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      bohosh
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      Every time I have this message:"Please start bandwidthd to populate this directory." and I can't find the way to start it….any help?

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Did you edit the settings for bandwidthd and press "Save" there?

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          bohosh
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          Yes, I did, many times, but without success.

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            Any errors in the system log or on the console?

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              bohosh
              last edited by

              No, nothing.

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                What settings are you using for bandwidthd? (Either type them out or get a full screenshot)

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                  bohosh
                  last edited by

                  The screenshot.

                  And some error in syslog:
                  check_reload_status: syncing firewall

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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by

                    That isn't a syslog error, just an informational message.

                    As for the settings, it may be ok… but try unchecking the output_cdf/recover_cdf option, just as a test, and also remove the IP filter.

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                      bohosh
                      last edited by

                      Without them..same result.
                      Also I have check/uncheck all of them…and reinstall the bandwidthd pack 3 times.

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                        Cino
                        last edited by

                        Take a look at this post from Zedisha http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,33274.msg172648.html#msg172648

                        This just worked for me on my 2.0Beta5 box. Thinking some of the files in the package need to be updated for the 2.0. There will be warnings but nothing to worry about I think.

                        From the cmd line, type:

                        pkg_delete bandwidthd-2.0.1_4
                        pkg_add -r bandwidthd
                        
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                          bohosh
                          last edited by

                          Yes, this solution helps ;) , but if you change the IP adress again same error. Maybe this is bug in that version of pfsense.

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                            danesco
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                            I have this problem to, when u install the package from the GUI the config file its bad created.

                            /usr/local/bandwidthd/etc/bandwidthd.conf

                            # Subnets to collect statistics on.  Traffic that
                            # matches none of these subnets will be ignored.
                            # Syntax is either IP Subnet Mask or CIDR
                            subnet 192.168.1.0/24
                            subnet 
                            
                            

                            The blank subnet makes and error and the service does not start, what i do its delete the both subnets, put the config again the GUI and restart the service, that seems to work, but now i have repeated subnets.

                            If i delete one or both, at restart have these two again  :-\

                            # Subnets to collect statistics on.  Traffic that
                            # matches none of these subnets will be ignored.
                            # Syntax is either IP Subnet Mask or CIDR
                            subnet 192.168.1.0/24
                            subnet 192.168.1.0/24
                            
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                            • jimpJ
                              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                              last edited by

                              Looks like that field was missing some input validation. If you reinstall the package it should pick up this change and work better:

                              https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense-packages/repos/mainline/commits/ebba0c9ebf5b53eded7897e428b493787a13a6de

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