I had been running 2.2-RC on my home router for a while now with no issues, so I figured I'd try upgrading my office firewalls to 2.2 from 2.1.5 this morning.
Everything seems to have gone just fine with one minor exception: the IPMI serial port console stopped working. I upgraded my backup firewall first, then the primary. The only thing that went down was the site-to-site vpn, since OpenVPN does not properly detect and fail over to the backup box because I have a gateway group with two WANs. Nobody even noticed anything else drop any connections. Anyhow, for anyone else interested in the serial console change necessary, here it is. On the pfSense/Netgate C2758 the motherboard has an on-board IPMI module that provides among other things a serial port over LAN (SoL) that shows up as COM2 to the motherboard. In FreeBSD 8, to set the console to the alternate port, in /boot/loader.conf.local you need to set these: hint.uart.1.flags="0x10" hint.uart.0.flags="0x00" However, these look to be ignored by FreeBSD 10 for actually choosing the console. Now, it seems if you set this: comconsole_port="0x2f8" it does the right thing. The only other tweak I needed to make was to update /etc/ttys as follows: ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty al.115200" cons25 onifconsole secure ttyu1 "/usr/libexec/getty al.115200" cons25 onifconsole secure That is, the ttyu0 line was changed from "on" to "onifconsole" and ttyu1 was cloned from that. So now I have my serial console back via IPMI, and I can remote manage these things easily. On my data center systems which run on different Supermicro motherboards, the IPMI serial port is COM3, so I need to set comconsole_port="0x3e8" and add the ttys line for ttyu2.
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