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

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    @andrew_cb Thank you for the answer In the end it was a problem that any new backend i added just did not register, i confirm it by taking an existing one and overriding it and it worked so i want the nuclear option and just installed the entire pfsense because installing the haproxy did not help.
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    @NRgia said in Suricata on Pfsense: @bmeeks Thank you for what you did for Snort or Suricata. I'm not sure what you want me to do on Redmine, due to is a bug tracker. My question is for Product Management, which I will ask it here to be public: What is the plan for these 2 packages, Suricata and Snort? Thank you Yes, Redmine is for both bug reports and feature requests. Asking for the Suricata binary to be updated to the latest 7.0.11 version from upstream is a legitimate Redmine request. I would suggest simply asking for the binary version update instead of asking about future Netgate strategy (such as the support plans for the packages). Strategy discussions typically don't get very far because they deal with proprietary information or plans that a company may not want to publicly discuss. Redmine is where the Netgate developer team tracks all the code changes they make for pfSense. They will see Redmine reports much quicker than a forum post.
  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @Leon-Straathof Data retention settings are handled inside of ntopng. Documentation here. Pay attention to the RRD note. Also, if you've turned on some of the slice and dice time series information (is off by default), I'd suggest turning them back off. These balloon the storage requirements and are of little actual use.
  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @jeremyc311 said in pfBlockerNG-devel 3.2.8 service pfb_dnsbl don't start: I’m surprised to see in my logs only one blocked IP, which is related to my TrueNAS I'll decode this one : @jeremyc311 said in pfBlockerNG-devel 3.2.8 service pfb_dnsbl don't start: Aug 5 09:01:14,1770008712,bxe1,LAN,block,4,17,UDP,192.168.2.13,116.147.64.181,51765,51413,out,Unk,pfB_PRI1_v4,116.146.0.0/15,ET_Block_v4,Unknown,truenasr740,null,+ Traffic, coming into LAN, from a LAN device (192.168.2.13 = your TrueNAS) going to a Chinise ( 116.147.64.181 ) Brazilian ( 177.72.195.114 - = next line ) was blocked by the "pfB_PRI1_v4" list. That's probably good thing ? ( ! ). Up to you to discover why your NAS should initiate connections to these countries. A NAS can go outside for maintenance purposes, for example to look for updates of it's system. These could be located anywhere of course. The GeoIP IP created a rule for you. How and where do you use that this rule ?
  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @jhg said in NUT fails to start after 2.7.2 -> 2.8.0 upgrade: Interesting. I would have thought the initial reboot, which occurred as part of the upgrade, would have done the trick, but it took a second reboot, just now, to get things working. Glad you have it sorted. There was no difference in the output of usbconfig show_ifdrv at any point -- before or after unplugging/replugging the USB cable, nor after rebooting. ... Question: What would tell me whether or not a driver was loaded? If there were an attached driver, it should have shown up with the show_ifdrv command. If you use the command and look at the other usb devices, I think they will show attached drivers. I don't expect to see a driver attached to the ups, because there is a quirk that tells the OS to ignore that device (and not attach a driver). Look for idVendor and idProduct in the above output. The Vendor ID for your device is 0764, which corresponds to Cyber Power Systems, and the Product ID for your device is 0601, which is registered as "PR1500LCDRT2U UPS" (don't sweat an exact match for the name). You can see the quirk with the following command: [25.07-RC][root@fw]/root: usbconfig dump_device_quirks | grep 0764 VID=0x0764 PID=0x0005 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE VID=0x0764 PID=0x0501 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE VID=0x0764 PID=0x0601 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE [25.07-RC][root@fw]/root: Your device is third on the list. The HID_IGNORE quirk says to ignore the device and not attach a driver. @jhg said in NUT fails to start after 2.7.2 -> 2.8.0 upgrade: You might consider adding this resolution to the release notes for 2.8. LOL... sorry, I don't have input to the release notes (I don't work here). While I wrote and maintain various packages, including NUT, I'm still just a volunteer. Most packages are actually written by volunteers.
  • Discussions about the ACME / Let’s Encrypt package for pfSense

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    @EChondo What's your pfSense version ? The instructions are shown here : [image: 1753262126227-1acdc586-cb29-4148-9e36-81ade4e5e60c-image.png] A restart of a service will start by re creating their config files. If a certificate changed, it will get included. When the process starts, it will use the new certificate. @EChondo said in Issue with ACME Certificates Refresh & Restarting HAProxy: 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. No need to wait x days. You can re test / renew right away, as you are 'allowed' to renew a couple (5 max ?) of times per week.
  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    said in Please update frr on Pfsense+ to FRR 10.3: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15785 now frr 10.4.1
  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    Updated CE 2.7.2 to 1.86.2_1 Changelog pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.86.2_1.pkg Freshports
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Since my upgrade to 25.07-RELEASE (amd64) built on Tue Jul 22 22:24:00 CEST 2025 FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT, on one end of my most important tunnel, the tunnel still works fine, but the pfSense GUI keeps reporting the service as stopped. I had to remove its monitoring from the Service Watchdog which was also trying to start it, without success. Yet the trafic flows correctly. I'm holding off upgrading my other boxes. Is there something I could do to help diagnose?
  • Anyone create new GrayLog Extractors v21.02_1?

