Solved Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?
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@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
If I was a regular user of pfSense, and familiar with all of the intricacies of its upgrades, I would almost certainly be confident doing that.
But I will not put a customer out of service for hours because I did not take a simple precaution.Did you pick up this customer knowing they were using pfsense or did you deploy pfsense for this customer?
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@dustinb3403 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
did you deploy pfsense for this customer?
No
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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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@dashrender Yes.
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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.
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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@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.
- I have done some reading.
- No, I will not ask a bunch of tinkerers about a business essential question.
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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.
- 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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@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.
- 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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This is probably the easiest and safest way to upgrade pfSense.
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@marcinozga said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
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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@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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@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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@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.
- 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.
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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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@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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@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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@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.
- 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.
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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@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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So the final answer for this question is, yes. Upgrades are normally smooth.
But the 2.5 branch has some issues , so hold off.
