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

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    JonathanLeeJ
    @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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    yon 0Y
    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.
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    Squid3 : Low downloads speeds and CPU overload

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    FreeRadius users

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    I found solution! On the user check attribute add Calling-Station-Id += 'mac adress', | Calling-Station-Id += 'mac adress', | and more if need… before I try syntax := and this not working..
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    Suricata

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    Currently Emerging Threats offers no lower cost versions that I am aware of (excepting the free Open Source version you mentioned). You can use the Snort VRT rules with Suricata, but there are around 700 of those rules (if I remember the count correctly) that will not load because they contain keywords Suricata does not recognize.  They won't break Suricata, but any protection afforded by the non-loading rules will of course be sacrificed. Snort VRT does offer a home-use annual subscription for their latest rules.  It is $29.99 USD per year.  That's certainly cheaper than $500 USD per year. Many folks use a combination of the ET-Open free rules and a paid Snort VRT subscription.  Of course if you are a commercial enterprise, $500 per year is generally not considered an excessive expense for cyber security protection. Bill
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    Re: New Package: ntopng

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    Mine did not install at first. Just hit back in the browser and installed again. Second time it worked.
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    Snort Missing from Services Menu after Upgrade to 2.9.6.2 pkg v3.1.5

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    I think we finally tracked this issue down to some folks leaving the Package Install screen a little too quickly.  It can take Snort a long time to start up if lots of rules are enabled and/or the CPU is not super fast.  You will see a message in the install box that says something like "…package successfully installed..." when the install is actually finished.  Just because you see it say that it starting Snort, that does not mean the install is complete yet.  After Snort starts, control is returned to the pfSense package manager code, and that code does the final steps of the install which includes adding the menu links under SERVICES.  So if you exit the installer screen too early, the PHP process terminates and that final step performed by the package manager code never happens.  This leads to the Snort option missing under the SERVICES menu. Bill
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    DansGuardian - Blocking VPN

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    @scottd: OK, managed to figure out why Blacklist did not load.  I had a "partial" list that Firefox didn't warn me aborted during the download process.  I found that out by trying to open the list, WinZip tried to gunzip it and failed, reported premature EOF.  I downloaded again from: http://urlblacklist.com/?sec=download and I had to try a couple times to be sure this time I got a complete file.  Don't know why that times out sometimes, busy I guess. But, I still have my 2nd problem which is that our VPN won't work while using DansGuardian.  Anybody have any ideas on that? Do you have a subscription? Is so, let them know… If not, then its their way of of saying you need a subscription  ::)
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    Tinc basic setup

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    Yes but if you give the VPN the same internal IP as your own, then routing wont work afaik. Thats why I wanted you to give your local subnet a different IP range. Then we can exclude the routing range.
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    Suricata replaces exactly what?

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    Yeah, sure. Point taken, although I'd be mostly filtering myself, anyway, if I wanted to restrict the users… More interested in doing things like ad filtering, or detecting/blocking various phone-home type things, because open ports can be abused, monitoring whether the ports are actually used by the protocols/apps for which they were opened would be my main concern. I neither trust ISPs nor closed-source software vendors  further than I can throw them (which given their abstract nature is a distance of zero)...
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    Squid3-dev problems

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    Read again cache.log.  All you need to fix is there.
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    Freeradius: fresh install, reimport certificates, clients can't connect anymore

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    Thanks for trying to help me  ;D Just wasted 3 hours of my life trying to get it to work. Was on the brink of a nervous break down, as reinstalling gives huge pain in the butt when having to export certificates for use in Windows and Android, let alone, once you have these certificates exported, putting them on each gadget and laptop, and customizing these again. Logging was on but showed nothing at all. Radius test user (wiki) on 127.0.0.1 worked. Rebooted switches, WAP's, pfSense: nothing. Reinstalled FreeRadius: nothing. Then I discovered the obvious bug: This was the shared secret: ^4540lkkgkf_8(`!$,.;/" Replaced that with: 1234 And everything worked again… The weird thing is: that first shared secret was exactly the same as the one it was before I reinstalled pfSense; I meticulously made sure not to make any errors there. Thanks again for your kind help  ;D
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    HAPV antivirus package not working

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    @SunStroke: In that tutorial HAVP was set as transparent. If you have squid installed you would prefer to set HAVP as "Parent for Squid". "Transparent" is used for HAVP in standalone mode. I use that mode for HAVP without Squid. Ok yes that fixed it! Is that setting ok with squiguard running as well?
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    Apcupsd Failing (USB Device)

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    Thanks very much for the help - much appreciated! Your config makes sense - I agree, a bit odd about the server, but glad it works for you. I think my issue is related to links missing in v2.2 … :(. Thanks again.
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    Why is Unbound DNS so slow??

