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pfSense is an open source firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD. It is installed on a computer to make a dedicated firewall/router for a network and is known for its reliability and high-grade features.

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working I installed and setup Bind9 official package to test DNS forward zones based on source IP/subnets which unbound doesn't support I properly set NAT forwards, changed listening ports on Bind9 ...
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Ive got a routing issue on my pfSense box that shows the response to a ping request being routed to a IP in a separate subnet/vlan. 10:25:13.239238 IP 10.2.0.2 > 8.8.8.8: ICMP echo request, id 9374,...
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I have an iptables firewall (machine 1) and a centos 7 based gateway (machine 2), which is having 2 interfaces (machine-2:int-1) from WAN [/30] and (machine-2:int-2) is LAN [/28] one of the static IP ...
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On pfSense, I've enabled Prometheus Node Exporter, but it gives the following log errors each 15 seconds: Feb 15 09:53:57 vault node_exporter[25559]: ts=2024-02-15T08:53:57.164Z caller=collector.go:...
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I have a strange problem when trying to display logs on pfSense (and I can reproduce the same problem on Ubuntu server also). The problem is this (with examples): I'm trying to display a running dhcp ...
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I started playing with wireguard on a pfsense router to try to see if I could overcome a CG Nat on a hotspot I want to use when visiting my mother a couple hours from home. I stay in an RV when up ...
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I have the following topology and from myhost I can ping router2 but can't ping router1. With tcpdump I can observe how my pings go and I see that both router1 and router2 reply. But only replies ...
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I'm interested in learning more about UEFI HTTPBoot and setting it up for my LAN as a netboot option, but the details are notably sparse. The best docs I've found are Suse Docs for configuring an HTTP ...
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Context I have set up a site-to-site IPSec tunnel between a Raspberry Pi located in an office and a pfSense firewall in the cloud. I am using Strongswan for the Raspberry Pi side. Issue My tunnel ...
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I have configured the following s2s VPN (in pfSense) connection which is working in general. Unfortunately, I can connect (ping, netcat, ssh) only from client to the server, but not back. If I can ...
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Pfsense (HAproxy as reverse proxy)—->Unraid I run postfix on Debian Bullseye VM (under Unraid) on my home server. It is up and running. I can send the mail out but can’t receive any incoming mail. ...
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I've set up my pfsense server with tftp to support PXE booting. I've configured it to boot the latest (as of posting) version of netboot.xyz. This works to a point, but I've tried loading a few Linux ...
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I have a radio setup on a 4G connection that utilises CG-NAT. This means I am unable to access the radio remotely using the supplied remote software. To get around this I have setup a cloud VPS ...
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I have this diagram. I have a server(centos 7) with ip public and staic 1.2.3.4 on internet, I want when user send request to this public ip 1.2.3.4, this request pass my modem with not static ip ...
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I have the following table $ netstat -r -4 | grep 33.0 192.168.33.0/24 192.168.29.4 UGS ovpns5 I would like to add additional route to the same network and get $ route add -net 192.168....
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I have ovpn file, which allows me to connect to remote server successfully from desktop OpenVPN GUI. Now I want to copy content of this file to OpenVPN client of pfSense. The problem is that fields ...
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I'm kind of desperate with an IPTables issue. I started to setup my own dedicated server which is a proxmox server. I have a pfSense VM to which all traffic is routed. I secured the LAN access by ...
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I have three servers which should now also get IPv6 connectivity besides the IPv4. Servers: Pi4 (Raspberry Pi OS) Nextcloud (Debian 10; Nextcloud as snap) Mailserver (Debian 10; mailcow as docker, ...
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Would a Netgate 1100 with pfSense Plus Software support SquidGuard? I'd like to be able to do web filtering using that software / hardware combination. P.S. Apologies if I have posted this in an ...
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Anyone able to install the latest 'speedtest-cli' ( v2.1.3) in their pfsense box to overcome error; ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '' Apparently something changed upstream and ...
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I've just noticed that the same code for for loop in bash doesn't work in FreeBSD wolf@linux:~$ echo $SHELL /bin/bash wolf@linux:~$ wolf@linux:~$ for i in {1..3}; do echo $i; done 1 2 3 wolf@linux:~$...
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Is it possible to run Pfsense as a docker container?
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Here's my network topology: ISP: 192.168.0.1 pfSense: (ip dhcp) <-> 192.168.1.1 pfSense does outbound NAT such that all traffic passing out of interface (ip dhcp) is NAT to map all "...
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I just install the filebeat port v6.8.7 on pfSense 2.4.5 box (freeBSD 13). After that I want to start filebeat service with service start filebeat but it throw error: start does not exist in /etc/rc....
