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

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    @andrew_cb said in haproxy 0.63_2 weird behavior, edits not working: @iSagen @TheCyborgWeasel The issue is likely the same as in https://forum.netgate.com/topic/178348/haproxy-backend-port-changes-are-not-applied/ Try adding load-server-state-from-file none to the Advanced Settings > Backend pass thru section of each backend. Great! I will do this.
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    @NRgia said in Suricata on Pfsense: @bmeeks Thank you for what you did for Snort or Suricata. I'm not sure what you want me to do on Redmine, due to is a bug tracker. My question is for Product Management, which I will ask it here to be public: What is the plan for these 2 packages, Suricata and Snort? Thank you Yes, Redmine is for both bug reports and feature requests. Asking for the Suricata binary to be updated to the latest 7.0.11 version from upstream is a legitimate Redmine request. I would suggest simply asking for the binary version update instead of asking about future Netgate strategy (such as the support plans for the packages). Strategy discussions typically don't get very far because they deal with proprietary information or plans that a company may not want to publicly discuss. Redmine is where the Netgate developer team tracks all the code changes they make for pfSense. They will see Redmine reports much quicker than a forum post.
  • 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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    @keyser if you want the less random more static time this: the code that needs to be changed is in pfblockerng.inc best to make yourself a patch file and apply it that way , so if the package is reinstalled (updated) or whatever. you can just "verify" the patch and just reapply. I ran with this (but different time) under 24.11 when I upgraded to 25.07 just verified and re-applied the patch. if you want look to look at at the code for the lines being changed just above that "if statement" is the comment // Define pfBlockerNG MaxMind/TOP1M/ASN Cron job name the patch whatever you like and set these behaviour options [image: 1755355045857-screenshot-2025-08-16-at-10.35.14-am.png] This is the patch contents (made just for you to hit the time before 2am) --- pfblockerng.inc.orig 2025-08-16 10:30:40 +++ pfblockerng.inc 2025-08-16 10:29:52 @@ -10669,8 +10669,8 @@ if ($pfb['enable'] == 'on') { $pfb_gcmd = "/usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php dcc >> {$pfb['extraslog']} 2>&1"; // CRON hour is randomized between 0-23 Hour to minimize effect on Servers - $pfb_gmin = '0'; - $pfb_ghour = rand(0,23); + $pfb_gmin = '35'; + $pfb_ghour = '1'; $pfb_gmday = '*'; $pfb_gmonth = '*'; $pfb_gwday = '*'; In this I changed the time from the random top of the hour to 1 35 am (just before your 2am pfblocker update and with time to spare. However, I would recommend anything that is not at the top of the hour (0) minutes as that is when almost everything else gets scheduled.) FWIW. I also changed the "top" of the hour on my system so the pfblocker cron setting so that everything is offset by 30 minutes, and therefore don't conflict with other jobs that are also at 0 minutes (as most are) If you make this change on the dialog, then you might need to change the above, so it runs at say 1 15 am (adjust accordingly to suit your needs) pfblocker general page cron settings GUI [image: 1755356115122-screenshot-2025-08-16-at-10.53.11-am.png] next time it creates the job it will schedule it for the now not so random time of your choice. If you want to adjust the time and the patch has been applied, revert - edit the patch times (minutes/hours) only - then reapply. (unlikely you want to change the day month or week day, but if you did you would need a modified patch)
  • 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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    @raidflex said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: maybe uninstall Crowdsec when applying other updates first. It seems like it doesn't help at least from what I see on my system... it changes something.. so it must be definitely reported to their github. I have never experienced that before and crowsec was installed.. maybe with 2.8.0 something have changed
  • 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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    With Tailscale, I just recommend sticking with the FreeBSD15 version. Yes, it may currently work using the FreeBSD 14 package despite being on 15, but any number of other updates could result in that not being the case anymore. Not to mention the fact that any updates newer than 1.84.2_1 don't really impact functionality for what people would be using Tailscale for with PfSense so updating past that is not an absolute necessity. I run 1.86.4 on my desktop+phone and 1.84.2_1 on my pfsense router. Phone commonly uses the PfSense router as an exit node and there's no difference for PfSense. TL;DR: Better to be safe than sorry and stick with the FreeBSD 15 version even if it's not the latest version of Tailscale.
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Strangely enough, checking the system 4 days later, I now see that Wireguard service is reported running! The last thing I did 4 days ago was to disable Wireguard service monitoring by the Service Watchdog. Anyway, even when it was reported stopped at first, 4 days ago, the tunnels were working flawlessly. Very strange. I will keep an eye on it.
  • Need snort, kinda screwed. Plz help

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    The snort package is no longer available for pfSense.  I would encourage you to create a separate snort box and use that in conjunction with your firewall.
  • SNORT in pfSense1.2

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    Yes, it is recommended that you consider starting a bounty project for the package.
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    To Fix Squid add this to the /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768 kern.maxfiles=65536 kern.maxfilesperproc=32768 net.inet.ip.portrange.last=65535 or just delete it and replace with autoboot_delay="1" #kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0" hint.apic.0.disabled=1 kern.hz=100 #for squid kern.ipc.nmbclusters="32768" kern.maxfiles="65536" kern.maxfilesperproc="32768" net.inet.ip.portrange.last="65535" you might ask why squid is so slow? its because default configuration of pfsense is router not as a server thats why kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0" <- is set to zero. if you just simply remove this squid will be just fine. but to tune the squid i add this kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768 kern.maxfiles=65536 kern.maxfilesperproc=32768 net.inet.ip.portrange.last=65535 i just figure out why squid is slow. but i don't like the binary package of squid. i'll be using the squid HEAD bec of the store_rewrite feature for caching youtubes videos and other video files and mp3.
  • Enabling squid proxy slows down speedtest.net speed test

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    To Fix Squid add this to the /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768 kern.maxfiles=65536 kern.maxfilesperproc=32768 net.inet.ip.portrange.last=65535 or just delete it and replace with autoboot_delay="1" #kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0" hint.apic.0.disabled=1 kern.hz=100 #for squid kern.ipc.nmbclusters="32768" kern.maxfiles="65536" kern.maxfilesperproc="32768" net.inet.ip.portrange.last="65535" you might ask why squid is so slow? its because default configuration of pfsense is router not as a server thats why kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0" <- is set to zero. if you just simply remove this squid will be just fine. but to tune the squid i add this kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 32768 kern.maxfiles=65536 kern.maxfilesperproc=32768 net.inet.ip.portrange.last: 65535 i just figure out why squid is slow. but i don't like the binary package of squid. i'll be using the squid HEAD bec of the store_rewrite feature for caching youtubes videos and other video files and mp3.
  • Major slowdown through squid

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    To Fix Squid add this to the /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768 kern.maxfiles=65536 kern.maxfilesperproc=32768 net.inet.ip.portrange.last=65535 or just delete it and replace with autoboot_delay="1" #kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0" hint.apic.0.disabled=1 kern.hz=100 #for squid kern.ipc.nmbclusters="32768" kern.maxfiles="65536" kern.maxfilesperproc="32768" net.inet.ip.portrange.last="65535" you might ask why squid is so slow? its because default configuration of pfsense is router not as a server thats why kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0" <- is set to zero. if you just simply remove this squid will be just fine. but to tune the squid i add this kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 32768 kern.maxfiles=65536 kern.maxfilesperproc=32768 net.inet.ip.portrange.last: 65535 i just figure out why squid is slow. but i don't like the binary package of squid. i'll be using the squid HEAD bec of the store_rewrite feature for caching youtubes videos and other video files and mp3.
  • Stunnel from external IP

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    Fixed it; I moved Stunnel to the host Windows machine running 443, 993 and 465 and pfsense is NATting. I suspect Stunnel on PFSense is broken.
  • [squid] transparent proxy - don't proxy a specific client?

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    Guess I was too quick to post, but this may help others anyway.  First you need to uncheck "Allow users on interface" which automatically creates an allow for all clients in local network.  Since you want to deny an ip you need to put the deny before the allow, which doesn't happen automatically.  In the custom section add the following (where 192.168.0.0 is your own local network). acl ps3 src 192.168.0.105/32; acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/24; http_access deny ps3; http_access allow localnet Again, the order of the http_access lines are important.  Now the "ps3" acl won't get proxied.
  • Squid on Multi-WAN

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    Which is exactly what I said 3 posts ago.
  • Problem posting in FF3 via Squid to forums

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    Thanks for trying, it's when I enter an article, and post it it fails. I can browse without problems. I've tried excempting the domain from caching, but that didn't help. I wonder if it can be something in their end  ??? I've tried it with two different pfsenses now, they both excibit the same problem…
  • Snort stops working

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    I just removed the package.  It needs a new maintainer.
  • Freeradius and dd-wrt

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    Thanks for your answer, I made the test with only one AP, and use the same shared key. Do you have any experience with a configuration like this? First I try with hotspotlogin.cgi, but it show a 500 internal server error, so I tried with hotspotlogin.php, it seems to be working, but after some time, it shows the login screen again, and didn't pass the authorization to the AP. My knowledge of pfesense and dd-wrt is not to much, so I'm stuck on this and don't see any solution for this configuration, any help or hint is wellcome. Thanks
  • Squid 2.7

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    @mhab12: The best way might be to post a small bounty in the bounty forum.  I know the devs are busy on 1.2.1 and 1.3 right now, perhaps ermal or dvserg could help us out…  Exactly what bugfixes / features were you looking for? Thanks Mhab12 !! I would like the new store URL rewriter
  • Imspector log to mysql

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  • [squid] Can't see local websites

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    Alrite, thank you for your advices ;)
  • LightSquid : number of connections per domain

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    OK, so i understood… We can't have the number of visits (i think it was possible to say : "such user had visited this website 3 times today"... ) per site but instead we have something like all "connections" to the website due to pictures,JS,etc loadings... Thank you for the time answer !! (I hadn't notice the "Megabytes" unit !). Thank you for your answers  :) Sincerely.
  • NMAP-how reliable is it?

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    With only one open port and everything else filtered, you can't get a fully accurate OS detection. The MAC address is key here - Askey Computer is the manufacturer of the device. From the looks of the products on their website, it's most likely a wireless access point. http://www.askey.com.tw Further complicating OS detection is the fact that the open port is likely not open on the device itself I would guess, it's probably a port forward. The most likely situation is this is a wireless AP using NAT to connect multiple devices. If DHCP was showing it inactive, there's a good chance the person who installed it took whatever lease they were initially assigned and statically configured it.
  • SquidGuard Redirector

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    Doh! That worked. Many thanks Gordon
  • Package pfflowd don't install

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    @buraglio: @ric2233: Thank you! :D :D This has been updated to .7 (thanks databeestje for the commit!) Great!It's OK now!
  • Spamd not working as expected

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    @sullrich: @Matts: @submicron: heh, no spamd doesn't work with bridging, that's your issue. Yep, bridging should be nice :) Patches accepted.  I have no intention of supporting this without a bounty. I see what I can do here. As I don't need it that much directly, but thought it was nice to check this out, I don't need it with a bounty, but maybe someone else. I will look for a patch too.
  • How do you install these packages?

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    Yeah I figured they'd be included if they were "done enough" to be considered ready.  It looks like it is installed using CVS?  But how do you use the XMLs to update the web GUI?  I'd imagine there has to be a way to install spam assassin on PFSense
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