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General Discussion / Issue with internet connection (reaching ISP activation webpage)

« on: September 02, 2024, 08:21:23 pm »

Hello

My ISP has setup so that every customer (me) needs to access an activation webpage, and on the webpage click a button "activate internet" so that the internet connection actually works.

My problem is that I cannot reach this webpage from my computer, since my computer is "behind" my OPNSense firewall/router.
I must connect a device directly, and then open a web-browser, try to go to a website which triggers a redirection to the ISP activation webpage.

Reaching the ISP activation webpage is a bothersome task, is it perhaps possible to fix in some way so that I can reach the webpage from my computer (which is behind the OPNSense firewall/router in a LAN)

Thanks for any ideas.

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Hardware and Performance / Update SeaBIOS (on Deciso Netboard A10)?

« on: April 28, 2019, 02:14:51 pm »

Hello

I have a "Desktop & Wallmountable" firewall which I bought from [applianceshop.eu] a few years ago.

The bios on the device is somewhat old now and I'm thinking about updating it, currently it seems to be SeaBIOS version 1.7.5-20141105_115023-ubuntu.


Some questions:

• Would there be any benefits in updating the bios?
  Of course it's always nice to have up-to-date software just for its own sake, but should I expect there to be any real/actual benefits I could notice?

• How would an update be performed?

• Is it risk-free to try updating the bios... or could there be a risk that the hardware gets bricked?

• Has anyone here got experience doing a more-or-less similar update? Perhaps even updating on this exact hardware?

Thanks for your help 

Below is an excerpt from the boot of my firewall which shows some information:

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SeaBIOS (version 1.7.5-20141105_115023-ubuntu)
Found mainboard Deciso Netboard A10
Relocating init from 0x000e76b9 to 0xbf0e5df0 (size 41283)
Found CBFS header at 0xfffffc50
boot order:
1: /pci@i0cf8/*@14,7
2: /pci@i0cf8/*@11/drive@0/disk@0
3: /pci@i0cf8/*@11/drive@1/disk@0
4: /pci@i0cf8/usb@12,2/usb-*@2
5: /pci@i0cf8/usb@13,2/usb-*@1
6: /pci@i0cf8/usb@12,2/usb-*@1
...

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General Discussion / Initial configuration of new installation?

« on: April 28, 2019, 01:28:28 pm »

Hello

I have recently done a fresh install of OPNsense v19.1.
I am wondering if there is some further configuration that is recommended to do on a fresh install? (Besides the configuration that OPNsense itself does during the installation/initial setup).


I have also looked at all the settings for the firewall and it seems like OPNsense creates a pretty ok configuration.

However, I have noticed one setting which I don't know if it's so good...
In System -> Settings -> Administration, for 'Web GUI' and 'Secure Shell' there's a setting 'Listen Interfaces' which for me by default is "All" (which should mean both WAN and LAN interfaces).

I think I want to change the value of 'Listen Interfaces' to "LAN", as a security precaution so that access is only allowed from LAN, and not from WAN.

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General Discussion / How to install?

« on: February 17, 2019, 02:15:43 pm »

Hello

I have a "Desktop & Wallmountable" device which I bought from applianceshop.eu some years ago. [applianceshop.eu]

I have never done any update on the device so the firmware/software is pretty old now. 
I want to install the latest OPNsense version on the device (currently v19.1.1)

However, I don't really know well enough how an installation would be performed to do it.
I have read some documentation [link] and I guess maybe it's done by serial, or with an SD-card?

The device has three ports:
A USB type A port
A port labeled "Console" which looks like a mini-usb port
SD-card slot

Could anyone help with detailed information on how an installation could be performed for the type of device I got?

Thanks for your help