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  • Discussions about packages which handle caching and proxy functions such as squid, lightsquid, squidGuard, etc.

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    @qupfer What did I bang my head over this strange 502 issue. Your solution did it! Thank you so much, even 2.5 years later!
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    Hi, I had a problem with my home network today, so I checked pfsense and discovered that suricata had blocked the wan ip. After some tests and triggering some suricata alerts, the wan ip was blocked. I restarted pfsense and ran some more tests, but the problem no longer occurred. I then checked the wan interface settings and indeed the ip list does not include the wan ip, both now that it's working and before, when it was blocked. I'm using pfsense 2.8.0 and suricata 7.0.8_2. I use PPPoE to access the Internet.
  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @Leon-Straathof Data retention settings are handled inside of ntopng. Documentation here. Pay attention to the RRD note. Also, if you've turned on some of the slice and dice time series information (is off by default), I'd suggest turning them back off. These balloon the storage requirements and are of little actual use.
  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    Hi All. A few years back there was no real good way of getting pfBlockerNG log files to a remote SIEM as pfBlocker had no built-in syslog support. The way pfBlockerNG rotated log files caused the entire log content to be resent/duplicated when the CRON update job ran if you used the syslog-ng package to monitor the log files. A Ticket has been open on this for years: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14878 I can still not find any builtin syslog support, and the log file lines are also still in their own format as opposed to standard Syslog format. Have anyone come up with a good solution to getting pfBlockerNG log files shipped to a SIEM without various workarounds, reformatting and extra packages needed?
  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @jhg said in NUT fails to start after 2.7.2 -> 2.8.0 upgrade: Interesting. I would have thought the initial reboot, which occurred as part of the upgrade, would have done the trick, but it took a second reboot, just now, to get things working. Glad you have it sorted. There was no difference in the output of usbconfig show_ifdrv at any point -- before or after unplugging/replugging the USB cable, nor after rebooting. ... Question: What would tell me whether or not a driver was loaded? If there were an attached driver, it should have shown up with the show_ifdrv command. If you use the command and look at the other usb devices, I think they will show attached drivers. I don't expect to see a driver attached to the ups, because there is a quirk that tells the OS to ignore that device (and not attach a driver). Look for idVendor and idProduct in the above output. The Vendor ID for your device is 0764, which corresponds to Cyber Power Systems, and the Product ID for your device is 0601, which is registered as "PR1500LCDRT2U UPS" (don't sweat an exact match for the name). You can see the quirk with the following command: [25.07-RC][root@fw]/root: usbconfig dump_device_quirks | grep 0764 VID=0x0764 PID=0x0005 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE VID=0x0764 PID=0x0501 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE VID=0x0764 PID=0x0601 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE [25.07-RC][root@fw]/root: Your device is third on the list. The HID_IGNORE quirk says to ignore the device and not attach a driver. @jhg said in NUT fails to start after 2.7.2 -> 2.8.0 upgrade: You might consider adding this resolution to the release notes for 2.8. LOL... sorry, I don't have input to the release notes (I don't work here). While I wrote and maintain various packages, including NUT, I'm still just a volunteer. Most packages are actually written by volunteers.
  • Discussions about the ACME / Let’s Encrypt package for pfSense

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    @jimp Done. I was on acme.sh 1.0 (25.07.1) and a downgrade was proposed. Now, the issue is gone.
  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    said in Please update frr on Pfsense+ to FRR 10.3: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15785 now frr 10.4.1
  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    @totalimpact in my case I dsid not reboot the router, after I copied the new key tailscale went online.
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Hi Team, I’m running pfSense Plus 25.07.1 with TorGuard WireGuard VPN as my primary tunnel for LAN traffic (for best possible speeds). The tunnel is mostly working now, but I had to go through several fixes and I’m still not confident the configuration is stable. Here’s what I’ve run into: TorGuard support originally helped set up the WireGuard client. It worked fine for about a day, but then the Unbound DNS Resolver stopped working. Even when I re-enabled Unbound manually, LAN clients still couldn’t reach the internet. The main issue seemed to be when switching between WAN (ISP public IP) and the VPN IP. Sometimes traffic didn’t switch over properly, and at one point pfSense even generated a crash report during the switch and restarted. To fix it, I reset the LAN firewall rule so that LAN traffic would route through the VPN gateway when active, and fall back to WAN when the VPN was down. After that, I was able to toggle the VPN on/off without pfSense crashing, and traffic correctly switched between ISP IP and VPN IP. At this point it works, but I don’t think the setup is completely stable. I’d like to ask for guidance on: How to make sure Unbound stays reliable when the VPN gateway goes up/down. Best practices for LAN firewall rules so clients use the VPN when it’s up, and either fall back to WAN or get blocked (kill switch) when the VPN is down. Correctly assigning DNS servers to WAN and VPN gateways. At the moment, in System → General Setup, I don’t see the gateway dropdown next to DNS entries, so my DNS servers are just “floating” with no interface binding. If anyone has suggestions, or can point me to a clean reference configuration for WireGuard + Unbound + proper DNS gateway assignment, I’d greatly appreciate it. I'd really like to have a conference with someone and go over this. I'd like to give them access using RustDesk or TeamViewer so we can talk and they can show me things. I am legally blind so I am one inch from the screen. I've also uploaded the crashdump so you can look over it. I've also been using AI, but I keep going in circles with it, so it's not perfect. Thanks in advance! Warm Regards, Jamestextdump.tar.0
  • AutoConfigBackup multi delete or remove all backups for one hostnname

