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

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    @firefox I don’t think so, to be honest with you I am on an older version also. Just make sure you do the patch package and install all the system patches.
  • 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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    @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

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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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    @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

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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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    @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

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    Same here. It started after I installed 25.07. Then it settled down by itself after a few days. It started again after upgrading to 25.07.1. WireGuard works fine (it merely connects to the remote site from this one). However, I am refraining from upgrading the remote, because if the 'service' does not start, I fear it will not listen to incoming connections, which would leave me in a difficult situation. The other topic I had opened before finding this: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/198449/25.07-release-amd64-wireguard-service-reported-stopped-yet-tunnel-trafic-clearly-is-ok
  • Too many tcp_swapfail_miss

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    so whats the problem  ??? i clear cache , swap-state , nothing help and i think it cause some delay in browsing
  • Snort package doesn't shows up on the available package list

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    Hi.. I right now already uninstalled and uncheck the save config after deinstalled and then reinstalled snort fresh… but it shows the same error when i try to start it... anyway that I need to search all snort config file and delete manually by using the ssh? thanks..
  • Snort vs Suricata

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    @Heli0s: Thanks for all of your responses! Out of curiosity, what packages do you personally use (Snort or Suricata) and what rulesets do you use (Snort VRT or ET)? Just because it is what I originally started with, I'm still using Snort on my home firewall.  I have a paid VRT subscription (the $29.95/year version) and so use those rules.  I also use some of the ET-Open (free) rules.  I run the IPS Balanced Security Policy on my LAN along with some of the ET Trojan and Malware rules.  On the WAN side, just so I have something to observe working, I run some of the ET drop rules for suspicious IPs (ET CINS, ET DROP, etc.).  I don't really need those ET rules on the WAN, but I loaded them just to watch the activity and to help me test things when I do package updates. Bill
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    I solved the problem. I have the version 2.1.5 . On BlackList tab - > Restore default- > Download, on General Settings  tab Apply and voila !!!! The categories of BL are there again !!! Good luck!!!!!!!!1
  • [SOLVED] Firewall/NAT setting breaks Radius

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  • Ntopng error showing in syslog on 2.2 10/10/14

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    Copy the .dat files to /usr/pbi/ntopng-amd64/local/share/ntopng/httpdocs/geoip instead of the path listed in the error message.  Something like: pushd  /usr/pbi/ntopng-amd64/local/share/ntopng/httpdocs mkdir geoip cp -vp /root/*dat ./geoip/ The geoip stuff works for me after that.  Note you will have to do this after every package reinstall or pfSense update. I also noticed the two methods for setting the password don't play nice together (ntopng gui 'manage users' vs pfsense 'ntopng settings').  Actually there's a third method too, via the console: http://blog.redbranch.net/2013/12/12/reset-ntopng-admin-password/
  • Snort - not starting anymore

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    I have AC-BNFA-NQ as standard.. "The rules update process will only restart Snort if it is detected as running during the update process." That's what I expected, therefore I controlled this box some minutes ago, but all three snort-interfaces were up and running, strange indeed…
  • Lightsquid mac address

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    Ok, thank you for answer
  • Squid on 2.1.5 not installing

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    In the future, with a botched for some reason squid, try: squid -k shutdown cd /var/squid/cache rm -rf * squid -z Then reboot and reinstall squid package.
  • Configuring HAproxy

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    I'm afraid there are no guides for the pfSense haProxy gui that are really usefull.. Anyway you should really consider using the haproxy 1.5 package. It has way more options than all 1.4 packages combined.. If you find a bug, (there aren't any critical left that i know of), let me know.. Create 1 backend for the 2 servers. Then create 1 frontend to listen on the desired port, and use the backend, and it should already start working.. Enable checking on the backend to have haproxy actually perform checks, and activate stats to see if backends are seen as 'up'. That should basically be enough to get started.
  • Snort 2.9.6.2 pkg v3.1.4 – Bug Fix Update Release Notes

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    @Hollander: Thanks Bill  ;D ps -ax came back empty, and the directory is gone too: both good. CPU is normal at 4% now. I just tried again: install Snort: CPU back to 100% due to fetch. I know that if you say it isn't Snort then it isn't Snort, yet it's a weird coincident that keeps on repeating itself. So I had to uninstall Snort again. I am eagerly awaiting until JFL will find the time to write the SuricataTutorialNG (NG = BB ;D ), so I can try to replace Snort with Suricata. You have something wrong in your configuration someplace.  I don't know what it may be, though.  I have never seen that behavior with any of VM testing over the last two years.  Are you using IPv4 or IPv6 addresses? Bill
  • Snort can't download Snort VRT Rules [solved]

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    @ypmict: Hi… I am also facing this problem, I am using : pfsense 2.0.1 snort 2.9.6.2 pkg v3.1.4 (using the free oinkcode) the error log says : Starting rules update...  Time: 2014-11-10 10:33:28 Downloading Snort VRT rules md5 file snortrules-snapshot-2923.tar.gz.md5... Snort VRT rules md5 download failed. Server returned error code 422. Server error message was: Snort VRT rules will not be updated. ...anyone know what the problem is? I also try to register different account for oinkcode.. but still shows error... thanks Snort is no longer supported on pfSense versions older than 2.1.  You say you are running 2.0.1, so Snort is now broken and unsupported on that version.  You should upgrade your pfSense to version 2.1.5. Bill
  • Squid Not Sharing Cache Between Clients

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    SoloamS
    Any one haves any idea? Thank you Best Regards
  • Squid does not cache large files

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  • Squid not generating Access.log

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    Hi there, /var/squid/logs/access.log exists. But the problem is that I cannot generate reports please see the images below for more information [image: 2.png_thumb] [image: 2.png] [image: 1.png_thumb] [image: 1.png]
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    Thank you Bill, it seems that reverting the pfSense conf to the previous one before Snort update solved the problem: pfSense reinstalled all the packages (including Snort but omitting NUT!) and all seems working now. Strange thing the failed reinstall of the NUT package: my machine is not "messed up" with a lot of configurations or packages. The log said "unable to reinstall nut, take appropriate action". I simply reinstalled the NUT package and the configuration was there! Edit: now pfSense is dropping the PPPoE connection approximately every 30 minutes :(
  • PfBlocker Lists

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    You can try this too : https://www.countryipblocks.net/country_selection.php Altho it offers a false sense of security; your malware these days will come from G5 hosting compagnies or amazonaws, cloudfront, cloudflare…etc.... F.
  • Squid with diskd won't start

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    this config ran for about a week, then the same "out of space' error occurred again. something is screwy with diskd vs freebsd for now ive gone back to the ufs option, but im sure i will be inspired to fiddle again soon
  • Cron problem swap.state

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    Thanks! Best regards
  • Squid3-dev new update

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    Thanks man
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