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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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    Hi All. A few years back there was no real good way of getting pfBlockerNG log files to a remote SIEM as pfBlocker had no built-in syslog support. The way pfBlockerNG rotated log files caused the entire log content to be resent/duplicated when the CRON update job ran if you used the syslog-ng package to monitor the log files. A Ticket has been open on this for years: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14878 I can still not find any builtin syslog support, and the log file lines are also still in their own format as opposed to standard Syslog format. Have anyone come up with a good solution to getting pfBlockerNG log files shipped to a SIEM without various workarounds, reformatting and extra packages needed?
  • 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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    @jimp Done. I was on acme.sh 1.0 (25.07.1) and a downgrade was proposed. Now, the issue is gone.
  • 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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    Hi Team, I’m running pfSense Plus 25.07.1 with TorGuard WireGuard VPN as my primary tunnel for LAN traffic (for best possible speeds). The tunnel is mostly working now, but I had to go through several fixes and I’m still not confident the configuration is stable. Here’s what I’ve run into: TorGuard support originally helped set up the WireGuard client. It worked fine for about a day, but then the Unbound DNS Resolver stopped working. Even when I re-enabled Unbound manually, LAN clients still couldn’t reach the internet. The main issue seemed to be when switching between WAN (ISP public IP) and the VPN IP. Sometimes traffic didn’t switch over properly, and at one point pfSense even generated a crash report during the switch and restarted. To fix it, I reset the LAN firewall rule so that LAN traffic would route through the VPN gateway when active, and fall back to WAN when the VPN was down. After that, I was able to toggle the VPN on/off without pfSense crashing, and traffic correctly switched between ISP IP and VPN IP. At this point it works, but I don’t think the setup is completely stable. I’d like to ask for guidance on: How to make sure Unbound stays reliable when the VPN gateway goes up/down. Best practices for LAN firewall rules so clients use the VPN when it’s up, and either fall back to WAN or get blocked (kill switch) when the VPN is down. Correctly assigning DNS servers to WAN and VPN gateways. At the moment, in System → General Setup, I don’t see the gateway dropdown next to DNS entries, so my DNS servers are just “floating” with no interface binding. If anyone has suggestions, or can point me to a clean reference configuration for WireGuard + Unbound + proper DNS gateway assignment, I’d greatly appreciate it. I'd really like to have a conference with someone and go over this. I'd like to give them access using RustDesk or TeamViewer so we can talk and they can show me things. I am legally blind so I am one inch from the screen. I've also uploaded the crashdump so you can look over it. I've also been using AI, but I keep going in circles with it, so it's not perfect. Thanks in advance! Warm Regards, Jamestextdump.tar.0
  • Snort Blocked List No Description

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    I have the same problem!
  • "Monit" package for pfSense?

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    I certainly hope so! The only reason I am not using haproxy exclusively on my firewall is the inability to get notified if haproxy dies (and get automatically restarted). I have enough Linux/Unix background to maintain the package - just not in FreeBSD.  But, I would be willing to be a tester…
  • FreeSWITCH package for pfSense 1.2.1 and 2.0 released. PBX or Proxy

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    Running PFSense 1.2.3-RELEASE Having an issue when WAN IP address changes, even with an all LAN config. php: : pfSense package system has detected an ip change x.x.x.x -> x.x.x.x … Restarting packages. php: : The FreeSWITCH package is missing required dependencies and must be reinstalled. php: : Resyncing configuration for all packages. The service wont restart automatically, I have to go and restart it manually.
  • Proxy with access lists

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    There are plenty of detailed how-to documents on the doc wiki ( http://doc.pfsense.org ) and elsewhere on the forum. Some searching should turn them up.
  • Snort, problem with startup services

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    snort-dev 2.8.4.1_7 pkg v. 1.8 PROTO:255  (portscan) UDP Filtered Portsweep  Prep  x.x.x.x  empty  ->  x.x.x.x  empty  122:23:0  01/03-16:46:06 what snort rule triggers the alert above
  • Snort : Fatal error - Cannot redeclare snort_rm_blocked_install_cron

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    After upgrade to 1.2.3-release I got the same message when reinstall SNORT Try uninstall SNORT first, after install it seem problem gone. No error
  • Squid + HAVP

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    good to hear!
  • Seeking for the flow

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  • LightSquid Report showing single IP and HAVP problem

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  • Ntop still crashes frequently with 1.2.3 final

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    I'm still not sure what is causing this. I see it on only certain routers. I have several customer routers that ntop runs for months on, or indefinitely. And my main router here at work won't run it for more than 10 minutes before it crashes. It's very hit and miss.
  • Time display in IMSPECTOR

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  • Hostnames with IPs or instead

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    FWIW: bandwidthd does show host names if you do as Jimp says.
  • How do you get BandwidthD working?

