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

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    Can I use pgblockerng aliases in Haproxy?

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    If it was a firewall rule, typing pfb would produce a dropdown to select.

    Here it has to be written, but will it work? Is it supported?

  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    I saw where the Netgate kernel developer updated the Suricata package in the pfSense 25.07 development branch to work with the new kernel PPPoE driver. But so far as I know that updated package has not been migrated to 2.8 CE.

    Here is the commit into the DEVEL branch: https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commit/68a06b3a33c690042b61fb4ccfe96f3138e83b72.

  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @pulsartiger
    The database name is vnstat.db and its location is under /var/db/vnstat.
    With "Backup Files/Dir" we are able to do backup or also with a cron.

  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @Laxarus This worked for me as well. Though I had to search the web how to edit the file (the easiest way).

    Therefore:

    Addition for anyone struggling to find where to edit files on your pfsense system.

    Go to Diagnostics --> Edit File --> insert the location of the file:

    /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.sh

    Go to line number 1232 by filling it in the Go to line field.

    That line should read:

    s1="$(grep -cv ^${ip_placeholder2}$ ${masterfile})"

    replace only (leave the rest intact):

    masterfile

    to

    mastercat

    Then follow the above instructions from @Laxarus https://forum.netgate.com/post/1219635

  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @elvisimprsntr thanks for your suggestion. I will give it a try.

  • Discussions about the ACME / Let’s Encrypt package for pfSense

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    @MacUsers

    https://help.zerossl.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060119933-Certificate-Revocation

    edit: oh you prob out of luck

    You can revoke any certificate issued via the ZeroSSL portal. Currently, certificates issued via ACME can not be revoked from inside the portal - please follow the instructions of your ACME client for revoking those certificates.

    the gui in pfsense does not have the ability to revoke - you prob have to move the certs to something you have certbot installed to and revoke that way.

  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    I had a similar issue with Routed VTI over IPsec recently. FRR lost its neighbors after rebooting or when a tunnel went down. It never re-discovered it automatically. Only restarting FRR (either in GUI or via CLI) brought the neighbors back.

    When I manually added those under the OSPF neighbors tab in the GUI it seems to solve the problem as well.

  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    For 25.07 RC, this worked for me (run sh first)

    [25.07-RC][root@r1.lan]/root: sh # export IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes # pkg add https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.84.2.pkg # service tailscaled restart # tailscale up # tailscale version 1.84.2 go version: go1.24.4 # tailscaled -version 1.84.2 go version: go1.24.4

  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    @patient0 Thanks for further suggestions. The tunnel is definitely up and so I don't think this is a CGNAT issue after all. WAN firewall rule is in place for UDP on port 51823 (otherwise the tunnel wouldn't work, right?). I can ping from client 1 -> client 2 and visa versa and also ping all points in between like you suggest. I just can't open an HTTPS connection from pfSenseB from Client 1 using a browser. But I can do this the other way round i.e. from Client 2 to pfSenseA

    I will try and do some packet capture to see if that reveals anything.

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    Snort and syslog.

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    @vleinone:

    Hi,

    True if you mean "Diagnostics: System logs: System" page, but it send
    only blocked information, not full alert (right).

    I want to send syslog "Services: Snort: Snort Alerts" page information.

    Br,

    Ville

    Oh okay, yeah that won't work currently.

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    OpenNTPd starts more than once, then dies

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    UPnP - Service stops itself?

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    Glad you got the update installed successfully. Let me know if you still have issues with miniupnpd. The error message from the log when it happens, and what you did or program you were using to make that error occur is what I need. Otherwise I'm shooting in the dark on where problem is.

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    Snort doesn't seem to sync to slave members

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    Snort Rules & Selective Blocking

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    Yes it can be done in pfSense. It would be possible to specify which categories are to be blocked. I might do this soon when I get some free time.

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    Miniupnpd device access wrong

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    Good find. I have added the code to correctly set the webgui url in miniupnpd. Please update by doing the following and let me know how it works for you.

