[pfSense] Is there a "would it pass"/what-if capability?

2013-03-19 Thread Bryan D.
I've searched both the list archives and forums, though I wasn't sure what phrase would yield results, and have not found an answer to the question: --- Is there a way to ask pfSense something like "would a packet arriving on from be passed to on ?" In short, is there a way to quickly tes

Re: [pfSense] Is there a "would it pass"/what-if capability?

2013-03-20 Thread Bryan D.
luable for (at least preliminary) testing, but would also be good for admins to check whether they seem to have gotten things configured correctly. Bryan D. http://www.derman.com/ On 2013-Mar-20, at 2:51 AM, mayak-cq wrote: > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 23:19 -0700, Bryan D. wrote: > >

Re: [pfSense] Is there a "would it pass"/what-if capability?

2013-03-21 Thread Bryan D.
ntribute a small amount to such a "would it pass"/what-if capability to be added to pfSense. While I'm a little surprised that something like this doesn't already exist, given its obvious value, I'd also guess that it'd be a rather involved task. On 2013-Mar-20, a

[pfSense] OpenVPN Keep-Alive Setting

2014-01-28 Thread Bryan D .
I hope I'm not just having a "senior's moment," but I can't find any place on the GUI where the OpenVPN server's keepalive option is set but one is being generated in the server config file. I'm running pfSense 2.1 release. Couldn't find an answer via the pfSense forums or via Mr. Google nor c

[pfSense] Run-Away Processing Issue

2014-02-18 Thread Bryan D.
I have a problem that I've been unable to make much progress with and could use some suggestions on how to proceed. The problem is that whenever the WAN interface link on the pfSense box goes down, pfSense goes into some sort of loop/run-away condition and requires a reboot. This problem is 10

Re: [pfSense] Run-Away Processing Issue

2014-02-23 Thread Bryan D.
On 2014-Feb-19, at 6:17 AM, Jim Pingle wrote: > Try pfSense 2.1.1. There were some issues with link cycling in certain cases > that you might be hitting which were fixed on 2.1.1. > > https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,71546.0.html > > Jim > > On 2/19/2014

Re: [pfSense] multiple openvpn instance routing issue.

2014-02-26 Thread Bryan D.
is the usual "Interface Address" setting) I still don't understand why routing doesn't take care of it and why NAT is required for certain things to work, but this was the only way I could get it to work in my setup. Of course, I'd like to be "educated" if som

Re: [pfSense] Multiple static IPs from one ISP - Virtual IPs? - Trying this again

2014-03-03 Thread Bryan D.
On 2014-Mar-02, at 11:52 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > How do I set up multiple static addresses? I used Virtual IP to create x.2 > and I can ping it internally but not externally. > > I’ve tried using guides I’ve found online but I cannot seem to get them to > work. > > What I want to do is have

Re: [pfSense] Multiple static IPs from one ISP - Virtual IPs? - Trying this again

2014-03-03 Thread Bryan D.
Is the VIP CARP or IP Alias? ... according to the VIP capabilities chart, they're the only VIP kinds that can do ICMP: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/What_are_Virtual_IP_Addresses? Since we don't allow ping-response, I thought I'd test this theory. All 3 of the following worked (LAN routing

Re: [pfSense] Multiple static IPs from one ISP - Virtual IPs? - Trying this again

2014-03-03 Thread Bryan D.
PiBA was correct: only the WAN rule is required for pings (learn something new every day!). My testing was via an outside network as pings always work internally, with our setup. Previously you wrote: I’ve done this, but I won't route traffic out (NAT) until I have verifiable traffic coming in

Re: [pfSense] pfsense openvpn Road Warrior

2014-03-19 Thread Bryan D.
On 2014-Mar-19, at 2:24 AM, A Mohan Rao wrote: > Hello Team, > > Hello, > i have configured openvpn road warrior also client is properly connected > from outside internet network. > but not able to access server end network and servers's. > can anybody give any help where is do any wrong steps.

[pfSense] Unable to access via static route

2014-03-25 Thread Bryan D .
I have an issue that I've been unable to solve and could use some suggestions (or confirmation that it can't be done). Background -- The problem is that I can only access IPs on the other side of a VPN connection via a static route when on one of our LANs. Here's an overview of the setu

Re: [pfSense] Interface yoyo

2014-04-20 Thread Bryan D.
On 2014-Apr-20, at 12:33 AM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Ever since upgrading to pfsense 2.1 I have been let down by it. It looks > like there are multiple issues and I am trying to separate them. One is > system suicide by memory gobbling - but it's been a little tricky to > find out why exactly.

