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

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    @andrew_cb said in haproxy 0.63_2 weird behavior, edits not working: @iSagen @TheCyborgWeasel The issue is likely the same as in https://forum.netgate.com/topic/178348/haproxy-backend-port-changes-are-not-applied/ Try adding load-server-state-from-file none to the Advanced Settings > Backend pass thru section of each backend. Great! I will do this.
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    @NRgia said in Suricata on Pfsense: @bmeeks Thank you for what you did for Snort or Suricata. I'm not sure what you want me to do on Redmine, due to is a bug tracker. My question is for Product Management, which I will ask it here to be public: What is the plan for these 2 packages, Suricata and Snort? Thank you Yes, Redmine is for both bug reports and feature requests. Asking for the Suricata binary to be updated to the latest 7.0.11 version from upstream is a legitimate Redmine request. I would suggest simply asking for the binary version update instead of asking about future Netgate strategy (such as the support plans for the packages). Strategy discussions typically don't get very far because they deal with proprietary information or plans that a company may not want to publicly discuss. Redmine is where the Netgate developer team tracks all the code changes they make for pfSense. They will see Redmine reports much quicker than a forum post.
  • 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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    @keyser Clarify "it makes sense if the GEOIP DB has that size" are you referencing the asn data as I have shown or the maxmind data? the asn data takes all of 15 seconds to download and process. Not really any "magic" going on there, you can see the mmdb is only a download referenced and the asn.csv.gz is basically just unzipped. I can't comment on the maxmind data specifically because I don't use for my geo location. But I can see what the code should be doing. seeing your actual log file will help determine where your specific spike may be coming from, but if I had to guess from looking at the code and my timing with respect to the asn parts of it I would guess this is most likely to be an issue with the maxmind parts - timing should be in the log. can you change when it runs ? no, not directly, there is no way to do this without changing the code to target a specific time when it creates the cron job in the first place. No you can't change the timing of the cron job and have it stick, it will eventually just go random again. On the other hand, yes, because I changed the code here so it always creates the same "not so random" time.. runnning at same time every day since this code change first became available in the pfblockerNG update for 24.11 that came out months ago, well before 25.07 curious you originally said "noticed this after upgrading to 25.07 and pfb 3.2.7" were you running the "new" format of asn data before? (would have only been possible if you upgraded from 24.11 with the latest version of pfb installed) you would have entered and ASN key at some point to make it work. did you do that under the prior version and just now with 25.07) it's likely not significant, but then again .... That likely won't help your spike, other than moving it to a different time. I moved it here to a static ("not so random") time for other reasons, nothing to do with system load at the time.. Log files would be helpful. (just the snippet that applies to this time, from extras, error and pfblockerng logs there may be nothing in error or pfblockerng related to the time it is running. .
  • 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 said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: While we do not deliberately break such configurations, if you install a package from unsupported repositories and they replace or mess with base system dependencies, then there is no telling what will break over time like this. Understood - thank you very much for the clarification. I need crowdsec though... and there are no official support yet. I don't mind reinstalling the system, it takes reasonable amount of time, unless I found netinstaller fails to connect to my pppoe which tripled the time of restoration. For that I have no explanation and it is obviously not related to the dependencies, but that's offtopic in this thread.
  • 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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    Updated CE 2.7.2 to 1.86.2_1 Changelog pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.86.2_1.pkg Freshports
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Strangely enough, checking the system 4 days later, I now see that Wireguard service is reported running! The last thing I did 4 days ago was to disable Wireguard service monitoring by the Service Watchdog. Anyway, even when it was reported stopped at first, 4 days ago, the tunnels were working flawlessly. Very strange. I will keep an eye on it.
  • NUT Driver DummyUPS Device File

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  • FreeRadius + Captive Portal "Amount of Time" Problem

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    @mustafa-azzam said in FreeRadius + Captive Portal "Amount of Time" Problem: But I have another question now .. when radius is running, the command (radius -X) will not run? Radius is a process you can see as a "server process". Golden rule : on one and the same system, you can have on ONE server process that listens to a determined port. So, if you launch "FreeRadius" using the pfSense GUI, you have a radius process runnin. Example, right now, on my pfSense : [2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.brit-hotel-fumel.net]/root: ps ax | grep radius 83839 - Is 0:18.74 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd 21455 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep radius As you know, it's easy to check what ports it's using. When I launch another, second radius process, it will bail out.
  • gwled using high amounts of CPU on APU2

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  • Squid & Squid Guard block pages

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    No. This is just how it is for https connections.
  • Python client library for FauxAPI available on PyPi

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  • Avahi - OpenVPN missing from deny interfaces

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    @grimson Thanks! Didn't know about that widget... I've added it to my dashboard :) Some sort of built-in alerting would be good though. I just found this custom script another user wrote to alert on available system and package updates https://forum.netgate.com/topic/137707/auto-update-check-checks-for-updates-to-base-system-packages-and-sends-email-alerts
  • OpenBGPd not able to use prefix-set

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    @jimp said in OpenBGPd not able to use prefix-set: I can't remember if support for that is in FRR, but OpenBGPD is pretty much a dead end these days on FreeBSD (and especially pfSense). More than likely what you want to do can be done without much more effort on FRR. Thanks for the suggestions, I am new to FRR and looks really interesting, will for sure explore this in testing and see if we can make the transition. @biggsy said in OpenBGPd not able to use prefix-set: From what I can find prefix-set was introduced with OpenBSD 6.3 (released in April 2018). The FreeBSD version is old compared to the one in OpenBSD. Seem you are correct and that OpenBGPd on freebsd is far outdated and without the new prefix-set features :(
  • i need something like fail2ban do on linux on pfsense or backend servers

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    @nogbadthebad said in i need something like fail2ban do on linux on pfsense or backend servers: e the backend servers running any form of BSD, look here if they are:- thanks for reply!
  • How to specify a non-standard mysql-Port in the Banyard2 configuration?

