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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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    @jeremyc311 said in pfBlockerNG-devel 3.2.8 service pfb_dnsbl don't start: I’m surprised to see in my logs only one blocked IP, which is related to my TrueNAS I'll decode this one : @jeremyc311 said in pfBlockerNG-devel 3.2.8 service pfb_dnsbl don't start: Aug 5 09:01:14,1770008712,bxe1,LAN,block,4,17,UDP,192.168.2.13,116.147.64.181,51765,51413,out,Unk,pfB_PRI1_v4,116.146.0.0/15,ET_Block_v4,Unknown,truenasr740,null,+ Traffic, coming into LAN, from a LAN device (192.168.2.13 = your TrueNAS) going to a Chinise ( 116.147.64.181 ) Brazilian ( 177.72.195.114 - = next line ) was blocked by the "pfB_PRI1_v4" list. That's probably good thing ? ( ! ). Up to you to discover why your NAS should initiate connections to these countries. A NAS can go outside for maintenance purposes, for example to look for updates of it's system. These could be located anywhere of course. The GeoIP IP created a rule for you. How and where do you use that this rule ?

  • 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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    @jwt said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: installed or upgraded? 2.7.2 was installed first from iso then upgraded to 2.8 then config restored - that resolved the issue. @jwt said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: more details here would be good. no details - unfortunately installer doesn't provide any logs or troubleshooting info, except "unable to contact netgate servers" during install. Despite same PPPoE username and password specified in the initial prompt as used during normal operations.

  • 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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    Updated CE 2.7.2 to 1.86.2_1 Changelog pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.86.2_1.pkg Freshports

  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Since my upgrade to 25.07-RELEASE (amd64) built on Tue Jul 22 22:24:00 CEST 2025 FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT, on one end of my most important tunnel, the tunnel still works fine, but the pfSense GUI keeps reporting the service as stopped. I had to remove its monitoring from the Service Watchdog which was also trying to start it, without success. Yet the trafic flows correctly. I'm holding off upgrading my other boxes. Is there something I could do to help diagnose?
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    Proxy setup tutorial

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    @GruensFroeschli: No. You can. But you dont have to. in some banana countries, yes, you have to :) and, yes it works fine over open dns, and over squid, but cant support multiple WANs  ??? :-\
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    Snort fails to start on rule initialization

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    I had the same problem, and I've just been running without those rules. I'm guessing that this rule is responsible: 223 udp $EXTERNAL_NET any $HOME_NET [31335,35555] DDOS Trin00 Daemon to Master PONG message detected Edit: I disabled that rule, and it starts up fine. I guess the syntax on the port specification is incorrect.
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    Adding whilelisted domains to squidguard

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    Yes but wompy did a far more understandable version for me to keep it simple stupid. Once I understand the mechanics Im good to go.
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    How to access ntop with HTTPS/SSL?

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    @hadi57: add a rule to your firewall allowing port 3000. This will enable access to ntop, but only HTTP, I want to use HTTPS…
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    Snort uses lots of memory on linux too.
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    Unblocking sites in squidguard bigblacklist

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    @wompy: Actually that link does have everything you need. Destinations is where your blacklist/whitelist additions will be. Once you save them then they will be added to the database. under default and ACL you will see the uptime destinations check boxes. Thats where you will specify to allow, or deny access. save and then apply on the general settings tab. +1 If you select Dest-rule and not checking deny - this is mean whitelist, and such rules will placed before block(deny) rules (exclude 'all' rule - this rule always last) .
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    Squid stops when using upstream proxy

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    hi, and thanks for the reply i already tried this, but didn't work, i don't know what's wrong. thanks again
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    The problem was the package, i built lcdproc and ran it manually, it works fine.
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    APC UPS USB on 1.2

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    Rather than downgrading, you can look the other way to see if that will help. pfSense 1.2.1 should be here by the end of the month, and will be based on FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE (rather than the 6.2-RELEASE used in 1.2). Click here for the development snapshots. The ISO works fine on my Dell Poweredge R200, which, being ICH9 based, will not work with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. However, it's not advised to use this in production.
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    How to block Instant Messenger (MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and IRC) without rules, and

