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A couple of restarts later and things are... fine.

Will update if the issue resurfaces.

So I have the following set-up:
LAN1 with OPNSense box as a router (1 WAN interface from ISP1, 1 LAN interface which is a bridge of 3 ports set up using https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/lan_bridge.html)
- 1 client running windows 10 wired connection (192.168.1.9/24 - dhcp lease)
- 1 ubuntu box with a samba share wired connection(192.168.1.51/24 -dhcp lease)

LAN2 with Com router (ASUS) - wan from ISP2
- same win10 as above but with a wireless connection (192.168.1.9/.24 - dhcp lease)
- same ubuntu box with the same samba share (192.168.1.51/24 - dhcp lease)

I am facing an issue where the same samba share times out / takes a very long time to show directory listing on LAN1 from the win10 client (I can see the destination ip and the share name but opening it times out and explorer freezes), whereas on LAN2, the same share via wireless works perfectly fine.

I am selectively disconnecting / deactivating nics on the win10 box to check this scenario.

The OPNsense box has pretty basic rules set, listed below:

- 32400 wan port forward to lan client for plex

What rules do I need to add so that all lan traffic is alowed / considered safe as a first step (to make sure there's nothing wrong on the samba box itself) something like "allow all" and then what ports, protocols do I need to forward inside the LAN so that the share works?

I would like to add that for LAN1, I used to have another comm router instead of the opnsense box and it used to work just as good as LAN1, which pinpoints to some setting in the firewall / rules for opnsense.

I've used ubuntu live to install grub on the SD card and then added an entry to boot from the ssd (having previously installed opnsense on the SSD).

So I've tried to install FreeBSD 13.2:
- manually placing freebsd-boot of 512K on disk 1
- manually placing freebsd-ufs of 42GB on disk 2
- manually placing freebsd-swap of 8GB on disk 2

After the instalation:
- if i boot from disk 1, I get the folliowing msg: "gptboot: no UFS parititon was found"
- if I boot from disk 2 "missing bootloader"

What would be the next steps?

Thanks

I will give that a go.

Is it worth using ZFS even if it's just one disk?

OP, did you manage to install OPNSense to boot from SD Card and have the OS reside on the SDD attached to ODD?

I made a post here as well: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=37058.msg181306#msg181306

Thanks

Hello,

I'm looking to install OPNSense on a HP Microserver Gen8 on an SSD attached to the ODD port.

This particular set-up has a boot controller that does not allow direct boot from the SSD on the ODD port if there are disks present in the 4 disk bays.

It also has an internal SD card that can be used for booting, and I used to have an Ubuntu installation that had the /boot partition and bootloader on the SD card and the /root partition on the SDD.

I could set this up at installation.

I am looking to replicate this set-up, but the OPNSense installer doesn't seem to support this directly, since if I create partitions manually (eg: "freebsd-boot" on the SD card and "freebsd-ufs" on the SDD), the system will return a "ufs partition not found" message.

So what should I do at partition time so that the bootloader and anything else needed ends on the SD card, while the main part of the installation ends up on the SDD?

Thanks!

Details on HP forums here: https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/hp-proliant-microserver-gen8-g1610t-boot-from-ssd-odd/td-p/6704677