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

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    Can I use pgblockerng aliases in Haproxy?

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    If it was a firewall rule, typing pfb would produce a dropdown to select.

    Here it has to be written, but will it work? Is it supported?

  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    I saw where the Netgate kernel developer updated the Suricata package in the pfSense 25.07 development branch to work with the new kernel PPPoE driver. But so far as I know that updated package has not been migrated to 2.8 CE.

    Here is the commit into the DEVEL branch: https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commit/68a06b3a33c690042b61fb4ccfe96f3138e83b72.

  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @pulsartiger
    The database name is vnstat.db and its location is under /var/db/vnstat.
    With "Backup Files/Dir" we are able to do backup or also with a cron.

  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @Laxarus This worked for me as well. Though I had to search the web how to edit the file (the easiest way).

    Therefore:

    Addition for anyone struggling to find where to edit files on your pfsense system.

    Go to Diagnostics --> Edit File --> insert the location of the file:

    /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.sh

    Go to line number 1232 by filling it in the Go to line field.

    That line should read:

    s1="$(grep -cv ^${ip_placeholder2}$ ${masterfile})"

    replace only (leave the rest intact):

    masterfile

    to

    mastercat

    Then follow the above instructions from @Laxarus https://forum.netgate.com/post/1219635

  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @elvisimprsntr thanks for your suggestion. I will give it a try.

  • Discussions about the ACME / Let’s Encrypt package for pfSense

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    @MacUsers

    https://help.zerossl.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060119933-Certificate-Revocation

    edit: oh you prob out of luck

    You can revoke any certificate issued via the ZeroSSL portal. Currently, certificates issued via ACME can not be revoked from inside the portal - please follow the instructions of your ACME client for revoking those certificates.

    the gui in pfsense does not have the ability to revoke - you prob have to move the certs to something you have certbot installed to and revoke that way.

  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    I had a similar issue with Routed VTI over IPsec recently. FRR lost its neighbors after rebooting or when a tunnel went down. It never re-discovered it automatically. Only restarting FRR (either in GUI or via CLI) brought the neighbors back.

    When I manually added those under the OSPF neighbors tab in the GUI it seems to solve the problem as well.

  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    We have a very basic configuration between three locations. All are running Netgate firewalls (1x 4100, 1x 6100 & 1x 4200). All are on the latest firmware (03.00.00.01-2Ct-uc-15) and system versions (24.11-RELEASE).

    The local subnets are as follows:
    4100 - 192.168.5.0/24
    4200 - 192.168.4.0/24
    6100 - 192.168.1.0/24

    The VPN traffic between the 4100 and 4200 is functioning 100% as expected

    The traffic between 6100 and the 4100 works going from the 4100 subnet (192.168.5.0/24) to the 6100 subnet (192.168.1.0/24)

    Traffic from the firewall (i.e. the 6100 device) to the 4100 subnet works (i.e. I can ping any device on the 192.168.5.0/24 subnet from the 6100 firewall) but I cannot ping any device on the 4100 (192.168.5.0/24) subnet from any device on the 6100 subnet (192.168.1.0/24) - other than from the firewall itself.

    All routes are correct, but it seems that traffic from the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet hits the firewall and then gets lost - traceroute shows that it goes off into the internet.

    Note too that the 6100 has IPsec VPN configured on it as well

    Suggestions would be appreciated

    Attached is a zipped pdf file with the relevant screenshots
    Relevant screen shots.zip

  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    @patient0 Thanks for further suggestions. The tunnel is definitely up and so I don't think this is a CGNAT issue after all. WAN firewall rule is in place for UDP on port 51823 (otherwise the tunnel wouldn't work, right?). I can ping from client 1 -> client 2 and visa versa and also ping all points in between like you suggest. I just can't open an HTTPS connection from pfSenseB from Client 1 using a browser. But I can do this the other way round i.e. from Client 2 to pfSenseA

    I will try and do some packet capture to see if that reveals anything.

  • OpenVPN Multihop Package

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    @John2893ax
    Hello, can you update pkg for 24.03?

  • Thoughts on CrowdSec

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    @beloc I have tried him, looks working. Can be integrated with Suricata. They are making update for pfSense, but still not in official repo. If will support official will have to test again)))

  • Requesting help setting up Bind9 on SG1100

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  • Bind config window blank - Error Msg on nslookup

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  • Howto enable DNSSEC for a domain configured in Bind

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    @megapearl said in Howto enable DNSSEC for a domain configured in Bind:

    Now finding a way to save the keys in the config xml or write them to a different location to make them persistent upon reboot

    Also looking for a way to save my slave zone. After reboot my slave zone is empty, if there is no master. https://forum.netgate.com/topic/188369/slave-zone-in-bind-9-17/3

  • CloudFlare WARP, WARP+ and WireGuard working setup?

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  • Problem with Avahi mdns after upgrade.

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    @trautmann

    Avahi doesn't know if traffic goes over wires only, or if a part of the path is over Wifi ....

  • System Patches Package v2.2.11

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  • New 2.7.2 Install. Packages are displaying in triplicates.

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    @SteveITS

    Looks good now... That was weird.

    Thanks.....

  • arpwatch database edit

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    johnpozJ

    @jester95 had a sim thread recently - the db files are here /usr/local/arpwatch

    https://forum.netgate.com/post/1163611

    the dat files seem to be just text files, so you should be able to edit them I would think.

  • Please Consider Netbird Support | The Truly Free Tailscale Alternative

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  • pfSense 2.7 and UDP Broadcast Relay

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    @Nyxtorm Yes, I had the same feeling; perhaps the best thing is to have the TVs in the same VLAN. In the end, I switched to OpenWRT; I find it better for home use.

  • arpwatch and voluminous amounts of SPAM

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    Nice! Enjoy!

  • help with ntopng

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    @detox To be clear, what I meant was that I don't know if the new pfSense-pkg-ntopng version is in the pfSense community repo yet. You should check in System / Package Manager.

    GeoIP will not work until a new version of pfSense-pkg-ntopng is installed because the old version does not provide the Login ID. [MaxMind now requires a Login ID as well as the License Key. There are several posts discussing this in the forum.]

  • 23.09.1 from 23.05.1 freeRadius broke

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    @vanwinkle-rip, thanks for posting this! The log suggested to make that change but didn't specify where. You pointed in the right direction.

    Do you or anyone else know how to make this change permanent? Any changes in the GUI revert the changes. Maybe we can create an eap.local file or something like this?

  • Configuring UDP Broadcast Relay

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    @iptvcld i'm sure there's a more eloquent and effective way to find out but I've actually just googled and messaged various companies to ask them what the udp forwarding port the app uses and been moderately successful. Can't get the the printer to reliably talk across the vlans but that could be a "printers are terrible" thing

  • System Patches Package v2.2.10_1

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    They can't be in the release notes immediately along with the release since the issues are marked private until after the release is out, but they'll be added shortly.

  • Netmap root directory

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  • Rebooting pfsense on wan gateway failure

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    @ipfftw Try this

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  • FreeRADIUS

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    The screenshot I posted above got removed somehow so I'm posting in text

    sshguard 14637 Blocking "192.168.4.103/32" for 480 secs (1 attacks in 0 secs, after 3 abuses over 693 secs.)
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