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

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    @firefox That is weird did you just try this or have you used it in the past?
  • 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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    Ran into this issue today as well running on 25.07.1 with pfblockerNG-devel 3.2.7. Followed the steps outlined in this thread to edit the pfblockerng.sh file, then deleted/force reloaded all the lists, and all was well again. Thank you everyone in this thread for your your help and great instructions.
  • 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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    @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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    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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    Hi all, I wanted to share that I’m also experiencing issues with Tailscale (v1.86.4) on the latest pfSense CE (v2.8.0). After either a pfSense reboot or a Tailscale service restart, my node is logged out of Tailscale — exactly as many of you have described here. It bothered me enough that I opened a support ticket with the Tailscale team. I explained the problem, included details, and linked this thread as a reference. The good news is that support responded quickly and said they’re setting up a pfSense VM to reproduce the issue. In the meantime, they suggested a workaround: “Based on the behavior described here and in the thread, it looks like the auth key used for authentication may be expiring. Since OAuth clients don’t expire, switching to an OAuth Client rather than an Auth Key might resolve this. See our docs here: https://tailscale.com/kb/1215/oauth-clients#registering-new-nodes-using-oauth-credentials I tested this, and after configuring Tailscale with OAuth, everything worked! Tailscale now stays connected and authenticated even after a reboot or service restart. That said, I did tell support that while OAuth solves the issue, it used to work out of the box with the simpler interactive login / auth key flow. Something seems to have changed on the Tailscale side, and I hope they identify and fix it. But until then, the OAuth workaround is a solid fix. I’d love to hear how it’s working for the rest of you. Anyone else try OAuth yet? Cheers
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    I figured out the issue. I missed adding the 3rd locations Lan to the static routing. Now all is working perfect.
  • Dansguardion drives me mad… :/

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    Thanks for you answer. Its good to have an explanation and to see that it is not a faulty configuration but ment that way and yes I would surely appreciate any kind of example configuration. It might give me some hints about a proper setup. If I could wish something for a new version of ds (and NO I don't claim!) it would be a bit more in place help. First time I entered the gui I really didn't know where to start and how the whole system works. Took me a lot of trial and error. BTW I got the /tmp access error directly after a new installation.
  • Squid dropping connection.

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    @brasilnut: Okay - Let me rephrase my question: Where is this value? It's on the first post of this thread System -> Advanced -> Firewall Maximum Table Entries @pppfsense: I already tried some very high values for the Firewall Maximum Table Entries  with no success (System - Advanced - Firewall Maximum Table Entries = 999999999)
  • Widentd without a syslog message every single time

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  • Snort rules order

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    Bill, Thanks v much for the detailed reply, which gives much more info. Can visualise the little boxes and data flow. With snort being an optional package, I guess the only way it can work is to use some sort of hooks in the packet filter for snort inputs and outputs. Thinking streams, but maybe wrong. My confusion was the snort block list report, which sort of suggested that block info was snort generated only. Pfsense is a really great piece of work and it would be good to contribute to the effort at some stage. In particular, getting pfsense running on old Sun hardware. There's a lot of it about, it's cheap, good and it's not X86, which gives added security. Have never worked with or programmed FreeBSD and almost nil experience of interpreted languages, but that could be fixed. Have plenty of old Sun hardware to contribute if anyone is interested in starting a project and can provide support on hardware related issues.. I guess the first thing to do is to try a FreeBSD install. Debian runs fine and installed just about out of the box on a V240 class machine, but no idea how good or stable is the support for FreeBSD on Sparc… Chris
  • Emerging Threats Pro with Snort on pfsense?

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    @t3rmin: Great! Many thanks @bmeeks and @ermal! Yep.  Approved and merged.  The pfSense guys have been really busy the last few weeks, and that's the reason it took a bit longer to approve the Pull Request.  I will be posting a new thread in the Packages sub-forum with the release notes. UPDATE:  the release notes are in this thread – http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,68884.0.html Bill
  • Pfblocker whitelisted address still being blocked?

