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

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    JonathanLeeJ
    Request for Continued Support of Squid Package Dear Netgate Team, Could we please continue to support the Squid package? The upstream project has already resolved the known security issues, and it appears the main task remaining is updating the package to accommodate the recent PHP changes affecting the status page and address the decode issue. I’m unsure how to address this on my end and would greatly appreciate any guidance. Has anyone else looked into this, or is there a fix currently in progress? Thank you for your time and support. Jonathan Lee

  • 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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    @tinfoilmatt said in Failed or invalid Mime Type: [application/SIMH-tape-data|0]: (ASN data is IPinfo, not Maxmind) Thats correct but "GeoLite2-Country" is from Maxmind ... (that confused me) I'm considering simply adding "application/SIMH-tape-data" to the list to test. Thats what i tought too ... I'll try when I have the time for it ... Edit: I can confirm - adding "application/SIMH-tape-data" to the list at line 257 in /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc did the trick - no more error! Edit: OK, problem resolved but I would like to know, whats the cause for that error! (SIMH-tape-data sounds like a "blast from the past" ...) Thanks a lot!

  • 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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    I also crashed my system yesterday with an ACME update. I can't say whether I had Crowdsec installed or not. But I've tried things like that in the past, so it's quite possible.

  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    yon 0Y
    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 1.86.4 Changelog pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.86.4.pkg Freshports

  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    I have Wireguard installed on my firewalls. I have about 12 firewalls and most of them connect back to the main firewall which allows the connection to the servers in the main building. I setup a tunnel on each and then added each location as a peer on the Main firewall. This seemed to work except that the gateway. unde3r Monitor IP it only allows one IP address. So the first one works and shows connected fine, but the other 2 are red and do not connect. Everything seems to work until I added a 3rd peer and then the 1st peer showed as if it was offline even though it looked fine and I was able to connect to devices on that network. Am I supposed to add multiple gateways to the Main firewall so that shows as up? Is this the right way for the tunnels between the buildings which need access will work - By adding a tunnel at that location and just adding a peer to the main location?
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    Lightsquid problem?

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    NTOP - to latest release

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    [squid] pfsense 2.0 + squid : transparent mode not working

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    Package Installation Issue

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    i guess there is a hardware problem. when first time i installed pfsense system gave an error.
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    Compiling binary with build options

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    @fireman039: Hi, Can you tell me if 0.5.4 packages will available soon. I want to ytry it with my Crystalfontz 635 Done! Here you find more details about it: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,44034.0.html Consider that it is a developing version! In your case the driver you should use is: CFontzPacket. Ciao, Michele
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    Squid vs varnish

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    1-why pfsense become slow? 2-Do you have any Precaution to overcome this problem? take a look on this topic http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,43737.0.html Varnish was designed for reverse proxy, but can be used for proxy. it is fast on both situations Squid was designed for proxy use, but can be used for reverse proxy. It has many features, but is not that fast.
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    With the following run command: /usr/local/sbin/pfflowd -n 172.16.42.104:9991 -S in -v 9 The active flow timeout that needs to be set in PRTG is 11 minutes. Note, if you're utilizing VLANs and a single network interface like us then pfflowd will not correctly identify the source/destination vlan and you need to explicitly set the direction as either "in" or "out" for PRTG to not double count data.
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    Snort service stops - wrong rules used?

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    done that . no luck
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    Openbgpd not coupling RIB with FIB

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    This was actually due to the nexthop received from the peer not being our proper nexthop; we had to update the config to have openbgpd set the nexthop to be our actual next hop. Moral of the story: nexthop has to be locally reachable, somehow. That is to say, you must have a route that covers the IP given in the "Gateway" column of bgpctl show rib; if you do not, you must either add such a route or add this line: set nexthop <gateway ip="" for="" isp="">to the neighbor config for the peer that's sending you BGP routes. (This automatically translates to a "match" filter rule that simply does the same thing, but I find this looks simpler and does not appear to be deprecated.)</gateway>
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    Transparent proxy - some sites time out

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    Hmmm… perhaps this is in the wrong forum?  As my query was browsing related and I'm using transparent squid I thought I'd post here. But the most closely related threads I see from other members are over in the NAT section... If this is the wrong spot mods let me know and I'll move this and post elsewhere - don't want to cross-post.
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    SquidGuard Log Rotate - more than one day - How to !?

