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

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    Retested on 24.11-RELEASE (amd64) all seems to work. So it seems right to file a bug for this issue.
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    So since there is no version 25.03. There is an official 25.07 now but only get a 7.08.2 what happen to the rest up to Suricata 7.0.10 or 7.0.12?
  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @pulsartiger The database name is vnstat.db and its location is under /var/db/vnstat. With "Backup Files/Dir" we are able to do backup or also with a cron.
  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @rasputinthegreatest said in pfBlockerNG not logging anything by default?: This IP does exist on my LAN but why it resolves some weird random desktop-sdshdsd.local? Then it's time to visit that device "192.168.1.85", and inspect it. pfSense was just replies on a DNS request coming from it. Loads of DNS request is 'normal' these days. Btw : buy yourself a big collection of connected devices (preference : 'foreign origin") and you wind up with loads of bizarre DNS requests. For example, a classic "Windows 11 Home" PC is already considered as 'bloated', which means that the list of all these xbox, candy store and other 'essential' processes is quiet big? And they all call 'home'. And ask yourself this question : "do you really know what users actually do with their devices" ? @rasputinthegreatest said in pfBlockerNG not logging anything by default?: Also no 192.168.51.5 exists on my network either Is "192.168.51.5" a typo ? It doesn't show up in any logs ... If your pfSense LAN uses the 192168.1.1/24 network, and a device connected to that LAN using the 192.168.51.5, it can't communicate. A network with statically assigned IP info (IP, mask/network, gateways and DNS) is hard to manage. That's why DHCP was invented, and activated by default for every device you buy. @rasputinthegreatest said in pfBlockerNG not logging anything by default?: I assume it is related to time servers? Why do you presume that ? Look them up and you'll see. "ntpns.org" is probably the NS server of ntp.org A lot of devices want to know the exact time. Even when DHCP can propose a time server - you can set up pfSense as a time server for your LAN devices - many devices will disregard this info, an insist in using their own hard coded time server source. For example, a Microsoft PC will default to time.microsoft.com, but you can set it to 192.168.1.1 or pfsense.your-sense-domaine.tld (which will point to 192.168.1.1 = pfSense). You could to do this for every LAN device. @rasputinthegreatest said in pfBlockerNG not logging anything by default?: .local addresses What is your pfSense domain set to ? @rasputinthegreatest said in pfBlockerNG not logging anything by default?: Its very mysterious and I only see this now with pfblockerNG. Set : Services > DNS Resolver > Advanced Settings : Log Level to : [image: 1754468971160-b17dd7a5-9427-497e-a3d0-5936024787b0-image.png] and save, apply. Now have a loo here : Status > System Logs > System > DNS Resolver or better : console : tail -f /var/log/resolver.log Don't forget to set back the Log Level to 1 !! ( !! ) as the resolver.log will get very big very fast. Conclusion : there is a lot of DNS traffic. These are all small packets, and finally just a small percentage of the total traffic.
  • 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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    @EChondo What's your pfSense version ? The instructions are shown here : [image: 1753262126227-1acdc586-cb29-4148-9e36-81ade4e5e60c-image.png] A restart of a service will start by re creating their config files. If a certificate changed, it will get included. When the process starts, it will use the new certificate. @EChondo said in Issue with ACME Certificates Refresh & Restarting HAProxy: I haven't been able to confirm if the above works(mine just renewed, don't feel like doing it again just to test), so we'll see in 60 days I guess. No need to wait x days. You can re test / renew right away, as you are 'allowed' to renew a couple (5 max ?) of times per week.
  • 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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    @veddy254 said in How to update to the latest Tailscale version?: @lbm_ said in How to update to the latest Tailscale version?: https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.84.2_1.pkg pkg: An error occured while fetching package I would recommend verifying the DNS settings in PfSense and verifying date/time is correct. Barring that, try again later and see if it still fails. I was able to successfully run the command on my 2.8.0 install (I didn't install it because I've already installed it) so it seems localized. Interesting. After I (reinstalled) tailscale the /etc/resolv.conf was overwritten. So I just readded the DNS entries in the Pfsense WebUI, and not it worked. pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.84.2_1.pkg Fetching tailscale-1.84.2_1.pkg: 100% 11 MiB 11.9MB/s 00:01 Installing tailscale-1.84.2_1... Newer FreeBSD version for package tailscale: To ignore this error set IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes - package: 1500054 - running kernel: 1500029 Ignore the mismatch and continue? [y/N]: y package tailscale is already installed, forced install Extracting tailscale-1.84.2_1: 100% And pkg info tailscale tailscale-1.84.2_1 Name : tailscale Version : 1.84.2_1 Installed on : Wed Aug 6 09:17:23 2025 CEST Origin : security/tailscale Architecture : FreeBSD:15:amd64 Prefix : /usr/local Categories : security net-vpn Licenses : BSD3CLAUSE Maintainer : ashish@FreeBSD.org WWW : https://tailscale.com/ Comment : Mesh VPN that makes it easy to connect your devices Shared Libs required: libthr.so.3 libc.so.7 Annotations : FreeBSD_version: 1500054 build_timestamp: 2025-07-30T02:26:16+0000 built_by : poudriere-git-3.4.2-12-g74a54a88 port_checkout_unclean: no port_git_hash : 275975297bc ports_top_checkout_unclean: no ports_top_git_hash: 0cd2c078c1e Flat size : 35.4MiB Description : Tailscale is a mesh VPN alternative, based on WireGuard, that connects your computers, databases, and services together securely without any proxies.
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Hi again, to be honest: I guess, I did not remember exactly what I did 2 years ago. May I was mistaken by the interface name opt2 because the SG-3100 has a physical port OPT1 and I mixed up physical and virtual names. The goal was to use 2 different tunnels, one for the mobile clients and one for the site-2-site connection. And now all is running in that way . Regards
  • [Lightsquid & Squid] full link for user.

