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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 said in haproxy 0.63_2 weird behavior, edits not working: @iSagen @TheCyborgWeasel The issue is likely the same as in https://forum.netgate.com/topic/178348/haproxy-backend-port-changes-are-not-applied/ Try adding load-server-state-from-file none to the Advanced Settings > Backend pass thru section of each backend. Great! I will do this.
  • 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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    @keyser if you want the less random more static time this: the code that needs to be changed is in pfblockerng.inc best to make yourself a patch file and apply it that way , so if the package is reinstalled (updated) or whatever. you can just "verify" the patch and just reapply. I ran with this (but different time) under 24.11 when I upgraded to 25.07 just verified and re-applied the patch. if you want look to look at at the code for the lines being changed just above that "if statement" is the comment // Define pfBlockerNG MaxMind/TOP1M/ASN Cron job name the patch whatever you like and set these behaviour options [image: 1755355045857-screenshot-2025-08-16-at-10.35.14-am.png] This is the patch contents (made just for you to hit the time before 2am) --- pfblockerng.inc.orig 2025-08-16 10:30:40 +++ pfblockerng.inc 2025-08-16 10:29:52 @@ -10669,8 +10669,8 @@ if ($pfb['enable'] == 'on') { $pfb_gcmd = "/usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php dcc >> {$pfb['extraslog']} 2>&1"; // CRON hour is randomized between 0-23 Hour to minimize effect on Servers - $pfb_gmin = '0'; - $pfb_ghour = rand(0,23); + $pfb_gmin = '35'; + $pfb_ghour = '1'; $pfb_gmday = '*'; $pfb_gmonth = '*'; $pfb_gwday = '*'; In this I changed the time from the random top of the hour to 1 35 am (just before your 2am pfblocker update and with time to spare. However, I would recommend anything that is not at the top of the hour (0) minutes as that is when almost everything else gets scheduled.) FWIW. I also changed the "top" of the hour on my system so the pfblocker cron setting so that everything is offset by 30 minutes, and therefore don't conflict with other jobs that are also at 0 minutes (as most are) If you make this change on the dialog, then you might need to change the above, so it runs at say 1 15 am (adjust accordingly to suit your needs) pfblocker general page cron settings GUI [image: 1755356115122-screenshot-2025-08-16-at-10.53.11-am.png] next time it creates the job it will schedule it for the now not so random time of your choice. If you want to adjust the time and the patch has been applied, revert - edit the patch times (minutes/hours) only - then reapply. (unlikely you want to change the day month or week day, but if you did you would need a modified patch)
  • 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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    @raidflex said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: maybe uninstall Crowdsec when applying other updates first. It seems like it doesn't help at least from what I see on my system... it changes something.. so it must be definitely reported to their github. I have never experienced that before and crowsec was installed.. maybe with 2.8.0 something have changed
  • 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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    Upgraded 25.07 and Tailscale is broken in the way users here describe. I can manually log in using sudo /usr/local/bin/tailscale login, but the tailscale service in pfSense does not pick this up and restarting the service clobbers the login state. Given 16004 was logged 7 months ago with zero activity, this is an indication that Netgate devices no longer support Tailscale.
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Strangely enough, checking the system 4 days later, I now see that Wireguard service is reported running! The last thing I did 4 days ago was to disable Wireguard service monitoring by the Service Watchdog. Anyway, even when it was reported stopped at first, 4 days ago, the tunnels were working flawlessly. Very strange. I will keep an eye on it.
  • G Suite - Secure LDAP - FreeRADIUS (pfSense) - Configuration - Regarding

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  • FreeRadius MySQL

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    @gertjan Yea, it's one of the first things on my list when I can afford anything.
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    @lightningbit said in Any mail from the pfsense appliance has "Arpwatch Notification" in the subject line, even when it is from a completely different package: I assume this is a bug? or is there another way to fix this? The issue is already known, and a solution is in the pipeline : read https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/11366
  • Arpwatch - Telegram notifications

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    @drumsergio said in Arpwatch - Telegram notifications: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/11972 There should be a new section on the Arpwatch service page to select whether to send notifications via e-mail or Telegram. The destination of notifications is set up here : System > Advanced > Notifications Notification can be mailed and/or telegrammed and/or Pushovered (whatever that might be). Btw : You can 'have it' right now : Edit : /usr/local/arpwatch/sendmail_proxy.php Close to the last line : Replace : send_smtp_message($message, "{$config['system']['hostname']}.{$config['system']['domain']} - Arpwatch Notification : {$subject[1]}"); For : $message = $config['system']['hostname']}.{$config['system']['domain']." - Arpwatch Notification : ".$subject[1]." - "; /* or something else - I didn't test with Telegram */ notify_via_telegram($message) ;
  • Serial Terminal emulator FROM pfsense

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    @kom Thanks for the info. I was not aware of tip or cu. I'll check them out. Thanks for the warning about installing external packages as well!
  • Cannot get PIMD to work

