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Thank you.

To block an internal IP address from internet access, I see in rules to block and i select source address, but I am not presented with an ip address to block. can anyone help me see what i am not.

Resolved: used "kern.vty=sc" in boot option 3. After confirming it worked, I set this in System/Settings/Tunables and it is now persistent.

I think I posted this in the wrong thread.

Baremetal upgrade boot messages stuck at blue highlighted Booting... echo. I can hear the firewall start and I can access the webgui and also ssh. When I ssh into OPNsense I get the console menu in my terminal. Downloaded 19.1 img to do a clean install, same issue, so no way to do a VGA install that i can see.

Not sure if this helps, but I see the below ttyv0 - ttyv7 entries in the General log files.
open /dev/ttyv[0-7]: No such file or directory

Hardware: ASRock Rack J1900D2Y

I too will be moving to OPNsense due to future AES requirements on pfSense. I have an i3 that has the instruction set, but I bought an asrock j1900d2y with embedded passive CPU and fanless PSU for a nice quiet router/firewall. It's awesome.

I have 3 users, to think I need hardware AES is a gross exaggeration. If need be I was going to install Debian on my old toaster oven, since that's about all I would need resource wise.

I prefer BSD for my networking needs and when I posted my concerns on a pfSense forum, the responses were rude and that hardware AES is needed. So, I said (sarcastically) under their logic why don't they go ahead and require ECC RAM and ZFS for the file system and lo and behold, I got responses supporting that and it digressed into a blowhard description of what the future of technology would be and that too would be required in 2.5, but I am sure it is not. troll prolly. UGH! There was no acknowledgment for understanding how things work, it was throwing resources where they need not be.

It used to be that if you desired an enterprise like firewall on commodity hardware, pfSense was a solid go to solution and was a "selling" point. I called out Netgate on the AES thing, but I guess they have to do what they have to do. Just don't feed me that a router needs ZFS and 3 hard drives. I mean, what in the world?

Side note first router was in 99 OS/2 old AT mobo and we screwed it to the framing in the wash room.

Thank you OPNsense for understanding the scope of things.