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    No, LS group URL's by domain.
  • HAVP Antivirus with different scanners

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    Well, a quick hack is done in a few minutes but of course I would prefer a real integration. The only problem I see is that it might need regular updates because as far as I can say the linux/netbsd scanners of the different third party av scanners look like changing a lot. Due to the licence problem it might also need the users to install it using the ssh console. Not perfect but… I wouldn't mind as long as it works once the installation is done.
  • PfSense and Ntop Q

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    Thanks.  That fixed the problem.
  • Could Squid/Squid3/etc. consolidate live streams?

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    I'm not sure if squid3 with dynamic contents enabled can handle this. An option to test may be a varnish daemon configured as proxy in front of squid cache. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4962
  • Not sure if bug - pfBlocker - pfctl Cannot allocate memory

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    @marcelloc: It's not a bug, you need to: empty/disable your lists Increase Firewall Maximum Table Entries on system -> advanced -> firewall/nat re enable pfblocker lists Yep, there it was.. config defaulted to 200K and I didn't even notice it. There is a bug, though. After deleting lists, the table isn't being updated correctly. Reproducing is pretty easy, but iffy - add 5 lists, delete the 3rd. Aliases update correctly, but file table does not - instead it acts as though list 5 was deleted instead of list 3. Only happens sometimes though.
  • Dansguardian not working after reboot

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    The fix is not working for me …
  • PFsense postfix how to

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    @lovin_it: Is there any way to use pfSense with postfix with my config? I am a little bit confused because I have found no thread concerning my problems with the POP3-matter… This package has no pop3 fetch integration and will not work with your full custom config. You can merge your config using custom options. To use postfix on you system without the gui, follow these steps: Remove postfix package On console/ssh, install postfix binaries using pkg_add -r http://files.pfsense.org/packages/amd64/8/All/postfix-2.8.7%2c1.tbz(amd64 version) Install filer package and open it`s gui (diagnostics -> filer) add postfix startup script to filer config(it will load current file) Edit default startup status from NO to YES and save file create your postfix config file and select startup script to run after file changes Not easy but not impossible too  :)
  • Install Package from the shell

