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

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    @firefox I don’t think so, to be honest with you I am on an older version also. Just make sure you do the patch package and install all the system patches.
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    Hi, I had a problem with my home network today, so I checked pfsense and discovered that suricata had blocked the wan ip. After some tests and triggering some suricata alerts, the wan ip was blocked. I restarted pfsense and ran some more tests, but the problem no longer occurred. I then checked the wan interface settings and indeed the ip list does not include the wan ip, both now that it's working and before, when it was blocked. I'm using pfsense 2.8.0 and suricata 7.0.8_2. I use PPPoE to access the Internet.
  • 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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    @jrey said in pfBlockerNG syslog logentries to remote SIEM: @keyser I so want to answer this, but then at the same time (no I don't) ... pfblocker using syslog messaging in real time. no tailing of files, no other packages, just code. Huuuh? That seems very very interesting I noticed your name in other posts around the forum where you seemed to be QUITE proficient at coding/developing. Are you by any chance considering involvement in developing and refining the pfBlockerNG package? It would be SO great if you are looking into adding native syslog to the pfBlockerNG package - or an easy workaround that does not require additional packages and “temporary” edits in files that does not survive service restarts or pfSense updates. Here’s that you will fill me/us in on the solution you are using to your Greylog - please, pretty please with sugar on top
  • 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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    @provels said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: This same mess happened to me, even w/o Acme, going from 25.07 to *.1. Blew, reinstalled w/ Crowdsec, blew again, reinstalled, clipped all the Crowdsec info from config.xml, restored config, back to normal. Crowdsec is a great concept, but I think I'm out. I never had this issue with Crowdec before the ACME update, even with updating from 2.7 to 2.8 there was no issues. In fact after restoring from a backup after the ACME update, Crowdsec reinstalled just fine, and this was before the recent release a couple days ago that contained a fix.
  • 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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    @yobyot I've SSHed into pfsense and for the sake of testing I've simply run the command: tailscale up --auth-key=tskey-client-kQ_THE_REST_IS_A_SECRET\?preauthorized=true\&ephemeral=false --accept-dns=false --accept-routes --advertise-exit-node --advertise-routes=X.X.X.X/24 --advertise-tags=tag:pfsense Note the preauthorized=true and ephemeral=false I gave this key all permissions (temporarly as I just wanted to verify it's working) of course I had to register the tag used also in the ACL tags pane: https://login.tailscale.com/admin/acls/visual/tags so far so good
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    I took some days before reporting again... Since then I installed: 25.07.1-RELEASE (amd64) built on Fri Aug 15 20:42:00 CEST 2025, and the issue re-appeared but did not (yet) clear by itself. Wireguard works well, that system has only one tunnel with another site, using interface assigned mode. I depend on it, and it works flawlessly. Yet the wireguard configuration page, its status page as well as the services widget on the dashboard, all report the Wireguard service as stopped, with the usual icon to start it. On the dashboard the gateways widget shows Pending for the IPv4 and IPv6 wireguard gateways. On the other hand, and it is logical as the packets do flow through the tunnel, the Wireguard widget on the dashboard shows the tunnel up with traffic. To be complete, the watchdog service, if wireguard is configured there, spend its life at detecting wireguard stopped and attempting to start it, which does not work. The other side of the tunnel is still on 25.07-RELEASE (amd64). I'm reluctant to upgrade that side too, with fear to loose the wireguard tunnel altogether. Aren't there any logs from that wireguard package? I can't find anything of that kind.
  • Simple Squidguard question - Google Ads - Can't believe I can't find this

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    For google I have set these two entries: googlesyndication.com 0.0.0.0 Block Advertising googletagservices.com 0.0.0.0 Block Advertising This also takes care of any subdomain like "pagead.googlesyndication.com" for example. I found in another topic that people advised to use "host" entries, this however was not working for me. Important, you have to set pfsense dns server to 127.0.0.1 and clients have to use pfsense exclusively as a dns server. To achieve this, I've made a firewall rule to block all other dns servers (port 53) and only allow the pfsense box as a dns server for clients. This works wonders, I absolutely hate ads. Cheers.
  • Snort 2.9.7.0 pkg v3.2.1 Update Release Notes

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    Hello, I tried to get OpenAppId working, but it doesn't want to… My snort is working, VRT & OpenAppId rules are downloaded. VRT alerts appear. I followed this tutorial : https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=84227.0 When I go to reddit, nothing is logged in alerts. Nothing useful in the firewall logs neither. I'm running pfsense 2.1.5 with the latest version of snort. Any idea ? Thanks !
  • Bug on squid reverse proxy

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    squid3 3.1.20 pkg 2.1.2 which part do u want? its huge… the problem appears when i add a cache_peer, example code in squid.conf is like this: #192.168.84.101 cache_peer 192.168.84.101 parent 80 0 proxy-only no-query no-digest originserver login=PASS round-robin name=rvp_HTTP-101 all the mappings start using that peer, until i assing the peer to a mapping, then it start working as it should…
  • Squid3-dev transparent…again

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    It works.
  • Squid - diskd bug (ipcs and ipcrm not available)

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    For Squid3 (3.4.10_2 0.2.5), on pfsense 2.2 you need ipcs and ipcrm from a 10.1 base. The diskd text should reflect that, now it still refers to 8.3. diskd uses a separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on disk-I/O. To use ipcs and ipcrm on squid, Download livefs.iso from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/8.3/ mount it and copy /usr/bin/ipcs and /usr/bin/ipcrm to your system and set them as executables. diskd uses a separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on disk-I/O. To use ipcs and ipcrm on squid, Download livefs.iso from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/ mount it and copy /usr/bin/ipcs and /usr/bin/ipcrm to your system and set them as executables.
  • FreeRADIUS “daily” issue

