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

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    @firefox you could always turn off save settings on squid and squid guard and delete the package and reinstall. You could also manually remove the config from the xml file. Those are also options but I think the fresh firmware is the best approach. It does work on that version I got it going.
  • 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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    @jrey said in pfBlockerNG syslog logentries to remote SIEM: @keyser I so want to answer this, but then at the same time (no I don't) ... pfblocker using syslog messaging in real time. no tailing of files, no other packages, just code. Huuuh? That seems very very interesting I noticed your name in other posts around the forum where you seemed to be QUITE proficient at coding/developing. Are you by any chance considering involvement in developing and refining the pfBlockerNG package? It would be SO great if you are looking into adding native syslog to the pfBlockerNG package - or an easy workaround that does not require additional packages and “temporary” edits in files that does not survive service restarts or pfSense updates. Here’s that you will fill me/us in on the solution you are using to your Greylog - please, pretty please with sugar on top
  • 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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    @provels said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: This same mess happened to me, even w/o Acme, going from 25.07 to *.1. Blew, reinstalled w/ Crowdsec, blew again, reinstalled, clipped all the Crowdsec info from config.xml, restored config, back to normal. Crowdsec is a great concept, but I think I'm out. I never had this issue with Crowdec before the ACME update, even with updating from 2.7 to 2.8 there was no issues. In fact after restoring from a backup after the ACME update, Crowdsec reinstalled just fine, and this was before the recent release a couple days ago that contained a fix.
  • 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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    @yobyot I've SSHed into pfsense and for the sake of testing I've simply run the command: tailscale up --auth-key=tskey-client-kQ_THE_REST_IS_A_SECRET\?preauthorized=true\&ephemeral=false --accept-dns=false --accept-routes --advertise-exit-node --advertise-routes=X.X.X.X/24 --advertise-tags=tag:pfsense Note the preauthorized=true and ephemeral=false I gave this key all permissions (temporarly as I just wanted to verify it's working) of course I had to register the tag used also in the ACL tags pane: https://login.tailscale.com/admin/acls/visual/tags so far so good
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    I took some days before reporting again... Since then I installed: 25.07.1-RELEASE (amd64) built on Fri Aug 15 20:42:00 CEST 2025, and the issue re-appeared but did not (yet) clear by itself. Wireguard works well, that system has only one tunnel with another site, using interface assigned mode. I depend on it, and it works flawlessly. Yet the wireguard configuration page, its status page as well as the services widget on the dashboard, all report the Wireguard service as stopped, with the usual icon to start it. On the dashboard the gateways widget shows Pending for the IPv4 and IPv6 wireguard gateways. On the other hand, and it is logical as the packets do flow through the tunnel, the Wireguard widget on the dashboard shows the tunnel up with traffic. To be complete, the watchdog service, if wireguard is configured there, spend its life at detecting wireguard stopped and attempting to start it, which does not work. The other side of the tunnel is still on 25.07-RELEASE (amd64). I'm reluctant to upgrade that side too, with fear to loose the wireguard tunnel altogether. Aren't there any logs from that wireguard package? I can't find anything of that kind.
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    any chance we could get those files? i'm looking to implement netflow v9 to get VoIP metrics from our routers. thank you
  • Squid 2.7.9 cant edit

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    well, just tested and it doesnt seem to work with havp or i have a problem with the install, I am reverting back to ver 2 to check. Edit: Yep, ver 3 doesnt support HVAP yet
  • Squid -> howto redirect traffic to opt1 instead of wan?

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  • Squid error message

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    Thanks for the reply… I have changed the DNS servers in general setup. i will let you know if the problem repeat again
  • SpamD not in package list anymore

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    No, there's no documentation of the internal package processes. You'd need to do the install functions manually in some way, and also make sure any required binary files are installed, such as: pkg_add -r http://files.pfsense.org/packages/7/All/spamd-4.1.2.tbz
  • Squid 2.7.9 Delay pool not working?(traffic mgmt)

