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

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    @firefox There is a problem that is no longer active use this http://dsi.ut-capitole.fr/blacklists/download/blacklists_for_pfsense_reducted.tar.gz [image: 1755878578167-screenshot-2025-08-22-at-09.02.53-resized.png] This blacklist is great they also take submissions I send stuff all the time.
  • 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.
  • Warning: touch(): Unable to create file /tmp/…

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    ok folks, i got this sorted. My squid cache was taking up lots of space so I deleted it manually. However please see http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,23366.0.html for a possible related issue
  • Name in Proxy server Report LightSquid

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  • Squid + content filtering

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  • Pfsense packages ?

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    Yes, its possible, although would require someone to put in the development time to make them.
  • Squid

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    ok thanks
  • Snort won't download rules (yes I have an Oinkcode…)

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    @secs: Me too. I can manualy download the files but snort seems to give up. I dont mind putting them in myself but where do I do them and do I simply put the tar type file there or do I have to uncompress them. I only installed snort today but not one catagory and rule appears…. Ideas? This issue is also being discussed in another thread also on this board and I gave a solution there too. Instructions for manual rule instructions can be found at: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=15464.0 or http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_won't_snort_properly_download_rules%3F Basically, you extract the files, and then places the rules in the snort rules folder.
  • Is the FreeSwitch package broken on pfsense 1.2.3 RELEASE?

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    It installed fine for me about 2 weeks ago when I helped someone install it on pfSense 1.2.3. Its almost 5am I need to get some sleep I will give it a try early next week. Regards, Mark J Crane http://www.fusionpbx.com
  • How do I move Freeswitch to a VIP?

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    Seems like that should work but I haven't tried making it listen on a VIP yet.
  • Pkg-utils.inc buggy?

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  • Add packages from cli

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  • Problem with Snort-Dev 2.8.4.1_7 pk v. 1.8

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    Ok, no more error, but i can t start snort,… what can i do now?
  • Bandwidthd with postgresql & Multiple Interfaces.. Sanity check please

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    Thanks for taking the time to respond. Working on your suggestions. Watch this space
  • Pfflowd not exporting any flows

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    IDK if ur interested in using a different collector but I use Scrutinizer and it works just fine. I'm only using the free version too. It still shows me all the useful data i need to see for an unlimited number of devices. http://www.plixer.com/products/netflow-sflow/scrutinizer-netflow-sflow.php
  • Snort on Alix 2D3 beginners questions

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    Ok, my bad. The CF card is NOT mounted read-write permanently. I didn't have ssh enabled yet, so I issued the "mount" command via the web interface (Diagnostics > Command > Execute shell command), and concluded from the output that pfsense0 was mounted r/w. Which it was, presumably, just for the duration of the execution of that command… When I log in via ssh, /dev/ufs/pfsense0 indeed shows as mounted read-only. Sorry about the confusion! However, no answer without a new question, I guess: When looking through the logs to see what might be going on, I noticed that snort actually starts twice, back to back. After the first start, I read this: ... Feb 24 22:46:01 pfsense snort[1683]: [ LowMem Search-Method Memory Used : 31.8716 MBytes ] Feb 24 22:46:01 pfsense snort[1683]: [ LowMem Search-Method Memory Used : 31.8716 MBytes ] Feb 24 22:46:01 pfsense snort[1683]: Snort initialization completed successfully (pid=1683) Feb 24 22:46:01 pfsense snort[1683]: Snort initialization completed successfully (pid=1683) Feb 24 22:46:01 pfsense snort[1683]: Not Using PCAP_FRAMES Feb 24 22:46:01 pfsense snort[1683]: Not Using PCAP_FRAMES Feb 24 22:46:02 pfsense SnortStartup[1816]: Ram free BEFORE starting Snort:  -- Ram free AFTER starting Snort: 72M -- Mode lowmem -- Snort memory usage: 139M Feb 24 22:46:03 pfsense check_reload_status: check_reload_status is starting Feb 24 22:46:03 pfsense SnortStartup[1842]: Snort already running... Feb 24 22:46:11 pfsense login: login on console as root Feb 24 22:46:24 pfsense snort[1683]: *** Caught Hup-Signal Feb 24 22:46:24 pfsense snort[1683]: *** Caught Hup-Signal … followed by some statistics, two lines saying "restarting snort" and another startup sequence which to the naked eye seems identical to the first one, down to the PID of the snort process and the exact amount of memory used. It seems to me that this was not the behavior I saw immediately after setting up snort for the first time, as the "Ram free BEFORE starting Snort..." line above was visible in the web interface view of the log. Now this line appears after the first, but not the second startup of snort, and thus is not showing up at the end of the log visible in the web interface any more. I can't recall when this appeared first, so I don't know which configuration changes might have triggered this change in behavior. Possibly the installation of NUT (which is not configured yet)? Is it common to see snort starting twice or should I look for configuration errors ? Thank you jimp for your comments so far, and also for the suggestion of running snort on the LAN side. I'm indeed worried about spyware / viruses / trojans. However, as I stated initially, I have two local machines, on LAN and OPT1 the latter being bridged to LAN. Is it sufficient then to run snort on the LAN or do I need to run it on both to protect both machines? I understand that the default rules I download are designed to work on the WAN. Do I need to manually adapt them to the LAN? That may be more effort than I would be willing to put in… FWIW, running on the WAN, snort does pick up on stuff: IE memory corruption, MSExchange (or Outlook?) exploits... so far all from the web-client category. I don't remember the exact rules that triggered a site block, and since I just rebooted the firewall and snort seems to forget about blocked sites across restarts they're not showing up right now.
  • P3Scan package

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    No  :( At the moment I have not been an achieve stable work the p3scan port. (p3scan > clamd:TCP) With clamlib this worked very perfect, but clamlib+havp && clamlib+p3scan take many resources and slowly going startup. I consider acceptable only 1 clamd:TCP socket for all applications (only one clamd daemon in system). Maybe next version will be fixed. http://diskatel.narod.ru/p3scan/
  • Snort-Dev and Denyhost

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    @ToxIcon: I am having some issues Denyhost is not blocking anything  its running but their is no log showing it blocking I reinstall same issue also snort Snort-Dev 2.8.4.1_7 pk v. 1.8 stop blocking their is nothing showing up in the block list but I see some alerts, if i go under rules and enable some snort rules and Emerging Threats rules snort stop running and it wont start is their a script to enable all rules instead of having to click the x to enable them tried the old script but did not work could do with some help thanks DenyHosts quit working for me last month and I've tried dozens of times to get it up and running with no luck. I do believe it's related to Snort-Dev but I don't know that for sure. JamesDean seems to be busy and has disappeared from the board.
  • Squid/reporting causes the internet to stop at random- reboot fixes it

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    Search the forums for loader.conf and nmbclusters.  Make the changes outlined in those posts and see if it helps you.
  • Vhosts

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    Sorry, post to wrong topic. My apologize.
  • Pfflowd package changing the interface index

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  • SPAMD is no longer available?

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    Look there… http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,22906.msg118294.html#msg118294 :o
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