Dear all,
I am in the process of upgradeing a little firewall with 2nics. This is a barebone installation. Since I want the latest version, I downloaded it and made a USB stick, booted from there etc. The downloadable image, at least to my knwonleadge available is 26.7, the latest version to which a system can be upgraeded is 26.7.8_2. I manage to do this, cann reboot etc. Dashboard update check tells me I am on the latest version.
Then, while configuring some aliases and NAT entries etc. all of a sudden the Dashboard tells me I am on
OPNsense 25.7.11_9-amd64
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p7
OpenSSL 3.0.18
and this obviousely can't be upgraded (and hence it never should be there anyways).
What is going on here? I must overlook something obvious or see ghosts or somthing?
Btw. I repeated this already 2 times...
I resolved the issue by replacing the firewall hardware. I don't have any idea as to why this happened, but it works now and lacking more time to investigate I consider this to be resolved.
Thanks anyways for the attention.
Maybe a second disk/SSD drive with an old installation and a not quite deterministic boot order?