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

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    @qupfer What did I bang my head over this strange 502 issue. Your solution did it! Thank you so much, even 2.5 years later!
  • 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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    @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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    And when you are on version 25.07.1 or 25.07 and then click on the reinstall button for the ACME package. It will downgrade. :) [image: 1755753389733-125fc31e-ef4f-4342-b364-48c2b03446c5-image.png]
  • 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 to 25.07 and facing the same issue. Tried the "tailscale up" command as suggested above but restarting the tailscale service kills the login again.[image: 1755715824513-tailscale_logged_out_25_07.jpg]
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    @rosskan In theory, when you tunnel a 'VPN1' over another 'VPN2', VPN2 will see the originating IP as the one belonging to VPN1, not your real WAN IP. So far, ok. That said, when you subscribed to VPN1 and VPN2, you probably used your ISP IPv4 ^^ You installed the VPN1 (or2) application on your crappy laptop ?, if so, 'forget about it' ^^ 'as they know', the app is at an end point, and can see 'everything'. Don't forget that you pay for your VPN subscription, but you give them more then your money. They can see and use your data connection for 'data mining'. And they will make use of that data - by selling it. Why ? Because the share holders want a good financial result. If you need to connect two (your !) networks (or sites) together, use your own VPN solution. Don't use a commercial company. For example, take the ones you got with pfSense. If you really need to use that public network (aka : the Internet) to contact public servers, you are aware that the connection is already encrypted end-to-end ? That's what https is all about. 'http' doesn't really exist anymore / shouldn't be used. Also, you need to take other steps to be safe : you really should start with removing "windows 10" out of the equitation .... @rosskan said in What information can vpn provider see when I use wireguard?: does wireguard share the mac address of the ethernet port of the crappy laptop with vpn provider #2? MAC addresses travel on a local segment. Your laptop's MAC doesn't travel any further then the first hop, this is most probably your first router (gateway) like pfSense. Packet capture your traffic to check this. The Ethernet headers are not encrypted.
  • Lightsquid package ?

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    I agree 100%. Lightsquid doesn't belong on a CF/Flash system. Though if there was an easy way to direct the squid logs to a syslog server, where someone could run a separate instance of lightsquid, that would be ideal.
  • Is there any Squidguard Reporting?

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    No. Not exists.
  • Squidguard stops filtering !!!-aghh !!

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    I am taking a guess that this log is of no use. Meanwhile, I have found 4 items from www.smallnetbuilder.com (Build your own utm with pfsense) that are a  walk through of installing pfSense. I am going to rip down my current installation and start over using their articles as guidance. Please close this thread now. Schucks… the glory of being a newbie... Rgds.
  • Havp template customisation

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    even better. Thankyou for the extra research. I can confirm that placing my version of the en/ templates into the templates_ex directory does utilise them appropriately instead of the original examples.
  • Installing Dashboard,Squid,bandwidthd on Pfsense

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  • Squid + Virtual IP. HTTPS won't work

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    As stated in the docs, you can proxy https and other traffic through squid but you must tell each program about the proxy, because if you tried to transparently proxy https traffic you would get security warnings.
  • SquidGuard https bug?

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    @jimp: I think that only works for AD, though you can setup WPAD and make people put their browsers on auto detect for proxy settings. Or just tell them "If you want HTTPS, use the proxy, otherwise you're stuck with HTTP" I use WPAD & this is good way - i can redefine proxy settings once for all users.
  • Snort rule modifcations broken?

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    @Derek: Yep.  it looks like you should be able to select a category in the drop-down box and then edit the rules from that category, but selecting something new in the drop down box changes nothing. That's not as big an issue for me.  I can still get to the various categories from the other page.  It's the actual rule editing that is messing things up for me.
  • Snort and packet logging

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  • RRD Graphs in SPAMD not working

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    I got the same under: RDD graphs => Traffic RDD graphs => Packets These works just fine: RDD graphs => System RDD graphs => Quality RDD graphs => Queues RDD graphs => Queuedrops
  • Need porn IP blacklist

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    Or you can use OpenDNS and not have to use the packages.  Shallalist is ok, but not anything close to comprehensive.
  • Snort dies whith automatic reset of PPPOE

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  • Installing bandwidthd on 1.2.3-RELEASE

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    I think you will need to download the existing config file and manually edit out any instances of bandwidthd , upload the edited config and reboot then install bandwidthd again.
  • Snort 2.8.6.1 pkg v1.34 on pfsense 1.2.3-RELEASE not working

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    Hello again! Snort is once again dead… After a reboot, it did not start, so I looked in the system logs and saw this: snort[2015]: FATAL ERROR: /usr/local/etc/snort/snort_20163_re1/snort.conf(423) Invalid configuration line: /snort_x11.rules May 22 17:01:05 snort[2015]: FATAL ERROR: /usr/local/etc/snort/snort_20163_re1/snort.conf(423) Invalid configuration line: /snort_x11.rules These rules were activated since I installed Snort.  Last time I posted here, they were activated and Snort was running fine (at least seemed to…)  So why now snort dies?
  • Snort Version Mismatch

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  • SquidGuard block partial URL String?

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    I guess I could block the home.php landing page, but I think I tried that and it also didn't work.
  • Snort is configured but not blocking or generating alerts

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    I checked my setup last night. Make sure you go to the Preprocessors tab and check all of the check boxes there.  If you don't, Snort won't inspect the http traffic, etc.
  • (portscan) UDP Filtered Portscan

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    Hi, First off i would like to thank you for helping me, i found it easier to disable the pre-processor ( option 3 ) for port scanning. When Snort was installed it never said to read the manual for help nor as far as i am aware gives any links to read a manual although i could be wrong. I dont think its very polite to start off your post the way you did but i am sure you meant well. You carnt say that to someone (in my case ) that never got the option to read the manual. Finally, with option 3 all i had to do was to uncheck "Enable Portscan Detection" - Detects various types of portscans and portsweeps. ?? That's all i did, saved it and then restarted the snort interfaces
  • Nrpe2 commands

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    I found the solution: edit the /usr/local/pkg/nrpe2.xml In this file are all dropdown entrys defined.
  • Bandwidth graphs…

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    Hey Jimp, Yeah, I saw those. Apparently you have to set up the config part for County Block each time you upgrade in 2.0. I have corresponded with the guy who wrote it on this forum and I don't think there will be any issues. At least I hope not! I'm glad to hear you think that Country Block would be worse because I'm fairly certain that it will work fine. I can get around Linux and FreeBSD to a degree, but I'm not anywhere close to you guys. So I don't want to dig a hole I can't get out of! Thank you!
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