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    Just installed 2.0b and had this issue myself, you can fix it by ssh'ing to the pfsense box and creating a symlink for this file against the newer .5 file: ln -s /lib/libz.so.5 /lib/libz.so.4 Then you can run it manually (or use the GUI): /usr/local/bandwidthd/bandwidthd Bandwidthd maintainer should probably be notified of this issue to update their package.
  • NRPEv2

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    @Grey: Short notice: I fixed the issue by installing libiconv and texinfo packages manually gate:/usr/local/libexec/nagios# ./check_procs /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by "check_procs" gate:/usr/local/libexec/nagios#  ldd ./check_load ./check_load: libintl.so.8 => not found (0x0) libiconv.so.3 => not found (0x0) libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x28174000) gate:/usr/local/libexec/nagios#  pkg_add -r libiconv Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/libiconv.tbz... Done. gate:/usr/local/libexec/nagios#  ldd ./check_load ./check_load: libintl.so.8 => not found (0x0) libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x2807f000) libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x28174000) gate:/usr/local/libexec/nagios#  pkg_add -r texinfo Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/texinfo.tbz... Done. Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/All/gettext-0.17_1.tbz... Done. install-info: not found pkg_add: command 'install-info --quiet /usr/local/info/autosprintf.info /usr/local/info/dir' failed install-info: not found pkg_add: command 'install-info --quiet /usr/local/info/gettext.info /usr/local/info/dir' failed gate:/usr/local/libexec/nagios#  ldd check_tcp check_tcp: libssl.so.5 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.5 (0x28082000) libcrypto.so.5 => /lib/libcrypto.so.5 (0x280c3000) libintl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x2821c000) libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x28225000) libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x2831a000) So it does throw errors about install-info not available, but that doesn't stop it from extracting the needed library. But please (to the maintainer auf the package) fix those dependency issues, so one hasn't to manually add packages, that are perhaps overwritten/forgotten after updating the base system. At least deliver the needed libraries with the package :) Thankies! J. With 1.2.3 released, I would just like to second this request. There also appears to be a bug sometimes where the "state" of the enabled check box is lost or reversed. I have seen instances where the service is not running when the box is checked, but if you uncheck it and then save, it will start the service. I believe, if you leave the checkbox alone and just hit save it will toggle the state of the service too, so it's almost like it's always toggling it and the checkbox is actually not used. If possible, SSL support for NRPE would be great as well.
  • BandwidthD log rotation

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    Yes. I have been using it long enough now for the logs to rotate. It works as stated in the README except for 2 strange problems: The logs do not rotate at exactly month end but a few days before month end. I assume this has to do with the moment BandwidthD does its graphing at the documentation state it will rotate the logs during the next graphing run. For some reason I get double entries in my log file which. The entries are exact copies of each other so filtering them out later is not difficult but it is annoying. So if anybody else is experiencing this, please let me know so I know it is not unique to my setup. And if someone knows how to fix the problem, please let me know as well.
  • MOVED: NUT on 2.0 Beta1 = libutil.so.7 missing

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  • Snort Problem !!!!!

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    UPDATE:  You're right, the Nokia IP330 firewall turned out to be considerably less powerful than I thought. I recently ordered Shaw's 100 mbps service, and with just ONE decently seeded torrent the pfsense f/w CPU held steady at about 55%.  Even just surfing at the same time resulted in 100% CPU, saturation, and laaaag :( So, that's been retired, and an Athlon XP 64 3000+ with a gig of RAM moved in instead, and all is well.  I did the math, this should just slightly exceed requirements…so ought to be just about right. Anyway, thanks again jamesdean, for taking the time to help me out!  Happy Holidays :)
  • Bandwidthd

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    I have Bandwidthd working now with the lan interface i can't seem to get the wan to work with it .
  • Multiple NICs with bandwidthd?

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  • MOVED: snort for 8.0 beta

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