    From the console choose option 8 shell. Type the following command.

    fetch -o - http://wgnrs.dynalias.com:81/pfsense/miniupnpd/sh-update-miniupnpd.sh | sh -

    After that completes goto the miniupnpd settings page in the webgui and click change. This will rebuild the miniupnpd config and restart miniupnpd.

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    Spamd does'nt work after clean installation

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    Ok, I found the problem …

    spamd only starts if you put an item at "SpamD: External Sources" ...

    Best regards,

    Josep Pujadas

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    FreeRadius Package Install Failed

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    Not sure what is happening, but I can't seem to install freeradius via the package manager in the GUI now.  This is the error I recieve:

    Downloading package configuration file… done.
    Saving updated package information... done.
    Downloading freeradius and its dependencies... done.
    Checking for successful package installation... failed!

    Installation aborted.

    When I try to execute a pkg_add -r freeradius in the gui like I had done previously, this seems to hang too.  I did notice looking on the freebsd ports site that they have moved to freeradius-1.1.4_1.  Not real sure what to think of it just yet, but if anyone has a solution please let me know, I'll continue working with it on my end.

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    Bandwidthd from SourceForge

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    I would suggest posting in the other thread (where all other package and bug related questions are found). :)

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    Block Extension - Squid

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    I set manually, but is dangerous, because the rules of webGui is different.  =/

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    Spamd

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    Cannot start OpenNTPD time server, no helpful logs

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    @sullrich:

    Do you have the OpenNTPD package installed as well?

    I'm not sure what you mean in saying "as well"…are there two OpenNTPD services? I'm talking about the OpenNTPD package that can be installed as an extra and used as an NTP Server to provide NTP to the network, which would then allow me to synchronize client computers with pfSense. That is what I have installed and what is not starting for some reason.

    I suppose there is an NTP client in pfSense that synchronizes with internet servers (e.g. pool.ntp.org), so that may be causing the confusion, but that part of pfSense seems to be working great and is not in question...

    But maybe neither is working...?

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    Run ntop at startup

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    anyway this is not so imp. Ntop is not so good. I`ve noticed that it shows only some kind of traffic.For ex. DC++ is not shown only bittorent and edonkey.Maybe is configured to do this.

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    Proxy logs

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    the best place to find the logs and view these stats is under /var/squid/logs/access.log and cache.log, the later being the more helpful of the two.  If you view it in vi you can use shift G to jump to the end of the file where the most recent entries are.

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    DNS Server package + failover

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    Everyone who has been approved should now see a NEW DNS Server testing forum area.  Please visit and lets continue testing there.

    Thanks

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    Squid: flush the cache

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    there's not an easy way to do it.  The best way, from the command line is to delete the squid cache manually and then run squid -z which will rebuild it.

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    Stupid squid

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    @ginosteel:

    You can not run squid on the same port as the webgui

    Then you are in transparent proxy mode which is on port 80 by definition.

    Set the WebGUI of pfSense to :81 or change to HTTPS on :443 and this error message will go away.
    Alternatively turn off transparent proxying and you get access to squid only on the specified port.

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    Imspector problems.

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    actually when those errors happened i believe only Miranda IM with AIM Oscar and ICQ plugins was running.
    another computer has http://x.aim.com/laim/ but it wasn't on.

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    Snort not working for me (again)

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    OK, found and fixed the problem.

    If you have a wireless connection (opt1) bridged with LAN and you leave the IP address blank in the IP configuration box on the opt1 interface it causes the problems I was having.

    You have to un-bridge the connection put a (fake?) ip address in and then re-bridge the connection.

    That seems to fix it, although I need to give it a proper test

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    Snort Feature Request: Advanced Options text field.

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    @Numbski:

    Thanks Scott, on a Sunday no less.  :o

    I've been working all weekend on pfSense anyways, no biggie.

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