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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 if you want the less random more static time this: the code that needs to be changed is in pfblockerng.inc best to make yourself a patch file and apply it that way , so if the package is reinstalled (updated) or whatever. you can just "verify" the patch and just reapply. I ran with this (but different time) under 24.11 when I upgraded to 25.07 just verified and re-applied the patch. if you want look to look at at the code for the lines being changed just above that "if statement" is the comment // Define pfBlockerNG MaxMind/TOP1M/ASN Cron job name the patch whatever you like and set these behaviour options [image: 1755355045857-screenshot-2025-08-16-at-10.35.14-am.png] This is the patch contents (made just for you to hit the time before 2am) --- pfblockerng.inc.orig 2025-08-16 10:30:40 +++ pfblockerng.inc 2025-08-16 10:29:52 @@ -10669,8 +10669,8 @@ if ($pfb['enable'] == 'on') { $pfb_gcmd = "/usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php dcc >> {$pfb['extraslog']} 2>&1"; // CRON hour is randomized between 0-23 Hour to minimize effect on Servers - $pfb_gmin = '0'; - $pfb_ghour = rand(0,23); + $pfb_gmin = '35'; + $pfb_ghour = '1'; $pfb_gmday = '*'; $pfb_gmonth = '*'; $pfb_gwday = '*'; In this I changed the time from the random top of the hour to 1 35 am (just before your 2am pfblocker update and with time to spare. However, I would recommend anything that is not at the top of the hour (0) minutes as that is when almost everything else gets scheduled.) FWIW. I also changed the "top" of the hour on my system so the pfblocker cron setting so that everything is offset by 30 minutes, and therefore don't conflict with other jobs that are also at 0 minutes (as most are) If you make this change on the dialog, then you might need to change the above, so it runs at say 1 15 am (adjust accordingly to suit your needs) pfblocker general page cron settings GUI [image: 1755356115122-screenshot-2025-08-16-at-10.53.11-am.png] next time it creates the job it will schedule it for the now not so random time of your choice. If you want to adjust the time and the patch has been applied, revert - edit the patch times (minutes/hours) only - then reapply. (unlikely you want to change the day month or week day, but if you did you would need a modified patch)
  • 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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    @raidflex said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: maybe uninstall Crowdsec when applying other updates first. It seems like it doesn't help at least from what I see on my system... it changes something.. so it must be definitely reported to their github. I have never experienced that before and crowsec was installed.. maybe with 2.8.0 something have changed
  • 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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    Upgraded 25.07 and Tailscale is broken in the way users here describe. I can manually log in using sudo /usr/local/bin/tailscale login, but the tailscale service in pfSense does not pick this up and restarting the service clobbers the login state. Given 16004 was logged 7 months ago with zero activity, this is an indication that Netgate devices no longer support Tailscale.
  • 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.
  • Squid 3.1 transparent proxy omits HTTP exceptions (PEBKAC?)

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    MatSim, you coul have a look at the "bypass proxy" options on squid. In my environment I bypass proxy for all internal communication. If you bypass the proxy for some source/destination IPs then the pfsense firewall rules need to do the job for port 80 (http). If you do not bypass the proxy for that traffic then you must configure ACLs on squid which allow/deny that traffic on port 80 (http).
  • Snort with CARP sync

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    @jflsakfja: I see that snort sync has been added back in 2.5.8. Thank you, you just saved me a couple of months work. Many many many thanks! ;D Those thanks go to Marcelloc. ;D  He contributed the main Snort CARP Sync code.  I will be posting a Change Log with some screen shots of new stuff this weekend for the Snort 2.5.8 package. Bill
  • Varnish keeps crashing on 2.0.3-RELEASE (nanobsd)

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  • Snort blocks IP despite disabled rule!

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    2.5.7. I havent had the time to load the 2.5.8 yet since I am fooking busy at work! Get back to you soon Bill when I get to do that. But problems are on 2.5.7!
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    While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.domain.com/ The following error was encountered: •Read Error The system returned: (54) Connection reset by peer …... .... For this  error you can just exclude the domain from caching it works fine..
  • Cannot get cronjob to work - scripts work when entred manually into shell

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    Alright!! Phil you were correct. That worked for the first script. The second one I managed to get working (somehow with the tee command). I ended up using: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/curl ifconfig.me/ip|tee /tmp/vpn_external Now I am on to the final command, I have tinkered with it for about 2 hours, and I can get it to output a file, but the file only contains  {}  , usually it would have the port inside the brackets, ex. {45000}. Currently I am using the following command (the X's represent my username and password. If I enter the command into shell, it does work) I tried using the full path to both cat commands (and without) but no go: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/curl -o /tmp/portforwardlist -d "user=XXXXX&pass=XXXXX&client_id=$(/bin/cat ~/.pia_config)&local_ip=$(/bin/cat /tmp/vpn_ip)" https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/vpninfo/port_forward_assignment ALMOST THERE
  • Postfix slow email delivery

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    Thanks for that information. And thanks for the tip. I added that custom main.cf options. I will continue testing and see if things improve.
  • Undefined symbol error when trying to run ClamScan?

