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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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    GertjanG
    @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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    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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    @Gertjan Hello, I installed the official app of vpn #1 on the crappy laptop but on the main laptop I did not install official app of vpn #2, I used it via wireguard. I am not worried about vpn #1 provider and how much they know about me. They already have my ip address since I connect to them direct. My goal is to hide from vpn #2. I don't want them to know I am the same person who used this service before. and thanks for the heads up regarding windows. I had a feeling that would come up. I know windows is spyware but for my purposes it doesn't matter since I really just need to make sure vpn #2 doesn't know this user is the same user who signed up last year. (ok yes I know, how do you know vpn #1 or #2 are not owned by ms? I agree, you dont know)
  • freeradius amount of time doesnt work

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    It's more about there being a wide variety of implementations of RADIUS servers/clients/NAS devices and they all do things slightly differently, plus the scripts to collect the data can be different. FreeRADIUS wrapped in some other flavor like daloradius may work with your AP, for example.
  • Asterisk 1.8 package

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    Is anybody currently running asterisk on pfsense, if so, which package have you used?
  • Upsmon parent process died - shutdown impossible

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    Glad to know I'm not the only one with this issue. Would be nice to know why it is happening.
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  • Need some help: Package used to work but doesn't work now.

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  • FreeRadius3 LOG

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    I totally agree with this. What about moving the FreeRadius Logs to the "Package log" menu ?! Right know its overwhelming my general log also.
  • openvpn-client-export & auth-nocache option

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    -auth-nocache Don't cache --askpass or --auth-user-pass username/passwords in virtual memory. If specified, this directive will cause OpenVPN to immediately forget username/password inputs after they are used. As a result, when OpenVPN needs a username/password, it will prompt for input from stdin, which may be multiple times during the duration of an OpenVPN session. This directive does not affect the --http-proxy username/password. It is always cached. I don't think you'd want to type in your username/password multiple times during the login session and then on every reconnect just to buy some peace of mind. On top of that, --auth-nocache can not be implemented 100% reliably on any normal computer, you would need some special secure memory that can guarantee the no cache property of the memory used. As soon as the username/password are read, there is some cached memory that holds the password for a non-zero time.
  • Network analyzer

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    Hi. You can use Squid together with SquidGuard to block websites. And Lightsquid is web proxy reporting tool that you can see which user or ip address has visited what websites. With ntopng package, you can see network usage of ip addresses, which ip address is using most bandwidth and etc.
  • Creating a package around a set of python scripts

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    A FreeBSD port is the heart of it. You can look at other small and simple packages to get an idea of how they work. For a GUI, it depends on what you need. If it's a few settings then using the built-in XML package GUI method may be easiest, otherwise you can code up a small PHP page to do what you need.
  • Nagios nrpe Version 3 after Upgrade to 2.3.5-RELEASE-p2?

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    Hi, there was an upgrade for the nrpe Package from 2.3.2_2 TO 3.0 available. Now everything works as expected again…  :)
  • General security

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    Hi John, I am not very experienced with pfSense either, but I have spent several months time with setting up the box and digging into different packages. You already mentioned most of these, but speaking from my own limited experience and setup, below is what I have and some of my knowledge on them. OpenVPN Great for secure remote access. pfBlockerNG Great for URL filtering and added security depending on the lists used. I followed this awesome tutorial on YouTube to help get that setup the way I wanted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwFpMwXEK5w. You don't have to use all the lists and examples in that video, but it's a great start. For example, the ad blocking helps prevent users from doing things they shouldn't be doing like clicking on Google ads that say "Official Microsoft site" but the URL is clearly not right and can take them to a potentially malicious site. This saved me a few times at least. I use most of the lists in that video along with some of the easy lists included in the package. Suricata I originally used Snort, but I had a fatal issue with it when Snort ran into some updated rules which it didn't know what to do with. To me, having an IPS with a few missing rules is better than having one that chokes on those few faulty rules and not run at all. I ended up switching to Suricata instead which uses many of the same rules and categories anyway. Squid with ClamAV Squid is being used as a caching web proxy server which all my clients go through. The web proxy wasn't really needed, but the anti-virus on the firewall level was the main selling point to me. That is done thanks to ClamAV included in the Squid package. On my setup, ClamAV is only scanning http traffic and not https. Technically it could be setup to do both. I personally am staying away from that for reasons discussed throughout these forums. Good luck. Raffi
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  • Cyberpower OR500LCDRM1U and apcupsd package issue

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    I was never able to get the apcupsd package to work with my Cyberpower CP1500C. In your case, it sounds like it could be a driver issue. It doesn't make sense why it would stop working suddenly. In my case, I used the NUT package instead and it's been working smooth for months. I don't know if it's worth a try though because my setup is different. I don't have it connected to my pfSense box with USB. I have the UPS connected via USB to NAS on my LAN. That NAS also acts as my UPS server so pfSense is able to access the UPS info via the LAN. In the NUT package on pfSense, I just enter the server IP, port and the admin credentials of the server.
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  • Zabbix proxy web scenario checks

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  • Munin-node package for 2.3?

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    Thank you Gertjan and apologies for my rather clueless question. The munin master is within the LAN. Indeed, I have set up the node as described above, and everything now runs as it should. Sorry again for being a bit dumb…
  • How to configure Syslog-ng

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    How do you configure the logs to be sent to ELK running in Docker Containers?
  • Freeradius with oracle support in addition to mysql and postgresql

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    Hi, If you are ready to do some keyboard work, I guess it's possible : Enter console mode, and go to God mode (option 8). Goto the settings directory : cd /usr/local/etc/raddb/ and ask if this  FreeRadius knows anything about 'oracle' : grep -R 'oracle' * You will see this : mods-available/sql:#  Where "DB" is mysql, mssql, oracle, or postgresql. mods-available/sql:    #    * rlm_sql_oracle mods-config/sql/ippool-dhcp/oracle/queries.conf:#  ippool-dhcp/oracle/queries.conf -- Oracle queries for dhcp-ippool mods-config/sql/ippool/oracle/queries.conf:#  ippool/oracle/queries.conf -- Oracle queries for rlm_sqlippool mods-config/sql/main/oracle/queries.conf:#  main/oracle/queries.conf -- Oracle configuration for default schema (schema.sql) The major part about how to set it up is there … but : FreeRadius needs a 'driver' that can talk to Oracle. The settings will learn you that the driver name of MySQL is "rlm_sql_mysql". For Oracle this would be  "rlm_sql_oracle" ... Check here : cd /usr/local/lib/freeradius-3.0.15 ls -al Bad news : no Oracle driver in the FreeRadius 3.x package … (maybe you borrow a copy from an original FreeBSD 11.1 (current FreeBSD kernel used by pfSense) "FreeRadius" package ..
  • Configure syslog-ng to stream multiple individual log files not working

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    After more testing, and the update to v2.4.3 I'm not seeing any difference in behavior.  Anyone know of anything I can try to change?  Also, is there a good way to report a bug or is that directly to the redmine project site?
  • Editing AVAHI Deny Interfaces?

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    @JimPhreak: Ahhhh, I wasn't holding Ctrl and clicking at the same time.  Wow what a brain cramp. "Ctrl" is a dead key, that needs to be pressed with 'something' on the keyboard - or mouse - that is, for the last 2, 3 decades it behaves like that  ;)
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