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

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    JonathanLeeJ
    Squid can be configured externally, I would love a how to guide on how to do this correctly.

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

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    DARAD
    Hello team, I have a Netgate 8200 running 24.11-RELEASE (amd64) with Suricata 7.0.8_5 package installed. Suricata doesn't seem to start. It loops to red once I press the Play button on the interface. It leaves no logs in the System logs, it leaves no logs in suricata.log at /var/log/suricata/suricata_ovpns933787/suricata.log I tried launching it manually: # /usr/local/bin/suricata -V or # /usr/local/bin/suricata -c /usr/local/etc/suricata/suricata_33787_ovpns9/suricata.yaml -i suricata_ovpns933787 and I get this output ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/bin/suricata: Undefined symbol "__strlcpy_chk@FBSD_1.8" Thanks in advance, Dara

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

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    dennypageD
    @kabeda If memory serves, that old version of ntopng did not run as user ntopng, but as user nobody. There are lots of problems in that old version. Anyway, check the ownership and permissions of /var/db/ntopng and make sure it matches the user that ntopng runs as. You may need to set ownership of the entire hierarchy. Example: /usr/sbin/chown -R nobody:nobody /var/db/ntopng However, the better choice would be to upgrade to a more recent version.

  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @vicking said in No blocks on IP: Is it a bad idea to have the action set to deny both instead of inbound only? Question is squarely for admin. Per the infoblock which explains, in part, the "Deny Inbound", "Deny Outbound", and "Deny Both" actions: 'Deny' Rules: 'Deny' rules create high priority 'block' or 'reject' rules on the stated interfaces. They don't change the 'pass' rules on other interfaces. Typical uses of 'Deny' rules are: Deny Both - blocks all traffic in both directions, if the source or destination IP is in the block list Deny Inbound/Deny Outbound - blocks all traffic in one direction unless it is part of a session started by traffic sent in the other direction. Does not affect traffic in the other direction. One way 'Deny' rules can be used to selectively block unsolicited incoming (new session) packets in one direction, while still allowing deliberate outgoing sessions to be created in the other direction. In other words: When set to "Deny Inbound", incoming connection requests from WAN hosts are blocked and therefore no state will be created. However a LAN host can still establish state to an otherwise listed IP. If set to "Deny Outbound", outgoing connection requests from LAN hosts are blocked and therefore no state will be created. However an incoming connection request from an otherwise listed IP to an 'open' WAN port can still establish state. If set to "Deny Both", both incoming connection requests and outbound connections requests are blocked and therefore no state will be created regardless of connection direction.

  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @dennypage Nicely done sir!

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

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    I am using the DNS-Update method I have to use a DNS-Sleep of 5 minutes to let the letsencrypt txt dns record update propagate. During this 5 minutes the acme-webgui times out. when the acme-webgui times out the Action list is NOT executed. How can I solve this ? Would it maybe be an idea to let the acme.sh script execute the actions in the action list as a post-hook instead of the web-gui? Or maybe add an option to add post-hooks in the webUI ?

  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    This one has been tricky still not sure what to try. Any ideas?

  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    @elvisimprsntr Updated 25.07.1 to 1.90.6_1, copied and pasted from @elvisimprsntr's post: pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.90.6_1.pkg (Why it worked this time and not on previous updates: Over the last couple of days, I ran into the "Shared object "libutil.so.10, not found..." error that triggered the version 25.07.1 update issues some of us have been having. After I fixed that error, I decided to go back to the usual update method, and it worked.)

  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Hi @patient0, Already fixed :) reset and preformed a full new installation. The peer can connect and performed a successful Handshake, and ping pfsense, wireguard and lan servers. However psfsense and my Lan servers can't ping this peer even with the handshake performed. I know that ping can be misleading but don't now what else.
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    Stunnel Broken in latest package update with development build.

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    jimpJ
    Doesn't matter if you're on -p2 or -p3 the stunnel package is the same. You should be on -p3. The problem in this thread has been solved. If you have a new problem, upgrade to the most current release and package version and post the details of your problem in a new thread.
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    Pfsense/Freeradius: Ignoring request to auth address ...

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    I have been using the freerad package on pfsense for years, for sure since May of 2014 when got first unifi AP.. And for sure you had to setup nas client for it to work... I distinctly recall doing testing and having to put that in place.
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    System/Package Manager/Available Packages Screen is broken

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    Hi... I would like to thank everyone for their help. I do not know what the problem was, the other day it was working normal, without any changes
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    VLAN to LAN

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    johnpozJ
    We are not mind readers you going to have to post a picture what the rules you created!
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    FreeRADIUS terminating abnormally, no clues in log file

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    @NogBadTheBad Appreciate it. FreeRADIUS seems to start just fine and will run for many weeks without an issue, until it stops and doesn't automatically restart.
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    pfSense 2.4.4 missing the telegraf package

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    jimpJ
    Nope, it's there for amd64, I double checked.
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    Snort Thinks Google Is Doing Port Scans

