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23.7 Legacy Series / Re: Does ZFS support 16gb memory cards?

« on: December 24, 2023, 12:00:42 am »

Have you tried installing from USB to the SD card?

Yes, that's what I did to get ZFS on the SD card.  SD card in the slot on the APU motherboard, serial installer USB stick in one of the rear panel USB ports.  Boot from the USB stick, install onto the SD card.

Glad doktornotor's feedback helped you get started.  Just remember, the nano image uses UFS on the SD card.  If you want ZFS, you'll need to boot from the serial installer USB stick and install from there onto your SD card. 

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23.7 Legacy Series / Re: Does ZFS support 16gb memory cards?

« on: December 22, 2023, 11:57:15 pm »

The nano image is UFS.  When you write the image onto an SD card, it is written as UFS.  As far as I know, ZFS isn't an option with the nano image.

I tried installing with ZFS onto an SD card using the serial install image.  It is working great.

To reduce unnecessary writes to the card, during install I set swap to 0 GB (a trick that was mentioned by one of the Netgate developers).  I also minimize logging and set /var and /tmp to run in RAM. 

I have been watching the writes to disk by SSH'ing into the console and issuing 'iostat -x'.  As I type this, kr/s (kB written per second since boot) sits at 6.1.  (It started high right after boot and has been dropping since.)  Assuming a reasonable sized SD card (say 32 GB) of high quality (Samsung Pro Endurance uses good MLC flash chips), I've calculated that the card should last many many years (decades).

[Edit - mistyped the kr/s - corrected to 6.1.  It keeps coming down over time, indicating there's little writing going on once the system is booted and running.]

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23.7 Legacy Series / Re: Does ZFS support 16gb memory cards?

« on: December 19, 2023, 11:36:24 pm »

For installation on an SD card, I think it may be better to use the nano version - it's an image file you deploy directly onto an SD card (using any one of several disk image writers like rufus (on Windows)).   It uses UFS (not ZFS), so I'm not sure this answers the OP's question.

If the OP wants to experiment with ZFS on an SD card, then yes, he should use the serial installer, and try installing to the SD card from that.  (I have installed pfSense onto an SD card using their serial installer, using UFS and no swap to minimize disk writes.  It worked fine.  I did not try ZFS on the SD card.) 

One question about ZFS - does it do more writes to the disk than UFS, and would it wear the SD card out faster?

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23.7 Legacy Series / Re: Firewall Rules - "Inspect" only shows N/A after upgrade.

« on: November 15, 2023, 11:29:08 pm »

Mine does that (it shows all "N/A") for a second, then the counters fill in.  Not sure why the display you're seeing seems to get stuck halfway.

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23.7 Legacy Series / Re: 23.7.6 update - GUI issues

« on: October 13, 2023, 09:58:47 pm »

I see, hmmm, was better the previous way IMHO. 

I can see the delete button now, but was overlapped with text.

New way isn't as clear to me, but hey ho, I wont stand in the way of progress....

I saw the delete (trash can) button, but it doesn't delete anything.  I get the red "Remove configuration backup" popup, I click on 'yes', and nothing gets deleted.  Same result on two different boxes, with different browsers.  (I only keep 5 backups so it's easy to see if anything's been deleted.)

The text overlaps the buttons, too, making the trash can a bit tricky to hit with the mouse.  So I figure this particular change is still a bit 'work in progress'.

Update:  When I looked in the /conf/backup/ directory, the backup files actually do get deleted.  It's the drop-down list in the UI that still shows them.  If I log out and log back in, the drop down no longer shows them, so it's a browser caching issue.

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23.1 Legacy Series / Re: The new unbound reporting is pretty cool

« on: February 15, 2023, 07:08:53 pm »

Looks like with todays update the unbound reporting tool is broken. "No results found!" for me.

Tried to reset DNS Data, tried a reboot... Doesn't work.

When mine rebooted after this latest upgrade, the reporting tool showed no numbers, but after a second reboot, it seems to be working well.  (The startup beep sequence also seemed slow the first time, but had its normal cadence on the second reboot.  I've heard that slow beep sequence occasionally on previous upgrades - I'm not sure what it means, but when I hear it, I typically reboot again, "just in case".)

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22.7 Legacy Series / Re: IPv6 (PD) addressing and user specified DNS

« on: November 05, 2022, 04:05:54 pm »

Make it a difference, if I activate in "Services/Router Advertisements/LAN" the DNS option "Use the DNS configuration of the DHCPv6 server" instead of enter the IPv6 of the Adguard DNS Server?

Honestly, I have wondered the same thing. It isn't obvious (to me, anyway) what the "Use the DNS configuration of the DHCPv6 server" setting does.  So I usually just do both - enter the address of my PiHole as the DNS server that gets advertised, and check the "Use the DNS configuration of the DHCPv6 server".  It wouldn't be hard to experiment and find out if there's a difference - I just haven't bothered to try it out.

