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    Rebooting... a good practice?

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    • RicoR
      Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
      last edited by

      Not only hardware failures, also filesystem problems. โ˜บ

      -Rico

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      • ?
        A Former User
        last edited by

        Sound like I started the : Who got the longest uptime chalenge
        Thanks all for your advises

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        • JKnottJ
          JKnott @Gertjan
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          @Gertjan said in Rebooting... a good practice?:

          Yep, the first 3 finger manip on a keyboard was Ctrl-Alt-Del, at the begin of the day, and often at the end.

          And often many times in between. ๐Ÿ˜‰

          Early versions of Windows were bad and the blue screen of death common. At one point at work, I had a special startup sound. It was the Windows startup sound, which part way through would turn to the sound of a crash and a voice "Ah Crap!"! ๐Ÿ˜‰

          PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
          i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
          UniFi AC-Lite access point

          I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate @A Former User
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            @pierrelyon said in Rebooting... a good practice?:

            Sound like I started the : Who got the longest uptime chalenge

            The winner is the one with the worst security practices :-)

            Uptime should only be at most as long as it has been since the last update + time to schedule a maintenance window to upgrade.

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            • JKnottJ
              JKnott @jimp
              last edited by

              @jimp said in Rebooting... a good practice?:

              Uptime should only be at most as long as it has been since the last update + time to schedule a maintenance window to upgrade.

              That depends on the OS. With Linux, everything can be updated without rebooting, other than the kernel.

              PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
              i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
              UniFi AC-Lite access point

              I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                Well we're talking specifically about pfSense, not Linux, so that doesn't matter.

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                • GertjanG
                  Gertjan @SipriusPT
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                  @SipriusPT said in Rebooting... a good practice?:

                  Netgate SG-4860: Uptime 130 Days 19 Hours 17 Minutes 59 Seconds
                  Netgate SG-3100: Uptime 272 Days 01 Hour 31 Minutes 25 Seconds

                  Could you please indicate the addresses of these devices ?
                  Got some pen tests ready - knowing that you kept them up, I guess, to have them "tested".

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

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                  • SipriusPTS
                    SipriusPT @Gertjan
                    last edited by

                    @Gertjan Ofcourse I will

                    P.S. those are not running any unsupported/old versions =)

                    1xSG-4860-1U
                    1xSG-3100
                    2xpfSense Virtual Machines

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                    • chpalmerC
                      chpalmer @SipriusPT
                      last edited by

                      @SipriusPT said in Rebooting... a good practice?:

                      @Gertjan Ofcourse I will

                      P.S. those are not running any unsupported/old versions =)

                      Well hmmm..

                      2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
                      built on Tue Jun 02 17:51:54 EDT 2020 only 15 days old..

                      2.4.5-RELEASE (amd64)
                      built on Tue Mar 24 15:25:50 EDT 2020 less than 90 days ago..

                      so..

                      Triggering snowflakes one by one..
                      Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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                      • SipriusPTS
                        SipriusPT @chpalmer
                        last edited by

                        @chpalmer said in Rebooting... a good practice?:

                        @SipriusPT said in Rebooting... a good practice?:

                        @Gertjan Ofcourse I will

                        P.S. those are not running any unsupported/old versions =)

                        Well hmmm..

                        2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
                        built on Tue Jun 02 17:51:54 EDT 2020 only 15 days old..

                        2.4.5-RELEASE (amd64)
                        built on Tue Mar 24 15:25:50 EDT 2020 less than 90 days ago..

                        so..

                        LMGFY

                        Current/Upcoming Supported Releases
                        2.5.0 New Features and Changes
                        2.4.5-p1 New Features and Changes
                        2.4.5 New Features and Changes
                        2.4.4-p3 New Features and Changes

                        https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/index.html

                        1xSG-4860-1U
                        1xSG-3100
                        2xpfSense Virtual Machines

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                        • johnpozJ
                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                          last edited by johnpoz

                          2.4.4p3 is still supported and came out may 2019, so yeah he could be running that with such long uptimes.

                          edit: I have some sg3100 still on 2.4.4p3 because they are remote and nobody in the offices - don't want to upgrade them at this time because if something does go wonky, nobody on site to fix it.

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                          • chpalmerC
                            chpalmer
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                            Well- I have a customer that is guilty.. 2.3.5 still and wont upgrade. But I still consider anything south of the versions I posted as outdated.. But I guess its just personal.

                            Triggering snowflakes one by one..
                            Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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                            • johnpozJ
                              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                              No I am with you, to me if your not on 2.4.5p1 your outdated.. Which I am currently guilty of as well - but only reason is covid, or would of been updated already ;)

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                              • SipriusPTS
                                SipriusPT @johnpoz
                                last edited by

                                @johnpoz same thing here with covid and other platforms more critical right now for us to be upgraded / migrated.

                                Covid was a big problem for IT teams to keep network devices updated, mostly while working from home.

                                1xSG-4860-1U
                                1xSG-3100
                                2xpfSense Virtual Machines

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                                • H
                                  Harvy66
                                  last edited by

                                  Update/reboot when there's a remote vuln that can affect my box. All ports blocked by default, so pretty much has to be a FreeBSD kernel issue. Had 400+ days at some point the past year. Been hanging out on 2.4.4-p3 for a bit now.

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