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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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    @jrey I found the DB sizes on Maxmind, and they are rather big, so i'm figuring it just takes time for such an anemic CPU to sort all that out. That is also what the extras.log says: Download Process Starting [ 08/15/25 19:00:01 ] /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country.tar.gz 200 OK /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country-CSV.zip 200 OK Download Process Ended [ 08/15/25 19:00:06 ] Country code update Start Processing ISO IPv4 Continent/Country Data Processing ISO IPv6 Continent/Country Data [ 08/15/25 19:02:09 ] Creating pfBlockerNG Continent PHP files IPv4 Africa [ 08/15/25 19:03:24 ] IPv6 Africa [ 08/15/25 19:03:27 ] IPv4 Antarctica [ 08/15/25 19:03:28 ] IPv6 Antarctica IPv4 Asia IPv6 Asia [ 08/15/25 19:03:37 ] IPv4 Europe [ 08/15/25 19:03:43 ] IPv6 Europe [ 08/15/25 19:04:10 ] IPv4 North America [ 08/15/25 19:04:30 ] IPv6 North America [ 08/15/25 19:05:04 ] IPv4 Oceania [ 08/15/25 19:05:29 ] IPv6 Oceania [ 08/15/25 19:05:31 ] IPv4 South America [ 08/15/25 19:05:32 ] IPv6 South America [ 08/15/25 19:05:35 ] IPv4 Proxy and Satellite [ 08/15/25 19:05:37 ] IPv6 Proxy and Satellite IPv4 Top Spammers [ 08/15/25 19:05:38 ] IPv6 Top Spammers [ 08/15/25 19:05:39 ] pfBlockerNG Reputation Tab Country Code Update Ended
  • 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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    With Tailscale, I just recommend sticking with the FreeBSD15 version. Yes, it may currently work using the FreeBSD 14 package despite being on 15, but any number of other updates could result in that not being the case anymore. Not to mention the fact that any updates newer than 1.84.2_1 don't really impact functionality for what people would be using Tailscale for with PfSense so updating past that is not an absolute necessity. I run 1.86.4 on my desktop+phone and 1.84.2_1 on my pfsense router. Phone commonly uses the PfSense router as an exit node and there's no difference for PfSense. TL;DR: Better to be safe than sorry and stick with the FreeBSD 15 version even if it's not the latest version of 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.
  • Www.pfsense.org offline?

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    Understand that. Good work in getting it back up in short time.
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    @markkus69: Hi! I need skip from logs in lightsquid an url from determined ip in my network Example ip 192.168.1.40 skip in logs just www.example.com and log another's one. I think is something in  lightsquid.cfg Hi, By default it is not possible yet. You are right you should take a look https://bitbucket.org/esl/lightsquid/src/dc850187d487/lightsquid.cfg SGTR
  • Recommendations antispam Pfsense for internal server mail

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    I recommend postfix forwarder for this job. It does an excellent job of stopping spam bots without any external blocklists but you can add those.
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    In the firewall log, if you click the red "X" then a popup will tell you which rule has caused the block.
  • Snort blocking - easy DoS if client is behind a proxy

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    @crester: Thank you Bill. I have read the post and it looks it will be a nice workaround until next release. Reading the post, I have understood how pfSense and Snort work together, because I didn't understand very well how was the processes, as I have a 3-way-hands. and flow (and payload) previous the block. It has created me a doubt and sorry, I have just landed to pfSense. What is then the diference if I check "Use IPS Policy"? is in the pfSense roadmap get snort true inline? No, there is no roadmap yet for a true inline IDS on pfSense (at least not that I am aware of).  The Snort VRT folks are actually migrating away from that somewhat and pushing folks over to using Barnyard2 and incorporating plugins there such as snortsam.  My reading of their blog posts leads me to believe they will slowly phase out the Output Plugins API that things like Spoink currently rely on. Bill
  • HAVP trouble on 2.0.3 (also more general AV question/solns?)

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  • Syslog-ng Not Starting 2.1 Beta

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  • Postfix null client on pfSense?

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    Well, there is an option under the web interface (System: Advanced: Notifications) to send emails already. Can you re-use this functionality to send the emails?
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    @rjcrowder: @plkmplkm: EDIT: just a question: in this configuration, the squid field "Bypass proxy for these destination IPs" is still active even if is binded to the loopback iterface or i have to set something in the DG config (i haven't find anything similiar)? The setting will not have any effect. The way to bypass Dansguardian (and subsequently squid) is to change your firewall rule so that certain IP's are not redirected to port 8080. For example, I have my redirect rule set to not redirect the 192.168.5.208/28 range to port 8080. Then I can put devices such as the Xbox in that IP address range. Perfect, thank you very much, you're the best  ;)
  • Dansguardian + Squid Bad gateway

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  • SARG is not showing Username

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  • Pfsense/ squid and an irritating problem

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    actually I don't want it to be transparent. I am using pfsense to simulate a clients network, and all web traffic is https via 3128. I am trying to replicate this in the office before the appliance goes back to the client location. using a 4 port router I can simulate the gateway and point traffic to the pfsense box, I need to understand how to force all https traffic through 3128 and make it work… any suggestions would be great. thanks
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    @bmeeks: @nexys: Now it really works!!! Thank you very much, you just helped me a lot. You are welcome.  Sorry I did not catch that "drop" versus "alert" change on my first post.  Must have been reading while half asleep… :D Bill Look this capture http://puu.sh/2UdxH.png [image: 37859489.jpg] Edit: When I finished writing this post I went up to 5000.
  • Postfix, mailscanner, spamd - how do I know it is doing anything?

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    @steve40: I had this same exact problem for weeks and nearly decided to scrap the product out of frustration. Then I did a swapinfo -h and saw that my swap space was 100% utilized and only 2MB in size. Then I realized I had chosen the quick and easy install which doesn't ask any questions and lays out your entire partitions for you. I re-ran the install to disk option in the mode where you get to chose your own layout and made sure to check the swap space allocation and even raised it to 4096MB. I haven't had the problem since. Hope this helps someone out there. Damn… I too did the simple install.
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    @qwertz: Also the password is saved clear text in the config.xml. Shouldn't it be encrypted ? It can't be securely. http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_are_some_passwords_stored_in_plaintext_in_config.xml%3F
  • Snort showing many DNS cache poisoning alerts

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    @Deadringers: hmm I think I may have found out what it was… so I upgraded my ESXI guests yesterday to use the VMXNET 3 adapters rather than the e1000 With this meant I had to re apply the config on my 2008r2 DC to the new adapter - here I referenced that the DNS server my DC should use was it's actual IP rather than it's loopback. I think this was some how producing an in correct result as far as snort was concerned? Because now I have changed it to 127.0.0.1 and I am getting no DNS errors. Yep…I don't know all the super secret details of Microsoft AD servers, but I do know the domain controllers want themselves (the loopback address) for DNS.  Glad you got it sorted out. Bill
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    @heavy1metal: Quick question for you, since facebook defaults to HTTPS, what configuration setup did you need to do in order to get it to filter HTTPS? Are you using Squid3? Did you just forward 443 > 8080? You can't forward 443. You have to use an explicit proxy config if you want to filter SSL. Even then, Dans cannot filter the content for SSL (the traffic is encrypted) - only block by address.
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  • Zabbix firewall log - don't want these.

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    That did it!  Thank you so much.
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