SyncNic Failing with Error 32602
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hey Everyone, Hope all is doing well and ready for 2022. I want to setup a syncnic to replicate information over to a secondary pfsense firewall. It keeps on getting the below error "http://50.60.70.2:80 - Code -32602: server error. invalid method parameters @ 2022-01-03 15:19:54"
There is a any any rule setup between the two nics and i can ping each other on the firewalls. This is directly plugged into each other and not running through any switch.I want to upgrade the primary firewall as its running version 2.3.2 and the secondary is running version.
Ive never seen this error and not certain what it would be
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@lionelmarais said in SyncNic Failing with Error 32602:
and the secondary is running version.
what? current? 2.3.2 is quite OLD and been eol of long time.
So you upgraded the secondary, and now your looking to update the primary in you cluster?
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/upgrade-guide-ha.html
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@lionelmarais
Hi John,No the current IT team that was handling firewalls and connectivity never did any upgrades on PFsense. I was in December at one of our sites and saw this one being beyond old. I then went and build a secondary PFsense server to be able to sync to the new one and replicate all the information over. Once successfully I would have tested the secondary with the new version of PFsense and if it was working fine I would have upgraded the primary thats EOL
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@lionelmarais I am not a ha expert or anything. But not sure you can do that, your trying to setup an initial ha pair with 2 very different versions?
You prob need to start your HA from scratch with the same versions. Then going forward with future updates you could follow the linked instructions.
If you don't have a HA setup... You could just export the config from the old one, install config to new one and swap them out.
And then go to setting up your HA if that is what your wanting to do.
IT team that was handling firewalls and connectivity never did any upgrades on PFsense
Still running 2.3.2 - guess they were not handling it very well ;) hehehe that came out in like july of 2016.. There were multiple years of notification that 2.3 was going to be end of life even..
edit: 2.3 being so old, the download not even available anymore. What you "might" be able to do is contact pfsense support and get a 2.3 version.. Install this on your 2nd box and setup ha, and then go through the upgrade process?
But jumping from such old version to current - hmmm. I recently updated one of my boxes that was behind with 2.4.4p3 (covid delays and nobody on site).. And I ran into a few snags trying to just doing a gui update to the new + version 21.x for netgate appliances. So I just did a clean install and restored the config from the old version. That went really smooth with no issues.
If it was me - I would just do a clean install on the new box, test is out, make sure it working and then just swap them.. This way if something goes wrong, you can just plug in the old box and be up and running again. If your config is not overlay complicated, I would just do complete from scratch setup and not even worry about restore of config from old box.
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True, That was what i also though of doing but but hopefully had hope that there was an alternative way. Im downloading version 2.3.2 .img just now and will the load the secondary with that one sync and upgrade and then swop. i think this will be a good test if it works and when i run in a snag like this. If all fails start from scratch :)
Thanks for all the help, this helped alot :)
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@lionelmarais said in SyncNic Failing with Error 32602:
Im downloading version 2.3.2
From where - that is not available from netgate.. I wouldn't suggest 3rd party pfsense images.
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Thanks my friends built a ftp server with each version that was released as he is always struggling with pfsense support to get older versions. I just asked him for one of the versions. He is using pfsense at all his sites
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@lionelmarais said in SyncNic Failing with Error 32602:
ftp server with each version
So a "hoarder" hehehe - I use to keep old versions as well. But now only keep last version or so, I use to have them going back to like version 1.. But then when doing a bit of house keeping long time ago was like in what scenario would I need any version so old, other than nostalgic ;)
I purged my copies of windows 95 long time ago as well ;) hehehe
I am all for keeping a copy of install media for stuff, but then again when and the hell would you be installing X versions back.. Even with plex that I run beta on when ever they come out, I only keep a handful of previous versions.
At some point you have to let go ;) Would you install windows xp to upgrade to 7, and then 8 and then 10 ;) Or would you just do a clean install of 10..
ftp server ;) He should of killed that off 10 some years ago as well.. Has he not heard of nextcloud or owncloud or seafile or pydio, etc. etc.. filestash - I could go on and on alternatives that are more secure, more robust, easier to use provide for sync, faster transfer - require no client on the user end.
He is using pfsense at all his sites
Sure hope his IT team is doing a better job at staying current than yours - heheheeh
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Lol that's true, he is utilization own cloud with the ftp function ( its possible with a few updates on your certificate and a plugin etc) True he is way in front vs us. Certain semi government own instances change of people and processes in Africa is just impossible, what gets done and reported is two totally different scenarios lol
Well upgrading can be fun to see how a OS becomes cluttered and files left that not being used hahahaha, I'm trying upgrade first before bringing the offices down for a few hours as they have a 24/7 working shift.
I was able to sync the image with the same versions, now I'm busy upgrading version for version to keep it stable, almost at 2.4.2 LOl just 10 years more to go hahaha
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@lionelmarais said in SyncNic Failing with Error 32602:
I was able to sync the image with the same version
That is good to hear..
what gets done and reported is two totally different scenarios lol
To be honest, sadly I don't think that is something limited to any specific part of the world or agency hehahehe