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  • Package unavailable

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    The doc I'm linking is for upgrade troubleshooting but since upgrades and packages both use the same mechanism to pull info, this section is relevant to figuring out why you can't see packages, too: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/upgrade-troubleshooting.html#force-pkg-metadata-update
  • What is the status of ARPWATCH package?

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  • [arpwatch package] Ignore VRRP/CARP traffic

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  • LCDProc multiple instances after packages restart

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    @stephenw10 said in LCDProc multiple instances after packages restart: Steve I will give it a try.. Thanks Much Steve!! Fabricio.
  • Mailscanner + spamassassin + clamav package

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    @marcelloc Hi Marcelloc, i have postfix and mailscanner running on pfsense 2.4.4-p1, i got the following warnings: MailScanner[64731]: Clamd::ERROR:: UNKNOWN CLAMD RETURN ./lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR :: /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/64731 Permissions looks fine, i did chown -R postfix:postfix /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/, also chmod -R 6666 to the same folder. Runas user on MailScanner.conf and clamd.conf is postfix. Also mailscanner logs display syntax errors: Mar 6 16:09:51 pfsense2 MailScanner[56749]: Syntax error(s) in configuration file: Mar 6 16:09:51 pfsense2 MailScanner[56749]: Unrecognised keyword "deliversuspiciouspdf" at line 93 Mar 6 16:09:51 pfsense2 MailScanner[56749]: Unrecognised keyword "pdfidcommand" at line 84 Mar 6 16:09:51 pfsense2 MailScanner[56749]: Unrecognised keyword "pdfidtimeout" at line 87 Mar 6 16:09:51 pfsense2 MailScanner[56749]: Unrecognised keyword "scanpdf" at line 90 Mar 6 16:09:51 pfsense2 MailScanner[56749]: Warning: syntax errors in /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf. Please Help.
  • Sarg package for pfsense

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    @marcelloc Hello, Marcelo: Do you know how to install SARG in Hello, Marcelo: Do you know how to install SARG in pfsense 2.4.4, FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p3 ? Thanks, Yosvany
  • Not able to download Snort Signature on Pfsense

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    You must have a valid Oinkcode subscription code. You can have either a free registered code or a paid subscription code. You must obtain the code from the Snort.org web site. Next, if you are running any type of RAM disk configuration on your firewall, make sure you have at least 256 MB of free space in the /tmp directory (and preferably up to 512 MB free). Snort needs available free disk space to download the rules tarballs and unpack them during the update process. Running out of space on /tmp will cause all kinds of weird errors. Look at the pfSense system log to see if any errors show up there related to disk space. P.S. -- the only way to tell if disk space was an issue is to review the system log. When the update process finishes (either successfully or with a failure), it will clean up behind itself and delete the files and sub-directories it created in /tmp. So simply looking at the dashboard disk space widget will not reveal the problem.
  • Secure logging to external server

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    @pipetennathan said in Secure logging to external server: Incase anyone else is stuck on this, I found the solution. Posted it here: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/136998/how-to-send-snort-alert-logs-to-graylog-without-barnyard2/6 This is a great solution as Barnyard2 has not been well supported in recent years by its developer. You could almost call it "dead" in a manner of speaking. It is likely that at some point down the road Barnyard2 will be pulled from the Snort and Suricata packages.
  • Snort blocking all torrents

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    @rango said in Snort blocking all torrents: I can try to disable Auto flow bit rule. Is it as easy as disable by the rule itself? My hardware has nothing to do with it. It's 2.4Ghz Quad core intel i5 processor with 4gb of ram able to run encryption at ~300Mbps. Without snort package it runs correct. It's snort component do it but since p2p and policy is not enabled i'm puzzled what rule or which component is doing this. If an additional auto-flowbit rule is alerting, it will show up on the ALERTS tab. But note that when in blocking mode, every Snort alert results in a corresponding block of the IP address unless that IP is in a Pass List. And a block will not "slow down" traffic, it will completely stop it. So I continue to be puzzled by your statement that Snort "slows down bandwidth to a few kb/sec". If Snort rule blocks are the issue, the traffic would completely stop: not just slow down.
  • Snort stop working

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    I was confused on how to do this so after I figured it out I thought I would share. Click Services, Snort Edit the non functional snort interface e Click %Interface% Rules Click the drop down for Category: and choose GPLv2_community.rules Wait for it to load and disable x Sid: 49090 SERVER-SAMBA at the bottom of the page Save & Apply Then back on the Snort Interfaces tab you should now be able to start x snort on the Interface
  • Is it possible to combine OTP and LDAP authentication with FreeRadius ?

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