hypervisor, in the sense that it eliminates the need to run on freebsd-compatible-hardware.
hypervisors tend to work well with any server-class hardware you throw at it …. freebsd tends to be a lot more picky ;)

stylemessiah

To all the superiorities…

I gave it another 5 goes at installing

On the last attempt at installing it finally worked, and continues to work...after a fashion

What did I change between install attempts? absolutely nothing

And I still maintain its buggy as quite often I get no response from the webgui - cant login (nothing to do with routing as the IP's are static and the route never changes), and at the same time squid fails to response (note the weblogin issue was one that I reported initially, and was apparent in of itself and not linked to squid being installed)

I have squid/squidguard and clamav all working fine...when it works. You cant "get it wrong" and have it working perfectly for up to 2 hours at a time with user config errors

Logging into the console and choosing 11 - restart web configurator does nothing to resolve the login issue

What does work is dropping to a shell and issuing:

./rc.restart_webgui
and
./rc.restart_reload all

Then I can get an hour or two out of it before the issues reappear

Currently posting via a currently working pfsense.....

So there goes all the "you must doing something wrong" comments

Obviously its not a long term proposition, ill go back to my separate squid box, never been down a day in 4 years.

I stand by my original comment, it has bugs

muswellhillbilly

@stylemessiah:

To all the superiorities…
...
I stand by my original comment, it has bugs

If you've wanted to let off some steam about your being unable to get a properly working firewall up and running, then you've done sterling work. If you actually wanted some assistance in getting to the bottom of the issues you've faced, you've sadly failed. You've provided little or no technical information about your setup and ignored every bit of advice you've got so far, yet have railed about the instability of the OS you're using while being defensive about your professionalism and having a go at people who've tried to help.

If you are serious about wanting to know what the actual problem is, then provide some real information (VM details, such as memory being used, disk partition sizes, number of CPUs, VM host environment, etc) instead of ranting about the number of failed installation attempts you've made and calling anyone who makes a suggestion an elitist or something.

johnpoz

Hmmm lets see 1000's upon 1000's of installs, in less than 5 minutes for the vast majority of them. You without giving any details of what hardware, or what configuration of what VM software are having problems.. I can not get to the gui sometimes.. Can you ping it? Do you show mac in your arp table? What doe VM software show for the status of the VM? Can you get to the console via the VM software, via this console what does pfsense say about its networking and status?

All your years in the field - yet you can not provide the basics to troubleshooting a problem.. You just keep reinstalling… What exactly are you doing different in these installs that you think it will make a difference? Whats the saying about repeating the same thing and expecting different outcome ;)

But sure you go right ahead and stand by your claim that pfsense is just bug ridden.. Guess its true we must all be superior since we are not having any issues, and clearly you have given us so much to go on in helping you, we are just all asshats for not showing you the secret hidden button you have to click for it to work..

Let me sum up your info given. Your trying to install 2.2.6 on either vmware workstation or virtualbox. Yup there you go - that is all the info you have given us. How can we not see that its pfsense is just a buggy pos.. How blind we are.

So is that version 32 or 64 bit version? Actual live install or one of the nano images? What versions of vmw or vb, guess we assume latest?? What hardware?? Mac, PC, some DIY - what CPU in it?? What OS and setting did you pick when creating the virtual machine? etc. etc. etc.. Did you let it run for a few minutes without installing packages like squid?? Is that when it goes bonkers after you squid install?? We don't even know if your wired or wireless, etc.

So all these years in IT, guess you just turned shit off and on again was the limit of your troubleshooting?? And if that didn't work - what you would call said products tech support, and yeah your products not working.. Buggy POS.. Yes I tried reinstalling it a 100 times.. Its broke...

Fing Troll is my assumption to this whole thread.

muswellhillbilly

@johnpoz:

Fing Troll is my assumption to this whole thread.

I second that. I also think it's best that anybody on this forum ignores any further nonsense spouted by this particular 'professional'. Unless, that is, he decides to start behaving professionally and not like some two-year-old throwing his rattle out of his pram.

A Former User

@johnpoz, you probably knew this already but for others here a refresh to your question.

Albert Einstein definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

It is at times like this I miss Doktornotor and his eloquent style of reply.

chpalmer

I stand by my original comment, it has bugs

Its just the loose nut behind the wheel!

::)

ivor

@stylemessiah:

To all the superiorities…

I stand by my original comment, it has bugs

You have a layer 8 problem.

johnpoz

"It is at times like this I miss Doktornotor and his eloquent style of reply"

I miss him as well, anyone know why he hasn't been around?

cmb

@johnpoz:

"It is at times like this I miss Doktornotor and his eloquent style of reply"

I miss him as well, anyone know why he hasn't been around?

Good question. He hasn't logged in for about 2 months and hasn't posted since December. I sent him an email to check in.

muswellhillbilly

Dok could sound a bit prickly sometimes, but I tended to imagine him as the Don Rickles of the pfSense forum.

johnpoz

If don rickles knew his shit when it came to IT then sure ;)