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

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    I even tried deleting and creating a new certificate. Any suggestions?
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    JonathanLeeJ
    @bmeeks your work outclasses so many individuals of the next generation of developers. Your stuff is amazing. Cheers
  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @Antibiotic No it’s not possible with NtopNG as it is not a Netflow collector. You need nProbe for that which will “translate” recieved netflows into flows that NtopNG understands and can visualize (with very very little detail might I add as Netflows has no additonal information apart from sender/reciever and volume). The NtopNG package and the product in general is more geared towards visualising and recording traffic details from actual packet captures. This contains MUCH more metadata about the sessions than netflows (DNS names, protocol information and myriads of other things). But pffSense Plus has a builtin Netflow exporter if you have an external netflow collector on hand.
  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @tinfoilmatt Thanks for your time. My update was from pfsense 2.7 to 2.8. And no changes to configurations (pfsense, pfblocker or anything) that I can think of. I check the report everyday and that is why I thought it was related to the update, since the cache hit numbers went down after the update.
  • 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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    Hi, Please help to forward / report the bugs in ACME 1.0 package. Thanks.
  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    Anyone else happen to notice that when configuring BFD, if you create a peer and select a profile - after save, re-edit the peer and the Profile is not represented. It appears as "None". You have to check the raw config to determine if the profile was actually assigned to the peer. This is on 2.8.1 (all packages up to date as of the date/time of this post). UPDATE: if re-edit and save (without re-configuring the profile none to what you want) - the save will strip the profile from the peer.
  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    Hi All, I use HAProxy to redirect to a range of https internal resources, this works really well at the moment through the WAN where I have source limits set up, and I can connect to the internal resources from limited external IP Addresses. Given I have tailscale I would like to basically be able to put custom dns entries in to point these hostnames to my pfsense tailscale IP4 address (100.89.148.118) but I am not having any luck getting this working. At the moment, I am just trying to connect to HAProxy using https://100.89.148.118 but it is getting blocked by the firewall. Sep 11 11:55:58 tailscale0 Default deny rule IPv4 (1000000103) 100.89.148.10:53148 100.89.148.118:443 TCP:S I have tried with and without NAT redirecting internally to 127.0.0.1, and I also have rules set up to allow any traffic to and from my tailnets (defined in an alias) but I still keep getting these connections from my other tailscale machines being blocked on the pfsense machine. Can someone give me some pointers on what I am missing because I can see the requests are coming through to the pfsense machine, and in theory the rules should allow it through but I cant see why they don't. I do have tailscale ACL in place, but clearly that is not an issue as the requests are making it through to the firewall. 0/0 B IPv4+6 TCP/UDP TailNets * TailNets * * none Allow across Tailnets 0/0 B IPv4+6 TCP/UDP * * * 443 (HTTPS) * none Allow Tailscale IP4 I also tried adding a EasyRule but because the tailscale0 interface doesn't exist in pfsense it throws an error and won't let me add that rule. Appreciate any help or tips, Cheers.
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    resolved! Issue was the following I corrected a few things on your config: Your Outbound NAT configuration was malformed. I corrected it to utilize Hybrid mode and configured a single Outbound NAT for your Wireguard connection, which should be much cleaner. I updated your routing table to be Automatic and switched to Policy-based routing within the firewall rules under Firewall --> Rules --> LAN I updated the name of the interface for the Wireguard tunnel to be called TORGUARD and set the MSS clamping to 1350. This can probably be bumped back up to 1400, but I wanted to make sure the clamping was small enough to avoid fragmentation. I cleaned up some redundant firewall rules and a few other "odds and ends".
  • Snort not Restarting after update

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    @BBcan17: Thanks Bill, Are there any other logs that I could look at to see where the issue could be? One of those routers is using the Open ET ruleset ("C") so its most likely not a recent rule, as the open ruleset is 30 days behind. Snort logs everything it logs to the system log, so if nothing is there to give a hint, you are out of luck.  Snort is not as "helpful" with logging as Suricata.  All of that is under control of the binary, so nothing can be done from the GUI package side. As for those rules, my understanding is the 30-day timer is actually per rule.  So some "rule X" in the set may hit 30-days old today and wind up in the ET Open collection while other rules may not.  At least that's how I believe it works on the Snort subscriber versus registered-user rules. Bill
  • Captive portal + squid3-dev trouble

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    marcellocM
    You can also try to forward any dns request to a specific dns server using nat rules.
  • Snort problem with installation of some rules

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    @coer: Thank you that is the answer. Glad I could help.. :) Bill
  • Squid3-dev netdb is looking for /var/log/squid directory

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    Awesome Marcelloc  ;)
  • Squid3 not logging access

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    @ptbman: I've discovered (through netstat) that the port squid should be listening is closed. Any ideas? Enable ipv6 on system -> advanced. It's something with squid compilation on freebsd/pfsense.
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    Tip: https://calomel.org/proxy_auto_config.html isInNet(host, pattern, mask) isInNet(host, "192.168.249.79", "255.255.255.255")     is true if the IP address of host matches exactly 192.168.249.79. isInNet(host, "192.168.0.0", "255.255.0.0")     is true if the IP address of the host matches 192.168.*.*. Well it might work, but like you said you have hosts without local records…
  • Lightsquid : problem on refresh after changing quota

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  • Bandwidthd For Multiple Vlans

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    any help pls.. thanks,,
  • Forwarding identd server for pfsense/freebsd?

