pfSense 2.3 Released!

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Patrick Kennedy

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Today the pfSense project announced a major release. pfSense 2.3 brings us a slew up feature updates and back-end updates. The most visible is the new Boostrap based UI which is easy to use on mobile devices

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PigLover

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Very excited about this release.

I was never able to get the supported reverse-proxy tools (squid/squid3) to operate the way I wanted them to so I ended up standing up a separate reverse-proxy VM running Nginx and using port forwarding rules in pfSense to push external traffic to it. This always offended my artistic sensibilities :). Now with Nginx running as the HTTP engine of pfSense I should be able to get the reverse proxy running directly on pfSense.

Very happy. Small things seem to please me these days. I guess I really am getting old.
 

Aestr

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Upgraded my secondary node as a test. Overall it looks and feels pretty nice. One big downside for me is bandwidthd is not supported yet so I think I'll wait to upgrade my primary node until then.
 

Patrick

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They removed a bunch of old/ not maintained packages it seems.
 

Aestr

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There is a post from December that implies they might bring it back when they have time but we all know how often we find spare time at work :)

In the spirit of trying to move forward does anyone have a decent solution for tracking bandwidth usage by host in pfsense?
 

Patrick

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Hey all - just so you know - I upgraded one of the units from 2.2.6 to 2.3. It had been using FreeRADIUS for OpenVPN authentication. The FreeRADIUS service will not start.
 

Patrick

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The pfSense team said they are on the FreeRADIUS issue.
 

sthsep

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RRD-Graphs seems to be moved to Status / Monitoring. But I can't find the total traffic for a specific period anymore :/
Anyone know how do I find them?
 

EluRex

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The upgrade is flawless for me.... I guess I use LDAP for auth and also all my firewall nodes already convert to PFSense from draytek&fortigate already
 

DavidRa

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FYI if you're updating on Hyper-V, change /etc/fstab - any references to /dev/ad***** need to be changed to /dev/da***** (just swap the first two letters). It's due to a change in device naming from FreeBSD 10.1 to 10.3, I believe.

If you don't do it before the restart, you'll get to a mountroot> prompt - tell it to boot from the updated form of whatever failed - I think by default 99% of instances will be /dev/da0s1a.

Edit: I've had several unexpected restarts since the upgrade, no obvious causes either.
 
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Patrick

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On the FreeRADIUS package not starting issue. The pfsense guys sent me a fix:

From Diag>Command
Run
Code:
rm /tmp/radiusd_start.lock
Then save something in your FreeRADIUS config to start it, or start from Status>Services.