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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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    Hi All. A few years back there was no real good way of getting pfBlockerNG log files to a remote SIEM as pfBlocker had no built-in syslog support. The way pfBlockerNG rotated log files caused the entire log content to be resent/duplicated when the CRON update job ran if you used the syslog-ng package to monitor the log files. A Ticket has been open on this for years: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14878 I can still not find any builtin syslog support, and the log file lines are also still in their own format as opposed to standard Syslog format. Have anyone come up with a good solution to getting pfBlockerNG log files shipped to a SIEM without various workarounds, reformatting and extra packages needed?

  • 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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    GertjanG
    @jimp Done. I was on acme.sh 1.0 (25.07.1) and a downgrade was proposed. Now, the issue is gone.

  • 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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    @totalimpact in my case I dsid not reboot the router, after I copied the new key tailscale went online.

  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Hi Team, I’m running pfSense Plus 25.07.1 with TorGuard WireGuard VPN as my primary tunnel for LAN traffic (for best possible speeds). The tunnel is mostly working now, but I had to go through several fixes and I’m still not confident the configuration is stable. Here’s what I’ve run into: TorGuard support originally helped set up the WireGuard client. It worked fine for about a day, but then the Unbound DNS Resolver stopped working. Even when I re-enabled Unbound manually, LAN clients still couldn’t reach the internet. The main issue seemed to be when switching between WAN (ISP public IP) and the VPN IP. Sometimes traffic didn’t switch over properly, and at one point pfSense even generated a crash report during the switch and restarted. To fix it, I reset the LAN firewall rule so that LAN traffic would route through the VPN gateway when active, and fall back to WAN when the VPN was down. After that, I was able to toggle the VPN on/off without pfSense crashing, and traffic correctly switched between ISP IP and VPN IP. At this point it works, but I don’t think the setup is completely stable. I’d like to ask for guidance on: How to make sure Unbound stays reliable when the VPN gateway goes up/down. Best practices for LAN firewall rules so clients use the VPN when it’s up, and either fall back to WAN or get blocked (kill switch) when the VPN is down. Correctly assigning DNS servers to WAN and VPN gateways. At the moment, in System → General Setup, I don’t see the gateway dropdown next to DNS entries, so my DNS servers are just “floating” with no interface binding. If anyone has suggestions, or can point me to a clean reference configuration for WireGuard + Unbound + proper DNS gateway assignment, I’d greatly appreciate it. I'd really like to have a conference with someone and go over this. I'd like to give them access using RustDesk or TeamViewer so we can talk and they can show me things. I am legally blind so I am one inch from the screen. I've also uploaded the crashdump so you can look over it. I've also been using AI, but I keep going in circles with it, so it's not perfect. Thanks in advance! Warm Regards, Jamestextdump.tar.0
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    Snort + barnyard2: full packet capture missing

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    @MichaelB: Upgraded to the latest Snort version. Now it seems like the full_syslog_full is working, but ONLY if you send it to a remote syslog server. So you can't send full events to a local syslog. I just modified my grok rules to be able to catch syslog events forwarded from the local system to a remote syslog (via status => system logs), but that format is different when you send them directly from snort to a remote syslog. I think it should work, I'll modify the grok rules later today. However, to improve consistency with other logs forwarded via the system, perhaps it is a good idea to also allow "local full syslog complete" . In other words, now I have: output log_syslog_full: sensor_name snort.WAN, server 192.168.2.2, protocol udp, port 514, operation_mode complete, payload_encoding hex, log_facility LOG_USER, log_priority LOG_INFO Which gives a different format on my remote syslog server then when using the following in combination with remote logging via the status => system logs setting: output log_syslog_full: sensor_name snort.WAN, operation_mode complete, payload_encoding hex, log_facility LOG_USER, log_priority LOG_INFO Kr, Michael I did in fact code it so that full packet capture only works to a remote syslog server.  It is not a good idea to fill up your local firewall system log with full packet captures, so I elected to not make that available. Bill
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    Snort OpenAppID RULES Detectors

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    Hi bmeeks I have checked my settings and I do not have the RamDisk setting on. As I am new to pfSense can you list the steps to check? So far I have uninstalled Snort and them installed again keeping my original settings. There may be something that I have checked that is interfering with the download. Not sure what it is through.
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    Just want pfSense to shutdown when UPS goes to battery

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    Using NUT on pfSense you have a couple of options: Directly monitor the UPS via SNMP The NUT client can talk to a remove apcupsd server. Given a choice, I would choose option 1 as this works regardless of whether the Windows system is functioning or not. I can't speak to apcupsd on pfSense.
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    Http-buffer-request

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    " a field for HTTP options to be injected into the header. " No as it states its where you put in options to passthru to the frontend.. This common theme on all packages and or services in pfsense.  There are gui settings for the obvious stuff… but more advanced features can be put into a custom box that are added to the conf file, etc. Look fired up a frontend - put your option in the box, check out the cfg file..  See attached pic you can also put that option in global or default section, etc. [image: frontendoptions.png] [image: frontendoptions.png_thumb]
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    Is Snort ignoring host names in pass lists?