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    @anto_DIGIT: Squid 2.7.2, 2.7.8, or 2.7.9  does not support delay-pools. The problem would be finished if we substitute the squid with "lusca-head" .. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/lusca-head.tbz squid -v Squid Cache: Version LUSCA_HEAD configure options:  '–bindir=/usr/local/sbin' '--sbindir=/usr/local/sbin' '--datadir=/usr/local/etc/squid' '--libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec/squid' '--localstatedir=/usr/local/squid' '--sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/squid' '--enable-removal-policies=heap' '--disable-linux-netfilter' '--disable-linux-tproxy' '--disable-epoll' '--disable-unlinkd' '--with-pthreads' '--enable-storeio=aufs coss' '--enable-delay-pools' '--enable-snmp' '--disable-carp' '--enable-htcp' '--disable-wccp' '--disable-ident-lookups' '--enable-arp-acl' '--enable-pf-transparent' '--with-large-files' '--enable-large-cache-files' '--enable-err-languages=English' '--enable-default-err-language=English' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--mandir=/usr/local/man' '--infodir=/usr/local/info/' '--build=i386-portbld-freebsd8.0' 'build_alias=i386-portbld-freebsd8.0' 'CC=cc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe  -fno-strict-aliasing' 'LDFLAGS=' 'CPPFLAGS=' Delay pool support is compiled into 2.7.9. I know. I compiled it myself, and it reports that it does so in the version string: squid -v Squid Cache: Version 2.7.STABLE9 configure options:  '–bindir=/usr/local/sbin' '--sbindir=/usr/local/sbin' '--datadir=/usr/local/etc/squid' '--libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec/squid' '--localstatedir=/var/squid' '--sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/squid' '--enable-removal-policies=lru heap' '--disable-linux-netfilter' '--disable-linux-tproxy' '--disable-epoll' '--enable-auth=basic digest negotiate ntlm' '--enable-basic-auth-helpers=DB NCSA PAM MSNT SMB LDAP SASL YP' '--enable-digest-auth-helpers=password ldap' '--enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user session unix_group wbinfo_group ldap_group' '--enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=SMB' '--enable-negotiate-auth-helpers=squid_kerb_auth' '--with-pthreads' '--enable-storeio=ufs diskd null aufs coss' '–enable-delay-pools' '–enable-snmp' '--enable-htcp' '--enable-forw-via-db' '--enable-cache-digests' '--enable-referer-log' '--enable-arp-acl' '--enable-pf-transparent' '--enable-follow-x-forwarded-for' '--with-large-files' '--enable-large-cache-files' '--enable-err-languages=Armenian Azerbaijani Bulgarian Catalan Czech Danish  Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek  Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian  Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian-1251 Russian-koi8-r  Serbian Simplify_Chinese Slovak Spanish Swedish  Traditional_Chinese Turkish Ukrainian-1251  Ukrainian-koi8-u Ukrainian-utf8' '--enable-default-err-language=English' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--mandir=/usr/local/man' '--infodir=/usr/local/info/' '--build=i386-portbld-freebsd7.2' 'build_alias=i386-portbld-freebsd7.2' 'CC=cc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include  -DLDAP_DEPRECATED' 'LDFLAGS= -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include' If there is a problem in the package code that makes the config file, that is another question. If the maker of the Lusca package would provide us with patches to add their package to the official repo, it would likely be accepted, as long as it was separate and didn't replace the existing squid package.
  • MOVED: Dropped packets with no logging

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  • Install package.tar

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    jimpJ
    pfSense is a firewall and not a full OS. It does not include a full compiler suite or developer tools.
  • Denyhosts problem

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    Denyhosts stopped functioning for me many months ago and I've since abandoned it. It appears few people are interested in taking the time to get it running, something I'd do if I had the programming know-how to tackle it.
  • Old problem with snort on my pfSense 1.2.3-RC installation.

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  • Vnstat losing data on restart

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    shoot well that didn't work try here again so more details I was before and am now running pfsense as a virtual machine with vmware server (before with vmware server version 1 now with version 2) I downloaded the vmware appliance and then restored my config to that. everything seems to be fine except that vnstat drops all it data for various interfaces every couple days.    Sometimes it will drop the lan data but the OPT1 and WAN data will remain then it will drop the WAN data but the OPT1 and LAN data remains. I would really like to get this working as I find vnstat useful for tracking our usage monthly and all. anyone got any other ideas?
  • Squid & transparent proxy not working in no-transparent mode

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    The proxy started working on my deployment after a machine reboot. So before the reboot it was only working as transparent, after a reboot it was working also explicitly. I suspect there was a problem with the reloading of the squid configuration, but I didn't tested the old squid port (the default one) before the reboot.
  • SQUID 2.7.8_1 works only in transparent mode.

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    thanks man. it workd. another bug to fix…
  • Whre is the squid proxy pakage??? pls hel me!

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    Very nice work thank you very mutch!! :)
  • Snort on 2.0 Not starting on wan

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    Is this because WAN = PPPoE and is assigned to fxp1 (NIC) and snort can not bind to it as it does not know what fxp1 is. it only knows WAN/LAN . tried to much around with interfaces - assign - ppps but no matter what I did either snort would work and connection to internet would not, or connection to internet would work but snort would not. (sorry my pfsense/snort understanding is limited) both outstanding! works on lan side Initializing Network Interface fxp0 Decoding Ethernet on interface fxp0
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  • General Package bug?

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    Usually the packages are only reinstalled if the definition is in the configuration file, not just if the files are on the HDD. I may be thinking of how it's handled in 2.0 though. It's a known issue that a factory reset doesn't remove package files from the HDD (it just resets the config, not files on the HDD), but that shouldn't result in the packages being reinstalled, however.
  • Lightsquid not showing DNS names

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    Interesting solution chiddy, could be helpful. I have tried the solution of Seth and I can confirm that it works!
  • SQUID and SQUIDGUAR wont start after updating

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    same here - reinstalling hasn't helped (yet!) edit:  squidguard also refuses to start, and it won't uninstall :( edit: after many attempts & reboots, squidgaurd uninstalled OK - reinstall squid OK - reinstall squidguard OK. All services seem to be running OK. Oddness!
  • Squidguard does not work after reboot

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    Hi all, I've been experiencing this same problem which made me do a lot of re-installations and testing the packages one after the other. During these times, I noticed that Sqiud + Squidguard + Havp always cause this problem. So I installed Squid + Squidguard alone and the problem stopped. So the problem seems to be with HAVP if installed together with Squidguard. If i reboot many times,the Squid and Squidguard always start. I'm running v.123 on Gigabyte board + Dual Core + 4Gb memory. One can give it a try. Okwuy.
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