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

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    @qupfer What did I bang my head over this strange 502 issue. Your solution did it! Thank you so much, even 2.5 years later!
  • 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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    Hi All. A few years back there was no real good way of getting pfBlockerNG log files to a remote SIEM as pfBlocker had no built-in syslog support. The way pfBlockerNG rotated log files caused the entire log content to be resent/duplicated when the CRON update job ran if you used the syslog-ng package to monitor the log files. A Ticket has been open on this for years: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14878 I can still not find any builtin syslog support, and the log file lines are also still in their own format as opposed to standard Syslog format. Have anyone come up with a good solution to getting pfBlockerNG log files shipped to a SIEM without various workarounds, reformatting and extra packages needed?
  • 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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    @jimp Done. I was on acme.sh 1.0 (25.07.1) and a downgrade was proposed. Now, the issue is gone.
  • 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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    @totalimpact in my case I dsid not reboot the router, after I copied the new key tailscale went online.
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Hi Team, I’m running pfSense Plus 25.07.1 with TorGuard WireGuard VPN as my primary tunnel for LAN traffic (for best possible speeds). The tunnel is mostly working now, but I had to go through several fixes and I’m still not confident the configuration is stable. Here’s what I’ve run into: TorGuard support originally helped set up the WireGuard client. It worked fine for about a day, but then the Unbound DNS Resolver stopped working. Even when I re-enabled Unbound manually, LAN clients still couldn’t reach the internet. The main issue seemed to be when switching between WAN (ISP public IP) and the VPN IP. Sometimes traffic didn’t switch over properly, and at one point pfSense even generated a crash report during the switch and restarted. To fix it, I reset the LAN firewall rule so that LAN traffic would route through the VPN gateway when active, and fall back to WAN when the VPN was down. After that, I was able to toggle the VPN on/off without pfSense crashing, and traffic correctly switched between ISP IP and VPN IP. At this point it works, but I don’t think the setup is completely stable. I’d like to ask for guidance on: How to make sure Unbound stays reliable when the VPN gateway goes up/down. Best practices for LAN firewall rules so clients use the VPN when it’s up, and either fall back to WAN or get blocked (kill switch) when the VPN is down. Correctly assigning DNS servers to WAN and VPN gateways. At the moment, in System → General Setup, I don’t see the gateway dropdown next to DNS entries, so my DNS servers are just “floating” with no interface binding. If anyone has suggestions, or can point me to a clean reference configuration for WireGuard + Unbound + proper DNS gateway assignment, I’d greatly appreciate it. I'd really like to have a conference with someone and go over this. I'd like to give them access using RustDesk or TeamViewer so we can talk and they can show me things. I am legally blind so I am one inch from the screen. I've also uploaded the crashdump so you can look over it. I've also been using AI, but I keep going in circles with it, so it's not perfect. Thanks in advance! Warm Regards, Jamestextdump.tar.0
  • PFSense package server is down?

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    yup, it's up again…
  • Please help with Freeswitch Auto Attendant

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    And the last screeshot [image: freeswitch3.jpg] [image: freeswitch3.jpg_thumb]
  • PFSence and Zabbix Agent via IPSec

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    Resolved.  I had a static routes in place so that packets would route between the various firewalls (as per 13.4.4 in the guide book)  Once I removed those (coupled with a better understanding of how the agent was communicating with the server and things are now working)
  • Ad block with PixelServ

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    @DigitalJer: heh, what I've done is configure SquidGaurd to redirect to ext URL, and that URL is: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Blank.gif Not the most elegant…but kinda the same thing! Nice! I've never work with squidguard before, do you use some sort of block list with squidguard?
  • Question: How effective blocking extensions on PFSense?

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    Very important these ideas. But this is a challenge we will face. For you what is the best way to block those extensions on pfsense?
  • Squidguard - unable to reinstall

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    It also seems that if you deinstalled squid first then deinstalled squidguard, that issue may occur. Leaving squid last to deinstall seems to work fine.
  • OpenOSPF over OpenVPN Tunnels - is it possible

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    [DONE] SOLVED Thanks, found the causing on my own. Did uncheck the "redistribute connected" and disabled to redistribute the public, external IP-range. That's it… Thanks for all your help! :-)
  • SNORT NOT INSTALLING (PFSENSE STILL A PROBLEM)

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    @trentdk: Ignoring cdx304, and going with tbaror, I can confirm the Snort package installation error on pfSense 2.0 (nightly dec 28): Yes, and there are already several other threads dedicated to that – with workarounds. The maintainer of that package still needs to fix it.
  • PfSense 2.0 (dec 28) + squid + lightsquid: lightsquid error

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    Using those 'refresh' buttons, and messing around with the log rotation didn't help  :'(
  • Squid and lightSquid (and squidGuard if I am lucky)

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    Thanks for that, now the logs work as well. Thanks for your time guys :)
  • Nmap, squid, and squidGuard on 1.2.3

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    When I do an nmap on my IP on the LAN network (without checking any of the three boxes), it sits on the page pkg_edit.php just loading and loading.. with the text "Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-12-27 16:28 CST" outside the right margins of the webdesign. After a while it just stops "loading" nothing. EDIT: Ok finally, it took forever just to do a scan on my machine from the pfSense server.
  • Cant find snort rules tab

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    @Cry: What version (number) of pfSense are you running? 1.2.3
  • Snort GUI wishlist

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    NAC (VLAN ISOLATION) :)
  • HAVP still blocking users after service fails to start

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  • Terminal Server Aware web usage logging

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    Thanks, I'll check it out.
  • Squid LDAP Auth on Win2008R2 AD?

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    ok i've read somewhere that Unix may have trouble communicating with Windows 2008 R2 LDAP. Can anybody confirm this?
  • Can't start squid? pfsense 2.0 squid 2 or 3

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    I know, I apologize for being a giant douchebag, but I was in a hurry to get back online.
  • Blocking Cookies

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    Cool.  I'll have to try it once I have some time.
  • Squidguard weird update-behaviour

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    Ah, ok. I'll stay tuned. At the moment i'm staying good with that little "feature"…
  • General Package 'problems'

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    Upgrading has caused spamd to stop working but I will post about that in a separate thread. @jimp: You'd have more luck posting a specific thread with that in the topic asking, the maintainer of that package may see it and offer some help. Usually we err on the side of caution when removing packages. Removing them from the list makes it a lot harder for the maintainer to debug problems. Spamd doesn't have a current maintainer according to the package listing. I also get 'current version unknown' so I'm not sure if I have the latest. Reinstalling installs the current one again so I'm 50/50 whether I have the current or not. I hope this next comment is taken as it's entitled and not taken the wrong way. I love pfSense, however the packages, for me, are it's biggest weakness. pfSense isn't really designed for embedded so it's designed for packages to extend it. However, a lot of the packages are simply not maintained, don't work properly, cause problems and that is just from my own personal experience. Documentation is scarce for a lot of the packages too or the documentation that is there is just not adequate. I wouldn't even mind paying a small fee for some packages (such as spamd as when it worked it was fantastic) if they were maintained or worked correctly. I'm not one of these people who take and moan about it when it doesn't work. I wish I could contribute and I would really love to take over spamd but I know enough about it or BSD to be more of a hinderance than a help.
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