Questions tagged [pfsense]
A free firewall based on Packet Filter (pf) and FreeBSD 6.
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How can I turn off internet for roommates that haven't paid the bill this month?
I have several roommates who split my internet bill with me each month. On occasion they forget to pay me, and I have to pester them for the money.
If after 3 days of pestering they still haven't ...
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PFSense Stuck At "Please wait while the update system initializes" while uninstaling or upgrading any package
I just had this weird problem on my PFSense VM. It neither can upgrade nor uninstall any package and is always stuck at Please wait while the update system initializes.
I tried rebooting. Still no ...
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pfSense to route between multiple subnets on same LAN
I started with a fairly standard pfSense setup: one WAN and one LAN interface, LAN-to-WAN access via NAT.
Now I needed a second logical subnet on the LAN, which I set up in the following way:
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How to limit bandwidth used by an IP in the penalty box in pfSense
We're trying to use the pfSense traffic shaping feature known as the Penalty Box. We are interested in limiting the bandwidth of a particular IP to 2%.
Note: There is a four-year-old bug in pfSense ...
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pfSense DNS Resolver does not resolve local hostnames from DHCP static mappings
I'm on pfSense Community Edition 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1
I assigned some static DHCP mappings on one of my LAN interfaces
If I try to reach any one of those static mapped hosts by its Hostname (or by Client ...
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pfSense: How to route traffic out the WAN port?
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i want to create a route in pfSense that will send traffic out the physical WAN port, not the PPPoE WAN port. i want to talk to the web-server on my DSL modem; letting me see the ...
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Can't add static lease from inside DHCP range in pfSense
When trying to add my computer to static lease, I get the following error
I don't understand the reason for this. If I would want to assign IP from outside DHCP range, I would assign it statically ...
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pfsense 2.0 traffic priority - set full priority for single host
I have a network with several computers all on the same network and since I have very limited bandwidth I would like to prioritize traffic almost like a CPU scheduler prioritize processes.
Example: ...
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Using pfSense, OpenVPN Connects but Still Can't See the Network
I am having an OpenVPN issue. I have a pfSense box at home configured to allow traffic through a VPN tunnel. The client computer is Windows XP Home, behind a standard Comcast connection and a ...
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Road warrior with pfSense
Currently I have a server running pfSense. It's on another network and I only access it via remote login. What I want to do is setup some sort of road warrior scheme that allows to me access behind ...
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In pf, why can IPv6 be specified as a 'protocol' as well as an address family?
In the pf firewall, the pf.conf man page 'parameters' section states that "protocol" is anything from /etc/protocols, and that it's distinct from "address family" ("<af>") which is inet or inet6....
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How to fix timezone data in pfSense/freeBSD?
We have special situation with timezones here in Russia. Recently government had cancelled timesave shifting and it was no timeshifts for some time, but recently they decided to make one "last" ...
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pfSense 2.0 - Can PPP L2TP be used to be an L2TP tunnel?
i noticed in pfSense 2.0 (RC3) that my PPPoE interface is now a PPPoE tunnel assigned to my WAN NIC (Network Interface Card):
where the PPPOE0(xl0) - [email protected] network port is defined on ...
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iPhone states it has IP address A. Access point says iPhone has IP address B. What gives?
I have an iphone, a unifi AP and a pfsense router. I set pfsense to give out static IP addresses. My iPhone is supposed to receive 10.12.1.144.
Well according to my iPhone, the Ip address it ...
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Reset pfSense web interface password through main console
I'm (temporarily) in charge of a network where pfSense 2.0.1 is basically running the whole routing operation. Unfortunately, the network manager before me did not bother to write down what the ...
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