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    @beachbum2021 I used this one. It seems to only be missing snort. https://github.com/jbsky/graylog
  • Client Export Can't Locate "the Requested Certificate"

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    @jimp Fixed!
  • iperf3 won't automatically restart after reboot

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    @sgseidel, Understood. I just posted into the developer forum asking for some assistance in getting started to setup a development environment, how to build pfSense packages and that. I am hopeful that I will get some guidance and then move forward in improving the pfSense implementation of iPerf3. Stuart
  • Patches package gone from 2.5.2 branch??

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    @bcdouglas [image: 1667942055758-a77176e9-98be-4909-84d9-d182f3597f01-billede.png]
  • HAProxy 301 Redirect

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    @johnoatwork Dude, you have two ACLs in this single rule which are mutually exclusive! So this rule cannot work at all. www.example.net - requires that the host name includes "www.example.net" aclcrt_SharedFrontendHTTPS - requires that the host name includes "example.com" Both will never match to the requested host. So remove the second ACL from this rule.
  • HAProxy php error after devel-update

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  • PfSense 2.0.3 OpenVPN Client Export Utility config file name

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    @jimp after so many years, searching in the forum came to this post. I need to rename the config file for the export, to be more clearly named. Is there any way to have it in the Additional configuration options ?
  • ntopng Ghost hosts?

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    @deanfourie did u ever find out? i would also like to understand this as i have the same issue
  • ntopng not displaying properly on firefox

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    @jsbsmd Seems to work fine on FF linux Mint [image: 1667415375155-07784cef-4a8f-4098-a9f0-86003f39a945-image.png] [image: 1667415388069-9e22f710-27cb-44d7-a513-cda8552f1c58-image.png]
  • openvpn client import can't import tls-crypt info

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  • OpenVPN/Freeradius issue

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  • Suricata does not start the interface

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    @fox95 said in Suricata does not start the interface: but what does work, is deleting the interface each time you want to make a change to the value because if you don't whatever new value you enter makes no difference. this was the original posters best advice. You should not have to delete the interface. I suspect what is actually happening is the stale PID file is preventing Suricata from starting with the new stream memcap value. Each time Suricata tries to start, the daemon creates a PID file in /var/run/ on pfSense. But due to the stream memcap error, the startup of the daemon is aborted and it fails to clean up after itself (leaving the now "stale" PID file). Simply go delete that file and it should start fine (once you get it happy with the stream memcap value). Notice the original error the OP posted about: 24/11/2019 -- 12:08:14 - <Error> -- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INITIALIZATION(45)] - pid file '/var/run/suricata_bce11963.pid' exists but appears stale. Make sure Suricata is not running and then remove /var/run/suricata_bce11963.pid. Aborting! It is complaining about the leftover PID file. Simply deleting that referenced file will let it start. The reason deleting the interface appears to work is that each time an interface is created, a new UUID is also created. So that 11963 number that is part of the file name will change when a new interface is created, and therefore the daemon will not detect an "existing" file matching the new UUID.
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    and then its just suddenly worked, typical technology. Thanks for the info!
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    Yes, system patches is for seldom issued bug fixes between releases. But it doesn't cost you anything to install, and will be there should you need it.
  • PHP Error openvpn-client-export sice update to pfSense 2.7

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    @bmeeks Thanks, I opend a corresponding Ticket https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13570
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    @norvik-it Ah, ok, nice example of taking care of a sick person with a shotgun. I use pfBlockerng-devel with dnsbl myself. It's web server doesn't "stop" like that every minute. The PID is here (according to the info found in the pfBlockerng-devel lighty webserver config file here /var/unbound/pfb_dnsbl_lighty.conf ) : /var/run/dnsbl.pid The process number is in that file : does it really stops every minute ? All the others : SquidGuard, ntopng iperf ClamAV ICAP are part of the 'do not belong on a firewall anyway (my opinion). I've installed this 'Service Watchdog' package and added a task : [image: 1665136084300-d9a1111e-b619-4028-9580-7a90f6642019-image.png] Unselecting the notification box will stop sending you mails. The issue is now a bit solved. Next step : check if the service is really stopped. And if so, why / by who / what reasons ?! Example : [22.05-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.xxxxx.net]/root: cat /var/run/dnsbl.pid 4622 [22.05-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.xxxxx.net]/root: ps ax | grep '4622' 4622 - S 0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd_pfb -f /var/unbound/pfb_dnsbl_lighty.conf 35843 1 S+ 0:00.00 grep 4622 So the process running. If all these process are really killed on your system every minute, I can advise you to do one thing : Remove / disable all these packages. Or, as stated above, find the reason why they are dying on your pfSense, or are getting killed. Remove the issue for each of them. Example : if free RAM gets low, the system will kill processes, this is known as the OOM (Out Of Memory) event. Restarting them in that case is a really bad idea.
  • Alias Match vs Native

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  • openvpn-client-export - naming openvpn client config

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    @ppcm The export bundle is an self-extracting 7-zip. You can simply open it with the 7-zip FM and rename the .ovpn file.
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