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    Simply deleting /var/log/radacct/timecounter/db.daily and starting the service fixed the issue. The newly created db.daily is 64 KB, not 16 KB. So it looks like it got corrupted somehow. How do we prevent this from happening in the future? Thank you
  • About haproxy-devel

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    First add a backend, in there you can add multiple destination servers. To actually use it, you also need a frontend that uses the backend and listens on a port.
  • Squidguard/Web Filtering Questions

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    Thanks for your reply.  I definitely have some reading/digging to do but that link appears to contain helpful information for the active directory piece.
  • Snort error: Could not create configuration reload thread

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    @johanstrand: Hi! I had it set to AC. I changed to AC-BNFA and it Went from 1.3GB to 380MB. Maybe this was the reason for the original problem. I am still suspicious of the rules because now (after resinstall) I can activate all rules using AC as the pattern matcher and snort starts without any problem and it takes about 1.4GB of RAM. I can not reproduce the reconfig thread problem. /Johan The AC pattern matcher will slowly gobble up RAM as it operates.  I have seen posts on other sites where users have had it gobble up 16 GB of RAM and more with a lot of traffic and rules. There is no appreciable difference in the performance of any of the pattern matchers on today's hardware.  AC-BNFA or AC-BNFA-NQ is the suggested setting, and I would advise to never change it. Bill
  • Squid as parent for havp

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    @webstor: Tried, couldn't fix it. Still the icap error. Maybe related only to amd64 ? Check your logs the icap is working on 0.2.4 version. There is a typo on clamav config check that i'll send a fix today.
  • Revamp of an old closed question regarding uPnP proxy.

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  • Can snort be configured for a single interface or VLAN?

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    Well I'm trying to eliminate any security measures from a certain lan due to bitching about the rules blocking stuff… so adding snort to the wan will probably cause more issues and they are not willing to troubleshoot.
  • Apply different blocking level to different VLans

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    Surely I know and have used Squid as cache. But never more than that. Thanks for pointing me to it.
  • Squid Reverse Proxy stops working when using Squid3 load balancing ACL

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    I figured out how to fix the issue. First I had to learn some Squid bits and figure out how the Squid.conf is interpreted (ie. top-to-bottom for first-matched ACLs) and what some of the various "tags" mean. I found the following link quite useful to get some basics under the belt: http://www.deckle.co.uk/squid-users-guide/squid-configuration-basics.html After grokking the Squid.conf that was generated by pfSense, I figured out what the existing reverse-proxy configuration ACLs were (as it was needed to for the cache_peer_access tags). For those interested, you can use the "Edit File" function under the "Diagnostic" in the webconfigurator to browse to the generated Squid.conf file. In my case it was under: /usr/pbi/squid-i386/etc/squid/squid.conf Note: Yours may in in a different location if you use a different version or have the AMD64 version of pfSense. After figuring out how these are interpreted by Squid (i.e. the order, precedence, overrides, etc.) with the help of the above link, I understood what was needed. I looked up all the reverse-proxy ACLs generated by pfSense and create an tcp_outgoing_address tag for each using the LAN side IP (or DMZ side if that's where you are reverse-proxying to). For example, the following is what I ended up with. This must be placed above the bits for the random ACL to load-balance the forward-proxy. 192.168.0.254 is the IP of my LAN side interface: tcp_outgoing_address 192.168.0.254 OWA_URI_pfs tcp_outgoing_address 192.168.0.254 rvm_Extranet tcp_outgoing_address 192.168.0.254 rvm_Prototype tcp_outgoing_address 192.168.0.254 rvm_WebService tcp_outgoing_address 192.168.0.254 rvm_License # Put load balancing tags after setting the tcp_outgoing_address for reverse proxy tags acl fiftyPercent random 0.5 tcp_outgoing_address <<wan1-ip-here>> fiftyPercent tcp_outgoing_address <<wan2-ip-here>></wan2-ip-here></wan1-ip-here> The result is that for the reverse-proxy traffic goes to the specified LAN side IP , and then the remainder of all other traffic is load-balanced via the random ACL on the WAN IPs. Hope that helps anyone else who might run into a similar issue.
  • Shellcmd suggestion

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    +1.
  • Are there any conflicts with running Squid + Squidguard + snort?

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    Running one firewall with pfSense 2.1.5 (AMD64) + Squid (2.7.9) + SquidGuard (1.5_1.1 beta) + Snort + pfBlocker and have no issues. Proxy is NOT transparent. Running another firewall with pfSense 2.1.5 (i386) + Squid3-dev (3.3.10 pkg 2.2.8) + SquidGuard (1.4_4 pkg v.1.9.5) + Snort + pfBlocker and have no issues. Proxy is NOT transparent. ClamAV is not enabled as I get ICAP timeouts. Both are stable and responsive. Hth.
  • UPS Support - pfSense and a FreeNAS Server?

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    Cool! Glad to hear! Those instuctions were directly from my own setup, so if you need any further assistance I'll help where I can.
  • Set up Squid proxy for different network

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    Use the setting upstream proxy.
  • Freeradius not starting at boot when use mysql as database

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    Can any one help me?
  • Snort OpenAppID on the GUI

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    By the way, if you come up with a collection of working rules for OpenAppID that you think others would find useful, please share them here on the Forum.  This is a new technology, and group collaboration would be a good thing as folks learn and try it out. Bill
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