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

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    @firefox That is weird did you just try this or have you used it in the past?
  • 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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    Ran into this issue today as well running on 25.07.1 with pfblockerNG-devel 3.2.7. Followed the steps outlined in this thread to edit the pfblockerng.sh file, then deleted/force reloaded all the lists, and all was well again. Thank you everyone in this thread for your your help and great instructions.
  • 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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    Hi all, I wanted to share that I’m also experiencing issues with Tailscale (v1.86.4) on the latest pfSense CE (v2.8.0). After either a pfSense reboot or a Tailscale service restart, my node is logged out of Tailscale — exactly as many of you have described here. It bothered me enough that I opened a support ticket with the Tailscale team. I explained the problem, included details, and linked this thread as a reference. The good news is that support responded quickly and said they’re setting up a pfSense VM to reproduce the issue. In the meantime, they suggested a workaround: “Based on the behavior described here and in the thread, it looks like the auth key used for authentication may be expiring. Since OAuth clients don’t expire, switching to an OAuth Client rather than an Auth Key might resolve this. See our docs here: https://tailscale.com/kb/1215/oauth-clients#registering-new-nodes-using-oauth-credentials I tested this, and after configuring Tailscale with OAuth, everything worked! Tailscale now stays connected and authenticated even after a reboot or service restart. That said, I did tell support that while OAuth solves the issue, it used to work out of the box with the simpler interactive login / auth key flow. Something seems to have changed on the Tailscale side, and I hope they identify and fix it. But until then, the OAuth workaround is a solid fix. I’d love to hear how it’s working for the rest of you. Anyone else try OAuth yet? Cheers
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    I figured out the issue. I missed adding the 3rd locations Lan to the static routing. Now all is working perfect.
  • Anonymizing squid (v2.7 and 3 - i386 and amd64)

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  • Squid with openLDAP not working

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    for my windows server 2003R2 right setting is LDAP username DN attribute :cn LDAP search filter :cn=%s
  • Squid integration - General Questions

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    Thanks for clearing my skies. I am cross referencing the squid log and CP log with script running on another linux box. User names are inserted to the un field on the squid log and they are parsed with lightsquid. Should be working until I complete the scripts.
  • FreeSwitch for pfsense dead?

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    Ahh, ok, so it's sort of still alive. I noticed that Freeswitch was marked with a ? on the 2.0 compatibility list, and I guess fusionpbx is another? I'm still considering switchin to 2.0, but I think I want to get an ALIX appliance with a HD first, so I can make a seperate install with that, before completely erasing the old 1.2.3 Thanks for the input!
  • Help with SquidGuard

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    Enter from console touch /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/blacklist.files
  • Snort exception for VPN traffic?

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    Thanks for your input, Rob. Whitelisting is not really relevant when the remote user is logging in from a range of locations. Actually, it's not really meaningful even when they are coming in from a single location in many cases - our chief developer uses an internet connection with dynamic IP from one of the biggest ISPs in this country - I've had to whitelist their entire IP range and, in the process, told SNORT to ignore probably thirty percent or more of the UK internet users! I also spent a lot of time turning off rules - but there's a lot of them that trigger from time to time. I described them as "false positives" which may not be strictly true - I guess the point is that a lot of remote users coming into the network over VPNs are doing so from public ISPs and quite a lot of the attacks I'm seeing are probably genuine. We are a commercial organisation hosting public facing web sites behind this firewall and it's harmful to business to block incoming traffic unnecessarily. How does pfSense block traffic from IP addresses identified by SNORT? Does it generate hidden firewall rules to block the offending IP addresses? If that is the case, could we set it up so that the generated block rules were inserted at an identifiable point in the rule list? That way, I could simply insert exception rules above that point which would always override the internally generated blocks and, thus, permit specific protocols or destinations irrespective of the SNORT decisions. This would actually be better than putting in some sort of VPN exception - it would also allow me, for example, to add further exceptions to allow access to my web sites even while stopping port scans and attempts to bust into the RDP ports on my servers! Martin
  • Squid in Transparent and Port mode. ssh into lan, proxy local connections

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  • Transparent Proxy partially functional

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    Completed the upgrade to 1.2.3 and reinstalled the packages. LightSquid appears to be showing all of the traffic again. Thanks for the help.
  • Encryped LDAP communication with Squid?

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  • Siproxd and Telia

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  • Snort - Unblock blacklisted hosts from the command line

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    I'm not sure of the details, it's changed a few times over the years, not sure what the package author has it doing these days.
  • Lightsquid report

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  • MagicJack on pfSense PC?

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    @Cry: My understanding is that MagicJack is an entire service, you can't just go switching the software you run. I'd suggest that going down the FreeSwitch route should only be done after you read up on FreeSwitch. MJ is actually uses the standard SIP protocol.  As long as you can get at your credentials, you can use any SIP application in place of the MJ dongle.  Some have used an ATA instead. http://www.magicjacksupport.com/any-new-way-to-get-sip-info-t8145.html
  • I need to update php4 to php5

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    That will not work, you will break many things. You should not use your firewall for things like that, but if you must, 2.0 uses PHP5. And if you're going to be altering the firewall and running insecure services on it, you may as well be using the 2.0 RC version because it will in no way be considered stable at that point.
  • Suppresing Priority 3 alert in snort 2.8.6.1

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  • Vnstat time not correct

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  • Correctly monitor bandwidth?

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    On my system Bandwidthd shows more traffic than the rrd graph and I have a filter to keep it from counting lan traffic.  "ip and not ((src net 192.168.0.0/16) and (dst net 192.168.0.0/16))"  I think this will cover all the 192.168 subnets as I have a static route to another lan on the opt1 interface with servers on both lans.
  • Snort acting very weird!

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  • Does anyone use the BlockHosts script from ACZoom.com?

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    @ToxIcon: Tommyboy180 did you ever create a package for blockhosts My work is saved on my desktop right now. I am currently moving right now. When I get settled in then I can resume development.
  • Pfsense 1.2.3-Release + Squid + OPEN-LDAP

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    Hello, This is really late, but I just began using pfSense and ran into this same problem. In my searching for the answer I have found your post with no answer I too was struggling with exactly what you are/were experiencing. Here is a solution I figured out after much messing around for the filter search string type in "uid=%s" the rest of what you have should be OK
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