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    Introducing Netgate Nexus: Multi-Instance Management at Your Fingertips.

    Starting Different Boot Environment 1st time = No traffic or connectivity to pfSense

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General pfSense Questions
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      petrt3522
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      I've been working on a different issue with VLANs, and everytime I switch between boot environments (either with "Activate One-time and Reboot" or changing to the default (start or "Activate Boot Environment), I am unable to access pfsense or any other network/Internet.

      I then initiate a reboot on the local machine (baremetal), and then I am able to access pfSense and Internet without issue.

      Anyone else run into this? I thought it was a fluke, but this happened when I was testing between 24.11 and 25.07.1 too.

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Hmm, I haven't seen that. I'd have to guess it's a DHCP issue though I wouldn't expect to see that if the LAN side IP address(es) in pfSense remain the same in all BEs?

        Anything else changed between those BEs?

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