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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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    @jeremyc311 said in pfBlockerNG-devel 3.2.8 service pfb_dnsbl don't start: I’m surprised to see in my logs only one blocked IP, which is related to my TrueNAS I'll decode this one : @jeremyc311 said in pfBlockerNG-devel 3.2.8 service pfb_dnsbl don't start: Aug 5 09:01:14,1770008712,bxe1,LAN,block,4,17,UDP,192.168.2.13,116.147.64.181,51765,51413,out,Unk,pfB_PRI1_v4,116.146.0.0/15,ET_Block_v4,Unknown,truenasr740,null,+ Traffic, coming into LAN, from a LAN device (192.168.2.13 = your TrueNAS) going to a Chinise ( 116.147.64.181 ) Brazilian ( 177.72.195.114 - = next line ) was blocked by the "pfB_PRI1_v4" list. That's probably good thing ? ( ! ). Up to you to discover why your NAS should initiate connections to these countries. A NAS can go outside for maintenance purposes, for example to look for updates of it's system. These could be located anywhere of course. The GeoIP IP created a rule for you. How and where do you use that this rule ?
  • 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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    Dear @slu @jimp Thank you for your support, people - really appreciate! Failed to figure out what was that - probably some broken deps- I've had zenarmor manually installed and crowdsec. I actually had that in the system - removed rm /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/Zenarmor.conf rm /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf rm /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf but that didn't change anything I ended up fresh installing 2.7.2 from ISO, then upgrading to 2.8 and then restoring config (can't use netinstall as new installer doesn't want to connect to my pppoe during setup for unknown reason - so I can't use it, but it works just perfectly fine in GUI) Now the issue is resolved and I've installed acme just fine... can't tell what was that - I've been using pfsense maybe 10+ years.
  • 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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    Updated CE 2.7.2 to 1.86.2_1 Changelog pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.86.2_1.pkg Freshports
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Since my upgrade to 25.07-RELEASE (amd64) built on Tue Jul 22 22:24:00 CEST 2025 FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT, on one end of my most important tunnel, the tunnel still works fine, but the pfSense GUI keeps reporting the service as stopped. I had to remove its monitoring from the Service Watchdog which was also trying to start it, without success. Yet the trafic flows correctly. I'm holding off upgrading my other boxes. Is there something I could do to help diagnose?
  • Squid 3 - Reverse Proxy

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    awesome thanks I'll look forward to it. Cheers!
  • Quagga OSPF GUI producing alittle wrong ospfd.conf

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    Thx alot for Version 0.99.20.1 v0.5 works perfekt. regards m
  • Snort ignores the netlist

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    OK - I see.  So if you enter a CIDR into the dialog box then it IS a NETLISH.  whereas a single IP represents a WHITELIST only.
  • Snort 2.9.3 v2.4.0 no alerts, no blocking…

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    deinstalled snort, installed it newly, did a reboot after updating, snort started, but still no alerts nor blocking… :( But at all the overhaul was great! Behaves much better!!!! edit: snort started reporting alerts, but still no blocking :(
  • Snort blocking ISP

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    @ermal: Just reinstall and should behave better. Ermal, so far (since updating), it appears to have resolved my ISP gateway issue.  Thanks.
  • Snort 2.9.2.3 pkg v. 2.4.1 Issues

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    Reisntall to 2.4.2 and all should be ok.
  • Sarg doesn't work

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    I just wanted to jump in and let people know if what my experience was; I installed Sarg and had the same issue. I tried all that was suggested in this thread and didn't find resolution. What seemed to work for me (and quite possibly is not the best solution) was to remove the Sarg package, connect to pfSense with WinSCP, navigate to usr/local and delete the sarg-reports directory. When I re installed the Sarg package, the reports worked fine. Just my 2c.
  • MailScanner - perl modules missing?

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    In a fresh install with just Mailscanner and Postfix Forward works OK Guilherme
  • Re: Squid with identd lookups - SOLVED!

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    @chowtamah: By this setting, whether https traffic goes through squid? In transparent mode, never.
  • Difference between packages: HAProxy and HAProxy-full

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    @kdillen: what is the difference between the 2 HAProxy packages ?  (HAProxy and HAProxy-full) The HAProxy-full is the 1.0 gui version with some improvements made by community, including doc.pfsense.org updates The HAProxy is the 1.2 gui version, working basically with http only. Both exists because 1.2 was published without improvements made on 1.0 att, Marcello Coutinho
  • Lightsquid fails to uninstall

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    Okay, that did the trick. I reinstalled squid. Then I was able to remove lightsquid and finally remove squid. Thanks for the help.
  • Snort 2.9.2.3 pkg v. 2.3.0 Issue Thread

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    Is this afetr a snort soft restart(with HUP signal)?
  • Vnstat2 with pfsense 2.1 snapshots?

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    sweet! i'm going to copy my post and start a new topic shortly… wanted to make sure it worked  ;) before giving it out to the masses. ps  Click on the pfSense GUI link... brings you back into the web interface
  • Snort 2,923 v2.3.0 supress things…

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    I agree with Cino, font size is too small to edit when browser is set to 100%. (Firefox)
  • Re: Snort 2.9.2.3 pkg v. 2.3.0 webGui unaccessible

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    Thanks for that I've got my web interface back and all is good.
  • Ntop fontconfig error?

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    OK, it was a PBI build issue but one that was easily solved, I was just missing a flag to tell it to use the fonts in the PBI rather than the system fonts. I rebuilt ntop and all of the fonts and the font config file should all be present now. Give it another try.
  • Snort 2.9.2.3 pkg v. 2.2.4 crashes over non existent rules

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    Tested with Snort 2.9.2.3 pkg v2.3.0 and it works. No more issues.
  • Bandwidth Usage/Statistics Question

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    Yes You can let it auto create sensors ant it should probe and find the servers and make snmp sensors . I think the newest version lets you add credentials so it can probe deeper and bring back more info such as cpu load disk status as well as traffic. Or you can manually add a sensor too a device (pf box) Need to add the device first. and add a filter so so each sensor watches for only 1 IP A simple filter is IP[192.168.2.40] set flow time out too 6 or 10 minutes. But try the auto create wizard first. If you put in the user/pw for the servers you might get all the info you need and more from that.
  • Which HAVP Version for 2.01

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    Platform on package manager means the minimum pfsense version required.
  • Auto Backup Process

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    So I found the command which the package was using "bsdtar". I created a small script to generate the backup files and set up a cron job to run the backup every evening. Finally I set up rsync to create backed up files of the backup file on a separate server. Backup Script: #/bin/bash cd /home/user/backup mv -v pfsense_backup.tar.gz pfsense_backup_old.tar.gz bsdtar -c -z -f /home/user/backup/pfsense_backup.tar.gz /cf/conf /var/db/rrd /usr/local/bandwidthd /var/squid/logs /var/lightsquid/report Cron Job: 0  2  *  *  *  root  /bin/sh /home/user/pfsense_backup.sh  Hope this helps someone out  :)
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