The firewall appears to be blocking outgoing text messages from my phone ...
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After 22 days of solid SMS performance with my Galaxy S10, I'm ready to call changing "Firewall Optimization Options" to "Conservative" a roaring success. Thanks @tman222!
I also like @MagneticMuffin 's explanation enough that I do not intend to research this further.
Thanks all!
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Wow! I started this thread over a year and a half ago, and it looks like we may finally have a definitive solution. Three of the four members of my family still use Samsung phones, so I'm excited to give this a shot.
Is there any downside to changing the firewall optimization to "Conservative"? What exactly does this setting do?
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@gweempose said in The firewall appears to be blocking outgoing text messages from my phone ...:
Wow! I started this thread over a year and a half ago, and it looks like we may finally have a definitive solution. Three of the four members of my family still use Samsung phones, so I'm excited to give this a shot.
Is there any downside to changing the firewall optimization to "Conservative"? What exactly does this setting do?
Hi @gweempose - please check out the link below for some more info - essentially the difference between the various optimization modes is how quickly the firewall expires entries in the state table (i.e. in conservative mode this would happen more slowly):
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/config/advanced-firewall-nat.html#firewall-optimization-options
Hope this helps.
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I am also able to confirm firewall optimization option set to conservative fixed the Samsung phone problem on my network as well.
Even though I have long since disposed of the only Samsung phone in our household as a workaround for this vexing problem, a relative has a Samsung phone. Previously it failed, now with the revised pfsense firewall configuration it works reliably.
I can't help but wonder if conservative is the more-appropriate default option for pfsense as installed.
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I have now been using the new "Coservative" firewall settings for over two weeks, and I can say with confidence that it 100% fixed the problem with my Samsung Galaxy S8+. No more issue with texts. No more issue with wi-fi calling. Everything works exactly as it should.
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