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    jimpJ
    OK, so the base program I found and then modified. It used lsof and ipnat but it could all be done with pfctl -ss output as far as I can see. Bear in mind this is crufty 14-year-old code that probably is horribly bad in many ways. https://gist.github.com/jim-p/78b7637ef5ce8c7b3219
  • Apinger and OpenVPN: Gateway down after OpenVPN client service restart

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    Moved this to Packages since it's specific to OSPF and not specific to 2.1.1 @heper: have made a quick attempt to get ospf working with a similar openvpn tls/ssl setup in VM - and failed :( after some digging with openvpn "topology subnet" i did manage to get ospf to get to a full-link state … but routing failed. perhaps jimp or ermal or any other core dev could shed some light on this. OSPF requires tun mode to use /30 tunnel networks, or tap mode for a shared instance with multiple clients. I've not seen it work in tun mode w/topology subnet.
  • Ntopng anyone?

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    It would be a good update…
  • Squid3 language error messages

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  • Squidguard-squid3 integration

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  • Squid3-dev clamav fail to start folder issue.

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  • SNORT backup solution

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    bmeeksB
    @dgcom: @bmeeks: I assume you are talking about rule updates with the updates download issue.  If so, that could be because the Snort VRT folks tie rule versions to specific Snort binary versions.  This is completely out of the control of the Snort package on pfSense. Yes, I am talking about rule download issue. But I wonder how this breaks during restore? It should be downloading rules for whatever version of Snort initiated said download, right? Regardless of what version the restored config was… It restored my oinkmastercode and tried to download something but then complained that checksum was wrong. If no one else is suffering this, it might be not important to spend your time on, really. Thank you for you work on this package, Bill. I will take a look at this by playing around in a virtual machine.  It will be a week or two before I have some time, though.  Trying to get the next Snort update out the door and also will be away on a family trip for a week. Bill
  • I need to block Drop Box

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    @marcelloc: That will be a great addition to the package. Is there any public ip reputation network that whe can use? I was told the Emerging Threats guys are working on one, but I'm not sure if it will be free or pay.  Maybe they will do something similar to what they do for the rules:  offer a comprehensive and daily updated list for paying customers, and a slightly dated and maybe not quite as comprehensive list for free. The Snort IP Reputation preprocessor is pretty simple, though.  All it needs is a text file with one IP address or CIDR network per line, so that should lend itself to use with many of the other types of lists out there. Bill
  • NUT as slave, Synology as UPS-server, some different error messages

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    G'day all lovers of the finest firewall in the world  ;D Would anybody happen to know what this error means: Poll UPS [ups@192.168.4.37] failed - Write error: Operation not permitted The 4.37 is the Synology that acts as the UPS server. Yesterday I was literally flooded with this (a couple of 100 emails about this), and normally I also get these a couple of times a week. Google didn't help me any further. I am trying to understand who is trying to write what to where and who is messing around with that ( :P). In NUT the light is green, the synology also doesn't complain about anything UPS-related, so I am, at least temporary, once again completely lost. Thank you for any help  ;D
  • Squid 3.4.4 is out - who creates the pkg?

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    marcellocM
    I understand your point.  But on pfsense you can get help from core team (paid support) to fix packages in that situation or to fast develop new ones. Community help as much as free time permits  :)
  • Snort whitelists

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    @Dadoo: Ahhh… I see. Whitelists are per-interface, not per-firewall. That explains why some of the addresses on the whitelist were blocked, while others were not.  The GUI doesn't make that obvious. Now that I've set a whitelist for both interfaces, that seems to have solved the problem. Thanks for your help. You're welcome.  I am starting a project to revise/update the Snort package documentation on the pfSense Documentation Wiki.  It will take me some time to get everything updated.  The stuff there now is way old and goes back many Snort versions well before I began offering some updates to the code.  Once the documentation update is complete, I will then make sure the various HELP links within the Snort GUI to point to the relevant Wiki page. Bill
  • Blocked list in Snort

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    I vaguely remember somebody mentioning that Snort's block list works correctly on 2.1.1, which is about to release  really soon. @https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/c40d6c7a99c35838ed222b83ee3d8c903a68e6b6: etc/version @@ -1 +1 @@ -2.1.1-PRERELEASE +2.1.1-RELEASE
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