Subcategories

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

    4k Topics
    21k Posts
    F
    @JonathanLee @JonathanLee said in Squidguard problem after upgrading from version 2.7.2 to version 2.8.0: you could always turn off save settings on squid and squid guard and delete the package and reinstall I tried this and it still doesn't work. Unfortunately, I think I'll have to reinstall. I want to download the pfsense 2.8.0 installation file But it seems that it has changed because it requires registration and a network connection during installation Is there a way to download and install version 2.8.0 without registration Like in previous versions ??
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

    2k Topics
    16k Posts
    M
    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.

    571 Topics
    3k Posts
    dennypageD
    @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

    3k Topics
    20k Posts
    keyserK
    @jrey said in pfBlockerNG syslog logentries to remote SIEM: @keyser I so want to answer this, but then at the same time (no I don't) ... pfblocker using syslog messaging in real time. no tailing of files, no other packages, just code. Huuuh? That seems very very interesting I noticed your name in other posts around the forum where you seemed to be QUITE proficient at coding/developing. Are you by any chance considering involvement in developing and refining the pfBlockerNG package? It would be SO great if you are looking into adding native syslog to the pfBlockerNG package - or an easy workaround that does not require additional packages and “temporary” edits in files that does not survive service restarts or pfSense updates. Here’s that you will fill me/us in on the solution you are using to your Greylog - please, pretty please with sugar on top
  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

    101 Topics
    2k Posts
    dennypageD
    @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

    496 Topics
    3k Posts
    R
    @provels said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: This same mess happened to me, even w/o Acme, going from 25.07 to *.1. Blew, reinstalled w/ Crowdsec, blew again, reinstalled, clipped all the Crowdsec info from config.xml, restored config, back to normal. Crowdsec is a great concept, but I think I'm out. I never had this issue with Crowdec before the ACME update, even with updating from 2.7 to 2.8 there was no issues. In fact after restoring from a backup after the ACME update, Crowdsec reinstalled just fine, and this was before the recent release a couple days ago that contained a fix.
  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

    294 Topics
    1k Posts
    yon 0Y
    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

    90 Topics
    606 Posts
    M
    @yobyot I've SSHed into pfsense and for the sake of testing I've simply run the command: tailscale up --auth-key=tskey-client-kQ_THE_REST_IS_A_SECRET\?preauthorized=true\&ephemeral=false --accept-dns=false --accept-routes --advertise-exit-node --advertise-routes=X.X.X.X/24 --advertise-tags=tag:pfsense Note the preauthorized=true and ephemeral=false I gave this key all permissions (temporarly as I just wanted to verify it's working) of course I had to register the tag used also in the ACL tags pane: https://login.tailscale.com/admin/acls/visual/tags so far so good
  • Discussions about WireGuard

    697 Topics
    4k Posts
    lvrmscL
    I took some days before reporting again... Since then I installed: 25.07.1-RELEASE (amd64) built on Fri Aug 15 20:42:00 CEST 2025, and the issue re-appeared but did not (yet) clear by itself. Wireguard works well, that system has only one tunnel with another site, using interface assigned mode. I depend on it, and it works flawlessly. Yet the wireguard configuration page, its status page as well as the services widget on the dashboard, all report the Wireguard service as stopped, with the usual icon to start it. On the dashboard the gateways widget shows Pending for the IPv4 and IPv6 wireguard gateways. On the other hand, and it is logical as the packets do flow through the tunnel, the Wireguard widget on the dashboard shows the tunnel up with traffic. To be complete, the watchdog service, if wireguard is configured there, spend its life at detecting wireguard stopped and attempting to start it, which does not work. The other side of the tunnel is still on 25.07-RELEASE (amd64). I'm reluctant to upgrade that side too, with fear to loose the wireguard tunnel altogether. Aren't there any logs from that wireguard package? I can't find anything of that kind.
  • Migrating postfix database logs to pfsense 2.2

    4
    0 Votes
    4 Posts
    1k Views
    S
    Looks like I'm downgrading to 2.1 then. Thanks, Sam
  • SNMP NUT not working (Fixed in 2.2-Release)

    10
    0 Votes
    10 Posts
    2k Views
    V
    This is fixed and working and 2.2 Release
  • New To Snort, Lots of False Positives

    2
    0 Votes
    2 Posts
    2k Views
    BBcan177B
    Take a look at these threads: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=64674.0 https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=78062.0‎
  • Squid slows certain webpages

    10
    0 Votes
    10 Posts
    2k Views
    marcellocM
    @Escorpiom: A standard hd install is with or without softupdates? Without…
  • Re: 2.2-RELEASE now available!

    2
    0 Votes
    2 Posts
    585 Views
    jimpJ
    Not that I'm aware of
  • Urgent Issue : BANDWIDTHD failed to boot up pfSense

    8
    0 Votes
    8 Posts
    3k Views
    W
    Same here, new install, bandwidthd error. Installed the 2.2 upgrade on another machine and it got hosed, won't reboot…. ugh.
  • Snort fails on 2.2

    5
    0 Votes
    5 Posts
    2k Views
    W
    Yup, I just rebooted and reinstalled and it installed fine.  It also started snort fine too. Thanks!
  • Upgraded to Squid3-dev, now traffic is being blocked

