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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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    @tinfoilmatt said in Failed or invalid Mime Type: [application/SIMH-tape-data|0]: (ASN data is IPinfo, not Maxmind) Thats correct but "GeoLite2-Country" is from Maxmind ... (that confused me) I'm considering simply adding "application/SIMH-tape-data" to the list to test. Thats what i tought too ... I'll try when I have the time for it ... Edit: I can confirm - adding "application/SIMH-tape-data" to the list at line 257 in /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc did the trick - no more error! Edit: OK, problem resolved but I would like to know, whats the cause for that error! (SIMH-tape-data sounds like a "blast from the past" ...) Thanks a lot!
  • 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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    And when you are on version 25.07.1 or 25.07 and then click on the reinstall button for the ACME package. It will downgrade. :) [image: 1755753389733-125fc31e-ef4f-4342-b364-48c2b03446c5-image.png]
  • 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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    Upgraded to 25.07 and facing the same issue. Tried the "tailscale up" command as suggested above but restarting the tailscale service kills the login again.[image: 1755715824513-tailscale_logged_out_25_07.jpg]
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    @rosskan In theory, when you tunnel a 'VPN1' over another 'VPN2', VPN2 will see the originating IP as the one belonging to VPN1, not your real WAN IP. So far, ok. That said, when you subscribed to VPN1 and VPN2, you probably used your ISP IPv4 ^^ You installed the VPN1 (or2) application on your crappy laptop ?, if so, 'forget about it' ^^ 'as they know', the app is at an end point, and can see 'everything'. Don't forget that you pay for your VPN subscription, but you give them more then your money. They can see and use your data connection for 'data mining'. And they will make use of that data - by selling it. Why ? Because the share holders want a good financial result. If you need to connect two (your !) networks (or sites) together, use your own VPN solution. Don't use a commercial company. For example, take the ones you got with pfSense. If you really need to use that public network (aka : the Internet) to contact public servers, you are aware that the connection is already encrypted end-to-end ? That's what https is all about. 'http' doesn't really exist anymore / shouldn't be used. Also, you need to take other steps to be safe : you really should start with removing "windows 10" out of the equitation .... @rosskan said in What information can vpn provider see when I use wireguard?: does wireguard share the mac address of the ethernet port of the crappy laptop with vpn provider #2? MAC addresses travel on a local segment. Your laptop's MAC doesn't travel any further then the first hop, this is most probably your first router (gateway) like pfSense. Packet capture your traffic to check this. The Ethernet headers are not encrypted.
  • Email Warnings

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    @dale1957: Hi, I'm fairly new to PFSense.  We have several routes & gateways setup on our PFSense boxes.  I'm looking for a package that will send me an Email notification when one of the routes/gateways starts loosing packets or goes offline completely.  As I said I'm still learning but I have not been able to find anything built into the program to do this. Thank in advance for your help. Dale Dale, If you go to System -> Advance -> Notifications. You can setup your notifications there. pfsense will start emailing you when it starts encountering loss on the gateways. This is a built in feature of pfsense.
  • SNORT Not Adding IP's To Block List

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    Well now i have tons of IPs listed under blocked so something i did worked
  • ET Community Rules False Positives? (Snort)

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    Thanks for the tips!  I will set mine up like that and it should make it easier for me to track down issues.
  • Snort service wont start

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    @LawrenceIII: hey Bill, that was it!  you were correct about the 0.0.0.0, and also the wrong DNS IP (that was a typo)  :-[ i remember putting in that 0.0.0.0 one day, and forgot all about  it. Thank you so much for straightening me out, that was driving me crazy for weeks. Lawrence [/quote] You're welcome.  Glad you are up and running. Bill
  • Squid IE authentification

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    To use ntlm, you need samba freebsd package installed by hand as it does not have a gui on pfsense.
  • Squid/Lightsquid + Logs

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    If you don't know how to manage your firewall via console/ssh, just try a package uninstall and reinstall. I've checked  lightsquid code and it does look for squid logs on /var/squid/logs.
  • Snort doesn't generate alerts on 2 interfaces