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I'm trying to install pfSense using QEMU on EVE-NG. I'm using the EVE-NG documentation for pfSense 2.4.x, i did all the steps, but in the installation part /opt/qemu/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -hda ...
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I tried to use this link to solve my problem but to no avail; Expanding the disk size on pfsense under VMWare ESXi. I'm using pfSense and I wish to increase the disk drive from 11 GB to 200 GB. Steps ...
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I was trying to make my HDD bootable and did gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i1 ada0s1 and now I got "Invalid partition" message on boot. /boot was from USB drive, not from HDD (...
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I got a message Can't load 'kernel' And computer is not booting. I have simple commands like ls and lsdev, but I don't have cd or cat. How can I find kernel and check if it is ok with these commands?...
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So I have an ESXi server setup with pfSense acting as the DHCP Server for the VM's. I use VNC's to access each VM over the internet (For example with ports :5905,5906,5907 etc.) and I would like to ...
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I am trying to get routing straight on my server. From the pfSense domain, I can ping IPs in the management and DMZ networks. From the virtual host, I can ping the same IPs pfSense is the gateway for ...
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I have docker running on a synology nas. The nas has a private network (172.17.0.0/16) where docker places the containers. It also has a public facing interface on my lan, call it 10.11.12.10/24. ...
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I have a bit of a strange use-case, and after searching for 3 days, I am no closer than I started. So my goal is to install pfSense (freebsd based), onto a Beelink Z83-II. The only problem is that ...
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i have some problems connecting to openvpn server with pfsense. For my tests i got 2 network interfaces both on my pfsense openvpn server and my windows 10 openvpn client. On my pfsense i have 1 ...
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I install openvpn server in Centos VPS. I can connect from my pfsense router. I forwrad rdp a port to my local pc, but can not forward rtp port. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp --dport ...
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I have the following excerpt from pfctl -vvss command: re2 icmp 10.10.0.62:1 <- 192.168.10.56:1 0:0 age 00:08:30, expires in 00:00:05, 192:7 pkts, 14400:584 bytes, rule 117 id: ...
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I have disabled all positive rules in firewall on my pfSense box, and I can't browse Web, but I still can tracert 10.10.0.251 from LAN machine and receive 3 hops from my ISP (behind the router). ...
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I have connected with openvpn client to remote host and am able to ping it. Also route of this IP belongs correctly: > ping 10.10.0.251 PING 10.10.0.251 (10.10.0.251): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from ...
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I am connecting to two OpenVPN servers with OpenVPN clients of pfSense. Connections work, but each 120 seconds they turn from available to unavailable and back. I.e. ping works for 120 seconds, then ...
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Tying to logically force ALL laptop traffic (from local KVMs and host) through a local pfSense KVM before leaving the host (fedora). Still want DHCP from the router. I've made significant progress but ...
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I have the following config file which works well with native OpenVPN client client dev tap proto udp port 1198 remote myhost.com 1194 persist-key persist-tun tls-client ca my-ca.crt cert my-...
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While trying to upgrade a pfSense 2.2.6 to the latest version (as described here) and running pkg, I got: The package management tool is not yet installed on your system. Do you want to fetch and ...
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this is my first time actually using FreeBSD so there's a chance I might have missed something big, but it's unlikely. So I want to set up mysql on my pfSense server so I can enable historical ...
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How do I compile a pfSense port for ARM? Do I need to be running FreeBSD to do it? How do I then transfer it to a USB drive, SD Card, or ISO so I can boot it? I tried the usual compiling in Ubuntu ...
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So I'm so lost on what to do to debug right now. I've spent a couple of weeks on this issue without understanding what is happening. I'm trying to have the ssh server to only work with connections ...
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I found, that sometimes DHCP server from behind my main router answers DHCP request from clients in the LAN. Below is an example Notebook is connected to LAN via access point. There is DHCP server ...
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This question is about using pkg on systems where the normal FreeBSD repos have been disabled, but may occasionally be needed. To make it concrete, I'm thinking about platforms like pfSense where the ...
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In my LAN I am using a PFSense server with one DHCP server on it. I need to block a second DHCP server showing up in my LAN. I think I can use the PfSense firewall to refuse the other DHCP server IP ...
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I am trying to use ping with specified interface with a command ping -I re3 192.168.1.1 I know re3 exists from ifconfig re3: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu ...
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I have pfSense router with 2 WANs. I noticed, that if one WAN is down, then I can't ping 8.8.8.8 from router. Simultaneously, I am able to ping this address from within LAN, i.e. it can pass through ...
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I'm running a virtual environment on a root server. To connect all my maschines to the internet i got a pfSense setup up. For the pfSense box it got let's say the 2a01:4f8:162:xxxx::/64-network. ...
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