Re: [pfSense] Interface yoyo

2014-04-21 Thread Bryan D.
On 2014-Apr-21, at 6:28 AM, Jim Pingle wrote: > > > The Spoofed MAC address issue was a problem in the past with certain > drivers that sounds very similar because it got into a chicken-and-egg > scenario that went a little something like this: > > * pfSense sets the MAC address > * The NIC dr

Re: [pfSense] Network Topology - Home Lab

2014-06-29 Thread Bryan D.
The clients need to know to route all > traffic for 10.0.0.1/24, 192.168.10.0/24, 192.168.20.0/24, and possibly > 172.16.0.0/24 over the VPN connection). I've put up a bunch of stuff on iOS VPN with pfSense that could be of some help in this: http://www.derman.com/blogs/Sett

Re: [pfSense] pfsense, IPSec, and Mac OS X

2014-08-20 Thread Bryan D.
e XML) would also work with OS X. If you try it and it does, please post a comment on the site (and elsewhere?) so others can also benefit. Bryan D. http://www.derman.com/ ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list

Re: [pfSense] Route OpenVPN traffic to the available IPSec tunnels

2014-12-26 Thread Bryan D.
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Lorenzo Milesi wrote: > Hi. Is it possible to route OpenVPN clients to the available IPSec routes? > > I currently have 3 IPSec tunnels on my pfSense, and seldomly I need to access > those routes outiside my office. Is it possible to do so? > In my firewall rules

Re: [pfSense] viscosity, openvpn, and pfsense

2015-01-19 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Jan-19, at 1:48 PM, Jeremy Porter wrote: > The configuration your trying to use in pfsense is TLS Authentication, > which is a static (shared) TLS key. > > In the Server Mode box, you need to select SSL/TLS or SSL/TLS User > authentication. > You will need to configure your CA and Openv

Re: [pfSense] Multiple Roadwarrior OpenVPN on my PFSense server

2015-01-20 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Jan-19, at 8:28 PM, Mark Wass wrote: > > > I've checked my WAN firewall rules and can see that the Wizard has added an > open port to 1196 in the rules. > > Is there some sort of rule that does not allow me to have multiple OpenVPN > servers running? I have 3 other PFSense site-to-si

[pfSense] Suddenly getting pfi_table_update errors

2015-02-17 Thread Bryan D .
I have a relatively low-traffic pfSense 2.1.5 i386 setup on a system with 1.5 GB of memory that always shows <50% used. This setup has normally been reliable but, since upgrading to 2.1.5, today is the 4th time I've run into a problem after making changes to some aliases. For some reason that

[pfSense] Suddenly getting pfi_table_update errors [work-around]

2015-02-19 Thread Bryan D .
I think this issue has been solved: - issue was errors similar to: --- [ There were error(s) loading the rules: pfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Invalid argument - The line in question reads [0]: ] --- and/or an error indicating that it can't allocate memory (but there's over 50% of the memory reported as be

[pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-03 Thread Bryan D.
Today, having received a pair of SuperMicro AOC-SG-i2 NICs from the pfSense store, I asked about the applicable pfSense "offloading" settings (via the pfSense contact form). Receiving an oblique (non-)response, I re-sent a query that included the following text: --- [...] specifically, what sh

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-04 Thread Bryan D.
ot;(we) use these settings" response. So your effort can be of maximum benefit, I've submitted a slightly edited/formatted version of this to be included in the WiKi's applicable pfSense documentation page. Bryan D. http://www.derman.com/ _

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-04 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-04, at 2:08 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: > >> On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Bryan D. wrote: >> >> On 2015-Mar-04, at 6:20 AM, compdoc wrote: >> >>> For me, what happens after enabling or disabling those settings are >>> immediately apparent

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-05 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-05, at 11:46 AM, Chris Buechler wrote: > The description of what's enabled/disabled got confused from Jim's > earlier post I think. LRO and TSO are both disabled by default, > hardware checksum offloading is enabled by default. Just for the record, Jim's message ended with: --- It’s

[pfSense] VIPs : CARP vs IP Alias

2015-03-08 Thread Bryan D .
While we're on the topic, I have a functioning v2.2 setup that uses a /29 set of static IPs: - 1 IP is the gateway address and 5 IPs are "usable" (quite common, I believe) - one of the "usable" IPs is assigned to the WAN interface - the other 4 "usable" IPs are assigned to VIPs - the WAN IP and VI