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    @alexand3r: I've unzipp the tar.gz but now I do not know how I can install it on the pfsense, the command install or make install doesn't seem to work and after several searches over the web I couldn't find a way to do this. It is on freebsd ports, you do not need to compile it http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=Csync2&stype=all get the tbz package from freebsd archive: i386 http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/ amd64 http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/amd64/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/
  • WPAD not working

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    mohandshamada, I think you need a rule before this http deny rule allowing access to lan_address at http port. If users can't access wpad file they can't get access to proxy. att, Marcello Coutinho
  • Freeradius - 802.1x lan auth

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    Some NAS do a "fake" MAC-Auth. They put the mac address of the host as username and password. If that's the fac then you need to add this "user" in freeradius -> users
  • Facebook Ads

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    I'm still working on figuring this out.  It seems like squidGuard won't block frames properly.  Adblock seems to remove frames and shift the content whereas squidGuard creates the frame but makes it blank. I'm loading easylist in to squidGuard using the following method: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=19756.0 Can someone tell me if the following Facebook entries in the expressions file are correct? –--------------------- ||facebook.com/whitepages/wpminiprofile.php?partner_id= facebook.com###fbPhotoSnowliftAdsSide facebook.com###home_sponsor_nile facebook.com##.ego_spo facebook.com##.fbEmu facebook.com##.fbEmuBlock facebook.com##.fbEmuEgo facebook.com##.fbEmuEgoUnit facebook.com##.fbEmuLink facebook.com##.fbPhotoAdsCol facebook.com##.fbPhotoSnowboxAds facebook.com##.fbTimelineSideAds facebook.com##a[ajaxify^="/ajax/emu/end.php?"] facebook.com##a[href^="/ajax/emu/end.php?"] –--------------------- I'm wondering if the conversion filter (regex.sed) is working properly ("cat easylist.txt | sed -f regex.sed > expressions").    My regex.sed file is as follows: /@@./d; /^!./d; /^[.]$/d; s#http://##g; s,[.?=&/|],\&,g; s##.#g; s,$.$,,g; –---------------------
  • Squid Error Footer

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    OK I figured this out.  All you have to do is put a comment open at the ending of the error file.  i.e.
  • Squid_ldap_auth AD user password issues.

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    I'm working to see why went the users have special characters it has issues. Thanks for your info Gloom, see u latter!!!
  • How to troubleshoot dansguardian

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    try to run dansguardian on console to see if it returns a config error
  • Http https traces who? When ? What ?

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  • Unsupported packages on unsupported architectures

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    @cmb: USB flash has the same write limits as CF. Agreed, however if the USB flash drive exceeds the max. number of writes that it can handle, it will crash and burn without crashing the entire firewall in the process. At worst it would stop showing up as a drive, and pfSense could fall back to using the flash RAM to store the files. In theory, that is. :-) @cmb: The only option would be to add an external hard drive for such storage, which is difficult and not supported for a variety of reasons, primarily because the partitions can't easily be split up in the fashion that would be required. Hmm.. I'm interested in the background on why external drives aren't supported, but I have a feeling that goes outside the scope of this post. If you're so inclined, PM me with the details. If not, I certainly understand. For the sake of argument, let's forget about external storage entirely. What about network-based storage? For instance, what if I could hypothetically mount a NFS or SMB share from pfSense to a NAS device, like FreeNAS? In that scenario the amount of storage would be virtually limitless since squidguard/squid log files are not large in the grand scheme of file storage. As you can see, the gears in my head are turning. These devices are incredibly useful. pfSense is incredibly useful. If there's any way to overcome the finer points of using the appliance instead of a PC, I'm all about it. Thanks (as always) in advance!
  • Snort: Rules with flow:established won't trigger alerts?

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    @Cino: re-appy the Global Settings page and Interface Edit: If Settings page. This should re-create the missing cron job I was having the same issue, following the above worked for me as well. Thanks
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    Your post is difficult to understand for me.  ;) If your NAS supports "account"ing then Simultaneous-Use will work. If you use pfsense Captive portal then try with "Disable concurrent logins".
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