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General Discussion / Re: No Startup/Shutdown Notification Sound

« on: August 22, 2024, 03:34:59 pm »

Speaker is fine. This is a replacement machine, too. In the previous one, I replaced the speaker, and still no sound. I replaced the whole machine with an identical one (for different reasons), and moved the disk/network card over, so it's essentially the same system as before. Still no sound.

I know the speaker's good because it works during BIOS updates. I'm betting this is one of those mysteries that will have me slapping my forehead later, but I've gone through all the troubleshooting steps I can think of. Since it's now a completely new machine but the same software image, I'm suspecting some kind of corruption? A fresh install might do the trick, but I'd like to avoid that complication.

t's not a critical function, but I like that the machine lets you know what it's up to during startup and shutdown.

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General Discussion / Re: No Startup/Shutdown Notification Sound

« on: August 22, 2024, 04:29:32 am »

Haha. No.

But I checked anyway.

No.

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General Discussion / No Startup/Shutdown Notification Sound

« on: August 21, 2024, 08:03:46 pm »

I don't get this at all. I have an OPNsense machine at one location that plays the startup and shutdown sounds. I have an identical machine configured the same way at another location and no sound. Sound is enabled in the BIOS in both cases. No changes to settings make a difference. Executing commands from the shell? Still no sound. I even switched the machine (moving the disk). Still no sound.

What's going on? How do I fix this?

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General Discussion / Re: No Beep on Startup and Shutdown

« on: August 21, 2024, 07:55:09 pm »

I followed your steps, and no result. Interestingly, I swapped out the old OPNsense machine for a new one--moved disk/memory/network card over--and tried again. Still no sound.

I'm stumped.

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General Discussion / Re: Kea Not Populating Hostnames for Unbound DNS

« on: July 24, 2024, 07:46:59 pm »

The "Register DHCP Static Mappings" checkbox in the General settings of Unbound DNS now populates from KEA reservations. With this, KEA now does everything I typically need for DCHP on the network. I'm sure future enhancements will add some conveniences, but for now, I'm delighted with how simple and reliable it is.

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General Discussion / No Beep on Startup and Shutdown

« on: June 26, 2024, 08:31:34 pm »

I have two identical OPNsense machines at two different locations.  Sound is enabled in the BIOS of both machines and the beep is enabled in both OPNsense configurations. One plays the beep on startup and shutdown. The other one doesn't. I cannot figure out why. I have confirmed that the speaker works in both machines, but just in case, I replaced the one in the silent machine. Same thing. Maybe some other failure on the mainboard is probably the issue.

It's not the end of the world if it doesn't work on one of the machines, but I'm curious.

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General Discussion / Re: Kea Not Populating Hostnames for Unbound DNS

« on: June 07, 2024, 06:03:21 am »

Thanks for the quick response. Since Kea has been working reliably for me with no issues at all, and having to use IP addresses is inconvenient but not a burden, I’ll just wait for enhancements to work their way into releases. I continue to be impressed by how solid OPNsense is.

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24.1 Legacy Series / Kea DHCPv6 Server

« on: June 06, 2024, 04:38:43 pm »

Is there a timeframe for the availability of the Kea DHCPv6 server? I don't have an urgent need, but I am planning to get a toe in the IPv6 water soon, and this would help simplify things (I think).

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General Discussion / Kea Not Populating Hostnames for Unbound DNS

« on: June 06, 2024, 04:34:58 pm »

I started using OPNsense a few months ago, and since it was a new installation, I went ahead and configured it to use the Kea DCHP server.

It appears that Unbound DNS will not populate local hostnames from the Kea reservations, which means I have to deal with everything on the network using IP addresses. I assume that either (a) I'm doing something wrong or (b) that option will be available in the future. If (a), what should I do? If (b), is there a timeframe to use for expectations?

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Hardware and Performance / Re: Performance Tuning

« on: April 03, 2024, 11:16:39 pm »

I've been struggling with this and have been trying all kinds of tuneables to get things back to normal. Nothing was working. I just added the following to disable flow control:

dev.ix.0.fc = 0   
dev.ix.1.fc = 0

My interfaces are ix0 and ix1. As soon as I added these, my throughput doubled.

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Hardware and Performance / Re: Bandwidth cut in half when traversing system but direct bandwidth test is fine

« on: April 03, 2024, 11:15:28 pm »

I've been struggling with the same problem and have been trying all kinds of tuneables to get things back to normal. Nothing was working. I just added the following to disable flow control:

dev.ix.0.fc = 0   
dev.ix.1.fc = 0

My interfaces are ix0 and ix1. As soon as I added these, my throughput doubled. I'm also using an Intel card, so maybe this will work for you.

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Hardware and Performance / Re: Performance Tuning

« on: March 30, 2024, 10:16:20 pm »

It's a NIC with an Intel X540-BT2 chipset. It'll support 10Gb, but I only need 1Gb out of it at the moment.

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Hardware and Performance / Performance Tuning

« on: March 30, 2024, 07:23:41 pm »

I just installed OPNsense on a Lenovo m920q with a dual interface NIC, 32GB of memory, and an i5-8600T CPU. Network throughput to the 1Gb WAN is about 50% of what it was with the ASUS router it replaced. Since I assume I have lots of power and memory, I also assume there are settings which I may need to adjust.

Does anyone have advice about how to get things back up to close to normal? Thank you!