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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.

  • Squid3-dev + snort issue

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    I have had those issues over the years with snort.  I have to make sure that my normal routine of sites my network goes to is added to whitelists.  I find these by going to blocked and finding the youtube IP's and then going to alerts and creating whitelist and then go back to clear that block from blocked tab.  Wished someone would make it not have to jump back and forth just do it in the BLOCKED area.

  • Snort not starting with simple custom rule

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    Thanks for this, now the rule works great :)

  • Clamav remote scan ?

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    what alternative would be better to Clamav ? It has to be free because the cloud storage i provide to a few other users is a free service for now and i really dont want to waste anymore money on it.?

    All my other users are windows and mac users so it has to scan for virus made for other systems aswell

  • HAVP missing files?

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    I will give it a try tomorrow. Thanks for the advice!

  • Dansguardian fix on 2.2

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    @Asterix:

    @Cino:

    thanks Asterix… I'll have to play around with my config then...

    What is the output when you run?

    ps -aux | grep dansguardian

    Also are you using amd64?

    I see the process started but I thought I would also see the config file its using..

    Yup on amd64. I switched back to 2.2 late last night. Won't be installing dans for now as I see progress on e2 package.

    I did a re-install of it and its working for me now… I'll have to test "web upload is banned" issue.. For what I'm using it, I don't think it will be an issue.

  • Uninstalling lightsquid Command line

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    use pbi_info to find the exact name and pbi_delete to remove it.

  • Squid3 not rotating logs

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    There is no /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/bin/squid.

    [2.1.5-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/var/squid/logs(10): ls /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/bin/squid* ls: No match.

    Since I restarted squid on 1/20, it rotated once at midnight on 1/21, then no more rotations.  The access.log is still growing and the proxy server works fine.

    With the root user, running:
    /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/sbin/squid -k rotate -f /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/etc/squid/squid.conf
    does not do anything.  No errors or anything.

    # /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/sbin/squid -k rotate -f /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/etc/squid/squid.conf #

    Notice no output above.

    # grep -i rotate /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/local/etc/squid/squid.conf grep: /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/local/etc/squid/squid.conf: No such file or directory # find / -name squid.conf -print /root/squid.conf /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/etc/squid/squid.conf # grep -i rotate /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/etc/squid/squid.conf logfile_rotate 7 debug_options rotate=7
  • Troubleshooting Squid and SquidGuard

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    @n3by:

    HAVP at this moment is not working on 2.2

    This package is not necessary anymore as squid does have a working clamav integration.

  • Squidguard-squid3-1.4_4-i386 failed after upgrade to 2.2

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    but Squidguard-Squid3 fails to install with the following message

    New SquidGuard runs on demand, not all the time.

  • Updates not possible if ipv6 is enabled

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    Having that same problem right now with the 2.2-RELEASE.

  • Pfblocker strange problem: out of memory, not loading rules

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    Although its been a while since your question, maybe its still useful to answer . I found somewhere on this forum that increasing Firewall Maximum Table Entries  (its under  system>advanced>Firewall/NAT) solves the problem of loading the blocking rules. Personally I increased it to 20000000 without problem but maybe even 1/10 of that is fine.

    John

  • TFTP module stops working every few days

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    This is one of those issues that just went away. We did a re-install a few months back after getting new hardware and I haven't had any trouble with it since then. Weird.

  • Question on using Bandwidthd

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    Posting in this thread even though it is old as it is the second one that pops up in a search.

    I had the same issue, finally realized you select the wan i/f and put the subnet/cidr address your wan is part of in the "Subnet" field.  Stop bandwidthd from running prior to the change.  It apparently only populates the lan side, at least when being used in a NAT configuration at least.

  • Snort 2.9.7.0 upgrade & install fails on pfSense 2.2

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    @BBcan177:

    @wiz561:

    Did you use a watchdog for snort?  I uninstalled that too and rebooted.  I'm not sure if the reboot fixed it, or if the uninstall of the watchdog service and reboot fixed it.

    I don't think the watchguard service is compatible with snort/suricata. If you have multiple interfaces it will restart them all. I also think it might try to restart the interfaces during "updates" of rules potentially causing duplicate pids.

    BBcan177 is correct.  Snort and Suricata do not play well with the Service Watchdog package at this time.  I have been considering some other options within the two packages themselves to provide the same heartbeat checkup as the Service Watchdog package.

    Bill

  • Quagga OSPF route gets deleted periodically

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    @jimp:

    No guarantees on the results, but you could try this patch with the System Patches package:

    http://files.pfsense.org/jimp/patches/skip_restart_for_routing_packages.patch

    Hi

    Will this patch work with 2.2-RELEASE ?

  • PFsense 2.2 squid 3.4.10_2 pkg 0.2.6

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    It take long time ,,, Thank Man its working now

  • Migrating postfix database logs to pfsense 2.2

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    Looks like I'm downgrading to 2.1 then.

    Thanks,

    Sam

  • SNMP NUT not working (Fixed in 2.2-Release)

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    This is fixed and working and 2.2 Release

  • New To Snort, Lots of False Positives

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    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

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    @Escorpiom:

    A standard hd install is with or without softupdates?

    Without…

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