Re: [pfSense] VIPs : CARP vs IP Alias

2015-03-09 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-08, at 3:53 PM, Espen Johansen wrote: > I beleive the key to this is proxy arp. > > Brgds, Espen > 8. mars 2015 23:50 skrev "Bryan D." : > >> While we're on the topic, I have a functioning v2.2 setup that uses a /29 >> set of static IPs:

Re: [pfSense] VIPs : CARP vs IP Alias

2015-03-09 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-09, at 2:38 AM, Brian Candler wrote: > On 09/03/2015 09:33, Bryan D. wrote: >> So, for what I'm doing, an IP Alias VIP seems like it should work where a >> CARP VIP works -- but it doesn't appear that a Proxy ARP VIP should, since I >> think I'

Re: [pfSense] VIPs : CARP vs IP Alias

2015-03-09 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-09, at 2:43 AM, Chris L wrote: >> On Mar 9, 2015, at 2:38 AM, Brian Candler wrote: >> >> On 09/03/2015 09:33, Bryan D. wrote: >>> So, for what I'm doing, an IP Alias VIP seems like it should work where a >>> CARP VIP works -- but it d

Re: [pfSense] VIPs : CARP vs IP Alias

2015-03-09 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-09, at 2:56 AM, Brian Candler wrote: > On 09/03/2015 09:51, Bryan D. wrote: >> So it sounds like the IPsec and OpenVPN traffic would be such traffic? > IPSEC traffic is addressed *to* the firewall (at least the IKE stuff on udp > 500 is, since it is received by st

Re: [pfSense] VIPs : CARP vs IP Alias

2015-03-09 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-09, at 3:05 AM, Chris L wrote: > >> On Mar 9, 2015, at 2:56 AM, Brian Candler wrote: >> >> On 09/03/2015 09:51, Bryan D. wrote: >>> So it sounds like the IPsec and OpenVPN traffic would be such traffic? >> IPSEC traffic is addressed *to* the fir

Re: [pfSense] VIPs : CARP vs IP Alias

2015-03-09 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-09, at 3:11 AM, Chris L wrote: > >> On Mar 9, 2015, at 3:07 AM, Brian Candler wrote: >> >> On 09/03/2015 10:05, Chris L wrote: Are you saying you want different clients' IPSEC tunnels to terminate on different public IP addresses on the firewall WAN side? That I've never

Re: [pfSense] VIPs : CARP vs IP Alias

2015-03-09 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-09, at 3:34 AM, Matthias May wrote: > A CARP address has it's own MAC. The IP alias shares the MAC of it's parent > interface. > If you change this while running, your upstream routers/switches will have > the wrong MAC address for your IP cached. > Sending a GARP might help with thi

[pfSense] How to troubleshoot

2015-03-10 Thread Bryan D .
I have a v2.2 64-bit config running on a Core2 Duo system. The config uses a number of aliases (including aliases that include other aliases, etc.). Rules are based upon the aliases (du-oh!). PROBLEM: if I change the name of 1 of the IP aliases, the name of the corresponding table doesn't cha

Re: [pfSense] Follow-Up -- VIPs : CARP vs IP Alias

2015-03-10 Thread Bryan D.
hould only have to do a quick read-through before adding the material ... which means that it's likely to get done. Thanks, again, to all who participated. On 2015-Mar-09, at 6:57 AM, Jim Pingle wrote: > On 03/08/2015 06:50 PM, Bryan D. wrote: >> My interpretation of the nice c

[pfSense] 2.2.1 Site-to-Site IPsec VPN Connection Instability

2015-03-21 Thread Bryan D.
We've had a pfSense-to-pfSense "always on" IPsec VPN connecting 2 offices since 2008 (pfSense 1.2 IIRC) and it's: - been ultra reliable (if VPN is down, suspect ISP issue or pfSense box failure) - it's been quick to connect (about 1 second, almost unnoticeable) - it's worked across numerous upgrad

Re: [pfSense] 2.2.1 Site-to-Site IPsec VPN Connection Instability

2015-03-23 Thread Bryan D.
FWIW, since my original report, I've noticed some other things: - since it's not yet "deployed," the v2.2.1 (at both ends) site-to-site IPsec VPN has only 1 laptop and 1 wireless access point on the LAN and virtually nothing else happening on the WAN (it's tied to a cable modem) - the condition

Re: [pfSense] 2.2.1 Site-to-Site IPsec VPN Connection Instability

2015-03-23 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-23, at 5:24 PM, Chris Buechler wrote: > There's nothing to go on to offer any worthwhile suggestions. IPsec > logs best place to start. If you can be more specific, I'll try to help. Sorry, but I don't have enough background with IPsec to ferret things out on my own. I did try se

