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

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    @JonathanLee Will there be any problems if I stay with version 2.7.2?
  • 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.
  • Snort Rules Auto Update - Not Working!

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    @zimba: Thanks, Bill! I am not sure what happened but it is now working! Sometimes the Snort.org web site has temporary issues. Bill
  • HAProxy-devel crashing regularly

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    Thanks a lot for both !!! For the workarround (it was a real good idea) and for the new version - we will test it next days.
  • Unable to get Squid3-dev (and squidGuard-squid3) working on pfSense 2.2

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    I did a little research and the crash seems to be related to a memory access violation by Squid.  You're running an alpha build of 2.2 so I'm not shocked, but still.  What is your configuration? i386, x64?  Virtual, physical server or miniPC (ALIX board etc)?  Any other packages?
  • I must configure two range

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  • LigHTTPD services shows "Not running"

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  • PFSense 2.1.3 AVAHI issue

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    Hi, if the installation breaks after a specific time, it is usually a timeout issue. This happens in the "extracting" phase, because no data is sent over the wire. This is a problem I had. Avahi is relatively large and last long, so this can happen easily. You could still install a package on command line. Regarding AirPrint: Avahi is able to announce services (like an AirPrint printer) to devices, but there needs to be a CUPS Printer Spooler doing the actual print job and conversion to the actual Wifi printer, in case it is not able to do this by itself. Unfortunately you are not able to edit the services directly, but you can edit the files either thru the WebUI or via SSH. You can find the files here: usr/pbi/avahi-i386/etc/avahi/services By default, Avahi on pfSense announces SSH and SFTP. Regards, Darko
  • SquidGuard and URL Blacklist

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    You can change the size via System - Advanced - Miscellaneous - RAM Disk Settings. Edit:  Removed bogus advice to not increase RAM disk on nano. See this thread: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=80410.0
  • Squid3-dev SSL Bump Exclusions

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  • Snort 2.9.6.2 pkg v3.1.1 Update – Release Notes

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    @chemlud: @Supermule: When pinging from Scandinavia we get this: PING files.pfsense.org (208.123.73.81): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 208.123.73.81: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=152.243 ms So we dont get a mirror on the package files… My ping goes to the same IP. …to me this whole story is kind of VERY disturbing... For Nano image boxes, make sure you have at least 200 MB of free space in /tmp.  The package manager code gets tripped up if it runs out of space to unpack and install a package.  That might be what's happening to you. There was also a problem a few days ago with the SHA256 checksum files not getting uploaded to the packages servers.  The developer team pushed a fix for that I noticed a few days ago. Bill
  • Dansguardian broken - can't get alternate repository working

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    @mschiek01: This should work for you.  I just tried it on one of my boxes. Again this for a 64bit box. 1. Install the broken package with the package manager. 2. from the command line "pkg_info" you will see dansguardian 2.12.0.3_2 is installed. 3. from the command line "fetch http://files.pfsense.org/packages/amd64/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.3-amd64.pbi" 4. from the command line "pbi_add –no-checksig -f dansguardian-2.12.0.3-amd64.pbi" 5. from the command line "pkg_info" you will now see dansguardian-2.12.0.3_1 is installed. 6. reboot. 7 from the command line "/usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/dansguardian.php fetch_blacklist"  download and reapply blacklist. 8 go back through and resave each configuration page. Ever since doing this, Dansguardian no longer shows up on my pfSense GUI as a service.  Any idea why?  I've tried uninstalling the package and re-installing.  The process looks to be completing successfully, but it doesn't show up.
  • Squid3-dev pfsense 2.1.4 x64

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    Like I said earlier, squid3-dev can be a real pain.  What are you trying to do that you couldn't do with Squid 2.7.9?  If you look at the system log (Status - System logs - System - General), is there anything about squid in there (use the filter to show just lines with 'squid' in them)?
  • Squid3-dev pfsense 2.1.4 x64 LDAP "fix"

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  • Squid3-dev, SSL-filtering and certificates

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    Hey KOM, I used QLProxy and these instructions and it works great: http://sichent.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/filtering-https-traffic-with-squid-on-pfsense-2-1/ You have to do a bit of console work but it is worth it. 199 euros per year for a big organization is a really good deal especially since all the site categories are being updated daily. 12 earos per year for personal use is a really good deal. Just need to setenv PACKAGESITE http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/amd64/packages-8.3-release/Latest/  to get python/apache loaded. Jim
  • Attn Devs: pfSense 2.1.x pkg_add broken again

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    Does someone is able to install any package under 2.14-RELEASE ? Nothing working for me. Ending up with lib* files not found etc (Case for Xauth)
  • [SOLVED] "Available Packages" hangs after HAVP dashboard widget

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    @iorx: Anything I can do to help isolate the issue? No idea? I'm out of idea's for the moment. (tried a lot, found nothing conclusive) I have 4 systems at hand, all on the same level (2.1.4), different breeds (nano/full) and also 2 ISP's. 2 of them give no issue, on 2 other it does not work. Also, I've just lost connectivity again to the forum (it did not resolve so no access for more than 10min) So I'm still suspecting it to be an issue with the server? In meantime I think it's a better idea to wait for someone from ESF to feedback with news or instructions…
  • Snort & snorby

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    @master9712: Hi I wanna to integrate Snort on pfsense to snorby on ubuntu. Can you help..! To feed Snort data to Snorby, enable Barnyard2 on the Snort interfaces on your pfSense box.  Do this on the BARNYARD tab.  Enable MySQL DB output on the BARNYARD tab in Snort and provide the database connection credentials.  That's all on the pfSense side. There are some How-To documents you can find from a Google search for setting up Snorby on Ubuntu. Bill
  • Quagga zebra and ospfd restarting whenever a package restart is triggered

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    I kept digging around in the forums looking for a way forward on this and came across this thread https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=76597.0 which was helpful. I was puzzled as to why an address change had been detected (based on the log entry in my previous post) when it is the same and is actually static from the ISP in this case.  Looking at rc.newwanip the "ip address change" message is a little misleading in that it would seem (I don't know PHP so I am mostly going off the comments here) when all dynamic interface types (PPPoE in my case) come up a reload of lots of things, including all packages, is always triggered regardless of the IP address. In my case I do not believe any of the packages that I have installed (Bacula, Squid, Squid Guard and Quagga) need to be reloaded when the WAN interface comes up, but I understand that there are packages that do need reloading. Does it make sense to have an option on a per package basis to enable/disable a reload on at least a WAN, or possibly any, interface state change? I would not have thought though that Quagga should ever be reloaded just because an interface changes state? As per the above mentioned thread I have commented out the call to restart_packages() in rc.newwanip to see if that resolves my issue without introducing any other issues. Thanks Mike
  • Snort ignoring passlist after update

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    Happens to everyone at some time or another …  :)
  • Redirction loop with SquidGuard rewrite option

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  • Can't access ISP's IPv6 DNS servers (pfblocker issue?)

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    Problem resolved. My IPv6 was released by my ISP, for some reason. Hence, I couldn't ping ANY IPv6 addresses, I just noticed the DNS issues first. After a restart of the cable modem, and pfsense box, everything is operating as expected.
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