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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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    BBcan177B
    @Draco try to goto the General Tab, first ensure that the Keep Settings option is checked. Then unchecked Enable pfBlockerNG so that its disabled. Hit save. Force Update. Then reenable pfBlockerNG and Force update.
  • 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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    @GPz1100 I ran into this same exact issue. I don't have the Prefer IPv4 over IPv6 box checked, but I do have IPv6 enabled. I think the real issue is that Let's Encrypt's server seems to respond with "Recv failure: Connection reset by peer" on almost every request when using IPv6. I tested this by using the command curl -v https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory from pfsense's shell. To work around it, I modified the ACME script as you described. In the file /usr/local/pkg/acme/acme.sh, I updated line 1887 from: _ACME_CURL="curl --silent --dump-header $HTTP_HEADER " to: _ACME_CURL="curl -4 --silent --dump-header $HTTP_HEADER " After forcing curl to use IPv4, both certificate registration and renewal from the acme package started working again without issue.
  • 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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    @tinfoilmatt Thanks! I have done that and it worked when forcing just her TV out the Centurylink.. My problem is my local box here. Im missing something because I can not get it to pass traffic from the WAN to the Wireguard tunnel. Ive got some time today so will chip away on my lab setup to see if I can finally accomplish it here first.
  • Stunnel removed with 2.3 ?

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    Hey guys.  Sorry to revive a thread but I figured the important people are all here. I was wondering if someone could help with the stunnel package?  Here's the problem we're having in the latest version. https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=142463 It doesn't seem to be running on a reboot, so it's probably just missing an entry somewhere to start it?  I assume it would be easy for a Linux/BSD guy to fix, but alas that's not me. Thank you!
  • Available packages source/config 2.4.2

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  • Managed Switch Configuration with Avahi

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    I am about to give up on the Avahi package. After uninstalling it and waiting for a day, I reinstalled the package and then my hardwired desktop on subnet A was able to discover and manage/cast to the Chromecast devices on subnet B.  Then a day later, with no changes, the desktop can no longer see the Chromecast devices. The only thing that would have changed is that unbound was restarted by pfBlockerNG DNSBL over night. I uninstalled the Avahi package and will try again one more time.
  • Quagga update to 1.2.3 fyi

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    FRR found and fixed the issues last year.  After discussion with our security experts when we ran across these issues we decided to not issue a CVE
  • BIND 9.12 / bind-pfsense-9.11.2 RNDC port breaking Unbound

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    @johnpoz: if your goal is to just strip out netflix AAAA you can do that much easier with a python script you can get running in unbound.. https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=134352.0 Netflix and HE.net tunnel fixed using Unbound python module That is… not what I would call "much easier", given how much hand-hacking is required.  The nice feature of the DNS method is that it's all standard packages, entirely controlled via the webconfigurator, using built-in features (Unbound's domain overrides and BIND's AAAA-stripping).  The only tweaking by hand that I've done is to work around what strikes me as a package misconfiguration, in that neither resolver can be told to listen on a different port for remote controls.  The fact that Unbound's configuration includes the defaults at the end rather than the beginning seems to me to be a bug, but I don't want to have that fight. And in fact, I bet that somebody really good at BIND configs could accomplish the same thing using only named, no script fiddling needed, and turning off Unbound entirely.  (I am not that person.  I've spent too much of my life being pissed off at BIND.) But it's good that there are multiple ways to solve Netflix and other organizations' stupidity!  The people who love getting their hands into scripts will prefer the method you linked.  I was that person when I was younger, but I don't want that kind of thing on my homelab anymore.  :-)  I do like that Unbound can use python that way now. @Napsterbater: Unrelated, safe to ignore. pfSense/kernel does not currently support TCP Fast Open, which is all that warning is telling you. Yeah, I just this morning found a discussion on a mailing list describing how ISC's configuration on this feature is really, really braindead.  It's apparently turned on/off by what the kernel on the build machine can do, and there's no way to control it other than editing the generated header file, e.g., post-config sed script.  Anything at runtime not matching what the build machine used ends up reported as "unexpected error". Come to think of it, stuff like this is why I stopped using BIND…  auuugh I drank heavily to purge the memories of those years now it's all coming back noooo
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    @slkamath: I tried running the below command, after that package manager is not showing. echo 'dnsthingy:{url: "https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.dnsthingy.com/pfsense/pkg/'uname -m'",enabled: yes}' > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/dnsthingy.conf I tried this before upgrade and tried after upgrade to 2.4.2-RELEASE-p1. No luck. SO i think problem with the command. You are poking files into /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos … Something coming from "googleapis.com" .... "dnsthingy"  :o At least I'm sure now something isn't working well.
  • BIND: XMLRPC Sync Config