Re: [pfSense] 2.2.1 Site-to-Site IPsec VPN Connection Instability

2015-03-25 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-23, at 7:34 AM, Christopher CUSE wrote: > just got dropped again -- fourth time in last few hours -- something is > definitely wrong. > > upgraded all my pfsenses to 2.2.1 over the weekend. For me, the VPN drops in the absence of "end-to-end" traffic ... within minutes. The fact t

Re: [pfSense] 2.2.1 Site-to-Site IPsec VPN Connection Instability

2015-03-26 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-26, at 4:01 PM, Chris Buechler wrote: > Go to System>Advanced, System Tunables, and add a new tunable there. > Name net.key.preferred_oldsa, value 0, then save and apply changes. > That have any impact on things? Executive summary: no. Here's what I did: - created/applied tunable at

Re: [pfSense] IPSec Site to Site problems

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Apr-02, at 5:57 AM, Jochem de Waal wrote: > Hi All, > > The last few weeks there was a lot of discussion about IPSEC in pf2.2 and > 2.2.1 I'm the person who originated that discussion and did sent some info to Chris, directly. He responded and I have a task to gather some logs, which

Re: [pfSense] NTP failure in 2.2.1?

2015-04-08 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Apr-08, at 5:37 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: > I'm running 2.2.1-RELEASE (i386) in a new install, and everything's working > great so far (or as great as the FUBAR layer 2 lets it work...) except for > NTP. > > No matter what NTP server I pick, it sits in .INIT. state forever. > Stopping

Re: [pfSense] sun qfe status?

2015-04-11 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Apr-11, at 2:22 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: > I recall seeing reports of problems with Sun 'qfe' (quad-port hme) interfaces > on this list previously; does anyone know what the current status is? Do > they work properly in 2.2.1 i386? > Thanks, > -Adam I'd reported a "runaway process" is

Re: [pfSense] NTP failure in 2.2.1?

2015-04-13 Thread Bryan D .
On 2015-Apr-11, at 12:51 AM, Fabian Wenk wrote: > I had a similar problem, but already when switching from 2.1.x to 2.2. I got > it working again with not selecting any interface(s) in the NTP Server > Configuration. I've created a bug report (https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4604) with an

[pfSense] Question about IPsec VPN setting (pfSense 2.2.2)

2015-04-19 Thread Bryan D .
While testing the previously discussed "stalling connections" with v2.2.1 IPsec -- which still exist with v2.2.2 (expected as the release notes give no indication of a fix) -- I noticed (what I suspect is) a new bug (https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4640). After updating from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2,

Re: [pfSense] ipsec and routing

2015-04-24 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Apr-24, at 7:37 AM, Gregory K Shenaut wrote: > I have two pfSense boxes connected via an IPSEC tunnel. > > I'm confused about whether a route gets added automatically to the remote > network end of an IPSEC tunnel when the tunnel comes up. > > However, currently the tunnel can be up,

Re: [pfSense] 2.2.1 Site-to-Site IPsec VPN Connection Instability

2015-09-04 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Sep-04, at 1:18 PM, David Hatch wrote: > We are having all the same symptoms above. All of our firewalls are > running 2.2.4. Everything that has 2 phase 2 entries is on IKE v2. ... > > Has anyone figured this out? ... nothing I can do will fix it short of pining > from > a non-pfsens

Re: [pfSense] Routing some trafic throught OpenVPN

2015-09-25 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Sep-15, at 11:39 PM, Andrej Ferčič [PCklinika] wrote: > Hello! > > I am sure that this issue has been already discussed, but I can not find any > arhive. So, please give me some directions where to search or any link to > thread containig the following: > > 1. Is there any routing th

Re: [pfSense] client VPN on IOS

2015-09-25 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Sep-15, at 6:18 AM, Ray Bagby wrote: > Greetings, > >Anyone have any luck connecting iphone via VPN? > You can also see: http://www.derman.com/blogs/Setting-Up-iOS-OnDemand-VPN ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/

Re: [pfSense] Aggregated WAN traffic

2016-05-10 Thread Bryan D.
On 2016-May-10, at 10:14 AM, WebDawg wrote: > Usually the only thing that you > can do in this situation is put your connection at its lowest setting > and control the connection from there. The problem with this is that > the connection will always be this lowest speed. FWIW, our connection is

[pfSense] IPv6 cross-LAN access problem to virtualized host

2016-05-17 Thread Bryan D .
I'm in the process of enabling IPv6 on a working IPv4 3-LAN, 2-WAN setup using pfSense 2.2.6 (I'm also in the process of testing 3.0 and did a cursory test and got the same results with our 3.0 test setup). We're getting IPv6 via a Hurricane Electric tunnel. There are 3 LANs each with a /24 IP

[pfSense] Unbound connections: excessive???

