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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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    We have a very basic configuration between three locations. All are running Netgate firewalls (1x 4100, 1x 6100 & 1x 4200). All are on the latest firmware (03.00.00.01-2Ct-uc-15) and system versions (24.11-RELEASE).

    The local subnets are as follows:
    4100 - 192.168.5.0/24
    4200 - 192.168.4.0/24
    6100 - 192.168.1.0/24

    The VPN traffic between the 4100 and 4200 is functioning 100% as expected

    The traffic between 6100 and the 4100 works going from the 4100 subnet (192.168.5.0/24) to the 6100 subnet (192.168.1.0/24)

    Traffic from the firewall (i.e. the 6100 device) to the 4100 subnet works (i.e. I can ping any device on the 192.168.5.0/24 subnet from the 6100 firewall) but I cannot ping any device on the 4100 (192.168.5.0/24) subnet from any device on the 6100 subnet (192.168.1.0/24) - other than from the firewall itself.

    All routes are correct, but it seems that traffic from the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet hits the firewall and then gets lost - traceroute shows that it goes off into the internet.

    Note too that the 6100 has IPsec VPN configured on it as well

    Suggestions would be appreciated

    Attached is a zipped pdf file with the relevant screenshots
    Relevant screen shots.zip

  • 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.

  • Wake On LAN works but CRON command fails

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    @Gertjan

    Thanks for all of your help with this issue. I'm unsure why yours is working when you use the actual ip address of your server in CRON, but mine is not.

    Because of what I saw in the packet capture, I decided to imitate what the GUI is doing. I changed the command in CRON to:

    /usr/local/bin/wol -i 192.168.2.255 bc:ee:7b:db:fc:f4

    The above command works in CRON to wake up my server. From what you said, I'm guessing this is because "192.168.2.255" is the "broadcast address" of the LAN interface of the $(bcip) as described in your post.

    /usr/local/bin/wol -i 192.168.2.4 bc:ee:7b:db:fc:f4

    The original command above did nothing and didn't even show up in "packet capture" until after the server was already up and running, then I would get something similar to what you got in your packet capture in your screenshot above, as you can see from my previous post. However, the command with the actual ip address reserved for my server in Pfsense fails to wake-on-lan my server, but 192.168.2.255 does work.

    Thanks for all of your advice and help which resulted in changing "4" to "255" and now it works.

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    It's relevant for me too, thank you for explanation

  • 2.6->2.7 PHP Error in status_traffic_totals

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    That error was probably from when the package was being removed. That particular error has been fixed in the 2.7.0 package for quite a long time:

    https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13775

  • [SOLVED] Unable to Install or Upgrade Packages

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    Just wanted to post as I ran into this issue today. I was able to fix this by submitting a TAC ticket with my NDI and SN. The team found a mismatch in their database to which they fixed, and I was able to update all my packages.

  • telegraf / influxdb | Upgrade to 2.7 issues

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  • Is something wrong with arpwatch?

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    @NogBadTheBad

    I just did that and it stopped, and i think I know why. Those cams use L2 for discovery.

    Thank you very much!

  • Where are the configurations of the various packages?

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    @darkcorner

    You said in the other thread :

    @darkcorner said in Network access blocked after update:

    that I now have to configure from scratch..

    That's a 'noop' ;)

    When you remove all ('big') packages before upgrading, the upgrade process goes much faster.
    When you have a copy of that config.xml file, right after the upgrade and reboot, you should import config.
    All packages that are marked as "installed and configured" in the config file will get downloaded, installed and configured.
    A final reboot and you're ok.
    Nothing to reconfigure - with the exception : if there are new options, you should check these packages and make your config choices.

  • radtest not found / Problems with FreeRadius

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    @abuttino said in radtest not found / Problems with FreeRadius:

    grr, was using the wrong pfSense server.

    not sure why that should matter running the pkg command, I could see it not having freerad installed as to why radtest not there. But the pkg command? Maybe that just generic sort of error since that pfsense didn't actually have the radtest file because freerad was not installed.

  • LCDProc (/dev/cua1) failed (No such file or directory)

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    @elvisimprsntr said in LCDProc (/dev/cua1) failed (No such file or directory):

    @sebr

    Looks like the Peplink Balance series LCD displays have the ST7066U (or compatible) LCD controller.

    http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/hardware.php3

    Screenshot 2023-05-27 at 10.55.49 AM.png

    Is there a /dev/lpt0 port listed?

    If so, you might try the following:

    Com port: (/dev/lpt0) Driver: HD44780 and compatible Connection type: Likely 4bit or 8bit, but try each until you find one that works.

    If not, then it might be connected to a serializer chip, thus /dev/cua*

    Thanks for your help, I'll go back and test this.

  • FreeRadius with Windows Active Directory

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    @Gertjan said in FreeRadius with Windows Active Directory:

    You are using "PAP authentication" ?

    Should FreeRadius work with Active Direcroty throught NPS Radius or as LDAP autorization? i think it work as LDAP, as there are Base DN Filter and Base Filter attributes. i have configured in pfsense LDAP authentification to web page and there are also Base DN attributes thats why i think it works not throught NPS.
    Here is my LDAP web authentification

    Spoiler

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  • Snort is blocking gmail attachment download randomly.

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    Find the rule that is false-positive triggering on your Gmail downloads and disable it. To do that you will need to cross-reference IP addresses in your alerts shown on the ALERTS tab.

    None of the alerts you are showing in your screenshot appear relevant to Gmail.

  • ntopng errors in system log

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    Sorry, i have the same issue. Any fresh ideas?

  • System Patches package version 2.2.5

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    Any further questions about the change in 2.2.6 should go over in the new thread:

    https://forum.netgate.com/topic/182725/system-patches-package-version-2-2-6

  • System Patches package version 2.2.6

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  • Zabbix Agent 2 - Monitor pfSense CPU Temperature

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  • HAproxy-devel issue

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    I know this is an old thread, but it is the only one that matches the issues I have had over past 2 days.

    I have latest version fully updated pfsense and packages.

    I was running HAProxy Devel. Again fully up to date (as of 06/09/2023), given dates as I am unsure what versions.

    All of a sudden our RDS users were not able to open applications. In our setup we have a RDS Gateway, people log into the HTML5 interface for RDS, then they open an app in browser. Accessing and loggining into the HTML5 interface worked fine and always worked, even with fully updated.

    But when you tried to open an app, it would fail to open. After messing about for a bit, I accidently forwarded 443 to the RDS gateway, and everything was working. Once I learnt this, I had to put 443 back to HAProxy as our intranet was no longer working. WIth this information, I knew it was something to do with HAProxy not handling the connection correctly.

    So I uninstalled HAProxy Devel, and installed HAProxy package 0.63_1.

    Now everything is working perfectly as it has been for years.

    I know its been some time since this thread was made, but what ever that problem ended up being, its happening again. Something is wrong with HAProxy Devel.

  • I did not install these packages

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    @pV5 those are the extra packages that pfsense + gets.. Yeah they would be there by default

  • DNS Error updating packages

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  • HAProxy broke after update to pfs 22.05

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    i had this issue, solved it after changing "httpforclose" to "httpclose" as the new version doesn't support that old config var, perhaps dev can do some some parsing magic? lucky the error code lead me to this

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