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    Hi BBcan177, Questions:- (1) Will it work on Suricata? (2) I have the passlist in place. Will the script wipe the passlist? If so, I want the passlist + the script run together. Is it possible?? (3) if multiple hostnames, how can I do it? If you use the pfctl -t xxxx -T delete, it just delete the IP from the block list. eventually, the ip will be blocked again. It is the other way around. How can I update the passlist ip using script? @BBcan177: I didn't test it, but try this in an sh script Create new script vi myip **#!/bin/sh MyIp="$(host -4 my.hostname.com | grep -oEw -e "[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}/[0-9]{1,2}" -e "[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}")" pfctl -t snort2c -T delete $MyIp** (Save and exit) :wq (make script executable) chmod +x myip
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    Snort configuration on 1Gbps/1Gbps uplink?

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    @msrachelchen: I ended up using Suricata instead. Though with cpu pinning, the load is still pretty intense atm Looking pretty juicy, 19.82 MB/s. Though most of the “CPU usage” went to NIC queues State Table: 47% (3987752/8500000) Load average: 9.39, 9.96, 9.60 CPU usage: 68% Nothing is running except Unbound, pfblockerng (DNSBL), IPSec and Suricata. I haven’t started HAProxy and TC yet… Suricata is multi-threaded whereas the current Snort release is still single-threaded.  That can help a little under high loading.  The new 3.x BETA versions of Snort are multi-threaded.  Once the 3.x tree goes to RELEASE, it will get pulled into pfSense. Bill
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    FreeRadius3 With WindowsAD 2008 as User Backend.

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    Any one using this feature?
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    Bandwidthd - Display Hostnames in Main Table

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    Unfortunately, bandwidthd is no longer maintained, its last update was more than 10 years ago. I have made the modification myself to the bandwidthd source code and display the hostname next to the IP address, in addition, I also updated the maximum IP listed in the HTML from 20 to 50. 20 IPs were probably a lot back in 2005, but these days 50s are probably the norm. If you are comfortable with compiling c code, I can attach my changes here.
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    DHCP Web List

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    Feature request - Cron package - add a Name and/or Notes field

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    Having trouble installing php72-7.2.1.txz package

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    Hi, Your lucky. The answer is simple. You can't do that. pfSense is using itself PHP for the GUI. There are probably many lines in the scripts of the GUI that wouldn't be compatible with PHP 7.2. Btw : this is like asking how to install core Windows 10 files on a Windows 8 PC. Experts can't (and won't ask the question).
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    Deny Video Streaming

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    Postfix Backup MX

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    The only downside of not having a backup MX is having to wait hours (4+) for retries to come through, or longer if it's a prolonged outage. It's not the end of the world, though, messages will be resent. If you botch the backup MX config then it could be worse. You could accidentally reject mail and never receive it, or let even more spam through on a continuing basis. The best backup MX is an exact duplicate of your primary mail server hosted off-site.
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    Can snort block torrent streaming?

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    I don't know the answer definitively, but you can install it and try it out.  I would set it up in IDS (non-blocking) mode first and let it run a week or two in order to get a feel for the kinds of alerts generated.  Expect to see quite a bit of alerting related to the HTTP_INSPECT preprocessor.  You can search the IDS/IPS sub-forum here in Packages to find threads about configuring Snort. Bill
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    LAN is not passing through Squidgard

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    @Dezireman25: Hi All! Just want to ask for your help. I install 2.4.2 pfsense and add squid, squidguard and lightsquid packages. I followed some instructions in youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2gy1bLHm5o) and do some research but LAN did not pass through my squidguard. Squid and squidguard services are running. When i check using proxy test my internet users are not going through squidguard. please help TIA 1st :- You need to allow your LAN Subnet in squid:- Squid  Proxy Server  > ACLs >  Allowed Subnets (put your LAN subnet here) 2nd :- in squidguard by default everything is blocked , you need to allow some list:- SquidGuard Proxy Server > Common ACL  > target Rules List >Target Categories > (default is deny at bottom , allow specific list as required)
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    HAProxy, websockets, "timeout tunnel" and the defaults section

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    Found your post whilst trying to fix a similar problem. I managed to get things to work with your hint. I simply added the "timeout tunnel 3600s" under the relevant backend -> advanced settings -> backend pass thru
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    Python 3?

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    Hi, The linked post doesn't mention anything regarding Python 3. It's just about installing mitmproxy in a Python 2.7 virtualenv. Could you maybe give a brief explanation how you got python 3 on pfsense in the first place? Thanks.
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    Debugging Email Reports

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    Traffic Totals - All VLANS collects Parent Interface data? (Solved)

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    I do the question before because i do not want to reset the data and could be other problem. Disabling and resetting and/or disable graphing and maybe not needed to delete and reinstall the package seams solve the problem. Maybe a broken déjà vu but i thin i have tried this before, months ago. Anyway thanks for the feedback and solutions, i should know this. I will wait couple of hours and put a solved on the topic if this stay good.
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    Bind 9.11 error in pfsense 2.33

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    Don't cross post, and dig up threads from year ago.. What part in your zone file do you think is correct about this? @ IN NS 192.168.1.1. So you think its ok to put in an IP for your NS record?
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