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    This is not all that uncommon. The Snort portscan preprocessor is very "trigger happy" ... . Go to the PREPROCESSORS tab for the impacted Snort interface and set the Sensitivity drop-down selector to Low. Save the change and restart Snort on the interface. That should help. If the Sensitivity setting is already Low, then you will probably have to disable that particular rule. Click the red X under the SID column on the ALERTS tab to disable it.
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    e2guardian

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    I retrive in System Logs many: swap_pager_getswapspace(32): failed
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    suricata stopping

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    bmeeksB
    Look in the firewall's system log around the time you suspect Suricata crashed. Odds are you will find a Signal 10 Bus Error. This is the result of an unaligned access to memory. It is a problem in Snort, Suricata and clamAV as a minimum on ARM hardware such as the SG-3100. I've tried a fix for Snort and Suricata. The Suricata fix was successful for a time, but not anymore. The issue is complicated to explain, but if you Google "unaligned memory access" you will find some info on what that is. This is only a problem on ARM hardware. Intel CPUs are immune as they will "auto-fixup" instructions that attempt unaligned access. I looked into this in some detail and found that the main problem in FreeBSD is with the llvm compiler used to create armv6/armv7 binary code. That compiler chooses at times to use an ARM instruction pair that does not support unaligned access. The compiler could choose to use a different pair of instructions to accomplish the same thing, and that different pair will support unaligned access via "auto-fixup" just like Intel CPUs. While it is technically true the issue lies within the C programming code of the binary packages that are failing on ARM hardware, the practical implication is that since the code works on Intel hardware without issue -- and because the ARM hardware base is very small -- the upstream projects for Snort, Suricata, clamAV and others have no great desire to invest the energy and effort required to find the bugs in the C code and fix them. I worked with the pfSense team and we turned off compiler optimizations for these packages. It worked initially for Suricata, but now some change has crept into the upstream project and that change is causing unaligned access issues again on ARM hardware. The problem will appear as a random bug because it takes a particular sequence of data and the resulting program code flow while processing that data to hit the instruction that attempts the unaligned memory access. When the unaligned access occurs, that triggers a CPU hardware interrupt fault and the OS shuts down the application (and logs the Signal 10 bus error).
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    PFSense forwarder (dnsmasq) unusually slow

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    Your going to have to actually give some details to work with here people! Where are you forwarding too? What does a query direct to that look like from your client as far as time.. What does the query time look like from client to pfsense? Example if your forwarding to 8.8.8.8 $ dig www.google.com @8.8.8.8 ; <<>> DiG 9.14.1 <<>> www.google.com @8.8.8.8 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34825 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.google.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.google.com. 285 IN A 216.58.192.132 ;; Query time: 21 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Sat May 18 15:49:17 Central Daylight Time 2019 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 59 Here is to unbound on pfsense. $ dig www.google.com ; <<>> DiG 9.14.1 <<>> www.google.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50496 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.google.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.google.com. 257 IN A 172.217.6.100 ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.3.10#53(192.168.3.10) ;; WHEN: Sat May 18 15:49:41 Central Daylight Time 2019 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 59
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    Disable Snort rule

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    I think the reboot solved the issue, still working for now. will monitor it and return if there is something new. Thank you for your help :)
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    Help With bug/error SQUID GUARD| Ayuda con bug/error en SQUID GUARD

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    @egonzalezgdl I would personally install pfsense using the same version the config was created on, then do the upgrade to the latest.
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    Bandwidthd monitoring openvpn subnet while using lan interface

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    On further thought, I think I understand why it won't work... Openvpn is connected to the wan and traffic from openvpn unless going to the lan, like dns, isn't going through the lan interface. So it is technically monitoring the data correctly for the interface it just isn't able to do what I want it to do.
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    Telegraf memory stats broken on 2.4.3

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    It's great information. Thank you.
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    bind9 webinterface/failure "journal rollforward failed"

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    Package manager unable to communicate to pfsense.com

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    thanks for all the replies. I will have a look at updating to a newer version ASAP. I was having problems flashing version 8 of the watch guard BIOS but will give it another try.
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    Auto Config Backup Issue

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    I did change the Backup Count to 0 but it didn't help! When I edit/create a rule it actually creates the backup first and then removes it according to the backup count 0. After setting Backup Count to 0 : #ls -l total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6 Apr 30 22:36 backup.cache While creating a NAT rule: #ls -l total 3236 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6 Apr 30 22:36 backup.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3252224 Apr 30 22:36 config-1556647551.xml #ls -l total 4324 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6 Apr 30 22:36 backup.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4390912 Apr 30 22:36 config-1556647551.xml #ls -l total 7044 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6 Apr 30 22:36 backup.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7176192 Apr 30 22:37 config-1556647551.xml #ls -l total 8100 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 173 Apr 30 22:37 backup.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8255935 Apr 30 22:37 config-1556647551.xml #ls -l total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6 Apr 30 22:37 backup.cache So, it still takes a minute or so to create/modify a rule!!!
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    g++ package

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    jimpJ
    No. pfSense is a firewall, not a development platform. Compile the code on a similar FreeBSD system and then copy the binaries to the firewall.
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    Upgrade of Zabbix Proxy Package to comply with v4.2

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    @woodsod Thanks for the update!
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    OpenBGP service not starting

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