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

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    You can run via SSH or Diagnostics -> Command prompt squid -k parse and paste output here.
  • 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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    @jrey said in pfBlockerNG syslog logentries to remote SIEM: @keyser I so want to answer this, but then at the same time (no I don't) ... pfblocker using syslog messaging in real time. no tailing of files, no other packages, just code. Huuuh? That seems very very interesting I noticed your name in other posts around the forum where you seemed to be QUITE proficient at coding/developing. Are you by any chance considering involvement in developing and refining the pfBlockerNG package? It would be SO great if you are looking into adding native syslog to the pfBlockerNG package - or an easy workaround that does not require additional packages and “temporary” edits in files that does not survive service restarts or pfSense updates. Here’s that you will fill me/us in on the solution you are using to your Greylog - please, pretty please with sugar on top
  • 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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    Tried updating certificate via acme and it failed. So I updated the package and then I started getting crash reports so I updated the OS to 25.07.01 and still getting crash reports whenever I attempt to open "certificates" under system on the GUI. Crash report begins. Anonymous machine information: arm64 15.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #1 plus-RELENG_25_07_1-n256513-49844af35a5d: Fri Aug 15 19:23:38 UTC 2025 root@freebsd:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-Plus-snapshots-25_07_1-main/obj/aarch64/1qUIUnwj/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-Plus-snapshots-25_07_1-main/sourc Crash report details: PHP Errors: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string in /usr/local/www/system_camanager.php:443 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /usr/local/www/system_camanager.php on line 443 No FreeBSD crash data found.
  • 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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    @yobyot I've SSHed into pfsense and for the sake of testing I've simply run the command: tailscale up --auth-key=tskey-client-kQ_THE_REST_IS_A_SECRET\?preauthorized=true\&ephemeral=false --accept-dns=false --accept-routes --advertise-exit-node --advertise-routes=X.X.X.X/24 --advertise-tags=tag:pfsense Note the preauthorized=true and ephemeral=false I gave this key all permissions (temporarly as I just wanted to verify it's working) of course I had to register the tag used also in the ACL tags pane: https://login.tailscale.com/admin/acls/visual/tags so far so good
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Same here. It started after I installed 25.07. Then it settled down by itself after a few days. It started again after upgrading to 25.07.1. WireGuard works fine (it merely connects to the remote site from this one). However, I am refraining from upgrading the remote, because if the 'service' does not start, I fear it will not listen to incoming connections, which would leave me in a difficult situation. The other topic I had opened before finding this: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/198449/25.07-release-amd64-wireguard-service-reported-stopped-yet-tunnel-trafic-clearly-is-ok
  • Snort: List of blocked IPs not cleaned up

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    @Cino: re-appy the Global Settings page and Interface Edit: If Settings page. This should re-create the missing cron job I was having the same issue, following the above worked for me as well. Thanks
  • Help with package freeradius simultaneous connections

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    Your post is difficult to understand for me.  ;) If your NAS supports "account"ing then Simultaneous-Use will work. If you use pfsense Captive portal then try with "Disable concurrent logins".
  • Squid 3 & reverse proxy?

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    follow this thread http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,48347.0.html squid-reverse and squid3 is now merged. Try to use squid without transparent mode.
  • HAProxy 1.4.20 for PFSense

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    @jwelter99: Anyone working on an update?  1.4.19 is available, but 1.4.20 adds some bug fixes and specifically fixes some FreeBSD related build issues. Haproxy pfsense package is on 1.4.20. What version of pfsense are you using?
  • PFSense 1.3.2 + Squid + Lightsquid + Proxy question

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    Thank you for the hint but there are no stupid questions as I have learned  ;) The new release of PFSense will come in 2 weeks with new hardware. Well I have read your post but I do not understand why these firewall rules should help. The rest is configured according to the manuals or posts in here but I do not understand why it stopped working
  • How to block port 80 for some clients ?

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    @arushi: It works, but this users that i block on "Banned host addresses" can open the web pages with https (port 443) How can i close this port for this clients?? ;) Transparent proxy does not filter port 443. Create a firewall -> rule to block it.
  • Sn0rt: what are 'good' rulesets to enable in the category tab? pls help.

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    thank you very much kev. that is very good information. now to tweak everything.  :)
  • Squid Guard, immediately disable local account on visiting blocked sites?