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    SOLVED! Oh dear - flag that… It's under "STATS" n; Diagnostics > Auto Configuration Backup > Stats In there you can click delete and delete all backups for this host...
  • Suricata snort2c query

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  • Load Balancer service allowing connections to disabled server

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  • SquidGuard with different Active Directory does not work

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    Hi, this problem with squidguard still occur with PFsense 2.2.6. The modification for squid3 seems not to be neccessary anymore. Does there exist any ideas to solve this issue? best regards Thomas
  • PfSense Zabbix Agent

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    Ok, so I found the solution - if anyone interested: Since Zabbix Agent is running in chroot, smartctl executable has to be linked in. For Zabbix 2.4 64 bit command is: ln /usr/local/sbin/smartctl /usr/pbi/zabbix24-agent-amd64/local/sbin It probably won't survive package reinstall/updates, adding to startup script might help. I used the following user parameters in advanced agent config: UserParameter=system.smartctl[*],smartctl -A $1 | grep $2 | cut -c 88- | cut -f1 -d' ' UserParameter=system.smarthealth[*],smartctl -H $1 | grep result | cut -f2 -d':' | cut -c 2- First one will return value for specified S.M.A.R.T. parameter - I usually monitor temperature. The second one will return one of PASSED/FAILED!/UNKNOWN! so I can set a trigger if value is not PASSED. More can be done to improve things, like discovery of the disks -but for pfSense it is more often than not just /dev/ata0.
  • Freeradius WPA-Enterprise and Windows 10 Update 1511

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    David_W is correct, trying to fix package binaries on 2.2.x currently is a losing proposition. If you need the latest FreeRADIUS right this moment, your best bet is to use pfSense 2.3 either on your firewall or as a second system to run FreeRADIUS (because everyone should be testing 2.3 to make sure it works for their setups, right? :-) 2.3 is quite stable and in many regards, more stable than 2.2.x. The number of bugs is shrinking daily, and the only real major problem area that is a regression is wireless.
  • Quagga OSPF + OpenVPN [Solved]

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    It's been fine - I've been bringing the other sites into the OSPF scope through the day. No issues at all. We have a total of four sites, with a fifth coming in a few weeks; Site 1: Two-node CARP, with three WAN connections (2x fibre, 1x LTE - this site is in an area where one ISP has an effective monopoly so both fibres are with the same ISP) Sites 2, 3 and 4: Single node, two WAN connections Site 5: Two-node CARP, with thee WAN connections (1x WiMax, 1x fibre, 1x LTE - similar single ISP situation, but at least with two different connection methods) I'll post back once site 5 is working, but I don't see any reason why we'd have issues running another CARP node. I've tested CARP failover and failback, and multi-WAN failover and failback at all sites. It all works brilliantly with default timer settings, though I suppose you could reduce the timers if you needed faster OSPF response, probably at the expense of CPU usage/bandwidth.
  • Zabbix problem 2.2.6

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  • PostFix Forwarder Configuration

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    @MadCatZA: Depending on the version of PFSense you are using, PostFix does not work with the newer revisions. Waiting for it to be ported to 2.3. Any ideas on the timescales for this? I have a pfSense VM sitting on an ESXi host at the moment that I want to migrate to KVM. I need to take it to 2.2.x in order to have the virtio drivers but the upgrade broke Postfix.
  • FreeRadius2 LDAP Group Membership

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    Check your group mappings in /usr/local/etc/raddb/ldap.attrmap For reference take a look at /usr/pbi/freeradius-amd64/local/share/examples/freeradius/raddb/ldap.attrmap If you're on a 32 bit system alter the above path accordingly. It can be a pain for non-standard stuff like AD
  • Lcdproc-0.5.7_2 pkg v. 0.9.10

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    I cant even get it to start now.
  • Quagga cannot be restored on full system restore

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    Hmm, I wasn't able to reproduce that here. It's likely also not an issue on 2.3 due to changes in the package system. If you can replicate it reliably, you might give a 2.3 snapshot a test.
  • Mailreport filter syntax

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    This site is useful for testing regex patterns: https://www.debuggex.com/
  • Siproxd: sip_utils.c: ERROR:I'm trying to delete a VIA but it's not mine!

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    Hi jimp! Yes, this is a good objection. I will think about a proper NAT setup in the next days. Thanks for your advice.
  • Google force to safe search with ssl

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    You can take that one step farther and have pfSense grab all DNS so people who think they are being tricky will, themselves, be tricked: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Redirecting_all_DNS_Requests_to_pfSense Also cuts down on support time for people with unknowingly broken DNS settings…
  • Free radius not running

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    Looks like one of your users has an invalid configuration, you'd have to post the users file from /usr/local/etc/raddb/users (or at least the first few lines) for anyone to be able to help. If you have anything in the user custom config options it could be from that, since it complains about line 4 it must be in one of the first couple users.
  • Failed binding authentication

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  • How to manually install older version of packages…

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    @johnpoz: Or you could run the actually current supported version of pfsense.. And current packages, troubleshoot any update issues. Of course I want to use the current versions of pfSense and packages, but what about the required functionality: Proxy + Proxy filter + multi WAN. As far as I know that doesn't work with the updated software. If you can point me to a solution to get that working surely I will forget the old unsupported versions. Thanks.
  • TFTP on a Virtual IP?

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  • Quagga OSPF - Priority 0 Doesn't Work

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    https://redmine.pfsense.org/
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