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    Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?

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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender @JaredBusch
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      @jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

      @dustinb3403 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

      did you deploy pfsense for this customer?

      No

      Is this the customer who's IT person passed away?

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @Dashrender
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        @dashrender Yes.

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        • dave247D
          dave247 @JaredBusch
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          @jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

          Site has a box running pfSense for their main router.

          It has an update pending.

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          I have not actively used pfSense for 7 years. It has generally always worked, but again, that was 7+ years ago.

          Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?

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          • JaredBuschJ
            JaredBusch @dave247
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            @dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

            Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?

            Obvious troll is obvious. But I will answer anyway.

            1. I have done some reading.
            2. No, I will not ask a bunch of tinkerers about a business essential question.
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            • dave247D
              dave247 @JaredBusch
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              @jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

              @dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

              Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?

              Obvious troll is obvious. But I will answer anyway.

              1. No, I will not ask a bunch of tinkerers about a business essential question.

              LOL ok. The forum is on netgate's website and the platform is open source so you're going to probably get a mix of knowledgeable people as well as "tinkerers" no matter where you ask. You just have to weed out the responses but I'm sure that's a better place to start than this forum...

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @dave247
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                @dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                @jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                @dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?

                Obvious troll is obvious. But I will answer anyway.

                1. No, I will not ask a bunch of tinkerers about a business essential question.

                LOL ok. The forum is on netgate's website and the platform is open source so you're going to probably get a mix of knowledgeable people as well as "tinkerers" no matter where you ask. You just have to weed out the responses but I'm sure that's a better place to start than this forum...

                That weeding out is exactly why I started here.

                I know people here have used it just as I have. Odds were good that some still do, and I was right.

                I have great answers without dealing with the masses of unwashed home users and hobbyists.

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                  marcinozga
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                  This is probably the easiest and safest way to upgrade pfSense.

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @marcinozga
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                    @marcinozga said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

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                    This is probably the easiest and safest way to upgrade pfSense.

                    That is what I used to do, as well as what I plan to do.

                    On site today. Upgrading after 6pm.

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch @1337
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                      @pete-s said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                      https://archive.org/download/pfSense-CE-2.4.5-RELEASE-p1-amd64/pfSense-CE-2.4.5-RELEASE-p1-amd64.iso

                      WTF with an archive.org link? Does pfSense not properly supply older versions?

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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch @JaredBusch
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                        @jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                        Does pfSense not properly supply older versions?

                        That answer is no, apparently.
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                        • JaredBuschJ
                          JaredBusch @dave247
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                          @dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                          @jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                          @dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                          Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?

                          Obvious troll is obvious. But I will answer anyway.

                          1. No, I will not ask a bunch of tinkerers about a business essential question.

                          LOL ok. The forum is on netgate's website and the platform is open source so you're going to probably get a mix of knowledgeable people as well as "tinkerers" no matter where you ask. You just have to weed out the responses but I'm sure that's a better place to start than this forum...

                          I responded to a single thread there.. Yup. useless.

                          https://forum.netgate.com/topic/163406/downgrade-to-2-5-0

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                          • JaredBuschJ
                            JaredBusch @marcinozga
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                            @marcinozga Any issues with 2.5.1?

                            Their forum is full of issues. But I have zero trust of the ability of those posting failures.

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                            • dbeatoD
                              dbeato @JaredBusch
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                              @jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                              rcinozga Any issues with 2.5.1?

                              Yeez, the forum replies are a little hostile too 😛

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                                1337 @JaredBusch
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                                @jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                                @marcinozga Any issues with 2.5.1?

                                Their forum is full of issues. But I have zero trust of the ability of those posting failures.

                                We have a number of devices running pfsense but we haven't moved to 2.5 branch yet. Mostly because we have a complex HA setup protecting a cluster of production servers so we are extra careful.

                                In a typical SMB firewall/router situation there is much less that can go wrong and I expect any issues to be ironed out pretty quickly. Reverting to an earlier version would be simple as well if any issues came up.

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                                • dave247D
                                  dave247 @JaredBusch
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                                  @jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                                  @dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                                  @jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                                  @dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                                  Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?

                                  Obvious troll is obvious. But I will answer anyway.

                                  1. No, I will not ask a bunch of tinkerers about a business essential question.

                                  LOL ok. The forum is on netgate's website and the platform is open source so you're going to probably get a mix of knowledgeable people as well as "tinkerers" no matter where you ask. You just have to weed out the responses but I'm sure that's a better place to start than this forum...

                                  I responded to a single thread there.. Yup. useless.

                                  https://forum.netgate.com/topic/163406/downgrade-to-2-5-0

                                  Good lord, LMAO. I'm sorry. I love that you took my advice and went over there only to discover it is indeed absolute stupidity.

                                  Yeah so idk maybe just don't update pfsense for a while? Is there a pressing need to upgrade to the new version? I know its ideal to just have things kept updated and on the latest version but its not worth it when the system updates are such a gamble and there's no real support.

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                                    marcinozga @JaredBusch
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                                    @jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

                                    @marcinozga Any issues with 2.5.1?

                                    Their forum is full of issues. But I have zero trust of the ability of those posting failures.

                                    None. But I also use hardly any packages. Basic firewall and NAT work just fine.

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                                    • JaredBuschJ
                                      JaredBusch
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                                      So the final answer for this question is, yes. Upgrades are normally smooth.

                                      But the 2.5 branch has some issues , so hold off.

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