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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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    bmeeksB

    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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    @AlexK-0 said in Can't receive GeoIP databases updates anymore, banned:

    Days ago, I received from MaxMind an email, notifying me that my country has been banned to receive GeoLite City database updates.

    You've found a reason to use a VPN.

  • 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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    @fxandrei Found this thread via Google. And I figured out what OP did, so here's the explanation:

    In the pfSense webpage do:

    Click on "Services" Select "Acme Certificates" Edit any of your certificate entries by clicking on the pencil icon. Scroll to the bottom of the certificate edit page and find the "Actions list" section. Click on "Add" to add a new action and fill out the information as needed. For HAProxy restarting do: Mode: Enabled Command: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/haproxy.sh restart Method: Shell Command And finally "Save" at the bottom of the cert edit page.

    As far as I can tell, the above action seems to propagate to all certificates that I have, not just a single one. I am not sure if this is just a visual bug, but just something to be aware of.

    I haven't been able to confirm if the above works(mine just renewed, don't feel like doing it again just to test), so we'll see in 60 days I guess.

    Hopefully this helps you and anyone else that finds this thread via searching.

  • 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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    Hello,
    I am unable to get the Tailscale package to work. The page at VPN > Tailscale > Authentication is stuck. It displays the error "Tailscale is not online," but also shows a "Logout and Clean" button, with no option to log in.
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    This state persists even after performing the following troubleshooting steps:

    Rebooting the pfSense router.

    Completely uninstalling and reinstalling the Tailscale package multiple times.

    Clearing browser cache and using a private browser window.

    Toggling the main "Enable Tailscale" checkbox in the settings.

    Checking the logs, which show the service gets a "terminate" signal and shuts down cleanly; it does not crash.

    Manually trying to delete the state file with rm /var/db/tailscale/tailscaled.state, which failed because the file does not exist.

    It appears that the package's configuration is corrupted in a way that persists even after reinstallation. Can anyone advise on how to perform a complete manual cleanup of all Tailscale files and settings?

  • 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.

  • XML Extension not found *error*

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  • Snort alert not reproducable

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    @digidax:

    So, after sniffing with tcpdump I can reproduce the problem now:
    There is a bug in the IMAP preprocessor during handling TLS communication:
    http://seclists.org/snort/2013/q3/453
    Is there a bug tracker where I can see the status of this reported bug?

    I my case, User 1 has a bad DSL-Line. If during the TLS session snort gets a hiccup, the mail server gets a broken TLS login and so it's close the session.

    Until this bug is not fixed, there are two ways: disable the IMAP preprocessor OR switch of TLS for IMAP auth.

    best regards
    Frank

    I have a new Snort package based on the 2.9.5.5 binary that is being reviewed by the pfSense Core Team now.  Hopefully they approve and merge it soon.  I believe some TLS fixes are in the new binary.

    Bill

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    Thanks
    It's working now

    Remove
    then install
    then reboot

  • Captive Portal/FreeRADIUS/WPA Enterprise/Segmenting Users

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    @thermo:

    ssh into your pfsense & into the shell.

    killall radiusd /usr/local/sbin/radiusd -X

    and watch the output.

    No need to kill the process just stop it on GUI.
    radiusd -X  will run freeradius in debug mode and tells you everything.

    In freeradius GUI you can enable the logging of good and bad authentications - passwords and usernames will be shown in pfsense syslog.

    Further make sure that the switches and WLAN AP have the same shared secret as in freeradius NAS/Clients.

    Make sure that your switches and APs send its correct NAS-IP to freeradizs and configured in Users.

    Freeradius - View config could help you to find out if your Users file looks correct and represets all your paramwters.

    The order in the users file is important. So if there is one user added twice the first match will win.

  • Haproxy-1.4.24 installation/re-installation hangs

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    I've updated haproxy-full package to 1.1.

    It's working fine on 2.0.3 and 2.1 as well.

  • Package vhosts: allow Regex

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  • Snort 2.9.4.6 pkg v2.6.1

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    Use the suppress icon to filter away blocks because of that SID.

