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Author Topic: Ronski's Pfsense router build  (Read 79733 times)

Ronski

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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #195 on: September 11, 2023, 03:37:34 PM »

It was from USB during boot, not the first boot either.
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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #196 on: September 12, 2023, 10:01:29 AM »

Ok so you installed it normally first, then put the config on a stick for it to be detected during boot?

That does sound like its the ECL then.

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/restore-during-install.html#restore-using-the-external-configuration-locator-ecl

I have fed this back into the bug report and will assume they going to adjust the timeout.  The one they found is 30 seconds long.
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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #197 on: September 12, 2023, 10:08:34 AM »

Yes, that's correct.

It could be 30 seconds long, you have tons of text going up the screen, so by the time you notice it's asking you to enter the password some time has elapsed (I was on another computer), then the password was not straight forward.
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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #198 on: September 12, 2023, 10:58:32 AM »

Yeah its deffo too short, especially if a complex password, there is no copy and pasting on there so typing it out.
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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #199 on: September 13, 2023, 09:25:04 AM »

Well they only boosting it to 60 seconds which seems underwhelming, I guess for some reason they hesitant to change it too much or even to remove it. 

How are things now?
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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #200 on: September 13, 2023, 01:13:26 PM »

Sixty is better than 30, but the easy answer is to extend the time out each time a key is pressed.

All running ok so far, VPN access works as well. It's a pretty standard install to be fair.

Also sold the old Qotom PC for £20, so that's a bonus.
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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #201 on: September 14, 2023, 08:04:16 AM »

Oh good, my N5105 seems to have suddenly developed coil whine.
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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #202 on: September 14, 2023, 10:10:08 AM »

It's odd, I said to some one about a week before mine packed up that it was six years old, he's said that's doing well, then it died :(
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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #203 on: September 28, 2023, 07:01:57 AM »

It used to be all done in foreground on console boot with the boot not finishing until they all done, but I think they changed it to make the basic pfsense system come online quicker so now it does some of it in the background after the UI etc. is loaded.  Then at that point have to hope it works out ok, I think its the same process as used when doing a in place upgrade which also reinstalls all packages.

I am guessing they did this as was people doing these in place upgrade's without console access and getting impatient waiting for the UI to come back up.

I discovered one reason package installation is kinda iffy on my configuration.

I got a backup router and was copying my configuration over while using only 5G (as I can plug two devices into that without disrupting the main router) but because AAISP L2TP is part of my configuration it kept trying to connect which obviously clashed with the existing connection from my main router.

So the firewall kept restarting each time the L2TP connection was rejected, causing package installation to abort.  I disabled L2TP and manually installed the packages.

Now I hit a second snag, the N100 seems to have a transient current peak during bootup that overloads my PoE splitter. :(  I honestly didn't think this unit would peak over 30W (though some Amazon reviews did say my PoE splitter had problems hitting its rated output) and 60W PoE++ splitters are £170 - that's more than the N100 LOL.  Would be cheaper to replace the Gigaset VoIP box with a PoE model to free an AC outlet on the UPS.

On the plus side my N100 came with a Delta Electronics PSU so it might actually be safe to use.
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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #204 on: October 07, 2023, 10:25:04 AM »

How much did you pay for your N100? The Ronski link is currently £234 with SSD and Ram.
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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #205 on: October 07, 2023, 11:42:17 AM »

How would the n100 cope with a 2gb fttp non ppoe type connection? You fibre offering upgrade...

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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #206 on: October 07, 2023, 01:20:08 PM »

How much did you pay for your N100? The Ronski link is currently £234 with SSD and Ram.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004360072281.html
£150.19 with 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD. It came with pfSense 2.7.0 pre-installed (necessary version for the NICs) but I did it fresh anyway.
I paid £162.90 for 16GB RAM with 128GB SSD, its now £168.80 for that.  I figured better to have too much RAM than too little given the price difference.

How would the n100 cope with a 2gb fttp non ppoe type connection? You fibre offering upgrade...

Thanks

I think the N5105 would probably have handled 2Gbit tbh (it can NAT at 2.5Gbit easily), although its a confusing one as mpd5 shows as 0% load even when I'm pushing Gigabit, when I don't see how that is possible given all the claims of PPP being CPU intensive.
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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #207 on: October 07, 2023, 06:01:51 PM »

How much did you pay for your N100? The Ronski link is currently £234 with SSD and Ram.


This n100 is  £155 at the moment. free shipping  with 16gb ram and 256nvme etc.looks the same to me.
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mq2wcm6
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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #208 on: October 08, 2023, 11:08:55 AM »

So is options, 128 gig nvme and 8 gig ram is already huge overkill for pfsense though.  But I guess overspeccing is useful if ever repurposed.
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Re: Ronski's Pfsense router build
« Reply #209 on: October 08, 2023, 03:59:54 PM »

So is options, 128 gig nvme and 8 gig ram is already huge overkill for pfsense though.  But I guess overspeccing is useful if ever repurposed.

Especially as these units are powerful enough to virtualise, though I prefer to stick to bare metal.
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