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    Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?

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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
                          last edited by dave247

                          @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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