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Randomly, 'out of the blue', my opnsense router stopped working and now it keeps restarting itself it seems like it is going through a recovery process, it gets to the login prompt, then after around 30 seconds or so I see a large volume of text scrolling up the screen and it restarts again however this cycle repeats again and again?

Should I wipe the device and reinstall, and if so, if I put on a clean install of version 25 i.e. upgrade from v24, can I restore my settings into v25 to save me the time needed to reconfigure everything from scratch?

Thanks in advance

Hi All,

I'm really happy with my Opnsense router I've been using it for several months now and all is great however recently I've noticed that every few days when I perform a speed test the results show I get about a quarter of what it should be e.g. 250MBs when I should be getting around 1GBs. If I reboot my Opnsense router I instantly get the 1GBs. I know I can set up a cronjob to reboot the router every few days which I don't really have a problem with however it would be better to reboot the service that is likely causing this slowness rather than the whole router, does anyone know which service is likely causing the behaviour I have described so I can try just rebooting that?

Thanks in advance.

Is there a developer guide on how to add/integrate a dashboard widget?

Spent quite a lot of time trying to get to the bottom of this issue, I don't see any blocks I can see that the sync module can connect OK however I now think that the issue is between the cameras and the sync module it seems to be just the video feed as the cameras show as online and if I try to get live view you can see it trying it kinda gets there but eventually fails.

What within the LAN could be stopping / blocking this, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

Hello All,

I've had no issues with my Blink Cameras all have been working normally until I installed 24.7.11 since then the video feed has not worked, I cannot access live camera view and also whilst I receive alerts that cameras have been triggered by motion no clips are being saved to the cloud so I cannot view any video, can any please help guide me to troubleshoot and fix this issue, something in the 24.7.11 update seem to be blocking something, port, protocol etc how do I track this down can anyone advise?

I may have to wait to see if it happens again as I don't remember now what time it was when the router crashed if I get another occurrence I will make sure to dig around the logs once restarted.

I had another 'random' crash of my Opensense router today and had to power cycle several times to get the box/Opnsesne to boot and work again. I have Monit 'monitoring' however ideally I would like to get Monit to reboot the device automatically if this happens again, does anyone have a suggested strategy for doing this I don't want to cause my box to reboot unnecessarily however if critical issues occur like I've mentioned it would be good if this were self-healing?

Excellent thanks for your reply I will try this now!

I've configured monit with email server settings and it is sending email alerts however I need to be able to edit the sender/from details as the messages are getting blocked as spam etc can anyone please advise how I can edit these details?

This appears to be working now, I'm not sure what the issue was it started working after I applied changes so not totally sure where the issue was.

My question now is, did I need to apply the firewall rules that I added to try to get this going, or should it have worked anyway without these? Should I rewind and remove the rules, or am I OK to leave them in place? What is the best practice on this?

Firewall Rules:
WAN: UDP port 51820 open.
WireGuard (Group): Traffic allowed to LAN and Any (Internet).
NAT: Hybrid Outbound with NAT rule for WireGuard subnet (10.0.0.0/24 → WAN Address).
DNS: Public DNS for VPN clients (e.g., 1.1.1.1).

Hi all,

I'm setting up a WireGuard VPN on OPNsense and aiming for full-tunnel functionality. My goal is for remote clients to:

Browse the internet using the home office public IP.
Access LAN devices (192.168.1.0/24).

Issues:
When I set 0.0.0.0/0 as the Allowed IPs for the WireGuard peer, LAN devices lose internet access entirely. Reverting to 10.0.0.2/32 restores LAN internet but prevents full-tunnel VPN functionality.
Although UDP traffic is allowed on port 51820, the WireGuard handshake still intermittently fails.

What I've Configured:
WireGuard Subnet: 10.0.0.0/24.

Firewall Rules:
WAN: UDP port 51820 open.
WireGuard (Group): Traffic allowed to LAN and Any (Internet).
NAT: Hybrid Outbound with NAT rule for WireGuard subnet (10.0.0.0/24 → WAN Address).
DNS: Public DNS for VPN clients (e.g., 1.1.1.1).

Questions:
Why does setting 0.0.0.0/0 for the peer's Allowed IPs disrupt LAN internet access?
What could cause the WireGuard handshake to fail even though UDP is allowed on the WAN interface?
Any guidance or pointers would be much appreciated. Let me know if I should share specific details or logs.

Thanks in advance!

Ah OK so there must be something else that is wrong then as I need UPnP for XBOX's in my home this worked when I installed it yesterday however opnsense crashed today so needed to be power cycled to restore services after which the XBOX's were reporting strict NAT and couldn't connect to the internet, any ideas what might cause this if there is no additional configuration needed?

After adding the Universal Plug & Play plug-in/add-on, there was a note that seems to have gone. I think it said about editing the rc.conf file. However, I do not know what needs to be done as the note is now not being shown. Can someone please confirm what needs to be done to ensure this runs at startup?

I'm running Opensense on a Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5250U CPU @ 1.60GHz (2 cores, 4 threads) with 8GBs RAM

Versions
OPNsense 24.7.8-amd64
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p6
OpenSSL 3.0.15

and everything seems good however without warning Opensense crashed and I lost all access to this as well as the internet access etc.

I power cycled the device and this restarted and reconnected to the internet etc and all seems to be running normally again.

Can anyone advise what logs I should check to look for the possible root causes of this in case it happens again?

Also is there a configuration for Monit that will reboot the device in the event of major failures in services etc?

OK thanks