A free firewall based on Packet Filter (pf) and FreeBSD 6.
Questions tagged [pfsense]
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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 paid, I create a firewall rule in my unix based…
spuder
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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 avail. I've tried running pkg_info on PFsense cmd as…
joween
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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:
configured a VIP from the second subnet on the pfSense's…
user149408
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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 where you have the option to select other limiting…
Ian Boyd
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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 locally on the device connecting. If I am assigning…
Dims
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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: Computer A: Used for webstuff: YouTube, downloads,…
Waxhead
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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 Id), pfSense does not resolve its IP address.
I…
mfloris
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pfSense: How to route traffic out the WAN port?
Expert version
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 current sync rate and SnR margins. The modem doesn't…
Ian Boyd
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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 the pfSense firewall. Basically, I want to simulate…
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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" timeshift backward.
All operating systems, including…
Dims
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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) - ianboyd@superuser.com network port is defined on to PPPs tab:
i thought this was interesting, and…
Ian Boyd
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pfSense and DD-WRT, Single WAP with multiple SSIDs and separate networks
I have a ASUS RT-AC66U with DD-WRT loaded and I'm trying to use it as a WAP connected to a PFSense box. The ASUS router has the option to setup multiple SSID's (guestAP_SSID, mainAP_SSID) and separate WLAN from LAN. I can even put them on their own…
jtlindsey
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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 Netgear wireless router. I use OpenVPN to access my…
nicorellius
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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 recieved is 10.12.1.28. When I go onto my AP's web gui…
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How can I configure pfSense to allow traffic from LAN to WAN?
My topology is as the picture above.
I've configure to allow incoming traffic into each pfSense interface, include 3 LAN and 1 WAN.
Ex: I can ping from DC to pfSense interface in the same network.
I used default Manual Outbound NAT rule generation…
Nguyen Khanh
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