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Christian McDonald

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Assigned issues 54 200 254
Reported issues 5 66 71

Projects

Project Roles Registered on
pfSense Manager, Developer, Reporter 07/08/2021
Bootstrap Developer, Reporter 07/08/2021
pfSense Docs Manager, Developer, Reporter 07/08/2021
pfSense Packages Manager, Developer, Reporter 07/08/2021
pfSense Plus Manager, Developer, Reporter 07/08/2021

Activity

04/23/2026

04:33 PM pfSense Bug #16798 (Pull Request Review): UDP Broadcast Traffic Sent out WAN when Policy-based Route is Defined
Christian McDonald
04:33 PM pfSense Bug #16798: UDP Broadcast Traffic Sent out WAN when Policy-based Route is Defined
WIP: https://gitlab.netgate.com/pfSense/pfSense/-/merge_requests/1281 Christian McDonald

04/22/2026

08:00 PM pfSense Bug #16798: UDP Broadcast Traffic Sent out WAN when Policy-based Route is Defined
We will likely work around this by adding several @block out quick@ rules on route-to target interfaces to catch forw... Christian McDonald

04/21/2026

05:42 PM pfSense Bug #16798: UDP Broadcast Traffic Sent out WAN when Policy-based Route is Defined
Pending review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56559 Christian McDonald

04/20/2026

08:37 PM pfSense Bug #16798 (In Progress): UDP Broadcast Traffic Sent out WAN when Policy-based Route is Defined
Christian McDonald
07:35 PM pfSense Bug #16798: UDP Broadcast Traffic Sent out WAN when Policy-based Route is Defined
I wrote a few test cases for this today, now to fix it :) Christian McDonald

03/30/2026

05:35 PM pfSense Regression #16768 (Feedback): pkg 2.6.2 breaks the GUI update check code
Applied in changeset commit:214d4dabbf0b37f857f4c7f41a45c9599ccbfa95. Christian McDonald

03/02/2026

04:50 PM pfSense Regression #16728 (Feedback): Changing the password from the default in the GUI from the default requires a logout and login to continue
Applied in changeset commit:aee3be62002db0481b9f60add522b3d00d58472e Christian McDonald

02/28/2026

10:10 PM pfSense Regression #16728: Changing the password from the default in the GUI from the default requires a logout and login to continue
It is likely some fallout from #16720. I'll get it fixed. Christian McDonald

02/26/2026

10:06 PM pfSense Bug #16720: GUI performance degradation due to check for weak passwords on each page load
yep, that block of code is Plus-specific, and we have that place patched too :) Christian McDonald

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