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    Hi, I thought I did this with this line:       $opt    = array("4", "4", "*", "*", "1", "root", "/usr/bin/nice -n20 " . SQUIDGUARD_SCR_LOGROTATE); The cron tab changed to: 4      4      *      *        1  root    /usr/bin/nice -n20 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/squidGuard_logrotate Which is - if I am right: Every monday at 04:04AM, isn't it ?
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    Lusca Cache management

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    Transparant squid -> no DNS

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    If you do want to use auto-detect though and IE refuses to play ball I've often found it to be one of two things… If you configured your wpad using DNS (and not DHCP) then make sure you've used an A record for the wpad entry, and not a CNAME.  For some reason IE doesn't like CNAME's.... IE sets a registry entry to store the results of its automatic detection ("Automatic Proxy Result Cache")... IE then stubbornly refuses to re-detect things if your WPAD changes  ::). So; if you deployed a broken WPAD.dat file as you were refining your javascript, IE will make a note it's broken and never bother to check if it's fixed.  I normally resolve this IE issue by resetting IE to it's default settings (tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> Reset...).  There are other ways but a google search will help you there, resetting IE doesn't bother me too much.  Note that as Chrome uses system proxy settings it too will suffer from this...  the reset of IE will fix both browsers. (Make sure you've tested you're WPAD.DAT file using something free like pactester etc. so you know your WPAD.DAT is valid).
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    Varnish features

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    can these features are present in varnish: 1-Give report of cache material(Hint: Like the lightsquid provide report in squid) 2-I can give specific space in hard disk for cache material. 3-automatic cleaning of cache material will start when given space of hard disk is 95% fill(Hint :this function is present in squid). 4-cleaning method: remove those material which is most low used(Hint: this feature is present in squid) I don't think so. You are comparing apple to oranges. 1 - Varnish use logs only in memory for better performance. When you want to debug, you need to dump logs from memory to disk with varnishlog.     also take a look on varnishhist and varnishstat. 2 - you can change storage type to disk, but I do not recommend it.    take a look on this topic about disk performance http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,43737.0.html 3 - Specify a cache size that do not full your filesystem 4 - you can purge things using management interface Please, take a look at varnish documentation. Varnish package gui has a lot of links to it.
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    Snort: drop, not block

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    The only one with snort args  ;) Snort2c
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    Varnish configuration

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    take a look at varnish documentation. Varnish is not so easy to configure, the gui helps, but it still need some varnish knowledge. @crazyzoar: Please tell me the configuration of varnish. i am new on pfsense. i don't know that what values i shall have to write on varnish setting: Listening port (usually 80) Managment interface (usually localhost) Advanced startup (usually empty) Storage type (ram for better performance) Cache storage size in megabytes/ (depends on how much ram/disk you have) Minimum worker threads (could be 32 but depends on your hardware) Maximum worker threads (could be 1024 but depends on your hardware) Worker thread timeout (could be 300) Client identity method (ip address is more compatible with sessions) Don't cache posts (yes, don't) Session Cache (per user is a good choice ) take a look on field documentation link Cache static (when possible cache only in session, always remove cookies before cache) Fix gzip compression recommended Be RFC2616 compliant recommended Foward client IP userfull to log remote ip on web servers using x-forwarder-varnish var Fetch Grace How many time varnish will keep cached objects. HINT 60s, 30m, 1h Retries how many times retry url before sending error to users or checking for fail over Saintmode How many time varnish will send cached objects from a down backend to client. HINT 60s, 30m, 1h Custom Html error message how to send error messages to users
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    Snort pkg updates

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    Try to resintall from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2, no alert was generated. I did the following: remove 2.0.2 install 2.0.2 Services: Snort: Global Settings / Save Snort: Interface Edit: / If Settings / Save Services: Snort: Updates / Update Rules Now alerts are generated  :)
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    Authentication Problem on freeradius

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    It would be nice for fellow users having the same problem to know HOW you solved your problem..
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    Few days after install, it's getting sloooow

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    I'm doing this, I have two pfsense as firewall with carp as firewall and also load balancing smtp connections to both smt servers. I really like pfsense gui, sync and backup. That's why I'm porting these packages to it. On large systems like this I have each service on it's own server. But when a client has only one machine(not so good for virtualization) to use as firewall, proxy, etc it's good to have package options to build UTM with pfSense.
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