Hello all -

I'm resurrecting this thread in hopes of getting some advice and/or
clarity on what's going on.

As you can read in my previous email, I attempted an in-place upgrade
from 2.0.1 to 2.1.2, which failed due to it (for some reason) not
NATting packets correctly.

Last night I finally got around to burning a clean 2.1.2 image on a CF
card, installing it, then restoring one of my 2.0.1 backups. After
doing this, I had the *exact* same symptoms as I did after the
in-place upgrade:

- interfaces were configured correctly
- firewall and NAT rules correct
- internet-bound traffic sourced from the pfsense itself worked fine
(pings, DNSmasq, etc.)
- it would not NAT LAN packets out the WAN interface

I saw one anomaly that I doubt has anything to do with this failure,
but I'm not certain, so I'll mention it. This install is on a soekris
net-5501, which only has 256 MB RAM. As such, when pfsense booted, php
was consistently getting killed due to memory contention. I needed to
restart the web configurator from the console. Now, my assumption is
that routing, NAT, firewall, etc. are kernel-level functions and
should not be affected by an out-of-memory condition. Is this correct?

Does anyone have other ideas as to what's going on?

Thank you-
Erik



On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Erik Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have an embedded (soekris) install running 2.0.1-RELEASE.
>
> This weekend, I attempted an in-place upgrade to 2.1.2-RELEASE. After the
> upgrade, all interfaces appeared to be configured correctly:
>
> - while ssh'ed into pfsense, I could access internet hosts
> - all internal VLAN interfaces were configured correctly, and were
> accessible as expected from their respective VLANs
> - from the "main" internal LAN, I could access the pfsense LAN interface as
> well as the web configurator
>
> However, it didn't appear to be NATing packets correctly from any of the
> internal interfaces to the WAN. I double-checked and re-applied the NAT and
> firewall rules to no effect.
>
> Any ideas what could have happened? Are there any known issues with an
> in-place 2.0.1 -> 2.1.2 upgrade?
>
> Next I'm just going to try to burn a clean 2.1.2 image on a CF card and then
> restore the config file, which I *hope* will be successful.
>
> -Erik
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