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22.7 Legacy Series / Re: IPv6 (PD) addressing and user specified DNS

« on: October 27, 2022, 01:28:51 am »

I found the issue on my system that was causing one network segment to get both predefined IPv6 DNS addresses (Cloudflare 2606:4700:4700::1111 / ::1001) and my router's LAN address as a DNS server - on that LAN segment, I had inadvertently left Services/Router Advertisements/Router Advertisements (the first drop down) set to "Disabled".  When I set it to "Assisted", the router stopped sending out the LAN address as a DNS server, and only advertised the Cloudflare addresses I entered into the DNS Servers field.  So maybe that helps you, opns-sc0?

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22.7 Legacy Series / Re: IPv6 (PD) addressing and user specified DNS

« on: October 26, 2022, 11:44:04 pm »

opns-sc0 - You said your router is still handing out its own IPv6 LAN address as one of the DNS servers.  Have you looked at the  DNS options under "Router Advertisements"?  I don't have the answer - time to experiment?

[Edit] I actually have multiple LAN segments (hanging off an APU), some configured with Cloudflare and some configured with my pihole, and I just noticed that the ones with Cloudflare show my router's LAN address as the primary DNS (Cloudflare as secondary).  The ones with the pihole show only the pihole.  As far as I can tell every other setting with these segments is the same, so I have some digging to do.  If I find something I'll let you know.

lilsense - I haven't looked into using the DUID to create the address.  For me, using ULA/SLAAC to create a static address for the pi "just worked", and I stopped looking for other approaches.  But yours is an interesting idea I'll take a look at - thanks for suggesting it.

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22.7 Legacy Series / Re: IPv6 (PD) addressing and user specified DNS

« on: October 26, 2022, 01:15:39 pm »

I do this with a PiHole.  You need to use Unique Local Addressing - ULA - (not link local) for your local IPv6 addressing.

- Under "Interfaces/Virtual IPs/Settings". assign a ULA to your LAN port, something like FDB1:ABCD:ABCD:ABCD::1/64. (You will want to randomize the address - it should start with FC or FD (I use FD), but the rest of the characters should be randomly selected from 0-9/A-F.)

- Under "Services/DHCPv6/LAN" check the "Enable DCHPv6 server" box, and enter the ULA prefix (in this example, FDB1:ABCD:ABCD:ABCD::  ) in the "From" and "To" fields of the "Prefix Delegation Range", and set the "Prefix Delegation Size" to 64

- Save

- Under "Services/Router Advertisements/LAN", set "Router Advertisements" to Assisted (this is important)

- Save

Then your Adguard box should pick up a full ULA IPv6 address (via SLAAC), something that will look like FDB1:ABCD:ABCD:ABCD:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx. (To see what address my pihole gets, I log into my pi and issue "ifconfig" - that gives me a list of the addresses my box has, and one of those is the full ULA.)

That full ULA is what you use as the DNS server advertised by your router.

- Under "Services/DHCPv6/LAN", set the DNS server to the full ULA of your Adguard DNS server, Save

- Under "Services/Router Advertisements/LAN", set the DNS server to the full ULA of your Adguard DNS server, Save

(Yes, set it in two places.  By setting it in Router Advertisements, your computers will receive it as the IPv6 address of the DNS server, and all IPv6 DNS queries will go directly to your Adguard box)

When I was getting started with OPNsense it took me a while to figure it out.  That first step - assigning a virtual IP to the LAN port - is essential.

Good luck!

[Edit]
I forgot to mention, I also use a static IPv4 address for my pihole (set in /etc/dhcpcd.conf on the pihole server).  On OPNsense, under Services/DHCPv4/LAN/RANGE, I set a limited range of IPv4 addresses to be assigned to my clients, and then set the pi's static address outside that range.  Then I put the pi's static IPv4 address in the Services/DHCPv4/LAN/DNS Server field.

This way, I basically have static addresses for both IPv6 and IPv4, and these get sent to my devices either by DHCP (IPv4) or Router Advertisements (IPv6).

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22.7 Legacy Series / Re: "Reset to Defaults" doesn't clear shaper pipe/queue

« on: October 12, 2022, 02:22:16 pm »

Thanks, Franco.

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22.7 Legacy Series / Re: "Reset to Defaults" doesn't clear shaper pipe/queue

« on: October 11, 2022, 11:23:11 pm »

Done.  Thanks!

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22.7 Legacy Series / "Reset to Defaults" doesn't clear shaper pipe/queue

« on: October 11, 2022, 12:26:07 pm »

Running 22.7.5 on APU4, well configured.  Reset to defaults and reconfigured from scratch.  Prior config had shaper pipes/queues/rules to address bufferbloat.  New config does not have shaper configured (I even checked the config.xml file), but bufferbloat tests still get A+.  Puzzled by this, I looked under Firewall/Shaper/Status, and I see the pipes and the queues from the old config are still there.  (The rules are blank but the pipes and queues still show the bandwidth settings I had entered in the old config, and they show as processing packets.  Which probably explains the excellent bufferbloat tests.)

I have rebooted, even did a cold powerdown, to see if the shaper settings were lurking somehow in memory, but the results remained.  So apparently resetting to defaults doesn't clear out everything on disk.  Something for the devs to look at, I guess.