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    Oh I see.. Thanks!  :D I've been doing a bit of digging around in the pfSense source code and I think locking the account using exec("/usr/sbin/pw lock {$user_name} -q"); And setting the user's shell to "/sbin/nologin" should be sufficient. Does anyone know of an existing function / better way to do this? (guessing not as I stole my code from https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense/blob/master/etc/inc/auth.inc#L457)
  • Snort/Oinkmaster - Maintaining Disabled/Enabled Rules After Update?

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    I've started using the Snort package a couple of days ago and this bug is really annoying… But I think I might found a semi-working solution for it. In /usr/local/etc/snort/rules are the categories such as snort_* and emerging-*. When I disable/enable specific rules in these files they will at least stay permanent for interface restart and updates when no new rules files are downloaded. But I guess these changes will be overwritten when new rules are actually downloaded (not just checked and no new files where found). But yeah... Not perfect, but at least the rules won't reset every 12 hour anymore. For some reason I don't seem to have a oinkmaster.conf file on my system at all? 2.0.1-RELEASE (amd64) with Snort 2.9.1 pkg v. 2.1.1. What's the current status of this bug btw?
  • Squid start and stop imedialtely

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    i solve it but i need now to flush cache content and removw all cache and i want to know if cach is working and chaching or not cause i have another prob. i remove pfsense and reinstalled it many times and install squid and light squid and in every time i found that lightsquid report is reporting that i use cache and specify the content that cached before the removing pfsense how does this work despite i was erase all hard disk content and reinstall pfsense from zero
  • Freeradius2 removal breaks racoon (IPsec)

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    it doesn't happen with many packages anymore as we take some precautions to prevent it as much as possible, but it does happen on some, have to be careful when messing with packages. 2.1 uses PBI packages to eliminate such dependency hell.
  • Click on the green arrow to start snort - nothing happens

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    Uninstalled and reinstalled the Snort package, and now it works.  I can check under "Services" menu.  Service is running.
  • Squid-reverse

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    Hi all, I've merged squid-rever and squid3 in only one package for pfsense 2.0 with reverse options in a brand new service-> reverse proxy menu. Check screen shots on it's thread http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,48347.0.html att, Marcello Coutinho
  • Squid issues

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    no worries pod ;D Only thing i noticed still after restarting the server (Had to move the man cave about a bit) is what it was going to start HAVP, it still complains pw: unknown group havp, but when you go and look at the necessary file, the group is there Weird Should be done fairly shortly, I gotta head out shopping, so im gunna do some more work on this damn server after i get back
  • Snort arp spoof processor pfsense 2.01

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    so any help plz
  • Squid caching downloads

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    Ok discovered how i can be able to cache some of the youtube stuff, but need to know the best way to add what it says to squid: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/DynamicContent/YouTube?highlight=%28ConfigExamples%2FIntercept%29%7C%28ConfigExamples%2FAuthenticate%29%7C%28ConfigExamples%2FChat%29%7C%28ConfigExamples%2FStreams%29%7C%28ConfigExamples%2FReverse%29%7C%28ConfigExamples%2FStrange%29%7C%28ConfigExamples%2FExtreme%29%7C%28ConfigExamples%2FPortal%29
  • AFP/SMB FileServer ontop of pfSense

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    Good call.  :) Steve
  • The system returned: (61) Connection refused

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    Hi CMB and thanks for the reply. I mean, both Squid and Dolphin are creatures from the sea, so they should get well along…. ;D Why this doesn't happen with PHPBB3 which is running from exactly the same address (192.168.5.8  ), the parent folder is the same, they are in 2 different subfolder which i did even try to swap but the result was the same...the Squid is discriminating
  • Snort Rule-Recategorization

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    Snort on pfsense is currently 2.9.0.5 which is now end of life. You will still get emergingthreats rules but until someone updates the snort package to ideally 2.9.2.2 you won't receive any new VRT rules I am afraid.
  • Snort filtering Tor exit node traffic, configuration help/advise

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    You can use the supress tab to filter the alerts and I would disable the ET-DROP, ET-TOR rules etc. You could use pfblocker and lists like emerging-blocklist and compromised etc .txt files in emergingthreats (firewall and block rules). You could set these to block outbound, inbound or both. Install pfblocker and enable these in the lists as .txt: http://rules.emergingthreats.net/fwrules/emerging-Block-IPs.txt (this is dsield, russian business network, botnet CnCs) http://rules.emergingthreats.net/blockrules/compromised-ips.txt http://rules.emergingthreats.net/blockrules/rbn-malvertisers-ips.txt http://www.ciarmy.com/list/ci-badguys.txt
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