Are Your pfSense Filters Really Working?
Too many rules and logs (?) makes them randomly fail
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Update: a series of things happened since I wrote this. I posted some strange experiences in Google Chrome where my firewall logs did not match my firewall rules. Was Google Chrome or pfSense showing me either incorrect rules or incorrect logs? I don’t know. But something was going on. Google just patched a zero day vulnerability. I also found an expired certificate on what appears to be one of the Netgate update servers:
In addition, I was having problems with netgate domains as explained at the bottom of this post:
