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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.
  • IMSpector v0.6

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    Perhaps you should put together a bounty.
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    Wow thats hard to believe! This has to be the best package out there. What is required for updating the package? Is it a matter of logging in through the console and untar the new version to the directory?
  • WebGui broken after lightsquid install

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    possible change config.xml file and restart
  • Zabbix agent

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    We have a zabbix server yes and about 100 servers/services which we monitor with it. Would be nice to get data from the pfsense, I would like to have graphs for the dl/up for each interface and a general up/down status. The snmp service doesn't send the correct stats for the interface traffic for some reason. I tried using the SNMP public service in zabbix as an alternative, but as explained before.. not the right traffic data. RDD Shows completely different data.
  • LightSquid Logs only tracking one User…

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  • SquidGuard Bypass Bug (squidGuard Advisory: SG-2007-04-15)

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    Were you able to fix this bug yet?
  • SquidGuard ACL Order

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    i got it… thanks a lot.
  • Snort - slow to load the Bocked page

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    I've read the old post http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,2849.0.html This bug of snort should be fixed. But I still have this problem in pfSense 1.2. Also the php process will at up all the CPU, I must kill it every time.
  • Squid website logging per user

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    Cool stuff! Thanks mate, must of overlooked this package because it seems to have the same functionality as SARG.
  • Clamav + iptraf

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    I presume that netview has installed the iftop port - the output shows it being run from the shell. I would recommend trying pftop first, which is part of the base system - I find it works well.
  • How to resotre /usr/local/etc/squid/

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    ok, that di the job, thanks
  • Package! Squid can not keep cache

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    Why are you using 1.0.1?  Please use 1.2 or later and let us know the results.  The package has changed greatly since it was compatible with 1.0.1.
  • SquidGuard redirect

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    excellent thx.  I will give that a shot this afternoon.
  • IMspector Transparent

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    Hi, i am not a savvy unix user.  i am running into this situation where i only need to keep about no more then a month old log… anyone can help coming up with a script? thanks
  • BandwidthD stops loading

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    hello I'm not an expert but you could use this command : " /usr/local/bandwidthd/bandwidthd start or restart " I hope this would help
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    There has been a very large bounty for a powerful traffic shaper.  See the below post for LOTS of details.  I haven't read the whole thing, but would expect it that it could throttle by destination, therefore doing what you need.  You can have access to the 'beta' version now if you make a 3 digit contribution to the devs $xxx (please do, pfsense is great). It has been discussed how to write custom redirect rules for transparent squid so that some traffic will go through squid and some will not, just search this packages forum. http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,2718.0.html
  • Something like BandwidthD on an embeded pfsense?

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    You can use bandwithd in promiscuous mode on another box.
  • Transparent Proxy & limit Instant messengers in schedule

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  • Spamd whitelisting

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    Perhaps a seperate bounty to add a few checkboxes that say "Attempt to Auto-Add Gmail to Whitelist" and one for each major service like hotmail yahoo etc? Then it could just run a script / add a cront tab in the background  and add the entries it finds to the whitelist.txt… lets wait and see how the rest of the original bounty plays out in the next few weeks (sullrich was going to take a break then work on it more later) and go from there. I think that and allowed domain access could make the user interface very nice for beginners...
  • Can't install any package!

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    @josempinto: Once Again, Apparently PFSense is more a toy, than a serious firewall, on we can trust! I can't find any sense, and/or coherence  on this hack. Only plaiyng arround with a toy, one can  arrive to such a crazy way to be able to remove a package… Regards. Keeping in mind that this is a guy who claimed that he had a solution for blocking all P2P applications using a combination of like 5 different (and completely unrelated packages).  Feel free to check out his posting history.  It's special.  IPCop might be too challenging for him.
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