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    marcellocM
    IIRC, it extract ip from lines without coments. You can try to check applied list on diagnostic-> tables.
  • Squid 3.3.8-Dev Situation report

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    Current status is: antivirus is still not finished gssapi libs from freebsd are still need to run squid(you can get it from any 8.3 freebsd or from my repo) There is something with squid compilation on freebsd with IPV6 that does not listen on configured port if pfsense is not configured with ipv6 option enabled I have not tested this package with squidguard yet but they may work together. ssl filtering is working fine If you want, you can donate/contribute with it to speed up the -dev drop from this package.
  • Snort 2.9.4.6 pkg v2.6.0 Update

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    @turker: I got this error,  what does it mean? Thanks. pfsense 2.1 x64 [image: CE2OIvk.png] That would indicate that at the instant the Snort binary's output plugin attempted to call the API function to insert an IP address into the snort2c table in the packet filter engine, the engine process was not there or not where the output plugin expected it to be.  The event immediately preceding the error also gives me a clue.  It says the check_reload_status() function in pfSense is reloading the firewall filter.  That may temporarily stop and restart the processes the Snort binary plugin was trying to contact in order to insert the IP address for blocking. Bill
  • Havp blocking (?)

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    @Ramosel: So do you have both squid and HAVP setup as transparent proxies?  If so, you should set HAVP as a "parent for squid" That said, this is not how HAVP blocking will alert you. If HAVP is working you should get a blue and orange graphic screen showing that HAVP has blocked a file. You can test this safely with these downloads at EIECAR http://www.eicar.org/85-0-Download.html Correct, that is how squid and HAVP are setup - HAVP as "parent for squid" and I do/did get the blue and orange graphic screen stating HAVP blocking. Thx.
  • How big is the Avahi package and dependencies?

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    The size of the USB stick doesn't matter as much as the size of the CF image that was loaded upon it. For example, if you load a 1GB CF image on an 8GB stick, it would still only have a 512MB OS slice to work with. You might be better off going to 2.1 if you need Avahi. The PBI install mechanism is much simpler/safer than what 2.0.x used.
  • Vnstat2

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    I have to agree. I LOVE vnstat2, and if it wasn't for the hardware I was using, I wouldn't have went to 2.1 because of vnstat2 not working with it. I greatly miss it, and would really like to have it back as a supported package (without all of the manual hacks).
  • Date/time sync

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  • PfBlocker I-Blocklist crashes pfSense

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  • Dansguardian freshclam issue

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    I had this same issue and found a solution. I first got freshclam to run by creating /var/log/clamav and /var/db/clamav directories and using chown -R clamav clamav to change the ownership. I noticed that /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd was empty.  I copied the contents from /usr/pbi/dansguardian-amd64/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd into it.  I then created a new file /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-freshclam and copied the contents of /usr/pbi/dansguardian-amd64/etc/rc.d/clamav-freshclam into it. After a reboot the clamav service started and I was able to use DG to filter web traffic with clamav enabled.
  • Any packages that offer Torrent/nzb support ?

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  • Squid proxy not working after boot/WAN reconnect

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    2.7.9 pkg v.4.3.3 Is this a known problem? I was a bit hesitant to try other versions as I've tweaked the web interface somewhat as shown HERE. Thanks, Steve
  • Squid…Log Filled with nothing but TCP_200MISS

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    Remember that dynamic pages(fb, twitter, yt) won't punch the cache, if u can setup calamaris, squid-cache manager and compare with lightsquid reports. 3GB won't say nothing, squid won't warranty that will use those 3GB at the moment. If u want to see the cache at full speed, give little memory to squid 128MB, restart, full day running and watch your reports, I cannot nothing about how lightsquid works, I don't used.
  • Squid3 Caching for xbox marketplace

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    @periko: If u see the web page slow, try enable "resolv dns v4" check box, some times this cause issues. Is enable? This solved my issues, thank you very much!
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