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

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    JonathanLeeJ
    @firefox I don’t think so, to be honest with you I am on an older version also. Just make sure you do the patch package and install all the system patches.

  • 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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    @raidflex said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: In fact after restoring from a backup after the ACME update, Crowdsec reinstalled just fine, and this was before the recent release a couple days ago that contained a fix. Yeah, that may be, but if you install packages with dependencies on the console rather then the package manager, those may have (old) dependencies for specific versions. So if that crowdsec package has a dependency on an older pfsense base package or something like that and you install any other package (like Acme) which may collide with that, the package manager makes a decision to solve the conflict. Not always the most sane one - sure - but that's like any other distro out there. Manually installing packages on the console always may get you into dependency hell :) Just saying, because now it was acme, next time it could easily be some other package triggering such an effect. Cheers

  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    yon 0Y
    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
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    Cannot Install ntop

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    Maybe I should explain my problem a little further. I wanted to be able to know who is abusing the bandwidth. Ntop did that since I could click on the graph and see who was responsible for my bandwidth usage going up. Is the some other package that provides this information easily?
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    BandwidthD - Not Starting - i386 2.0 Release

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    the unsupported file layout error is typical if you have somehow switched between i386 and amd64 architectures, or somehow managed to install a package from the wrong architecture.
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    Lightsquid problem?

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    NTOP - to latest release

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    [squid] pfsense 2.0 + squid : transparent mode not working

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    Package Installation Issue

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    i guess there is a hardware problem. when first time i installed pfsense system gave an error.
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    Compiling binary with build options

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    @fireman039: Hi, Can you tell me if 0.5.4 packages will available soon. I want to ytry it with my Crystalfontz 635 Done! Here you find more details about it: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,44034.0.html Consider that it is a developing version! In your case the driver you should use is: CFontzPacket. Ciao, Michele
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    Squid vs varnish

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    1-why pfsense become slow? 2-Do you have any Precaution to overcome this problem? take a look on this topic http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,43737.0.html Varnish was designed for reverse proxy, but can be used for proxy. it is fast on both situations Squid was designed for proxy use, but can be used for reverse proxy. It has many features, but is not that fast.
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    PFFLOWD Active Flow Timeout

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    With the following run command: /usr/local/sbin/pfflowd -n 172.16.42.104:9991 -S in -v 9 The active flow timeout that needs to be set in PRTG is 11 minutes. Note, if you're utilizing VLANs and a single network interface like us then pfflowd will not correctly identify the source/destination vlan and you need to explicitly set the direction as either "in" or "out" for PRTG to not double count data.
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    Snort service stops - wrong rules used?

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    done that . no luck
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    Openbgpd not coupling RIB with FIB

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    This was actually due to the nexthop received from the peer not being our proper nexthop; we had to update the config to have openbgpd set the nexthop to be our actual next hop. Moral of the story: nexthop has to be locally reachable, somehow. That is to say, you must have a route that covers the IP given in the "Gateway" column of bgpctl show rib; if you do not, you must either add such a route or add this line: set nexthop <gateway ip="" for="" isp="">to the neighbor config for the peer that's sending you BGP routes. (This automatically translates to a "match" filter rule that simply does the same thing, but I find this looks simpler and does not appear to be deprecated.)</gateway>
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    Transparent proxy - some sites time out

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    Hmmm… perhaps this is in the wrong forum?  As my query was browsing related and I'm using transparent squid I thought I'd post here. But the most closely related threads I see from other members are over in the NAT section... If this is the wrong spot mods let me know and I'll move this and post elsewhere - don't want to cross-post.
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    SquidGuard Log Rotate - more than one day - How to !?

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    Hi, I thought I did this with this line:       $opt    = array("4", "4", "*", "*", "1", "root", "/usr/bin/nice -n20 " . SQUIDGUARD_SCR_LOGROTATE); The cron tab changed to: 4      4      *      *        1  root    /usr/bin/nice -n20 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/squidGuard_logrotate Which is - if I am right: Every monday at 04:04AM, isn't it ?
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    Lusca Cache management

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    Transparant squid -> no DNS

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    If you do want to use auto-detect though and IE refuses to play ball I've often found it to be one of two things… If you configured your wpad using DNS (and not DHCP) then make sure you've used an A record for the wpad entry, and not a CNAME.  For some reason IE doesn't like CNAME's.... IE sets a registry entry to store the results of its automatic detection ("Automatic Proxy Result Cache")... IE then stubbornly refuses to re-detect things if your WPAD changes  ::). So; if you deployed a broken WPAD.dat file as you were refining your javascript, IE will make a note it's broken and never bother to check if it's fixed.  I normally resolve this IE issue by resetting IE to it's default settings (tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> Reset...).  There are other ways but a google search will help you there, resetting IE doesn't bother me too much.  Note that as Chrome uses system proxy settings it too will suffer from this...  the reset of IE will fix both browsers. (Make sure you've tested you're WPAD.DAT file using something free like pactester etc. so you know your WPAD.DAT is valid).
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    Varnish features

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    can these features are present in varnish: 1-Give report of cache material(Hint: Like the lightsquid provide report in squid) 2-I can give specific space in hard disk for cache material. 3-automatic cleaning of cache material will start when given space of hard disk is 95% fill(Hint :this function is present in squid). 4-cleaning method: remove those material which is most low used(Hint: this feature is present in squid) I don't think so. You are comparing apple to oranges. 1 - Varnish use logs only in memory for better performance. When you want to debug, you need to dump logs from memory to disk with varnishlog.     also take a look on varnishhist and varnishstat. 2 - you can change storage type to disk, but I do not recommend it.    take a look on this topic about disk performance http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,43737.0.html 3 - Specify a cache size that do not full your filesystem 4 - you can purge things using management interface Please, take a look at varnish documentation. Varnish package gui has a lot of links to it.
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    Snort: drop, not block

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    The only one with snort args  ;) Snort2c
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    Varnish configuration

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    take a look at varnish documentation. Varnish is not so easy to configure, the gui helps, but it still need some varnish knowledge. @crazyzoar: Please tell me the configuration of varnish. i am new on pfsense. i don't know that what values i shall have to write on varnish setting: Listening port (usually 80) Managment interface (usually localhost) Advanced startup (usually empty) Storage type (ram for better performance) Cache storage size in megabytes/ (depends on how much ram/disk you have) Minimum worker threads (could be 32 but depends on your hardware) Maximum worker threads (could be 1024 but depends on your hardware) Worker thread timeout (could be 300) Client identity method (ip address is more compatible with sessions) Don't cache posts (yes, don't) Session Cache (per user is a good choice ) take a look on field documentation link Cache static (when possible cache only in session, always remove cookies before cache) Fix gzip compression recommended Be RFC2616 compliant recommended Foward client IP userfull to log remote ip on web servers using x-forwarder-varnish var Fetch Grace How many time varnish will keep cached objects. HINT 60s, 30m, 1h Retries how many times retry url before sending error to users or checking for fail over Saintmode How many time varnish will send cached objects from a down backend to client. HINT 60s, 30m, 1h Custom Html error message how to send error messages to users
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    Snort pkg updates

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    Try to resintall from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2, no alert was generated. I did the following: remove 2.0.2 install 2.0.2 Services: Snort: Global Settings / Save Snort: Interface Edit: / If Settings / Save Services: Snort: Updates / Update Rules Now alerts are generated  :)
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