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    Are these extra WAN interfaces part of a CARP or multi-WAN setup?  Is there perhaps some asymmetrical routing going on? If so, this could trip up Snort as some alerts depend on flowbits set by previous traffic.  If that previous traffic was seen on a "different interface" (as in one of the other WAN pathways), then the alert with that set flowbit dependency would not fire.  Not saying this is your issue, but it is something to be considered. Another possibility, if any asymmetrical routing is happening, is the stream5 preprocessor can fail to correctly reassemble streams if it does not see all of the traffic.  Remember that Snort really runs as totally separate and autonomous processes – one per interface.  So it's basically like having physically separate computers running Snort.  Any weirdness with routing between those multiple WANs could trip up those independent Snort processes. Bill
  • Packages for bandwidth throttling, and inducing packet loss?

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    It's built in, called Limiters. Firewall > Traffic Shaping, Limiters tab. Check the advanced options available there.
  • Snort Pkg 2.6.1 ??

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    I looked into the Shared Memory feature in the Snort binary.  Unfortunately that is only used for Reputation Lists.  These are text files containing blacklist/whitelist IP addresses (one file for each type).  The Shared Memory feature (which it says only works on Linux; don't know specifically about FreeBSD) allows one copy of each Reputation List to be used among a number of Snort instances. So the Shared Memory feature won't work with text rules, and thus would not help with memory overload. Bill
  • Sarg does not automatically generate report

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    @jdeloach: Edit: "12h" works so I'll leave it at that.  Don't know why "1d" doesn't work. If cron is set to 00:00 it will create an empty log with 1d(you can check with cron package). IIRC, I've changes schedule time on latest package version.
  • Internet access restricts for kids

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    @Derf: The solution I use to control kid's surfing time is as following: Create an alias named 'Kids' wich contains all the IP adresses of kid's devices (PCs, game consoles, …) Create a schedule named 'AccessDenied' with the denied timeframes Create some rules on the firewall to block/reject any connection to/from 'Kids' during 'AccessDenied' As rjcrowder said, there is plenty of different solutions to achieve what you want to do: you can for example use squidguard (I think the 'SG' you use should mean 'SquidGuard' but doing it that way would only allow you to control the web traffic (HTTP). Using firewall rules and schedules will allow you to block ALL kids traffic (including xbox/playstation/wii, p2p and so on). I do the same thing as Derf for time based access. If you want to keep you kids "safe" while they are surfing, there are a couple of other things that I HIGHLY recommend. 1.) OpenDNS. Gives you a great set of DNS based blacklists and performs well. I just can't see any reason not to use it. 2.) Dansguardian. For dg, I usually download the Shalla blacklists and also use the weighted phraselists. Blacklists are only as good as they are kept up to date and dg phrase checking does a very good job at catching the rest… Something else you might want to condider is turning on Clamav in dg.  It does a great job of realtime virus scanning. However, you will perceive some lag from it - especially when downloading large files.
  • Multiple cache_dirs in squid.conf

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    Marvelous. Thanks!
  • Best way to manage pfblocker exceptions?

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  • MOVED: cache para youtube

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  • Mod_security always Stopped - 2.1-RELEASE (amd64)

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  • Send all clients to mobile sites

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    Ah it says squid must be built with –enable-http-violation but i see its not in pfsense. Is there a way to rebuild it on pfsense?
  • I need help - HAVP is running, but not checking

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    @dversg: well, that makes sense. @rest: I found a solutition: I am sorry, but pfsense had its chance. Maybe it has been my fault, but in the end i spent too much time in this. I was even that far to buy an commercial product. Finally I tried ipfire and I am surprised how easy it was to install and activate the squidproxy. I think pfsense is a very good piece of software, but in my case it did not work.
  • Pfblock logic

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    @marcelloc: yes. Just select rule action and it will be placed before your allow rules. Thanks marcelloc!
  • SquidGuard for squid3 issue in tab:Groups.

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    Yes, what I see is that, I only see this message on a fresh installation, list empty. Once I add 1 and add the 2nd the message disappears.
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    Yeah im not sure what to do from here. My next step will be to reinstall pfsense start from scratch.
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