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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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    chpalmerC
    @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.
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  • valnarV

    Just want pfSense to shutdown when UPS goes to battery

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    dennypageD
    Using NUT on pfSense you have a couple of options: Directly monitor the UPS via SNMP The NUT client can talk to a remove apcupsd server. Given a choice, I would choose option 1 as this works regardless of whether the Windows system is functioning or not. I can't speak to apcupsd on pfSense.
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    Http-buffer-request

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    johnpozJ
    " a field for HTTP options to be injected into the header. " No as it states its where you put in options to passthru to the frontend.. This common theme on all packages and or services in pfsense.  There are gui settings for the obvious stuff… but more advanced features can be put into a custom box that are added to the conf file, etc. Look fired up a frontend - put your option in the box, check out the cfg file..  See attached pic you can also put that option in global or default section, etc. [image: frontendoptions.png] [image: frontendoptions.png_thumb]
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    Is Snort ignoring host names in pass lists?

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    Hi BBcan177, Questions:- (1) Will it work on Suricata? (2) I have the passlist in place. Will the script wipe the passlist? If so, I want the passlist + the script run together. Is it possible?? (3) if multiple hostnames, how can I do it? If you use the pfctl -t xxxx -T delete, it just delete the IP from the block list. eventually, the ip will be blocked again. It is the other way around. How can I update the passlist ip using script? @BBcan177: I didn't test it, but try this in an sh script Create new script vi myip **#!/bin/sh MyIp="$(host -4 my.hostname.com | grep -oEw -e "[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}/[0-9]{1,2}" -e "[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}")" pfctl -t snort2c -T delete $MyIp** (Save and exit) :wq (make script executable) chmod +x myip
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    Snort configuration on 1Gbps/1Gbps uplink?

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    @msrachelchen: I ended up using Suricata instead. Though with cpu pinning, the load is still pretty intense atm Looking pretty juicy, 19.82 MB/s. Though most of the “CPU usage” went to NIC queues State Table: 47% (3987752/8500000) Load average: 9.39, 9.96, 9.60 CPU usage: 68% Nothing is running except Unbound, pfblockerng (DNSBL), IPSec and Suricata. I haven’t started HAProxy and TC yet… Suricata is multi-threaded whereas the current Snort release is still single-threaded.  That can help a little under high loading.  The new 3.x BETA versions of Snort are multi-threaded.  Once the 3.x tree goes to RELEASE, it will get pulled into pfSense. Bill
  • vallumV

    FreeRadius3 With WindowsAD 2008 as User Backend.

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    vallumV
    Any one using this feature?
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    Bandwidthd - Display Hostnames in Main Table

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    Unfortunately, bandwidthd is no longer maintained, its last update was more than 10 years ago. I have made the modification myself to the bandwidthd source code and display the hostname next to the IP address, in addition, I also updated the maximum IP listed in the HTML from 20 to 50. 20 IPs were probably a lot back in 2005, but these days 50s are probably the norm. If you are comfortable with compiling c code, I can attach my changes here.
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    DHCP Web List

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    Feature request - Cron package - add a Name and/or Notes field

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    Having trouble installing php72-7.2.1.txz package

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    GertjanG
    Hi, Your lucky. The answer is simple. You can't do that. pfSense is using itself PHP for the GUI. There are probably many lines in the scripts of the GUI that wouldn't be compatible with PHP 7.2. Btw : this is like asking how to install core Windows 10 files on a Windows 8 PC. Experts can't (and won't ask the question).
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    Deny Video Streaming

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    Postfix Backup MX

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    jimpJ
    The only downside of not having a backup MX is having to wait hours (4+) for retries to come through, or longer if it's a prolonged outage. It's not the end of the world, though, messages will be resent. If you botch the backup MX config then it could be worse. You could accidentally reject mail and never receive it, or let even more spam through on a continuing basis. The best backup MX is an exact duplicate of your primary mail server hosted off-site.
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    Can snort block torrent streaming?

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    bmeeksB
    I don't know the answer definitively, but you can install it and try it out.  I would set it up in IDS (non-blocking) mode first and let it run a week or two in order to get a feel for the kinds of alerts generated.  Expect to see quite a bit of alerting related to the HTTP_INSPECT preprocessor.  You can search the IDS/IPS sub-forum here in Packages to find threads about configuring Snort. Bill
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    LAN is not passing through Squidgard

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    vallumV
    @Dezireman25: Hi All! Just want to ask for your help. I install 2.4.2 pfsense and add squid, squidguard and lightsquid packages. I followed some instructions in youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2gy1bLHm5o) and do some research but LAN did not pass through my squidguard. Squid and squidguard services are running. When i check using proxy test my internet users are not going through squidguard. please help TIA 1st :- You need to allow your LAN Subnet in squid:- Squid  Proxy Server  > ACLs >  Allowed Subnets (put your LAN subnet here) 2nd :- in squidguard by default everything is blocked , you need to allow some list:- SquidGuard Proxy Server > Common ACL  > target Rules List >Target Categories > (default is deny at bottom , allow specific list as required)
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    HAProxy, websockets, "timeout tunnel" and the defaults section

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    Found your post whilst trying to fix a similar problem. I managed to get things to work with your hint. I simply added the "timeout tunnel 3600s" under the relevant backend -> advanced settings -> backend pass thru
  • arrmoA

    Python 3?

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    Hi, The linked post doesn't mention anything regarding Python 3. It's just about installing mitmproxy in a Python 2.7 virtualenv. Could you maybe give a brief explanation how you got python 3 on pfsense in the first place? Thanks.
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    Debugging Email Reports

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  • Raul RamosR

    Traffic Totals - All VLANS collects Parent Interface data? (Solved)

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    Raul RamosR
    I do the question before because i do not want to reset the data and could be other problem. Disabling and resetting and/or disable graphing and maybe not needed to delete and reinstall the package seams solve the problem. Maybe a broken déjà vu but i thin i have tried this before, months ago. Anyway thanks for the feedback and solutions, i should know this. I will wait couple of hours and put a solved on the topic if this stay good.
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    Bind 9.11 error in pfsense 2.33

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    johnpozJ
    Don't cross post, and dig up threads from year ago.. What part in your zone file do you think is correct about this? @ IN NS 192.168.1.1. So you think its ok to put in an IP for your NS record?
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    LightSquid Issue - lightsquid_web services won't start

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    FreeRADIUS 3 with Active Directory Authentication and Authorization?

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