    2
    0 Votes
    2 Posts
    814 Views
    marcellocM
    What you get on access.log and cache.log? Setup looks fine… ... acl safeports port 21 70 80 210 280 443 488 563 591 631 777 901 2083 3128 3127 1025-65535 21-65535 acl allowed_subnets src 192.168.1.0/24 http_access allow allowed_subnets http_access allow localnet
  • 0 Votes
    9 Posts
    5k Views
    B
    I am going to have to give up and accept that I have to get a more powerful system to do this.  I tried reducing the size of the shallalist.tar.gz to only what I want.  But for some reason, while it appears that the databases are being updated, they apparently are not as the blacklist.files file does not exist as it should per this log entry. klist_update.sh: The command '/bin/cp -f -p /tmp/squidGuard/arcdb/blacklist.files /usr/pbi/squidguard-i386/etc/squidGuard' returned exit code '1', the output was 'cp: /u6/etc/squidGuard/blacklist.files: Read-only file system' I also do not appear to be able to hack the config files to make it work.  You guys did too good of a job at securing this thing down. Thank you for your help.  At least now I know.
  • Updating to snort 3.9.7/3.2.2 breaks snort

    6
    0 Votes
    6 Posts
    1k Views
    bmeeksB
    @lshiry: … I found a workaround for this by killing the process "/bin/sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/snort.sh start", which returns to the install script so it can complete the rest of its tasks.  After that, snort was in the services menu.  It was not started, but at least I can manage it now.  Thanks for the help, got me looking in the right direction.  Perhaps a fix for this would be to implement some sort of keepalive in the install php page, or background the service start step so it can complete. Thanks for the information on how you solved it.  Something got hung up in that sub-process on your box.  You are not the only one to experience the issue, but the number who have is quite low (maybe 3 or 4 that I can recall).  The install process calls a system function to execute that shell script.  I will look into it some more. Thanks, Bill
  • Sarg Stops After 10 Minutes

    7
    0 Votes
    7 Posts
    1k Views
    marcellocM
    what squid version are you using?
  • Snort: log: VLAN message on LAN?

    5
    0 Votes
    5 Posts
    1k Views
    M
    @bmeeks: No, the Promiscuous Mode feature has been in Snort since the beginning.  It is something the underlying binary controls and not the GUI package.  Since you say you have done a complete fresh install from the ground up, are you absolutely positive that all the pfSense settings are exactly the same as before?  Was perhaps your VLAN formerly associated with a different interface? Bill Thank you Bill  ;D No, it is completely 100% the same. I meticulously created screenshots of all settings, and setup everything again, fresh, by hand according to these screenshots :-[
  • SquidGuard 1.9.10 problem

    9
    0 Votes
    9 Posts
    2k Views
    D
    @KOM: Just curious, but why do you need to stop it?  Just disable it. +1 SquidGuard may be only disabled. Otherwise Squid will crash.
  • Bandwidthd problem

    48
    0 Votes
    48 Posts
    50k Views
    T
    Edit: found info on 2.2 problems here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=84642.0
  • [Resolved] pfBlocker logs?

    2
    0 Votes
    2 Posts
    2k Views
    B
    Nevermind, I think I found what I'm looking for. Under status->system logs->firewall I can see all blocked connections. I'm not 100% sure I'm seeing pfBlocker kills here, but I think I am because I'm seeing some blocks on outbound connection attempts to Netherlands (a country I blocked) (no, I don't have kazy, it's a damn Kaspersky IP).
  • Package for daily and montly traffic

    8
    0 Votes
    8 Posts
    1k Views
    KOMK
    Is it better to put the tracking to the VLAN or the WAN Interface? That depend on what it is you're trying to measure.  Total bandwidth in/out would require WAN if you have multiple vLANs.  If you have just the one vLAN and no others then I suspect it doesn't make any difference.  It's just adding up all bytes going in/out of the specified interface.
  • Ha proxy-devel client certificates optional

    2
    0 Votes
    2 Posts
    703 Views
    P
    When creating this i choose to do it like this and allow for using acl's like 'SSL client certificate valid.' to be used for selecting the normal backend, or redirecting to a custom 'error' backend. Ill have to re-check if it actually works like i intended (i don't actually use it myself).. It does seem that i forgot to implement the 'none' option which can be selected for a , which i intended to allow for switching between 'optional' and 'required'. Thanks for your sharing your opinion and experience with haproxy-devel, it will take me a while before i get to this though. Put your item on my list of items to check/improve. Thanks.
  • Squid 3 Reverse Proxy Help

    4
    0 Votes
    4 Posts
    1k Views
    J
    I've had issues with reverse proxy (which typically publishes internal servers over HTTP and HTTPS ports 80 and 443) when the web configurator itself is also listening on one of those ports. Nowadays, I change the port the pfSense web configurator listens to as a rule of thumb - anything really as long as it's not 80 or 443. You could try that and see if it helps? Refer to "TCP port" under System | Advanced menu on where to change it. Remember that you would then need to specify that port number in the URL in your browser to access the pfSense web configurator. Also, have a look at the "DNS Rebind Check" option (also under the System | Advanced menu).
  • TFTP Server

    1
    0 Votes
    1 Posts
    740 Views
    No one has replied
  • 0 Votes
    2 Posts
    2k Views
    KOMK
    I just went through this same exercise a few weeks ago.  Nice job.  The only things I would suggest would be for you to clean up some of the inconsistencies.  For example, it's pfSense, not pfsense or PFsense.  Facebook, not facebook.  HTTPS, not HTTPs.  Squid, not SQUID.  SquidGuard, not SQUID Guard.  WPAD, not Wpad.  Prerequisites ordered list has unbold #2.  Your guide would be more universal if you didn't assume that they had an AD network.  I might instead host the WPAD file on pfSense itself as per their guide: WPAD Autoconfigure for Squid Good job, though.
Copyright 2025 Rubicon Communications LLC (Netgate). All rights reserved.