I am using the pfSense Community edition for a few months. It is great. I like it. When I read the Feb. 14 post on the Netgate official blog, I know I can upgrade to the pfSense Plus without a penny.
It is called pfSense Plus Home or Lab edition.
For non-commercial use in the home or lab.
- No charge Evaluation License for white box or virtualization image
- No Charge Upgrade from pfSense CE software
- Forum/Community Support
The upgrade is quite simple, the official guide here. Obtain an Activation Token, register, and migrate at the pfSense dashboard.
For me, I did see an error on upgrading. At the dashboard, the upgrade from 2.6 to pfSense Plus said can not retrieve the upgrade information.
I tried the upgrade process in the shell window.
The detailed error message looks like:
Certificate verification failed for /C=US/O=Internet Security Research Group/CN=ISRG Root X1 34369339392:error:1416F086:SSL routines:tls_process_server_certificate:certificate verify failed:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-build-release-tarballs/BUILD_NODE/pkg-amd64-ce/OS_MAJOR_VERSION/freebsd12/PLATFORM/aws/crypto/openssl/ssl/statem/statem_clnt.c:1916: Certificate verification failed for /C=US/O=Internet Security Research Group/CN=ISRG Root X1 34369339392:error:1416F086:SSL routines:tls_process_server_certificate:certificate verify failed:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-build-release-tarballs/BUILD_NODE/pkg-amd64-ce/OS_MAJOR_VERSION/freebsd12/PLATFORM/aws/crypto/openssl/ssl/statem/statem_clnt.c:1916: Certificate verification failed for /C=US/O=Internet Security Research Group/CN=ISRG Root X1 34369339392:error:1416F086:SSL routines:tls_process_server_certificate:certificate verify failed:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-build-release-tarballs/BUILD_NODE/pkg-amd64-ce/OS_MAJOR_VERSION/freebsd12/PLATFORM/aws/crypto/openssl/ssl/statem/statem_clnt.c:1916: Certificate verification failed for /C=US/O=Internet Security Research Group/CN=ISRG Root X1 34369339392:error:1416F086:SSL routines:tls_process_server_certificate:certificate verify failed:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-build-release-tarballs/BUILD_NODE/pkg-amd64-ce/OS_MAJOR_VERSION/freebsd12/PLATFORM/aws/crypto/openssl/ssl/statem/statem_clnt.c:1916: pkg-static: https://packages.ntop.org/FreeBSD/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/meta.txz: Authentication error repository ntop has no meta file, using default settings Certificate verification failed for /C=US/O=Internet Security Research Group/CN=ISRG Root X1 34369339392:error:1416F086:SSL routines:tls_process_server_certificate:certificate verify failed:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-build-release-tarballs/BUILD_NODE/pkg-amd64-ce/OS_MAJOR_VERSION/freebsd12/PLATFORM/aws/crypto/openssl/ssl/statem/statem_clnt.c:1916: Certificate verification failed for /C=US/O=Internet Security Research Group/CN=ISRG Root X1 34369339392:error:1416F086:SSL routines:tls_process_server_certificate:certificate verify failed:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-build-release-tarballs/BUILD_NODE/pkg-amd64-ce/OS_MAJOR_VERSION/freebsd12/PLATFORM/aws/crypto/openssl/ssl/statem/statem_clnt.c:1916: pkg-static: https://packages.ntop.org/FreeBSD/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/packagesite.pkg: Authentication error
I have a ntopng installed beside pfSense on my installation. It is installed in the pfSense as a package.
So I removed the installation of ntopng.
service ntopng stop pkg remove ntop ntopng rm -rf /var/db/ntopng
Then tried the upgrade again. It works.
Now I installed the ntopng in the pfSense package manager.
