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22.1 Legacy Series / Re: os-ddclient
« on: February 05, 2022, 11:00:41 am »
Just wanted to throw in that I too don't like the new dyndns client. The old one works , the new one does not support (as far as I am able to figure out) freedns.afraid.org which I use.
My solution was to drop the new dyndns client and use cron on one of my servers instead.

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21.7 Legacy Series / Minor GUI bug
« on: October 10, 2021, 08:01:47 pm »
Firewall->Settings->Normalization

Hovering over any item under general settings such as disable interface scrub, ip do not fragment or ip random id hides the text by giving it the same color as the background color.

I use the tukan theme , but I bet there is something inconsistent with the GUI itself.

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: Automatic firmware update notification?!
« on: May 24, 2021, 11:25:16 pm »
Well all I am asking for is essentially to have an optional cronjob that can be enabled/disabled making the "phone home" totally optional. If an update is available just changing the link text "check for updates" to "update available" on the widget is more than enough for me.

Notifications like in a certain other sense does not make sense (!) too me as it is just messy and difficult to keep track of.

And while avoiding one click may not seem as much it is (in my opinion) little things like this that makes a huge difference in how the product is perceived.

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: Automatic firmware update notification?!
« on: May 24, 2021, 01:56:00 pm »
I would much rather prefer an automatic check so I can decide myself when I wish to update.

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21.1 Legacy Series / Automatic firmware update notification?!
« on: May 24, 2021, 01:39:13 pm »
I have to do system->firmware->status->check for updates or via the system info widget in the lobby click the check or updates link.

Is there really anything that problematic with having OPNsense by itself, (perhaps once a day) check an URL to see if it's firmware version match or if there is a update available? I would much rather prefer to see in the system widget when an update is available instead of mindlessly having to click and hope there is something exciting waiting for me.

Would this be possible to add in a future update/release?

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: device are slow to connect to router
« on: May 08, 2021, 11:57:51 pm »
Just an idea : Are you using Cisco switches?! These have a feature called portfast that is bypassing some fancy learning magic. A sleeping device is essentially disconnected so it might be that this is your problem, maybe not, but worth a shot ;)

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: Traffic shaping
« on: March 25, 2021, 03:50:19 am »
DISCLAIMER: I still may not be know what I am talking about...

Pipe = fixed bandwidth 100mbps for example... This if this as the "master queue".
Queue1 = weight 100
Queue2 = weight 100

if both queue 1 and 2 have a data rate at 100mbps each then the data will be sent through the pipe from queue ordered something like this: 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2...etc.
E.g. the pipe is fully utilized by taking half the data from each queue. So the queues will be emptied at a data rate of 50mbps.

If you now add Queue3 = weight 200 (higher weight, means higher datarate) and there is 100mbps datarate on that queue as well you will get something like this: 3,1,3,2,3,1,3,2,3,1,3,2,3,1,3,2,....etc This means that you will get 50mbps on queue 3 while queue 1 and 2 will share the remaining 50mbps and get 25mbps each.

If you add a single pipe with fixed bandwidth , you can prioritize by assigning queues to that pipe only. The weight of the queue determins how much of each queue will let through. That is a evenly shared queue (the pipe) and you can prioritize traffic easily.

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: Traffic shaping
« on: March 23, 2021, 12:58:30 am »
DISCLAIMER: I am no expert on this and may not know what I am taking about.
But as far as I can tell - yes - you just make two new queues with a higher weight and assign your traffic to them.

As far as I have understood it is more or less the same as going to a movie...
Pipe = The door. E.g. how many people (for example 10) that can enter at once.  (bandwidth)
Queue = A bunch of people. If a more important queue exists (higher queue weight) then for every 9th that entered from the important queue, one will enter from the regular queue.
Rules = Determines what kind of people belongs to what queue - the fancy important one or the regular queue.

So if you want to share bandwidth evenly just look at this https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/shaper_share_evenly.html and make a couple of high priority queues and set a high weight to them.

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: For 21.1.3-amd64 -> Lobby->Dashboard->Traffic widget broken in SeaMonkey 2.53.6
« on: March 11, 2021, 07:29:23 pm »
Works perfectly. Thanks a bunch :)

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21.1 Legacy Series / For 21.1.3-amd64 -> Lobby->Dashboard->Traffic widget broken in SeaMonkey 2.53.6
« on: March 11, 2021, 06:53:40 pm »
Reporting->Traffic->Graph works fine, but...
Lobby->Dashboard->Traffic widget does not display graphs on SeaMonkey 2.53.6

This
... was working in 21.1.1
... was broken in 21.1.2 , but I did not report it - hoping for it to be fixed in 21.1.3.

It all works on Chrome 88.0.4324.182 (Debian), but please test your updates for stable versions on older browsers as well. Not everyone needs or wants to run on the latest fancy stuff, and it is not fun when thins break. This is a minor problem of course, but things such as buttons not working (which was fixed with a workaround in 21.1.2) is not always fun.
Don't get me wrong - you guys are doing a great job so keep up the good work!

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: Will /var be periodically backed up even if it is set as a memory filesystem?
« on: February 16, 2021, 03:39:30 pm »
Am I misunderstanding or do you say that a normal reboot wipes /var EVEN if it is on disk? If that really is the case , why not always keep /var in memory then?

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21.1 Legacy Series / Will /var be periodically backed up even if it is set as a memory filesystem?
« on: February 16, 2021, 12:01:29 pm »
I upgraded by opnsense box with SSD's and decided to put /var in RAM.
If I enable all the periodic backups (rrd,dhcp leases,netfow and captive portal) at 1 hour interval it is not clear to me if this would be the same as having /var periodically saved to disk causing a unclean reboot / shutdown to result in max 1 hour of lost logs.

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: Bug?: Can't edit aliases
« on: February 09, 2021, 10:40:23 pm »
Quote from: franco on January 31, 2021, 11:09:01 am
Tokenize 1.3.3 update added string.replaceAll use apparently https://github.com/opnsense/core/commit/4035a2f9552a

We will try to work around it if feasible for 21.1.1.


Cheers,
Franco

Did a quick test and the workaround seems to work perfectly (so far). Thanks a bunch!

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: Bug?: Can't edit aliases
« on: February 06, 2021, 05:34:30 pm »
Quote from: marjohn56 on February 06, 2021, 04:57:23 pm
Probably doesn't work at all on windows 95 then, also I cannot drive my car on leaded fuel. I have a lot of clients who are going to be extremely upset when they go back their offices ( eventually ) and find that their nice GUIs which used flash are no longer going to work, progress sucks! : ;)

Several choices of themes now to play with.

Yeah there are good themes such as the tukan theme which I use to make things a bit more visible. For me this works better than the default.

Regarding the rest of your comment - do you see the irony in your own argument here? What you are describing is exactly what I am advocating against. You joke about people getting upset when their flash based GUI don't work anymore. This is precisely my point.

More often than not dependencies are evil, horrible and make you smell funny too, and you should avoid them as much as possible, when possible, if possible. At some point your fancy library that promised you everlasting love suddenly hates you and things you depended on is no longer supported or wrecks compatibility. A web GUI should be as simple as possible, preferably even without javascript with the odd exception of updating a div every now and then. So in my little playworld I would rather say that progress in this particular case would be no need for dependencies.

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: Bug?: Can't edit aliases
« on: February 05, 2021, 06:00:22 pm »
Thanks for patching this bug / incompatibility. I think that one should strive to stay compatible with older browsers - it is "only" a GUI and I can imagine that where stable systems is preferred there might be an outdated browser or two in use.

Be warned - slight rant....:
In general I hate animations, effects and "fancy stuff" on web-gui's especially. It is supposed to be functional, fast and not a tech demo. Lots of modern websites seem to have forgotten this.

The biggest issues I have with OPNsense (except this little nugget of entertainment reported here) is that the web-gui is dead slow. At least on my system with an "outdated" bowser (SeaMonkey V2.53.6 January 22 - 2021) that runs on a 2007 era Core 2 Duo E6600. While OPNsense is great, I am to this day surprised that the GUI - which is a fairly new invention - is as slow as it is.

Now, sorry if I am a bit harsh - I am not trying to bash OPNsense here, but one of the reasons that I "tipped over" to try out OPNsense was the GUI. While I dislike the white theme, the (at that time) aim to structure it better, plus the nice help easily accessible was the carrot for me. Not only for me , but probably for others as well I would think that little things like this - including the bug/incompatibility mentioned here can easily be a trigger for rejecting a product - so if I may again - please test and make sure basics work on older browsers as well. I was trying to adjust something in the captive portal yesterday, but refused to try another browser , so I just decided to wait until the next update ;)

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