2016-05-22 Thread Bryan D.
On pfSense 2.2.6, I switched from dnsmasq to unbound. Resolver/unbound is configured for DNSSEC (i.e., no forwarding) and has about 150 overrides to function as our internal/split DNS (with 5 domain overrides for internal/private-address reverse lookups). The "Network Interfaces" setting has o

[pfSense] How to determine supported packages without installing

2016-06-17 Thread Bryan D .
How does one determine the currently supported packages for the current released version of pfSense without installing pfSense, first. I did find https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Features_List but, since there's no stated pfSense version associated with the page and since I've found it to be i

Re: [pfSense] How to determine supported packages without installing

2016-06-17 Thread Bryan D.
On 2016-Jun-17, at 2:02 PM, Peder Rovelstad wrote: > This help? https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=8640.0 Thanks, but I don't see anything there that tells me what the current packages are for pfSense 2.3.1 Update 5 (i.e., without having to first install pfSense 2.3.1 Update 5). __

Re: [pfSense] How to determine supported packages without installing

2016-06-17 Thread Bryan D.
On 2016-Jun-17, at 2:35 PM, compdoc wrote: > I think this is complete: > Thanks. Looks like I can proceed with an update to 2.3. Regardless, I still think there should be a way to authoritatively determine this info via the pfSense web site -- ideally, for all releases, minimally for the cur

Re: [pfSense] How to determine supported packages without installing

2016-06-17 Thread Bryan D.
On 2016-Jun-17, at 4:03 PM, Steve Yates wrote: > I suspect package compatibility is not maintained on per-pfSense-version > basis. Meaning, packages worked on 2.x up until the package changes on 2.3, > and probably will work on into the future until the next breaking change. > > https://doc.pf

Re: [pfSense] Route Issue over Ipsec

2016-08-08 Thread Bryan D.
> Good day, > > I have an issue routing related.. > > I found that page: > https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_can%27t_I_query_SNMP%2C_use_syslog%2C_NTP%2C_or_other_services_initiated_by_the_firewall_itself_over_IPsec_VPN%3F > > It represent exactly what I'm having as issue.. > > I did exactl

Re: [pfSense] pfBlockerNG: US IPv6 range size

2016-08-16 Thread Bryan D.
On 2016-Aug-16, at 8:47 AM, Gé Weijers wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to define a pfBlockerNG IPv6 alias for the US. It seems that the > GeoIP database has over a million entries, which causes a crash > > Any idea why the US ranges are this humongous? > I use pfBlockerNG and various other blocki

Re: [pfSense] looking for perfect pfsense box for home?

2016-08-21 Thread Bryan D.
On 2016-Aug-21, at 5:50 AM, Paul Mather wrote: > Even on that page it's incorrect to say it "only" offers the XG-2758. That's > the only one they show in the main table on that page ... There's likely good science behind the fact that nearly all e-stores will present (often overwhelming) deta

[pfSense] DNS over TLS config for pfSense 2.2.6

2018-04-04 Thread Bryan D .
Re: https://www.netgate.com/blog/dns-over-tls-with-pfsense.html --- Applying the suggested "Custom Options" to the Unbound/DNS Resolver configuration in pfSense 2.2.6 does not work, with logs indicating that "forward-ssl-upstream" is invalid. I tried various incantations using "server:ssl-upstre

Re: [pfSense] DNS over TLS config for pfSense 2.2.6

2018-04-05 Thread Bryan D.
On 2018-Apr-04, at 10:05 PM, Dave Warren wrote: > I can also confirm that 9.9.9.9@853 does work here which re-enforces that > this is a Cloudflare specific issue. - So it looks like the following config works on pfSense 2.2.6's unbound/DNS Resolver (so should work with 1.1.1.1 when Cloudfl

Re: [pfSense] DNS over TLS config for pfSense 2.2.6

2018-04-05 Thread Bryan D.
On 2018-Apr-05, at 10:47 PM, Dave Warren wrote: > Cloudflare has pushed an update, and things seem to be working from here. For > those having issues, try again now? Thanks for the "heads up." Works for me, also (i.e., on pfSense 2.2.6 configured as stated in previous posting). _