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

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    @JonathanLee Will there be any problems if I stay with version 2.7.2?
  • 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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    @provels said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: This same mess happened to me, even w/o Acme, going from 25.07 to *.1. Blew, reinstalled w/ Crowdsec, blew again, reinstalled, clipped all the Crowdsec info from config.xml, restored config, back to normal. Crowdsec is a great concept, but I think I'm out. I never had this issue with Crowdec before the ACME update, even with updating from 2.7 to 2.8 there was no issues. 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.
  • 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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    I took some days before reporting again... Since then I installed: 25.07.1-RELEASE (amd64) built on Fri Aug 15 20:42:00 CEST 2025, and the issue re-appeared but did not (yet) clear by itself. Wireguard works well, that system has only one tunnel with another site, using interface assigned mode. I depend on it, and it works flawlessly. Yet the wireguard configuration page, its status page as well as the services widget on the dashboard, all report the Wireguard service as stopped, with the usual icon to start it. On the dashboard the gateways widget shows Pending for the IPv4 and IPv6 wireguard gateways. On the other hand, and it is logical as the packets do flow through the tunnel, the Wireguard widget on the dashboard shows the tunnel up with traffic. To be complete, the watchdog service, if wireguard is configured there, spend its life at detecting wireguard stopped and attempting to start it, which does not work. The other side of the tunnel is still on 25.07-RELEASE (amd64). I'm reluctant to upgrade that side too, with fear to loose the wireguard tunnel altogether. Aren't there any logs from that wireguard package? I can't find anything of that kind.
  • Squid Guard Time Based ACL issues

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    So I updated the firewall this morning from 1.2.3 to 2.0 and now the proxy is working 100%… Not sure what changed or anything but very happy with the new release. Thank you guys. Keep up the awesome work on a fantastic product.
  • Facebook, Twitter Like button error in squidguard

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    I saw the same thing at varnish report. Every time you apply settings, it will be included. Make report simple and it will never return.
  • Help with SNORT

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    Hi, I'm also new to snort… I'm just wondering if there is any easier way to search for a rule. I have a lot of them and when I want to review one upon an alert, I have to do find the matching one by hand.. The same with suppression....
  • Snort on 2.0-RELEASE (amd64)

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    CPU usage on my Atom D525 X64 with Snort enabled is really low, like 1%
  • Running Snort on LAN interface

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    This is not an issue anymore.  After upgrading to pfSense 2.0, I can set up my configuration so I don't need to run Snort on the LAN interface.  Thanks
  • Update LCDProc to 0.5.4

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  • Updating and package install

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    Hello I have had exactly the same issue while updaing to one of post RC3 snapshots. Whole upgrade proces take about 6 hours to complete and looping screens was quite annoing, but when it finished system working stable till now. Now, when we have the final release, I will install fresh system and will restore from backup file Regards
  • Snort issue after upgrading from 2.0 RC3 to 2.0 Release

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  • Can the Reverseproxy forward to different Servers by path?

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    You can use all: I've set this scenario some times and it worked very well. Https -> haproxy –--                             |---> apache + modsecurity -->  webserver Http -> varnish ------ You can Also set this: Apache+modsecurity ---> varnish --->  web servers(/test)                                            |-----> Web servers (/test2) In this case, apache handles ssl. Notes: Apache can do what you want but today the package Does not include this option. May be in a close future I may include this feature to gui. Varnish is faster then apache as a reverse proxy, do a test if you have time.
  • NRPE loosing check definitions after update

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    @jimp: Not sure what might be happening on your system, but on mine it keeps the settings when I uninstall it, reinstall it, or upgrade. Same here…. All fine.
  • Snort doesn't produce any alerts

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    @stvboyle: I seem to be having the same problem.  I'm running: 2.0-RC3  (amd64)  built on Tue Sep 6 17:46:35 EDT 2011 Installed snort, configured updates, enabled a WAN interface, enabled all preprocessors, enabled some rules, started it on the interface.  Its been running for about 12 hours now and no alerts.  Not sure how to troubleshoot the issue.  Any suggestions are appreciated. Have a look at http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,37557.285/topicseen.html for the cause and the solution of this issue.
  • Monitor HTTP Traffic by LAN IP???

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    @photonman: @serialdie: you can use ntop. Ntop is pretty cool…I think that will work out for me. thanks for the suggestion Been using it for a few years and is an awesome monitoring tool. Good Luck!
  • Widescreen package issue

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    Perfect! It works! Hope to see soon an updated version of the cool package. Thanks again Romain
  • Unblock MSN (I am the admin)

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    If you are using auth and msn client can't use your authentication method, you will ser this error. Check in log if urls that has a tcp_miss has also a username. You may need To create An acl by client address and map msn urls.
  • DNS Blacklist, New Package! Check it out.

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    any update on this package? is this dead already?
  • How to change TOS for cache hit.

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    You got a l7 filter to make this.
  • Snort alerts are not showing up on the snort dashboard widget

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    the widget has not work for some time now… at least 8+ months on the 2.0 branch... clearing alerts was reported a while ago and there is a ticket on it already http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1765
  • Some help with Squid swap.state please?

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    You can also try memory cache, its faster then Disk. With a lot of sites setting sessions, squid is not so efficient To handle this.
  • Proxy Server & IP Address

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  • [SOLVED] pfSense process investigation and Snort

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    I'm all set, now… When I made it back to my test network earlier today there were system log entries on the pfSense box showing the ethernet interfaces had been restarted. The reason they restarted on their own while I was doing other things is a mystery to me, but they did restart. Shortly after that, Snort kicked off successfully for both interfaces I set it up on and was running just fine. Again, not sure why it decided to start right up on its own, but I had asked it to start repeatedly before working on other things, so maybe it just did what I told it to as soon as it could.  ??? I notice it clearly states on the Snort service web-interface that the interfaces will need to be restarted to pick up changes. Changes like just installing it to configuring it to run for the first time, say? Nice  ;D Once I had a running Snort install and the correct arguments for 'ps', it was easy to answer my own questions.
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