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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.
  • Install Bacula client

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  • PfBlocker

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    There is now a pfBlockerNG package that replaces pfBlocker, so I am locking this thread.
  • Check_mk missing dependancies.

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    Thanks dennypage, config file edited successfully.
  • Softflowd > nfdump timestamps wrong

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    FYI. If you're looking for progress on this I would go here : https://github.com/irino/softflowd Found it here: http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/netflow-tools/2016-July/000596.html
  • Accessing HAproxy on IP address always fails

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    Must have been blind, never mind :)
  • Haproxy secure smtp with TLS error

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    Thanks for a quick reply!
  • Why freeradius is stopping?

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    That watchdog package sounds good. Thank you
  • Disk Usage at 100%

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    PerforadoP
    You had a whitespace (" ") between /var/squid/logs and * which means you deleted the directory you were in. If this was /usr/local/www (you can check with "pwd") that can be fixed with "tar -C / -xvf /usr/local/share/pfSense/base.txz usr/local/www" and "mkdir /var/squid/logs && chown squid:proxy /var/squid/logs"
  • Dansguardian safesearch regex

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    Please have a look http://kishorkumaryadav.blogspot.in/2016/08/how-to-enable-google-safesearch-on.html
  • Fusion Inventory Agent on pfSense 2.3.x

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  • Error loading rules

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    RonpfSR
    @johnabbot: The one I posted That's not a crash report, probably a failure to load the table. @johnabbot: Did you raise the Firewall Maximum Table Entries? No It is mentionned many many times that if you are using GeoIP tables, you need to raise Firewall Maximum Table Entries in System / Advanced / Firewall & NAT @johnabbot: Go to Firewall / pfBlockerNG / Africa tab and see if your selection are still fine. Hit Save, then do a Force Reload IP. Check the logs after. Force Reload IP gives this [ DNSBL FAIL ] [ Skipping : GJTech ] [1472209734] unbound-checkconf[85421:0] error: error parsing local-data at 30 '}).filter(' 60 IN A 10.10.10.1': Syntax error, could not parse the RR's TTL [1472209734] unbound-checkconf[85421:0] error: Bad local-data RR }).filter(' 60 IN A 10.10.10.1 [1472209734] unbound-checkconf[85421:0] fatal error: failed local-zone, local-data configuration I don't see anything in the logs @RonpfS: The http://adblock.gjtech.net/?format=unix-hosts doesn't seem to be available anymore. Just turn the list state to OFF. When a list fails to load, use the URL and load it in the browser. That URL is now just a standard Web page, the same as http://adblock.gjtech.net, so something changed at that site. Fetching a Web page to pfBlockerNG will certain cause failure. It is good practice to monitor the pfblockerng.log on a regular basis to see what is happening. That list has been broken since 08/13/16.
  • Haproxy and logs

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    It should be possible to place the log-format directive in the advanced sections of your choice with frontend/backend and specify what exactly you would want to log.. Some info on its parameters here: http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/snapshot/configuration.html#8.2.4
  • Haproxy and www-alias

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    That probably means that the webpage the healthcheck is checking is taking quite a bit of time to complete. Which might mean its keeping your webserver 'busy' just with the haproxy healthchecks.. You might want to try and configure a smaller/faster page to perform the actual checks against, but do try to still make it check the full chain (database connection & file storage present) so it wont stay 'UP' when the actual website is failing for endusers.
  • Autobackup failing

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    RonpfSR
    Check you username on https://portal.pfsense.org/members/profile, it is probably in lowercase characters and use that for Subscription Username in Package / Diagnostics: Auto Configuration Backup / Settings
  • Beta test of new NUT UPS package

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    I had no issues on my site uninstalling the latest beta and installing the prod version. Thanks for the opportunity to help beta test this package.
  • Inbound Frequent Emails

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  • DansGuardian Setup & Filtering Configuration Help

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    Many thanks for that @freeMox. I didn't turn on notifications for the thread, so I'm just coming back to see it.
  • Simple and easy MTA for 2.3.1?

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    moving up topic. maybe someone has solution?
  • Nginx Reverse Proxy

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    my solution is quite simple: copy nginx.conf with basic setup, and add something like include path/to/conf.d and run nginx with -c flag. i also installed Shellcmd to autostart my nginx at boot. and, of course, don't forget to forward ports from EXT interface to your nginx.
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