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    @Valhalla1: trying to figure out if this was a serious 'feature' you are touting, or if I'm being leveled and this is not what you wanted/expected when installing those packages…  anyway u said u were trying to reduce the # of packages required, u can drop phpsysinfo as thats got nothing to do with nothing as far as intant message programs I think you are right, and you understood …. We will wh. the next release, might V1.2.1 will solve this issue....??? Rergards
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    I have had it! Four hours and I cannot get squidguard to block anything

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    This how I did it. install package squid and squidguard and go to console menu and press 8 to exit console menu. chown of /var/squid and /var/squidGuard to proxy:proxy    (ex. chown -R proxy:proxy /var/squid) create /download  directory cd /download pkg_add -r http://62.4.17.14/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/All/wget-1.10.2.tbz /usr/local/bin/wget http://www.shallalist.de/Downloads/shallalist.tar.gz    ( at least you can see download progress using this way) click to Service>Proxy Content>General Setting in Blacklist URL = /download/shallalist.tar.gz see squidguard1.JPG click save button click Upload URL button click save button (just to make sure) although it says "SquidGuard service state: STARTED" just click apply button GOTO Default tab Follow my example using squidguard2.JPG and squidguard3.JPG or customize as you like but leave Default access [all] click save go to ACL tab and create new ACL (click the + button) for "Source IP Address" put your network address/Masks bit (not ip address) example squidguard4.JPG for "Destination" –--> customize as you like but leave Default access [all] and click save when finish. (squidguard5.JPG) go to General Stting tab and click apply button to restart squid (and squidGuard too) Note: Make sure in Service>Proxy server>Access Control –-->    the allow subnet is/are the same with (17)  (subnet = network address/Masks bit) The End BTW it took me about 3 to 4 months to figure this out by looking here and there in the forum.  :) [image: squidguard1.JPG] [image: squidguard1.JPG_thumb] [image: squidguard2.JPG] [image: squidguard2.JPG_thumb] [image: squidguard3.JPG] [image: squidguard3.JPG_thumb] [image: squidguard4.JPG] [image: squidguard4.JPG_thumb] [image: squidguard5.JPG] [image: squidguard5.JPG_thumb]
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    Package Manager unable to communicate to pfsense.com

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    Well, looks like it was something at the ISP side of things.  According to a tech rep, the IP assigned to our WAN interface was conflicting with someone else's subnet. They didn't elaborate.  The traceroute with the third hop stuttering isn't fixed but at least now I can get to the packages.
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    Search before posting. There is already 3+ threads about this.
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    Can i know how to block user from downloading file from internet. can I use squidguard for this? Possible. Create Destination item with expression .*.(zip|rar|cab|mp3|avi|mpg|swf|exe|mpeg|mpv) ps not add to this .com - this blocked www.xxxx.com zone
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    I hate to say it but for contentfiltering in transparent mode you might want to look at http://www.untangle.com/ to do this particular job.
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    SquidGuard.conf is not changed by pfSense GUI

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    @dvserg: @igorhmm: I've upload the blacklist again and changed the permissions.. now is working perfectly !!! You change permission manually or all changed auto? (This info need for solve possible bugs) I did manually: chmod -R 755 /var/db/squidGuard/usr /local/etc/squidGuard chown -R proxy:proxy /var/db/squidGuard/usr /local/etc/squidGuard thanks :D
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    Snort Doesn't Expire Blocked Hosts

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    The only entry in /etc/crontab is shown in the original post.  There is no expiretable entry.  I remember that used to be present in my snort installs in the 1.1 days. So snort is still using cron to expire rules?  I must have been mistaken that the expire mechanism was changed.
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    How to install frickin pptp proxy on pfSense 1.2-RELEASE?

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    @hoba: Frickin never worked the way we wanted it to work but ermal is working on a new patch for pptp that hopefully will fix pptp once and for all without the need of a package. This will be the best solution… I hope that this patch will be ready soon.
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    Poesia content filter

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    Thanks you. Very mach english symbols - big work for my translator. (  ;D )
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    12 squidguard processes in top

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    @submicron: I hate to be that guy but you realize that the urlblacklist isn't free for download and that they expect you, on your honor, to pay for it, right?  If you are just blindly downloading and using it, especially for a commercial endeavor, you are most certainly violating their terms of service. Hi Submicron Good point, and yes, I AM paying for it, payed for 6 months right away :-) It is used for my home setup, to protect my children, but it's a very relevant point to emphasize that it's a service you should pay for!
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