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  • Installation of packages failed

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    @stephenw10 Yes, I think 5GB is already enough. I will try your solution, but I created a new machine in VirtualBox and freshly installed Pfsense there, and it works perfectly. All specs are the same, which is weird.
  • check_mk v2

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    I use the pfSense Check with SNMP and CheckMK Client at the moment. But I'm trying to figure out, if theres a better way like checks over SSH. Very sad, that theres no agent installation over the package manager :(
  • Avahi causes a ton of ping chatter

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    What are you trying to accomplish exactly.. Why do you think you should bridge all your networks together? Why are you trying to use a tap vpn connection? The only point to such a setup would before allowing for L2 discovery.. Ie broadcast and multicast? Why would you want/need that? Do you want to control traffic between your wireless network and your lan?
  • Error node_exporter 0.18.1_1

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    @vukuze said in Error node_exporter 0.18.1_1: I am not some kind of pfSense guru and my advice may be wrong, but here is my solution of the same problem: mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d cp /usr/local/etc/rc.d/node_exporter /usr/local/share/pfSense-pkg-node_exporter/node_exporter.sh My node_exporter 0.18.1_2 on pfsense 2.5.1 gave me the same could not open error. I used these commands verbatim and after reboot the service started up and the metrics were exposed as expected. Thank you
  • Some questions about APCUPSD

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    @whitetiger-it said in Some questions about APCUPSD: I have to display pop-ups, send an email and send a message with Telegram. So I have to use a script, but I can't get it to start when the state changes. Sorry - I have no Idea ...
  • Help I get this: "Unable to retrieve package information."

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    @dilan123 Looks like it's all working again today! You might want to see if it's working for you too.
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    Hello, this was not the trick! Removed the Database and reinstalled the Zabbix-Proxy and the Zabbix Client Nothing changed - the Problem is still there.
  • Email notifications with apcupsd not sent

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    @steveits I have been encountering the same issue and finally digested this setting in /usr/local/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf: # The ONBATTERYDELAY is the time in seconds from when a power failure # is detected until we react to it with an onbattery event. # # This means that, apccontrol will be called with the powerout argument # immediately when a power failure is detected. However, the # onbattery argument is passed to apccontrol only after the # ONBATTERYDELAY time. If you don't want to be annoyed by short # powerfailures, make sure that apccontrol powerout does nothing # i.e. comment out the wall. ONBATTERYDELAY 6 The onbattery condition is immediately logged to the apcupsd event log and syslog, but the email notification is withheld until the ONBATTERYDELAY has transpired to eliminate unnecessary notifications for brief transients. I see that your outages were only on second long, so they would not have satisfied the default 6-second condition. If you want to be notified of brief outages, you might create a powerout script in /usr/local/etc/apcupsd/ similar to the onbattery script. Galen
  • UPS Manager with statistics (and graph)

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    @whitetiger-it You may want to look at MRTG. I'm sure someone has adapted it for UPSs (either APCUPSD or NUT). MRTG I have a FreeBSD NAS (Xigmanas) which has UPS monitoring that looks a lot like MRTG. Maybe you could spin up a minimal VM with it and monitor that way? The NAS uses NUT to monitor pfSense as slave, which in turn uses APCUPSD to monitor the USB-connected APC on the host... Simple! :/ [image: 1620669889413-a3a9005e-b53a-4829-aaa5-3e13bbf5de0b-image.png]
  • Freeradius authentication - multiple instances (OVPN & wifi)

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    @nogbadthebad Cool, looks interesting. Thank you. I'll try. Yes, the Google OTP is per user, so it looks like I'll have to create every user twice (not huge effort).
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    @skogs yes correct. But I am not doing the 2.6 devel release. The other day a new snapshot nuked my 2.6 devel lab install. It is absurd that this is still not fixed. Luckily pfsense is free ad I am glad I don’t have the plus appliances. Then again a similar fix was released within days for pfsense Plus for this same multi wan bug….makes you wonder My advice stay on 2.4.5 -p1 as long as you can. I am doing the same. I am using pfblockerng there but only ip blocking. I moved to dedicated AdGuard Home server on a raspberry pi for dnsbl blocking.
  • After an Installation Recovery, "Freeradius Package Won't Start"

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    @jahonix said in After an Installation Recovery, "Freeradius Package Won't Start": https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=129649.0 Go to: Services->FreeRadius EAP(Tab) Scroll down to: Certificates for TLS SSL CA Certificate-> Select Certificate(If you dont have need to create it System->Cert. Manager) SSL Revocation List-> Select Certificate SSL Server Certificate Start FreeRADIUS service
  • PfSense 2.3 Check_mk working with xinetd

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    Has anybody had success running check_mk 2.0 agent on pfSense 21.02? Do steps look exactly as described here: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/131967/check_mk-on-pfsense-2-4-w-update-persistence ? That post is almost 3 years old.
  • HAproxy maximum number of backend ?! stuck at 317

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