  • Different SquidGuard setting for each Ip/User

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    of course it is possible, in squidguard using group acl feature you can create different user profiles by source or captiveportal usernames(squid3-dev required) with different filtering options

  • BUG: As feared… New Unbound version 1.4.21_1, new bugs for free ...

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  • Squid exited due to signal 6 (NOOB QUSTION)

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    Hi,

    you could try this:
    http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ClearingTheCache

    Pruning the Cache Down
    and
    Changing the Cache Levels

    Perhaps downsizing the HDD cache could solve the problem. But you changed the path and if it works it will be ok :)

  • How to update Sarg package without losing my existing setting?

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    Thank You for your help :)

  • HAVP config

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    I have a workaround which involves modifying havp.inc - I know it will get overwritten when I reinstall HAVP package. I wasn't able to get internal and NAT rules to work so I modified the rule / filter using supernetting so it will not redirect to HAVP if destination IP falls within the IP range.

    If anyone has gotten internal and NAT rules to work, please let me know.

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    hi..
    i followed it and its working fine at squid 3.3.5

    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=65102.0

  • Cron 0.1.8 wont run reboot command

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    i reinstalled the cron package, it was the latest one though, and the error disappeared, use the below works for me so will stick with it

    command = /etc/rc.reboot (works in both crons)

  • Ntop warning: Max num TCP sessions, setting seems to have no effect

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    Looks like this setting will always be ignored: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-packages/blob/4e3879cf61b174570a0a27ab84fd32040e044222/config/ntop2/ntop.xml

  • Snort blocking

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    @Amirkabir:

    Hi
    I want to know how pfsense snort package block attacking hosts. Is there a plugin like snortsam in snort package?

    Snort on pfSense makes use of an old third-party open-source plugin called Spoink.  This is compiled into the Snort binary on pfSense as an output plugin.  It sees all of the alerts and examines the IP addresses and compares them to an internal whitelist table.  Any IP address not matching up with a whitelist entry is then "blocked".  This blocking is done by calling the BSD pf (packet filter) API to insert the offending IP address into a block table called snort2c.  Currently snortsam is not used.

    Bill

  • Squid reverse - redirects?

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    I was working on this exact problem with preserving the URI during redirect and had stumbled upon this thread.  I thought I would share the solution to help others who may be in the same boat.  Squid 3.2 required.

    pfsense 2.0-RELEASE (i386)
    squid3-dev 3.3.8 pkg 2.2

    Use '^/.*$' in the Path regex field to match on domain + whatever.

    http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/CustomErrors#deny_info_URL_codes_for_embedding

    Simply add %R to the 'URL to redirect to' field so it looks like this: 'https://pfsense.org%R'  In this case, http://pfsense.org/mysuperpage.php redirects to https://pfsense.org/mysuperpage.php

  • How run pftop on VLAN Interfaces

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    jimpJ

    pftop -i (real name of the interface)

    e.g.

    pftop -i em1_vlan22

    Seems to work for me.

  • Block file sharing inside the LAN

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    marcelloc is right, a Firwall or Gateway can't filter LAN to LAN because it is normally Layer3 device.

    You should use something like Asymmetric VLAN, so you dont need a lot of subnets to filter. Ceep it simple

    Here is something to read:
    ftp://ftp.dlink.es/FAQs/TS_AV.pdf
    ftp://ftp.dlink.de/anleitungen/Switch/DGS-12xxT_Howto_de_overlapping_vlan_Rev_D.pdf

    Edit:
    Cisco explains it too
    http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/connectedgrid/cgs2520/software/release/15_0_2_ed/configuration/guide/cgs_asym-vlan.pdf

  • Squid 3.1.20 pkg 2.0.6 - custom option question

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    @Legion:

    Thanks marcelloc. Doing that at least changed the error message to:

    TCP_MISS/503 0 CONNECT some_rfc_1918_address_but_not_in_my_local_net:utorrent's_port - DIRECT/some_rfc_1918_address_but_not_in_my_local_net

    Maybe it's something to do with the CONNECT method? Where I'd normally expect the GET method?

    This torrent maybe trying to connect via ssl, that's why you only see CONNECT on logs

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