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

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    @JonathanLee Will there be any problems if I stay with version 2.7.2?
  • 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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    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.
  • SQUID and ActiveDirectory problem

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  • I can not find Lightsquid! Help guys …

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    It's not included in the package list used for the embedded images because of the writes needed to the CF card. Although i would have liked an option like "thanks for the warning, but install anyway". :)
  • Bandwidthd on cf-card? will it destroy my cf-card?

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  • Asterisk behind pfsense (no sound)

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    @marcelloc: Great news!!!  :) Some dsl routers has a 'sip Alg' option that break out sip comunication. I have no idea why. Maybe you have something like that on you network. Nope not here… I have cable... :) but its all resolved now.
  • Have you tried this?

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    Informative!I really appreciated it. I dont have any idea 'bout the sessions or caching sessions.I think should go deep on this. At least I know its possible,enough for now. Thanks for the help.
  • Unbound error

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    You might also try looking for an error along the lines of BAD-TRAFFIC TMG Firewall Client long host entry exploit. That message is triggered by a bad traffic rule that looks for odd traffic on port 53, which happens to be DNS. If you have a lot of these in your alerts of blocked log, chances are that some or all DNS replies are being blocked by snort.
  • FreeRadius replication

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    Varnish, postifix, haproxy. You do not need carp enabled to use it.
  • Squid and AD authentication

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  • Snort install errors - pulling my hair out!

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    emerging threats rules change all the time so if you enable a rule and later update the rule set there is always the possibility that you are attempting to load a rule that no longer exists in emerging threats. That will give you your error.
  • [Help] Unable to make imspector work on PFSense 2.0-Release

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    Dear all, I figure out that the Y!M version 10.0.27 didn't use the default port 5050. After i update Y!M to another version, it use port 5050 and seem to be OK with imspector. Thread close, thanks all
  • SQUID on DUAL WAN only use DEFAULT

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    Yes, you have to balance the web traffic from the localhost instead of the traffic for you lan clients.
  • Problems with apcupsd and/or nut

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    libwrap.so.6 is not part of a package, its part of FreeBSD. It appears the package you are attempting to use is newer then FreeBSD 7.0-Release, which 1.2.3 is based off of. ls -al /usr/lib/libwrap.* will show you what files you have. You probably have libwrap.so.5 Using ln -s, you may be able to link libwrap.so.6 to libwrap.so.5, and it may work. But it may also not work / melt your box / kill your cat… Otherwise, try installing the package for a 7.x variant (not sure when libwrap.so.6 was introduced)
  • Jail on pfsense 2.0

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    thanks for you reply. ezjail is working much better then pfjctrl. If you are doing patches, means that you know what you are doing. backup your vm's, uninstall pfjctrl and install ezjail. ezjail-admin will help you creating new virtual machines with freebsd 8.1. follow ezjail build steps on a freebsd 8.1-p4 and you will have same version on pfsense and jails. As pfsense2 has been release there is no problem on migrating pfjctrl to ezail. I'll try to start it soon.
  • Varnish for multiple CARP IP Interfaces distinct from WAN IP address

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    Today the package listens on all interfaces at port you specified. To have multiple varnish, you can copy conf file and put a second daemon startup at gui advanced startup option. When using multiple varnish, you will need to name each one with -n arg. sample advanced startup options -n apache #set name on default daemon #startup second daemon /usr/local/sbin/varnishd \     -a :3129 \     -n squid \     -f /var/etc/squid.vcl \     -s malloc,2048MB \     -w 32,1024,300 I will find a way to change setup To let you choose interface and auto name them. Wait for pkg v 0.9. Thanks for your reply.
  • SNORT issues in BRIDGE and VLAN'ed Environment

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  • Snort Problems Again !!!

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    Snort is working great here. 2.0 Release 64bit All pre-processors on Lots of rules enabled. Works after reboot. 2gb on a vnware vm. I did have to follow other posts by uninstalling/reinstalling to get it running the first time when we were in the RC stage.  Also if I had known so rules were only 64 bit, I would have installed 32 bit pfsense.
  • OVPN Client Export installer error

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    Apparently this is a recent issue.  There is a fix over here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41180.0.html For those who dont feel like reading the thread (Please DO though– and COMMENT so that it gets fixed :D ), or for those from google: @gusdvg: Ok so I added an error handler to the openvpn-client-export.inc file such that warnings are not printed to the exe. Tried and it works again! If you want to try this, edit /usr/local/pkg/openvpn-client-export.inc and add these lines after the require_once lines at the beginning of the file: function ignoreError($errno, $errstr) {   //does nothing... } set_error_handler("ignoreError",E_WARNING); I guess the problem still remains if you need to add additional options, but I have little time at the moment and this patch will do for now.
  • Snort on pfSense packet flow

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    @marcelloc: Pfsense rules are set on source interface. The rule with destination To blacklist must be on lan. I set the rules up on the appropriate interfaces based on source and destination IP, but Snort sees (and then blocks) offenders that should be covered by these rules. The rule covering destination to blacklist is on the LAN interface. The rule covering source from blacklist is on the WAN interface. Still, Snort sees and blocks traffic covered by these rules. I still have these questions: Perhaps someone can clarify both the Snort alerting on hosts blocked by a firewall rule (Snort gets the packets first?), and Snort behavior in pfSense when a Blacklist and a Whitelist host are both involved in an alert.
  • Ipblocklist blocking 0 networks-syslog error

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  • POP3 Filter

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    No, only for internal smtp servers. I think pop3 protocol is getting quite old. I'd prefer IMAP. Pop3 wastes bandwidth even using p3scan or other tool, you need to download all messages to then see if you want it or not. You can build a virtual machine an try to install freebsd p3scan package. if it works as you expect install on your firewall.
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