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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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    @tinfoilmatt said in Failed or invalid Mime Type: [application/SIMH-tape-data|0]: (ASN data is IPinfo, not Maxmind) Thats correct but "GeoLite2-Country" is from Maxmind ... (that confused me) I'm considering simply adding "application/SIMH-tape-data" to the list to test. Thats what i tought too ... I'll try when I have the time for it ... Edit: I can confirm - adding "application/SIMH-tape-data" to the list at line 257 in /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc did the trick - no more error! Edit: OK, problem resolved but I would like to know, whats the cause for that error! (SIMH-tape-data sounds like a "blast from the past" ...) Thanks a lot!
  • 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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    And when you are on version 25.07.1 or 25.07 and then click on the reinstall button for the ACME package. It will downgrade. :) [image: 1755753389733-125fc31e-ef4f-4342-b364-48c2b03446c5-image.png]
  • 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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    Upgraded to 25.07 and facing the same issue. Tried the "tailscale up" command as suggested above but restarting the tailscale service kills the login again.[image: 1755715824513-tailscale_logged_out_25_07.jpg]
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    @rosskan In theory, when you tunnel a 'VPN1' over another 'VPN2', VPN2 will see the originating IP as the one belonging to VPN1, not your real WAN IP. So far, ok. That said, when you subscribed to VPN1 and VPN2, you probably used your ISP IPv4 ^^ You installed the VPN1 (or2) application on your crappy laptop ?, if so, 'forget about it' ^^ 'as they know', the app is at an end point, and can see 'everything'. Don't forget that you pay for your VPN subscription, but you give them more then your money. They can see and use your data connection for 'data mining'. And they will make use of that data - by selling it. Why ? Because the share holders want a good financial result. If you need to connect two (your !) networks (or sites) together, use your own VPN solution. Don't use a commercial company. For example, take the ones you got with pfSense. If you really need to use that public network (aka : the Internet) to contact public servers, you are aware that the connection is already encrypted end-to-end ? That's what https is all about. 'http' doesn't really exist anymore / shouldn't be used. Also, you need to take other steps to be safe : you really should start with removing "windows 10" out of the equitation .... @rosskan said in What information can vpn provider see when I use wireguard?: does wireguard share the mac address of the ethernet port of the crappy laptop with vpn provider #2? MAC addresses travel on a local segment. Your laptop's MAC doesn't travel any further then the first hop, this is most probably your first router (gateway) like pfSense. Packet capture your traffic to check this. The Ethernet headers are not encrypted.
  • STunnel Is Modifying PEM File Incorrectly & Not Recreating /var/tmp/stunnel

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    @jimp said in STunnel Is Modifying PEM File Incorrectly & Not Recreating /var/tmp/stunnel: It should already be up and available for 2.4.4 users. If not, it will be in a few moments. Wonderful, thanks for the help!
  • Ntopng. Unable to start HTTP server (IPv4) on ports 3000s

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    Well it obviously shouldn't stop by itself. If that is a bug it will likely be fixed at some point. The startup error seems harmless though from what I've seen. No problems with it here. Steve
  • How filter youtube.com on pfsense using squadgard and rules firewall

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    If you already have Squid and Squidguard installed you just need to set Times for that time slot and apply them to the Group ACLs. Steve
  • FreeRadius CA Validation Broken 2.4.5

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    @jimp thanks for the fix. It works now.
  • FreeRadius 0.15.6 CA Validation Broken on pfSense 2.4.4

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    Fixed in 0.15.7. https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/9082 Thanks @jimp for addressing this issue so quickly.
  • Looking For A Monitoring API or Service

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    Collectd can gather your interface stats and output to several different types of storage, you could script against that. For pf blocking stats i honestly don't know there are probably some, you could manually poll from a script using pfctl but there could well be a service that works better.
  • OpenVPN - Client Export for Yealink Phone - Not Working

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    @jimp said in OpenVPN - Client Export for Yealink Phone - Not Working: e they have fixed that in a recent update, though. Thank you very much for you reply. Finally got it to work. SHA1 and TLS Encryption ON is crucial. Otherwise it wont work according to my testing. Also i had to edit the configuration file manually: the line ncp disable had to be commented out (not supported by yealink phones) Maybe this could be fixed in the export for yealink phones...
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    Thanks for all the help pointing me in the right direction. I'll keep my list at 10 years for now.
  • install zabbix server in pfsense

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    You cannot install the server or frontend on pfSense. Only the agent and proxy packages are available.
  • Packages not starting after config restore on pfSense 2.4.4

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    Thanks for the prompt reply. One of the first things that I noticed didn't resolve was the repository. No packages were available, and the Status page couldn't check for updates. Since I was restoring a config from a backup, that's why I thought this might help.
  • BIND Package

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    Out of the box access list are going to be auto - but you might need to add that for your vpn tunnel network sure. query name min is when you are walking down from roots and vs asking for www.domain.tld you only ask roots for tld, he says oh .com go ask the ns for .com, you then go ask .com ns hey whats ns for domain.tld.. Only when you get to the actual authoritative NS do you ask for the full record. Keep in mind this can cause issues with some domains and cnames, etc.. There are some threads here where testing that and believe technet and stuff from ms one of the domains that wouldn't resolve.. How is it you couldn't look up the RFC that is clearly listed in the notes about that setting "Only send minimum required labels of the QNAME and set QTYPE to A when possible. Best effort approach; full QNAME and original QTYPE will be sent when upstream replies with a RCODE other than NOERROR, except when receiving NXDOMAIN from a DNSSEC signed zone. Default is off. Refer to RFC 7816 for in-depth information on Query Name Minimization." You really have little use in the advanced section until you know what your doing ;) And are wanting to do something a bit out of the box. Quick look there and one thing you might want to enable is "Serve cache records even with TTL of 0" Prob give you better cache hits. Your hide options are exactly that - they will NOT answer those sorts of queries.. Unless you were going to let the public query it there is no reason to enable those... Unless you think someone on your own local network or connected to your vpn is going to query your unbound for its version info and then from that HACK it ;)
  • APCUPSD package

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  • tinc: Establishing a gateway to tinc network

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  • Unable to Update 2.4.3 packages

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    @grimson guess we have to plan earlier than expected. thank you!
  • Bind manual configuration...

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    @johnpoz said in Bind manual configuration...: Read this http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596100575.do It will change your life.. I confirm. Live did become easier when one knows what DNS is (and not what one thinks it is). I have an old edition and will order the new one.
  • watchdog schedule

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    oh yes it was because watchdog was empty as i have removed the vpn from. Sorted thank you
  • haproxy not starting

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    same behavior for me, 2.4.4 on SG-1000. Although I have one lua-file in HAproxy, for doing the LetsEncrypt-Challenge. EDIT: solved by uninstalling and reinstalling the 2 packages, and re-adding the lua-script.
  • Tinc 1.0.35 security release.

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    Yep. Thanks Jim.I appreciate the good work that goes into keeping pfSense current.
  • Squid Reverse proxy works inconsistently

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  • Monitoring bandwidth by month on a system using an SSD Drive

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    I don't think that is much of an issue with modern SSD drives. Disk writes like these were problematic with unmanaged flash memory like CF-Cards and USB sticks, but it should be safe to treat an SSD like any other disk. If you installed using ZFS, I believe TRIM should already be active.
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