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  • Mailreport - never sent a rrd report

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    @drzoidberg33: I have a similar issue - automated report never send. I am trying to do a daily report with a few rrd graphs. It works fine if I click send now but the automation doesn't work. I have also tried selecting the blank option in the "Day of the week" field but it always reverts to Sunday when I save, maybe this is the issue? Here is a screengrab of the settings for this report: [image: Screenshot%20from%202013-05-29%2016%3A53%3A25.png] Nevermind, I see where I went wrong. The hour wasn't set, I mistakenly assumed it would just send at midnight.
  • Bandwidth monitoring package

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    You can install Pfflowd and have it send data to another server. Prtg is free on windows for 20 sensors/users. If you stick there add banner on your site I think you can get 20 or 30 more free sensors. The full version runs free for 30 days. Lots of data. Nfsen I think is one for linux. Look up flow collector and you will find several for linux.
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  • Email Report Only, No Need for System Notifications

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    Thanks for the information, I can't wait for that feature in 2.2.  ;D Since my email provider doesn't use the SSL authentication for the SMTP, I check the "Enable SSL/TLS Authentication" so that the box cannot send the notifications and only uncheck it if I want to send the RRD. It is like a manual sending of the graphs. But much better than manually copying each graph to paint/word processor. :D
  • Avahi install failed - Missing additional files

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    Thank you jim. Everything seems to be in place and I'm installing it now.
  • Port scan blocking?

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  • Barnyard2 wont start pfsense 2.1RC0

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  • HAVP Antivirus -> scan via GUI failed

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    sorry for the necro post, but this issue still is around and I wanted to post my workaround. It seems pfsense is setting up clamav with a non-default location for its socks and pid file (/var/run).  The default location is /var/run/clamav.  But when the scanning program is called by the gui, it's not given the path of the config file and doesn't know about the location of the sock file.  This creates a symlink as a work around. I'm not sure if the pid file is needed, but I linked it anyway. mkdir /var/run/clamav ln -s /var/run/clamd.pid /var/run/clamav/clamd.pid ln -s /var/run/clamd.sock /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock And it now works. 2013.05.28 02:08:31 Starting scan file '/var/db'. ----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- Infected files: 0 Time: 4.963 sec (0 m 4 s)
  • Postfix mailscanner and white listing

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    It's on acls. you whitelist based on error you got from remote server From remote server? Sending server or recieving server? Enable log and follow instructions on first gui tab. I assume my log is enbabled because I selected Destination: SystemLog. Or is there another place to enable ti? First GUI tab is the General tab. Settings are as followed Enabled Postfix: Checked Listen Interface: WAN Maximum message size: blank Process Limit: Blank Custom main.cd options: blank Logging Destination: SystemLog Updaters sqlite: every minute debug peer list: blank debug peer level: 2 Widget Options List Days 1 Max File size: blank
  • Squid3 RealTime Problem!!!

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    your session has expired. logon again on pfsense and it will work.
  • Minecraft server & Snort

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    @hansrotec: an unrelated Q/A does ssd/HDD matter much in terms of performance for pfsense. right now i had a spare ssd laying around but due to its size it seems a waste to have it in the current setup. You will probably get a better answer to your ssd/HDD question in the Hardware thread.  I personally run an old SATAII 40 GB drive in my home firewall.  It is a Supermicro small-form factor server with an Intel Atom 330 with 4 GB of RAM.  My Internet connection (12 megabits/sec cable modem service) can't come close to breaking it into a sweat.  The only advantage of ssd is no moving parts and a little less heat. Bill
  • Snort unable to open rules file

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    @Supermule: After a reinstall of Snort, then everything is fine. That error looks like perhaps you got hold of a corrupted rules file for the preprocessor text rules.  Can you tell if this coincided with an automatic rules update?  That file (decoder.rules) is used straight out of the archive downloaded and unpacked from Snort.org.  It is updated on each download of fresh rules from Snort.org.  My guess is either a borked download of the TAR file from Snort.org, or perhaps during the extraction and copying to the interface directory on the firewall it got trashed. A reinstall of Snort would have wiped the existing file and downloaded a fresh copy. Bill
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