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#61

Q-Feeds (Threat intelligence) / Re: Help fixing 'erroneous' Q-...

Last post by Taunt9930 - August 09, 2026, 09:41:04 PM

AHH, brilliant - thanks both - I missed that. Didn't think to search for 43.131.0.0. (Yes, I'm on plus).

What's the best way to whitelist/bypass for that single address? I notice you can add domain whitelist in qfeeds, but not sure you can add an IP?

#62

26.7 Series / Re: Call for testers - new CPU...

Last post by nero355 - August 09, 2026, 09:37:34 PM

How many more times do I need to repeat this?

#JustPeopleOnTheInternetTheseDays... 😉

Nothing we can do about it sadly :(

#63

General Discussion / Re: Help needed to update boot...

Last post by nero355 - August 09, 2026, 09:26:42 PM

For "real servers" EFI is the best invention since sliced bread. Nothing else, please.

Why exactly ?!

Apart from regular PCs and Laptops doing that fancy fast booting stuff for Consumers there is nothing that I can think of that I actually like about it to be honest...

#64

General Discussion / Re: Sonicwall TZ300 compatibil...

Last post by nero355 - August 09, 2026, 09:20:29 PM

If correct, Mips64 would be a show stopper in any case.

If there is one mistake I will never make again then it has to be buying hardware that (almost) completely depends on Offloading Chips and usually MIPS based stuff does exactly that! :(

#65

General Discussion / Re: Help needed to update boot...

Last post by Patrick M. Hausen - August 09, 2026, 09:15:04 PM

Again there is not really a pro or a contra for one method or the other. At least IMHO for a small appliance. For "real servers" EFI is the best invention since sliced bread. Nothing else, please.

[I don't have such a list of NICs]

#66

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

Last post by nero355 - August 09, 2026, 09:15:04 PM

Does your system have a free PCIe slot? Then buy a cheap used NIC (e.g. on eBay) that is known to work well with FreeBSD and put it in your system.
(I don't have such a list of NICs, but I'm using Intel i226-V on my OPNsense and it's been working without a problem.)

IMHO any Intel NIC with 1 Gbps or 2,5 Gbps ports will do :)

And if you want to be 101% sure you can check out the config file of the current FreeBSD 15.1 Kernel to see which chipsets are included at the moment.

#67

General Discussion / Re: Help needed to update boot...

Last post by hushcoden - August 09, 2026, 08:51:49 PM

I already updated the bootloader and it's in this thread too at #13 - I meant whether I should have changed from legacy BIOS to EUFI within the appliance BIOS... np, forget about my question.

#68

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

Last post by tangofan - August 09, 2026, 08:36:54 PM

AFAIK that's a very old RealTek NIC Chip used as Onboard NIC for a lot of devices and might be declared as EOL by the people who build the FreeBSD Kernel so you could check that and see if there is a solution available for those who want to use it anyway ?

Yes, it's old - that's why I'm using this machine as a firewall box rather than a general-purpose computer.
I suppose it's *possible* that the upstream devs went to the work of removing support for some RTL8111 flavors while leaving other RTL8111 flavors supported, but that seems implausible.

You could test, if native FreeBSD (15.1 IIRC) boots on your system (e.g. from a USB flash drive) with network drivers enabled. If it doesn't, then you'd need to take your problem upstream.

Does your system have a free PCIe slot? Then buy a cheap used NIC (e.g. on eBay) that is known to work well with FreeBSD and put it in your system. (I don't have such a list of NICs, but I'm using Intel i226-V on my OPNsense and it's been working without a problem.)

[must]

#69

General Discussion / Re: Help needed to update boot...

Last post by Patrick M. Hausen - August 09, 2026, 08:14:48 PM

You must update your legacy boot loader.

You can update your EFI boot loader in case you ever want to upgrade your hardware by moving your drive with the installed system to a new and more modern machine.

Your decision.

How to do that has been discussed dozens of times - I'm tired of writing the same things over and over again. It's in this thread.

#70

Q-Feeds (Threat intelligence) / Re: Help fixing 'erroneous' Q-...

Last post by lmoore - August 09, 2026, 07:52:08 PM

Spamhaus ZEN blacklist

It's in ZEN because it's listed in their PBL. Unless the node at this address is attempting to deliver e-mail's directly, it isn't a problem.