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    Changed to no repliant DNS server and speed has improved. Thx for the advise!
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    Snort - Suppression List

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    @ghkrauss: I have Snort running on Pfsense 2.2RC. I would like guidance on which alerts I can safely add to the suppression list. It is unclear what the meaning of "Unknown" vs. :not suspicious". I am trying to configure the Snort system for the longer term. The Pfsense platform is an Xeon E-3 with 16 GB and a 10K rpm hard drive. There is a thread here with "Master Suppress List" in the title.  Do a search and it should pop up.  It is several pages worth of posts from experienced users here. Edit:  found the link for you:  https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=56267.0 Bill
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    HAProxy-devel config issue, help needed

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    Hi jbiss_ca, So you don't see session and byte counters on the frontend increase at all? That would mean the connection never arrived at haproxy. Do you have 1:1 natting or a portforward configured on pfSense for the wan-ip? Any floating rules / traffic shaping / other packages ? Is there a lot of traffic or high cpu usage on pfSense ? It could be worth trying to make a tcpdump of the traffic to see if a incoming connection is answered. tcpdump can be started on a ssh/console with a command like this where you put the correct ip, and the interface name for em0: tcpdump -i em0 "host 1.2.3.4 && port 80" The TCP handshake go's like this normally: Request connection[ S] , Accept connection[ S.] , Traffic[ .] , that would be the first 3 packets.. As for logging to '/var/run/log' that sadly doesn't do much.. It would provide more information if you log it to a actual syslog server. Also enable the 'Detailed logging', every connection handled by haproxy should show up in those logs. The roundrobbin selection shouldnt affect anything if only 1 server is available.. Hope some of it helps..
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    PhpSysinfo Update?

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    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=6.msg472384#msg472384 I got it running quite simple but not able to make a package for it yet.  I never made one and don't have any setup to do it. I hope someone does make a package for it.  It is quite simple to get running just copy files and run the php index file.  To get more just edit the config file some and maybe install a module or two for more functions
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    Ntopng stops responding/updating after a while

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    @gdelong: Did anyone ever figure out a solution to this? Not I, nope :( -Jamie M.
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    Squid Reports in v2.2?

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    I guess the package is not fully transferred to 2.2 yet.
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    SNORT Not Running Email Alert

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    @wiz561: @bmeeks: If you have Snort on multiple interfaces, the Service Watchdog package cannot distinguish each individual interface as the separate Snort service instance it is, so it will not accurately watch all the instances. Thanks for posting this as I came here to ask the same question.  I'm getting tired of snort not running for some unknown reason every now and then.  I do run snort on multiple interfaces (wan and internal lan).  Do you have any suggestions on how I can accomplish this, with two interfaces?  I'm mostly concerned with the WAN interface, can I tell the watchdog service to just concentrate on that instance? Unfortunately the Service Watchdog package cannot distinguish between the Snort interfaces.  It will simply "pgrep" for "snort", and if it finds a running instance it will be happy.  That instance may not be the one that is stopped.  For example, if WAN stops but LAN is running, then the "pgrep snort" command will find the single running instance and be "happy" when it really should be "not happy". I tried for several weeks earlier this year to find a way around that, but there are some internal limitations with the current pfSense architecture with regards to how packages are sensed and auto-started by the system.  Those limitations cause the issues with something like the Service Watchdog package. I have considered something similar to Service Watchdog but customized into the Snort package itself.  I have not given that much priority.  I can revisit that idea in a future update. Bill
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    Apache reverse proxy

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    Did you find an answer to this or a workaround?
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