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

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    @andrew_cb ChatGPT had the right idea but gave me 100 different places to put "load-server-state-from-file none". Your post was worth more than ChatGPT could ever offer!
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    @bmeeks your work outclasses so many individuals and developers. Your stuff is amazing. Cheers
  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @Antibiotic No it’s not possible with NtopNG as it is not a Netflow collector. You need nProbe for that which will “translate” recieved netflows into flows that NtopNG understands and can visualize (with very very little detail might I add as Netflows has no additonal information apart from sender/reciever and volume). The NtopNG package and the product in general is more geared towards visualising and recording traffic details from actual packet captures. This contains MUCH more metadata about the sessions than netflows (DNS names, protocol information and myriads of other things). But pffSense Plus has a builtin Netflow exporter if you have an external netflow collector on hand.
  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @High_Voltage I don't think there is anything to do.. Pretty sure those are the defaults.. When you query pihole for something that is blocked.. By default it returns some sort of answer - I am not aware of a setting that would wait for a timeout. [image: 1757768975895-blockmode.jpg] So I really have no idea he would of been doing. If something is blocked in pfblocker you would either get back the vip (so you could see a block page) or you would get all zeros. Same goes for pihole - I am not aware of a setting that would just time out and not send an answer if you asked for something that was blocked. The only reason pihole would time out on sending you a response is what you were asking for actually just never responded to pihole. If some fqdn you were asking for was being blocked you would get the answer almost instantly. If pihole was forwarding to unbound which I believe is a common sort of setup for stuff that is not blocked. Again if pfblocker was blocking it, you for sure should get a response right away of either the vip or all zeros. Its possible maybe pihole doing rebind protection, and pfblocker handing back the rfc1918 of your vip maybe causes pihole some sort of hangup, but normally when that happens it just returns a null to the client since it got an answer, it just not suppose to hand it back to the client.. But again no time out. Only time I could see a timeout issue is when unbound didn't answer the pihole, again if something unbound doesn't get an answer from how its resolving/forwarding. Maybe he was sending back nodata, and the client didn't take that as an answer and kept asking for the same thing until it gave up?
  • 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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    Hi, Please help to forward / report the bugs in ACME 1.0 package. Thanks.
  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    Anyone else happen to notice that when configuring BFD, if you create a peer and select a profile - after save, re-edit the peer and the Profile is not represented. It appears as "None". You have to check the raw config to determine if the profile was actually assigned to the peer. This is on 2.8.1 (all packages up to date as of the date/time of this post). UPDATE: if re-edit and save (without re-configuring the profile none to what you want) - the save will strip the profile from the peer.
  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    Hi All, I use HAProxy to redirect to a range of https internal resources, this works really well at the moment through the WAN where I have source limits set up, and I can connect to the internal resources from limited external IP Addresses. Given I have tailscale I would like to basically be able to put custom dns entries in to point these hostnames to my pfsense tailscale IP4 address (100.89.148.118) but I am not having any luck getting this working. At the moment, I am just trying to connect to HAProxy using https://100.89.148.118 but it is getting blocked by the firewall. Sep 11 11:55:58 tailscale0 Default deny rule IPv4 (1000000103) 100.89.148.10:53148 100.89.148.118:443 TCP:S I have tried with and without NAT redirecting internally to 127.0.0.1, and I also have rules set up to allow any traffic to and from my tailnets (defined in an alias) but I still keep getting these connections from my other tailscale machines being blocked on the pfsense machine. Can someone give me some pointers on what I am missing because I can see the requests are coming through to the pfsense machine, and in theory the rules should allow it through but I cant see why they don't. I do have tailscale ACL in place, but clearly that is not an issue as the requests are making it through to the firewall. 0/0 B IPv4+6 TCP/UDP TailNets * TailNets * * none Allow across Tailnets 0/0 B IPv4+6 TCP/UDP * * * 443 (HTTPS) * none Allow Tailscale IP4 I also tried adding a EasyRule but because the tailscale0 interface doesn't exist in pfsense it throws an error and won't let me add that rule. Appreciate any help or tips, Cheers.
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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  • Squid…Log Filled with nothing but TCP_200MISS

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    Remember that dynamic pages(fb, twitter, yt) won't punch the cache, if u can setup calamaris, squid-cache manager and compare with lightsquid reports. 3GB won't say nothing, squid won't warranty that will use those 3GB at the moment. If u want to see the cache at full speed, give little memory to squid 128MB, restart, full day running and watch your reports, I cannot nothing about how lightsquid works, I don't used.
  • Squid3 Caching for xbox marketplace

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    @periko: If u see the web page slow, try enable "resolv dns v4" check box, some times this cause issues. Is enable? This solved my issues, thank you very much!
  • Email Warnings

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    @dale1957: Hi, I'm fairly new to PFSense.  We have several routes & gateways setup on our PFSense boxes.  I'm looking for a package that will send me an Email notification when one of the routes/gateways starts loosing packets or goes offline completely.  As I said I'm still learning but I have not been able to find anything built into the program to do this. Thank in advance for your help. Dale Dale, If you go to System -> Advance -> Notifications. You can setup your notifications there. pfsense will start emailing you when it starts encountering loss on the gateways. This is a built in feature of pfsense.
  • SNORT Not Adding IP's To Block List

