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

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    @firefox That is weird did you just try this or have you used it in the past?
  • 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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    @LowKnee Just out of curiosity are you referring to the Database Sanity Check reporting that "these two counts should match" it the count is off by 1 (which I suspect is your case) there was a fix (manual code change) to change masterfile to mastercat in pfblolckerng.sh you want to change this change the line from s1="$(grep -cv ^${ip_placeholder2}$ ${masterfile})" to s1="$(grep -cv ^${ip_placeholder2}$ ${mastercat})" There is also an edge case if the count is greater than one, here is how that goes if in the deny directory you have say two flies (because of the list / file selection you have and they have repeat addresses file 1 has say 100 lines file 2 has say 10 lines (but those 10 lines are also in file 1, file 2 is a subset) you get two uniquely named deny files and then when the "count" is calculated on the deny directory it sees 110 entries when the "count:" is calculated on the "mastercat" file it only contains 100 entries the count doesn't match in my case the issue was caused by full list I had selected, also having an available subset lists (I had inadvertently selected one of) this causing two deny files with some of the same (overlapping data) I unselected the subset and bingo matched again, was a "my bad" selection. Edit: this applied to 25.07 (and 25.07.1) and pfblockerng 3.2.7 as it is labelled on those versions of pfSense
  • 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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    @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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    I figured out the issue. I missed adding the 3rd locations Lan to the static routing. Now all is working perfect.
  • Snort blocked ips in reverse order

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    @BBcan17: In my installations I see the Alerts tab showing the entries newest first. When you look at the Blocked Page, I think it displays the first alert only for the spp_rep Alert. If you sort by the "#" column it actually isn't in order (By date/time) which I assume should be. Ah…OK.  I will look into that.  The BLOCKED tab does some grouping by taking a blocked IP and then finding all the matching entries for that particular IP anywhere in the Alerts log file.  So if IP address 1.2.3.4 has been blocked say 10 times in the last 3 days, when it gets blocked again, the BLOCKED tab will show all the previous 10 entries along with the current one.  This assumes two things:  (1) you have the blocks being automatically cleared on some interval, and (2) the alerts log has not been itself cleared out. UPDATE:  there is no sorting of the grouped IP data.  That is, the code does not specifically sort by alert time when grouping IPs for display on the BLOCKED tab. Bill
  • Snort does not run in WAN interface in pfSense 2.1

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    FYI The following being enabled kept the WAN interface from turning on. It will show enabled, but it will have that red X next to it and it refused to start. After troubleshooting, I narrowed it down to this very specific rule (which you need to add to your exception list) 2011695 ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Microsoft Internet Explorer Dynamic Object Tag/URLMON Sniffing Cross Domain Information Disclosure Attempt Disclosure Attempt If I disable that, then the WAN interface is able to show the green play button (running) without issue.
  • PfBlocker Widget XHTML Errors

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    Honestly? pfBlocker needs a severe diet, getting rid of useless stuff such as the GeoIP-based lists years and years old and completely useless the legacy HTML tables layout needs to get eradicated everywhere across the pfSense code these "validator" fixes caused a bunch of severe regressions (such as completely breaking the schedules) lately so IMNSHO this just should be left as it is as long it works
  • PfBlocker Errors

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    BBcan177B
    Goto  Advanced:Firewall/NAT  and increase the "Firewall Maximum Table Entries".
  • Ookla Speedtest Mini

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    For what it's worth…..  ;) https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=59501.msg320248#msg320248
  • PHPsysinfo error.

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    Thanks, downloaded new version and it works about 90%. Will play with .ini file and see if i can detect the hardware elements.
  • DansGuardian Reporting 'Access Denied' settings not working

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    Bryan: Thank you for your help on this. I finally got around to following your advice to uninstall DansGuardian from the gui, then from a terminal session I deleted all of the dansguardian files from your steps #2-3. I upgraded pfsense to 2.1.2. I then reinstalled DansGuardian from the gui, and everything seems to be working correctly. The correct symlinks are there, and I can edit the configurations using the gui. Almost all of my previous settings are still there– I'm glad about that but I am curious where those configuration settings are stored. ** Tip: After reinstalling DansGuardian, I had trouble getting DansGuardian to start until I deleted .dguardianipc and .dgaurdianurlipc in /tmp. Rebooted and it works again.  (see this message for this tip: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=75068.msg409652#msg409652)
  • Auto backup restore hash not matching though it should

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    A phantom new line has showed up for some reason out of nowhere, unrelated to anything that's changed recently. We're still looking for the source of it, but in the mean time, a new package v1.23 is out there that fixes the issue. If it's something we can fix only server-side, we will, for now if you upgrade the package it'll work.
  • Pfsense GUI & Dansguardian woes …

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    Worked perfectly, I can edit the template, save, and the changes take effect immediately! Many thanks for your help. The DG/Squid combo appears to be working nicely now, I don't notice any browsing difference going through the proxy compared to a direct connection except of course the filtering - but I am only 1 user. Monday I'll point a group of students at it - that's when the problems began last few times with timeouts, slowness, etc.. Hopefully it won't this time. Again, thanks for your help.
  • Package Install on 2.1.1 after Upgrade

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    I can confirm I ran into this same issue, I however didn't need to have the proxy set, just used it to allow caching.  Since https isn't cached on my Squid setup I just removed it, and problem was resolved. The autoupdate firmware check was still able to find updates, and the problem persisted after the 2.1.2 update which was done on my system which had this problem, prior to fixing the issue. However its definitely a repeatable scenario that should be resolve in the case where the proxy is required.
  • Can't install OpenVPN Client Export Utility

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    @priller: There is a new option you can select to bypass the check. System: Advanced: Miscellaneous: Packages settings Just what I needed! Many thanks.
  • Squid authentication with logged on user possible?

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    It's been covered on here before a few times in other threads. Try searching for squid and NTLM and similar topics.
  • PfBlocker no longer updating aliases since upgrading to pfSense 2.1.1

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    Well, is should not keep disabling itself on every damn reinstall, dunno what's the bug there. Reported many times but this thing is pretty much in need of major rewrite, dropping all those not anymore useful features, like years old geoIP lists.
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    It is thank you! Although there now appears to be a problem with the Emerging Threats Open rule set, specifically one of the rules in "emerging-web_client.rules" that is causing a fatal error and preventing Snort from starting. I have disabled those rules for now.
  • Siproxd URLMAP is full

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    Guys can anyone help me to recompile Siproxd package?
  • Sarg system log error how to fix?

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  • Hyperlink PFblocker Dashboard Widget Label

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    Edit - try this Create a backup of /usr/local/www/widgets Save http://www.filedropper.com/pfblockerlink Transfer pfBlockerLink.tar to /tmp/ tar xf pfBlockerLink.tar cd pfBlockerLink ./patch.sh
  • PfBlocker not blocking addresses

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    Is the status for the dashboard widget a green up arrow or a red down arrow? Can you check your Firewall \ Rules \ WAN - to see if there is a pfblocker auto rule that has been created for each of your pfblocker lists ? This page https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=42543.705 talks about a bug that might be causing your problem.
  • Snort upgrade fails, now cannot reinstall Snort…

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    Perfect! Thanks!
  • Snort update

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    Cheers CMB At least I was not that silly to report that the file was not on the repo instead of just searching for something there on the forum.  :-)
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