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

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    JonathanLeeJ
    @firefox I don’t think so, to be honest with you I am on an older version also. Just make sure you do the patch package and install all the system patches.
  • 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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    dennypageD
    @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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    dennypageD
    @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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    yon 0Y
    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.
  • [Resolved] Avahi stops working after a few minutes

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    Were there any unusual entries from Avahi in your system log when it would stop working? I've switched my media center to use a pulseaudio tunnel rather than zeroconf for now, but this is still an issue I would like to resolve.
  • BUG

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    You have some part of the mod_security package apparently, which no longer exists. Look in /usr/local/pkg and delete anything that's related to it.
  • Bind view+sync bug

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    PS.  The namedb files in /cf/named/etc/namedb/slave/LAN and …/WAN are the same, and match those under /LAN on the master.  The  ..../WAN db on the master is correct.
  • RRD / Email Report Graphs

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  • Remove references to missing packages

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    +1 ! Do we have something like apt-get autoclean … autoremove... ?
  • What is a good Anti Virus?

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    I find edge antivirus practically useless, unless you are a shop that does SSL MitM tear apart - then it can still be useful.
  • Packages not working after restore

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  • PHP script to create OTRS abuse tickets by snort alerts triggered

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  • How to accomplish Single Sign-on with pfSense

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    Radius and LDAP are simply mechanisms that pfSense can use to verify a username/password are correct. They don't handle SSO in that you only log in once, then automatically log into other sites/services. SSO solutions these days usually use SAML, where you have some kind of web-based interface that a site or service can request a token from, the SAML system verifies the username/password (making you enter it if you haven't logged in yet), then sends the token back to the original site/service indicating the user is valid. Or something like that goes on. pfSense doesn't have any kind of SAML or SSO authentication options. I'm not sure if they're on the map for the future either. Personally, SSO on a device that is protecting your network… not a good idea. That's just my opinion though.
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  • Varnish 3 and pfsense 2.3

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  • FreeRadius2 Package Install Stalls

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    Hi Guys i Managed to make it work and wrote a guide for this : https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=113228.msg629777#msg629777
  • FreeRadius

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    Hi Guys i Managed to make it work and wrote a guide for this : https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=113228.msg629777#msg629777
  • Avahi stopping after VPN IP Change

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    The avahi shutdown seems to kill the dbus daemon as well which is required for avahi to run. It then fails to start the dbus daemon before attemping to start the avahi daemon again. I would say that restarting of the dbus daemon is unnecessary because it doesn't listen on IP addresses/interfaces and could be left running.
  • Newby question re whitelisting in pfblockerng

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    @pfBlockNG: Enable Suppression This will prevent Selected IPs from being blocked. Only for IPv4 lists (/32 and /24). Country blocking lists cannot be suppressed. This will also remove any RFC1918 addresses from all lists. Alerts can be suppressed using the '+' icon in the Alerts tab and IPs added to the 'pfBlockerNGSuppress' alias A blocked IP in a CIDR other than /32 or /24 will need a 'Whitelist alias' w/ list action: 'Permit Outbound' Firewall rule Do not use the pfBlockerNGSuppress Alias in a Firewall Rule. This alias is used during the cron download process only.
  • ClamAV HTTPS scanning

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    Yes, this is a possible way. Or you can add entries like these: shExpMatch(host, "10...") || shExpMatch(host, "192.168..*")
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  • Freeradius won't start after PF 2.3 update

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    I have the same problem, radius showing in services as stopped and I cant start it from the gui. I have done this: rm /tmp/radiusd_start.lock which did not make any difference, and this: radiusd -f -d /usr/local/etc/raddb which gives me this: [2.3.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.skh]/root: radiusd -f -d /usr/local/etc/raddb gdbm fatal: Unexpected end of file Has anyone any further suggestions?
  • Packages and CARP

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    Thank you :) Kind regards
  • WPA2 Enterprise with EAP-TLS auth issue with freeradius2 1.7.3_1

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    Hi, found this on the web: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mailing.unix.freeradius-users/AxI-ebtSqDI No, the only thing that check_cert_cn does is make sure that the CN in the certificate matches the User-Name attribute in the RADIUS request. It's basically just a sanity/security check on the request itself.  It does not go looking on other autz sources for you.  It is up to you to decide elsewhere (users file, SQL DB, LDAP) whether or not to allow that user to authenticate.  If you do nothing, the user will be allowed to authenticate by default.  If, for some reason, you decide you don't want a user to be allowed to authenticate, you must specifically reject him. So if you want to block a certificate you need a CRL (Certificate Revocation List) and put the certificate in it.
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