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    Well now i have tons of IPs listed under blocked so something i did worked
  • ET Community Rules False Positives? (Snort)

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    Thanks for the tips!  I will set mine up like that and it should make it easier for me to track down issues.
  • Snort service wont start

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    @LawrenceIII: hey Bill, that was it!  you were correct about the 0.0.0.0, and also the wrong DNS IP (that was a typo)  :-[ i remember putting in that 0.0.0.0 one day, and forgot all about  it. Thank you so much for straightening me out, that was driving me crazy for weeks. Lawrence [/quote] You're welcome.  Glad you are up and running. Bill
  • Squid IE authentification

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    To use ntlm, you need samba freebsd package installed by hand as it does not have a gui on pfsense.
  • Squid/Lightsquid + Logs

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    If you don't know how to manage your firewall via console/ssh, just try a package uninstall and reinstall. I've checked  lightsquid code and it does look for squid logs on /var/squid/logs.
  • Snort doesn't generate alerts on 2 interfaces

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    Are these extra WAN interfaces part of a CARP or multi-WAN setup?  Is there perhaps some asymmetrical routing going on? If so, this could trip up Snort as some alerts depend on flowbits set by previous traffic.  If that previous traffic was seen on a "different interface" (as in one of the other WAN pathways), then the alert with that set flowbit dependency would not fire.  Not saying this is your issue, but it is something to be considered. Another possibility, if any asymmetrical routing is happening, is the stream5 preprocessor can fail to correctly reassemble streams if it does not see all of the traffic.  Remember that Snort really runs as totally separate and autonomous processes – one per interface.  So it's basically like having physically separate computers running Snort.  Any weirdness with routing between those multiple WANs could trip up those independent Snort processes. Bill
  • Packages for bandwidth throttling, and inducing packet loss?

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    It's built in, called Limiters. Firewall > Traffic Shaping, Limiters tab. Check the advanced options available there.
  • Snort Pkg 2.6.1 ??

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    I looked into the Shared Memory feature in the Snort binary.  Unfortunately that is only used for Reputation Lists.  These are text files containing blacklist/whitelist IP addresses (one file for each type).  The Shared Memory feature (which it says only works on Linux; don't know specifically about FreeBSD) allows one copy of each Reputation List to be used among a number of Snort instances. So the Shared Memory feature won't work with text rules, and thus would not help with memory overload. Bill
  • Sarg does not automatically generate report

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    @jdeloach: Edit: "12h" works so I'll leave it at that.  Don't know why "1d" doesn't work. If cron is set to 00:00 it will create an empty log with 1d(you can check with cron package). IIRC, I've changes schedule time on latest package version.
  • Internet access restricts for kids

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    @Derf: The solution I use to control kid's surfing time is as following: Create an alias named 'Kids' wich contains all the IP adresses of kid's devices (PCs, game consoles, …) Create a schedule named 'AccessDenied' with the denied timeframes Create some rules on the firewall to block/reject any connection to/from 'Kids' during 'AccessDenied' As rjcrowder said, there is plenty of different solutions to achieve what you want to do: you can for example use squidguard (I think the 'SG' you use should mean 'SquidGuard' but doing it that way would only allow you to control the web traffic (HTTP). Using firewall rules and schedules will allow you to block ALL kids traffic (including xbox/playstation/wii, p2p and so on). I do the same thing as Derf for time based access. If you want to keep you kids "safe" while they are surfing, there are a couple of other things that I HIGHLY recommend. 1.) OpenDNS. Gives you a great set of DNS based blacklists and performs well. I just can't see any reason not to use it. 2.) Dansguardian. For dg, I usually download the Shalla blacklists and also use the weighted phraselists. Blacklists are only as good as they are kept up to date and dg phrase checking does a very good job at catching the rest… Something else you might want to condider is turning on Clamav in dg.  It does a great job of realtime virus scanning. However, you will perceive some lag from it - especially when downloading large files.
  • Multiple cache_dirs in squid.conf

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    Marvelous. Thanks!
  • Best way to manage pfblocker exceptions?

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  • MOVED: cache para youtube

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  • Mod_security always Stopped - 2.1-RELEASE (amd64)

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  • Send all clients to mobile sites

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    Ah it says squid must be built with –enable-http-violation but i see its not in pfsense. Is there a way to rebuild it on pfsense?
  • I need help - HAVP is running, but not checking

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    @dversg: well, that makes sense. @rest: I found a solutition: I am sorry, but pfsense had its chance. Maybe it has been my fault, but in the end i spent too much time in this. I was even that far to buy an commercial product. Finally I tried ipfire and I am surprised how easy it was to install and activate the squidproxy. I think pfsense is a very good piece of software, but in my case it did not work.
  • Pfblock logic

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    @marcelloc: yes. Just select rule action and it will be placed before your allow rules. Thanks marcelloc!
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