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      heiko
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      Hello,

      1.) What is with time overlaps in the configured ranges?

      2.) I have created a passing rule "icmp allowed to WAN" from the schedule 15:30- 15:45. The Rule is created on 15:20 Uhr. At this time no schedule is set on the rule. The Ping is OK. Now, i disabled the Rule (green arrow), nothing happens… Then I kill the states and all works fine.

      At 15:25 i change the rule, enabled and a schedule with one configured range from 15:30 to 15:45. Save and all runs fine. At 15:30 +-/ one minute, the schedule runs active, but whe the time is over, nothings happens.

      I edit and save the rule without changes, so now time is really over and the ping is dead.....

      Greetings
      heiko

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        heiko
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        Ups, i am barred from my testmachine. To many schedules on the ruleset with no activity…..
        It is possible to expansion the "console setup" with anything as "delete all schedules from rules"....
        Greetings
        heiko

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          heiko
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          Hello Scott,
          a second test, simply with an icmp-rule to the wan interface. It looks like good, but also the start time and the kill time has a time delay from 5 - minutes. Time Zone difference? or the code behind the gui ….

          See the screenshot for example- Start time in the range is 18:30, the ping reply is starting 18:36 Uhr. Also the same with killing states at the expiration of the range.

          Greetings
          heiko

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            sullrich
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            @heiko:

            Hello,

            1.) What is with time overlaps in the configured ranges?

            2.) I have created a passing rule "icmp allowed to WAN" from the schedule 15:30- 15:45. The Rule is created on 15:20 Uhr. At this time no schedule is set on the rule. The Ping is OK. Now, i disabled the Rule (green arrow), nothing happens… Then I kill the states and all works fine.

            At 15:25 i change the rule, enabled and a schedule with one configured range from 15:30 to 15:45. Save and all runs fine. At 15:30 +-/ one minute, the schedule runs active, but whe the time is over, nothings happens.

            I edit and save the rule without changes, so now time is really over and the ping is dead.....

            Greetings
            heiko

            We reload the rules every 15 minutes from bootup.  So it will process the rules at different times depending on when the firewall booted up.

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              heiko
              last edited by

              OK, so i have a maximum difference time-delay between reality and configured ranges by 15 minutes?
              Greetings
              heiko

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                sullrich
                last edited by

                Currently it is about +5 / -5 depending on bootup.    I can look at moving this to cron for finer control if you would like me to.

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                  heiko
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                  OK, so you can do…. No postings from me for the next 5 minutes... ;D

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                    sullrich
                    last edited by

                    @heiko:

                    OK, so you can do…. No postings from me for the next 5 minutes... ;D

                    Alright.  I'll work on it in a bit.  Beyond this and the bugs that sdale is working on, are there any others?  It seems to work rather well.

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                      heiko
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                      Hello Scott,
                      very special thanks for this good work!!
                      I attempt to test this night a few more things. Then i will post back..
                      Greetings
                      heiko

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                        heiko
                        last edited by

                        Hello,

                        sdale: i think in the gui the description field i a duty field, because in the summary you have only three fields, but a description is also important here, look at the screenshot. No Description is strange….
                        greetings
                        heiko

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                          yoda715
                          last edited by

                          @heiko:

                          Hello,

                          sdale: i think in the gui the description field i a duty field, because in the summary you have only three fields, but a description is also important here, look at the screenshot. No Description is strange….
                          greetings
                          heiko

                          currently the description for each time range will not show on this page. I can change this if you want.

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                            heiko
                            last edited by

                            Hello Scott,
                            i think otherwise it is a liite bit confusing without the description. Thanks a lot for the great work.
                            I am tranquilized, when i stay in russia with my firewalls…...
                            Greetings
                            heiko

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                              yoda715
                              last edited by

                              @heiko:

                              • Problem: a couple days brings "grimbelfixe" to the description, when you edit and save a second time
                              • Problem: when you stay in the schedule maks and have more than one configured range, and you want to edit one, click this and click a second also without saving the first one, uups, then the logic is a little bit confused the a first range disappeared.

                              I can't duplicate this. Try updating to the latest snapshot in two hours and re test. If you can get the error again, please list what steps you went through to achieve this. Thanks.
                              I've duplicated it. Will fix shortly.

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                                sullrich
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                                I commited changes to reload the rules on 0,15,30,45.  Please test the next snapshot in about 1-2 hours.

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                                  heiko
                                  last edited by

                                  i will test it, give me a day..

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                                    yoda715
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                                    Monday is also first now. Previous bugs should be fixed now.

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                                      sullrich
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                                      All known issues should be resolved.  Please test and outline any remaining issues.

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                                        yoda715
                                        last edited by

                                        @sullrich:

                                        All known issues should be resolved.  Please test and outline any remaining issues.

                                        There are a few more logic checks I will implement tomorrow, but the functionality is working.

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                                          yoda715
                                          last edited by

                                          2 More bugs:
                                          Cron was not reloading rules. Now solved.
                                          Using the 'Not' operator in a rule causes it to not load the schedule. For now do not use 'Not' operators in your firewall rules along with a schedule. Now solved.

                                          Update to the latest snapshot in an hour and test it out please.

                                          Also please note that due to reworking the gui to display Monday first, you need to recreate all schedules and save them out.

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                                            BuddhaChu
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                                            Looks like you guys fixed something before I noticed it was going on with the 2 builds I loaded yesterday.  Snort was being restarted every 15 minutes whenever the rules were being reloaded.  I loaded up the "Thu Mar 29 04:14:59 EDT" build this morning and it looks like you got that sorted.  Thanx!

                                            Notice the processor spiking every 15 min has ceased in the attached pic.

                                            Heiko: Thank you for sponsoring this addition to pfSense!

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