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I upgraded to 25.1.3 again last night. My WiFi devices still work after this upgrade. I have no idea why they had a problem after upgrading the first time.

newsense, thank you for trying to help. I already had ipv6 disabled. I didn't see your message before I downgraded...

I saved my current configuration and then did a fresh install of 25.1. After restoring the configuration file, everything is back to working perfectly.

So, the upgrade to 25.1.3 caused the problem. I suppose something may have gotten corrupted during the upgrade process?

I am going to leave it for a couple of days at 25.1, then I will try upgrading to the latest version again and see what happens.

What happens if you manually set the network information on a device using DHCP ?

Unfortunately, that makes no difference.

The new GliNet Router exhibits the exact same problem. That pretty much proves that the OPNsense router is the problem. I wish there was an easy way to downgrade OPNsense.

I upgraded to 25.1.3 on Friday. A couple of hours later I noticed that all of my devices connected via WiFi where having serious connectivity issues. It was taking several retries just to connect to the Access Point. Once connected, traffic is very, very slow, often so slow that the device would decided that it had no internet access.

What is strange is that all of my hard wired devices are working perfectly. I have two Asus routers running in AP mode and any WiFi device connected to either experience the problem. I don't normally use the built-in switches on those Asus routers, but if I connect something to them wired, then the wired device works fine. So, again, this is only affecting WiFi devices.

If I switch from AP mode to "router" mode on either of the Asus routers, then WiFi devices work fine. It is only when I have the OPNsense router is providing DHCP that the problem occurs???  I use static DHCP assignments for 90% of my devices.

Once a WiFi devices is able to connect the AP, I can ping stuff, but the latency is extreme. Running a speed test on a WiFi connected device gets 400mb/s with the Asus in "router" mode, but only 1 mb/s with the Asus in "AP" mode.

I noticed the thread "How do I debug this? clients connected through AP can't ping router", but decided to create a new thread, since my WiFi devices can ping -- just very slowly. Because of that thread I tried clearing the ARP cache, but that made no difference.

I am a long time OPNsense user, but I am far from an expert. It works and I typically just leave it alone. In the past I have had to restart the DHCP service and/or the Unbound DNS service every so often, but doing that did not solve this issue.

I am going to get a different brand WiFi router/AP to try today, but the problem seems to be OPNsense. I would appreciate any tips on how to diagnose the issue.

TIA

Ah! I just found the section on how to ssh into the live image...

[was]

I let my DEC840 update to the latest OPNsense version yesterday. That was a mistake as it then would not boot:

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EFI Hard Drive (TS256GMTS952T2) boot failed.


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UEFI Interactive Shell v2.1
EDK II
UEFI v2.50 (INSYDE Corp., 0x52201000)
Mapping table
      FS0: Alias(s):HD0a0a1:;BLK1:
          PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x2)/Sata(0x0,0x0,0x0)/HD(1,GPT,53E73A55-7B47-11EB-9313-000C29311482,0x28,0x64000)
     BLK0: Alias(s):
          PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x2)/Sata(0x0,0x0,0x0)
     BLK2: Alias(s):
          PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x2)/Sata(0x0,0x0,0x0)/HD(2,GPT,53F44424-7B47-11EB-9313-000C29311482,0x64028,0x400)
     BLK3: Alias(s):
          PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x2)/Sata(0x0,0x0,0x0)/HD(3,GPT,53F996DE-7B47-11EB-9313-000C29311482,0x64428,0x1CC00
000)
     BLK4: Alias(s):
          PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x2)/Sata(0x0,0x0,0x0)/HD(4,GPT,5B3B7159-D3A3-11E6-A9E3-F490EA0062BF,0x1CC64428,0x10
8EE60)
Press ESC in 5 seconds to skip startup.nsh or any other key to continue.


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>> FreeBSD EFI boot block
   Loader path: /boot/loader.efi

   Initializing modules: ZFS UFS
   Load Path: \efi\boot\BOOTx64.efi
   Load Device: PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x8,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x2)/Sata(0x0,0x0,0x0)/HD(1,GP
T,53E73A55-7B47-11EB-9313-000C29311482,0x28,0x64000)
   BootCurrent: 0000
   BootOrder: 0002 0000[*] 2001 2002 2003
   Probing 5 block devices......*. done
    ZFS found no pools
    UFS found 1 partition
Failed to load '/boot/loader.efi'
panic: No bootable partitions found!
Shell>


I then downloaded the nano installer and wrote it to my thumbdrive, but the DEC840 doesn't see it as a valid boot option. I looked in the BIOS but was unable to find a MBR boot option.

I then tried the serial installer, but it also was not detected.

Then the dvd install, but still nothing.

I finally tried the vga installer even though the DEC840 does not have a video output, and it was detected and the DEC840 booted it. Since the DEC840 does not have a VGA output, it doesn't seem to help me though.

If someone can tell me how to fix the boot issue on the DEC840 itself, or tell me how to boot one of the UEFI install images, that would be very helpful.

TIA,

John