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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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    @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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    @MarvinFS said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: it was cleanly installed not long ago after release of 2.8.0. installed or upgraded? @MarvinFS said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: can't use netinstall as new installer doesn't want to connect to my pppoe during setup for unknown reason - so I can't use it, but it works just perfectly fine in GUI) more details here would be good. @MarvinFS said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: I've had zenarmor manually installed and crowdsec. hope your foot is OK

  • 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?
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    Postfix - can i use with exchange

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    @robina80: hi all, i have postfix installed as a package on my pfsense firewall, i was wondering can i use this as a SMTP re layer/smart host connector for exchange if so can you please show me how? many thanks rob Works great and the setup is just straight forward, use the forum search for assistance…. Quick step by step https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=46196.msg242056#msg242056 All you need is in this thread https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=40622.0 Good luck.
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    Ntopng 1.2.1 Alert via Email?

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    Hello, I'm facing the same problem. Will be grateful if anyone have the answer. Best Regards, Pressian
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    Lighsquid not updating

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    I seem to remember that lightsquid was sort of flakey with the latest greatest version 3 squid, So I tended to use the older more stable squid.  Not sure what you are using.
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    Suricata 2.0.3 Package Preview

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    @bonkas: Has this issue been resolved? I am also running a PPPoE Connection and trying to get Suricata configured but my logs are flooded with "SC_ERR_DATALINK_UNIMPLEMENTED" errors. Suricata will not start automatically after a pfsense restart, is this by design or caused by these errors? Regards, No, not resolved and can't be really resolved until there is an upstream patch to Suricata so it recognizes the DLT_NULL data link type that FreeBSD assigns to PPPoE interfaces.  This is a problem in the Suricata binary that comes from upstream. You can make it partially work by hand-editing the suricata.yaml file and telling it the interface is an Ethernet physical link (by using the real physical NIC driver name), but you will still get occasional errors due to the PPPoE frame headers since Suricata does not expect to see them on a physical Ethernet interface.  Also, I can't guarantee you that all the detection signatures will work properly.  In short, this kind of hack is unsupported and you would be on your own. If you have a PPPoE interface and want IDS/IPS on it, then you should use Snort instead of Suricata.  The Snort binary fully supports the DLT_NULL data link type that FreeBSD uses. Bill
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    Dansguardian 2.12.0.3-i386 Will not start

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    sounds like you are missing blacklists… try downloading them.
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    Squid and Squid Guard Logs

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    Squidguard rotates logs daily when enabled. Squidguard itself maintains 3 log files. /var/squidGuard/log/block.log /var/squidGuard/log/sg_configurator.log /var/squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log There is no setting in the GUI for days of number of kb in size. Maybe "dvserg" can add this option into Squidguard gui/package.
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    Squidguard Blacklist

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    @rjcrowder: @dvserg: No, its not suppurted. You could obviously write a shell script to download multiple and combine them… Hand-made way possible if you know how it may work. But many users know only GUI way.
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    Snort interfaces not starting after rule update/service restart

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    @adiadasman: Bill, The UUID issue does appear to be my problem. Please check your PMs as I have replied back to your original message. Got your PM reply and answered.  We can communicate back and forth in PM land. Bill
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    How to fix these Squid-3dev logs? i386 2.1.5 please help

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    Some RRD Graphs not working

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    I reset the data and it all came back.
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    Apcupsd – need shutdown (not kill)

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    I don't know your UPS, but my experience with other UPSes is: Upon line power loss, the system monitoring the UPS is informed about that event. The monitoring box remains running for the grace period (fpr example, 10 minutes). If line power has not returned within the grace period, machines get shut down (that may include the monitoring machine). There will be a preset time to allow all machines to shut down (for example, 5 minutes). At this point there a two options: 1. If line power remains offline, the UPS will eventually gt to the point where the battery runs flat and it will shutdown the output. When line power returns, the UPS will eventually restart the output and the machines will reboot-sfter-power-loss (as configured in the BIOS). 2. The line power returns before the UPS has shut down, this are a bit more interesting. Machines have been shut down already, but as they see no power loss, they will not reboot-after-power-loss. Ideally, the UPS would wait for the shutdown time period (5 minutes in my example), power cycle the outputs and everything is fine again. Regardless: I let the pfSense box run until the UPS power fails (no automatic shutdown or anything). Same for the modem, PBX, switches and even a few of the WLAN APs. I am aware that this causes additional drain on the battery of the UPS even after the server machines have shut down, but what the heck? Plus, with a communication infrastructure left online until the very last second, all remaining systems can continue to yell for help.
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    PFBlocker List for IPV6

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    I have seen a couple of IPv6 lists floating around, but can't remember where. My honest opinion is IPv6 lists are useless, unless they are used to ban entire subnets. The ease with which you can jump from IP to IP on IPv6 renders a single bad host in a list useless. My recommendation is to use snort/suricata to keep track of bad hosts in IPv6, and based on repeated offenders in a subnet, ban the entire subnet in a list of your own. Bad IPv6 traffic is low, it's the perfect time to experiment and tweak your security systems.
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    SNORT FATAL ERROR: (998) Unknown rule option: 'sip_header'.

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    @MilesDeep: At first, enabling the SIP Detection works.  The daemon starts.  After awhile, it the daemon stops and SIP detection is disabled. Does this have anything to do with fact that the update, which occurred last night, failed? No, a rules update will not disable nor enable a preprocessor.  I will check and be sure the default is enabled for future updates, but for now just look at the PREPROCESSORS tab and check all the preprocessors in the GENERAL section down towards the bottom of the page, then click SAVE.  You usually don't need the two SCADA preprocessors, but it hurts nothing to enable them as well. Bill
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    Show user name in squid

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    [SOLVED] Squid3 reverse proxy: problem with Microsoft Web Service - HTTP 417 err

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    Ok I found 2 solutions: 1. the good one is to simply add the following line in PfSense web configuration, Services, Proxy server, General, Custom Settings, Custom Options: ignore_expect_100 on yes, it works also for the REVERSE proxy. 2. the bad one (just to know it exists) is to modify the source code of the web services' CLIENT SIDEs, in C#, by adding this line: System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false; before instantiating the SoapClient object: MySoapClient My_WS_Client = new MySoapClient(); .
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    No squid.conf (squid3) on pfsense 2.1

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    I do have a local website (owncloud) that I do not want to be cached. Was thinking of adding an "include" in the squid.inc file so everytime the package gets reloaded / changed by pfsense the cache deny all will kick in for that specific site. Where can I set that up? So, in sum it the squid.inc will always overwrite the squid.conf, so in the squid.inc add an include cache_exceptions.conf with cache deny all for the sites I don't want cache enabled. How can that be accomplished?
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    Adding a new secure port to Proxy Server Squid 3

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    Squid exited due to repeated failures

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    I saw that initially but wasn't sure it was the root cause of your problem.  You could try checking your ACLs for obvious problems (like being blank or empty) and then recreating them.
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    Replicating Dansguardian configuration

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    Thanks, have done that for the initial config, but is there a method to keep things synchronised thereafter?
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    Squid3 3.1 not found. Squid 3.3 development service not starting.

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    did you forget to search? https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=81118.0 check out the 2.2 board.. there is a workaround https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=82232.0
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