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#1

General Discussion / Re: newbie trying to set up ne...

Last post by RobertoZ - Today at 02:56:00 AM

You could find a used wifi router that has current OpenWRT support and just use it as a access point. 

#2

26.1, 26,4 Series / Re: 26.1 upgrade chaos, Realte...

Last post by computer_freak_8 - Today at 02:21:10 AM

• os-realtek-re not available at all; I still can't find it in either Packages or Plugins, even after another update/upgrade and re-check (26.1.7 now).

I fixed this. So, in addition to the Settings tab --> Community in the "Type" drop-down, there is also a checkbox in the upper right of the "Packages" tab, that says "Show community plugins". That's what I was missing.

I am hoping to do more installs/troubleshooting over the weekend, so should have more updates then.

#3

26.1, 26,4 Series / Re: 26.1 upgrade chaos, Realte...

Last post by nero355 - Today at 01:07:39 AM

In the past, the only way I've been able to get a bootable flash drive of OPNsense (or pfSense, so I assume it's a BSD thing?) is writing the ISO directly to a UFD.

The IMG files never worked on a UFD, neither directly nor with Ventoy once that became a thing.
The only way I've got IMGs to boot in the past was to write them directly to internal media.


BUT, I will definitely accept any fault for not re-trying the recommended tactics this round. :-)

This is pretty much it : https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/install.html#installation-media :-)

I use DD all the time to write stuff to my USB Stick that I use for this kind of stuff in combination with my Debian Linux running laptop.
In case you are using Windows I think it's best to use Rufus to write any kind of image to USB Sticks : https://rufus.ie/en/

#4

German - Deutsch / Re: Updates nicht möglich

Last post by Spacer - Today at 12:36:34 AM

Habe es selbst gelöst:

Eine Analyse hat ergeben, dass der Zeitserver nicht mehr lief. Dadurch kam es dann zu folgender Aussage der OpenSense, beim Versuch zu updaten:

Fetching changelog information, please wait... Certificate verification failed for ...

Ein "ntpq -p" auf der Console ergab, dann, dass der Zeitserver rumzickt.

Dann habe ich mit z.B. "date 202606051430" auf der Console die Uhrzeit manuell gesetzt. Dann konnte ich die Updates laden.
Das hat aber nicht dieses nervige Problem mit dem Zeitserver gelöst. Der zickt immer noch rum.

Zumindest hatte ich dann die OpenSense wieder auf dem neuesten Stand. Nun muss ich mich wohl mit dem Zeitserver auseinandersetzen (mal wieder).

Wahrscheinlich die einfach die BIOS Batterie leer...

#5

26.1, 26,4 Series / Re: NUT 2.8.5_1: upsc, upscmd,...

Last post by RAT - June 04, 2026, 09:01:30 PM

Thank you for your swift reply. I'm a bit ashamed I didn't find your solution on my own 🫣�

#6

General Discussion / Re: NUT is Broken After Udatin...

Last post by RAT - June 04, 2026, 08:58:27 PM

Code Select Expand

opnsense-revert -r 26.1.7 nut
pkg lock nut


Thank you!

#7

26.1, 26,4 Series / Re: 26.1 upgrade chaos, Realte...

Last post by computer_freak_8 - June 04, 2026, 07:28:34 PM

The DVD image is really for DVD burning AFAIK so no wonder only Ventoy worked eventually :)

In the past, the only way I've been able to get a bootable flash drive of OPNsense (or pfSense, so I assume it's a BSD thing?) is writing the ISO directly to a UFD. The IMG files never worked on a UFD, neither directly nor with Ventoy once that became a thing. The only way I've got IMGs to boot in the past was to write them directly to internal media.


BUT, I will definitely accept any fault for not re-trying the recommended tactics this round. :-) Habits built from repeated troubleshooting die hard, I guess.

#8

26.1, 26,4 Series / Re: 26.1 upgrade chaos, Realte...

Last post by nero355 - June 04, 2026, 06:43:40 PM

I downloaded the amd64 DVD ISO and tried to put it on a flash drive to install on new_hardware, but neither dd- nor cat-created UFDs were able to boot; I had to drop the ISO into a Ventoy drive to be able to boot it at all. (26.1.6). (Yes, I validated the checksum and then unzipped it first.)

The DVD image is really for DVD burning AFAIK so no wonder only Ventoy worked eventually :)

See : https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/install.html#installation-images

#9

General Discussion / Re: DNS Best practices

Last post by nero355 - June 04, 2026, 06:11:06 PM

I've recently setup my OPNsense firewall with DNS failover

May I ask how exactly ?

The reason I am asking is that a lot of people seem to think that configuring a device with multiple DNS Servers will give them DNS Redundancy in theory while it does not work like that in the real world !!

A well known example :
- Primary DNS = Pi-Hole/AdGuard
- Secondary DNS = Google/Quad9/CloudFlare

And then people wonder why their adblocking does not always work, because they expect the Secondary DNS to be used only when the Primary DNS is DOWN and not all the time at random moments...

#10

26.1, 26,4 Series / Re: Opnsense randomly (?) cras...

Last post by nero355 - June 04, 2026, 06:04:20 PM

Its right there in his signature.

I see signatures of users but his is empty ?!

I also have to correct myself: the SSD is not running in raid1.

It's a single SSD but as a live OS is also crashing I assume it's not the SSD.
I also doubt that a faulty SSD crashes the whole machine.

Sometimes Live CD/ISO Images try to mount local storage automatically and if that fails in a certain way it can cause issues too so I would check that again just to be sure !!

- Which model is it ?
- Are there firmware updates available ?
- What does smartctl/nvmecontrol say ?
- Are there known issues with it in certain scenarios ?

And indeed : Memory testing should be done for at least 24 hours !!