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  • BIND gives ‘serverfail’ looking up internal hosts for OpenVPN clients

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    @        IN NS  10.15.1.1. @        IN A  10.15.1.1 Sorry but pointing NS to IP address not valid… Nor is that a valid SOA.. Both of which would be a FQDN and then sure an A record for that name pointing to the IP..
  • Dansguardian won't restart

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  • Can not access package list any longer

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    DerelictD
    Install 2.4.2_1 and restore your configuration.
  • AutoConfigBackup Failing

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    jimpJ
    Contact the support team at https://customercare.netgate.com and someone can help you track that down. Unfortunately that one is a bit generic so it's hard to say. It looks like some kind of connectivity or DNS issue from the firewall itself. Though if you can install the package it should have good working connectivity to all of the pfSense servers. First, make sure that you can check for updates and that pfSense is fully up-to-date as well.
  • Mail Reports not Sending

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    Also try NOT attaching the system log. I have had problems with the system log containing stuff the parser does not like and the script fails. – Genghes
  • FreeRADIUS 3.x package problem with MySQL (not started)

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    jimpJ
    This has been fixed now. I was finally able to reproduce the original issue.
  • Installing a console screen saver

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    I'd also like to know how to configure this on an amd64 setup. Is it a simple matter of copying over the relevant .ko files into /boot/kernel and configuring loader.conf? I don't need 'much' in the way of video features, just blank the screen after a timeout, and wake it when there's local keyboard activity.  Don't need resolution control, hardware acceleration or any of that.
  • [Solved]WPAD settings for 2nd Interface

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    thanks -flo- it worked.  :)
  • Can we run Squid both as a proxy and as a reverse proxy ?

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  • FreeRadius secuirty…trying to understand?

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    johnpozJ
    Well there you go then.. He has everything he needs to run guest wifi and vlans..
  • Failed to install new pkg

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    GertjanG
    Hi, What about upgrading your pfSense first ?
  • Snort + barnyard2: full packet capture missing

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    @MichaelB: Upgraded to the latest Snort version. Now it seems like the full_syslog_full is working, but ONLY if you send it to a remote syslog server. So you can't send full events to a local syslog. I just modified my grok rules to be able to catch syslog events forwarded from the local system to a remote syslog (via status => system logs), but that format is different when you send them directly from snort to a remote syslog. I think it should work, I'll modify the grok rules later today. However, to improve consistency with other logs forwarded via the system, perhaps it is a good idea to also allow "local full syslog complete" . In other words, now I have: output log_syslog_full: sensor_name snort.WAN, server 192.168.2.2, protocol udp, port 514, operation_mode complete, payload_encoding hex, log_facility LOG_USER, log_priority LOG_INFO Which gives a different format on my remote syslog server then when using the following in combination with remote logging via the status => system logs setting: output log_syslog_full: sensor_name snort.WAN, operation_mode complete, payload_encoding hex, log_facility LOG_USER, log_priority LOG_INFO Kr, Michael I did in fact code it so that full packet capture only works to a remote syslog server.  It is not a good idea to fill up your local firewall system log with full packet captures, so I elected to not make that available. Bill
  • Snort OpenAppID RULES Detectors

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    Hi bmeeks I have checked my settings and I do not have the RamDisk setting on. As I am new to pfSense can you list the steps to check? So far I have uninstalled Snort and them installed again keeping my original settings. There may be something that I have checked that is interfering with the download. Not sure what it is through.
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