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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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    Kernel: Bump flowset buckets to 256 (was 0)

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    thank you and Cino (great answer)Cino That is from Limter being enabled… Goto Traffic Shaper, Limter tab.. Click on first limter you created, Show Advance Options; change Bucket Size to 256. Do this to the rest of them and you shouldn't see that message anymore
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    Color changing package pfsense?

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    HAHAHAHAHA We just want to have fun :D @BBcan177: … You know that its a proven fact that Men are color blind... Or thats what the Women are telling us.... lol..
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    Documentation for Mod_Security 0.3?

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    … but a reverse proxy should NOT be run on the same machine that gets all your traffic from point A to point B, that should be handled by a separate box. That is a fairly absolute statement, and there are no absolutes in the business. There are plenty of cases where a reverse proxy absolutely SHOULD be run on the same machine that gets all your traffic from point A to point B. And considering that someone went to the trouble to create a package to do it in the first place…
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    PfBlocker problem!!! blocking all my NAT port rules and configs!!!

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    Did you increase the size of the Max Table Entries? System:Advanced:Firewall/Nat  : Firewall Maximum Tables Entries? Maximum number of table entries for systems such as aliases, sshlockout, snort, etc, combined. Note: Leave this blank for the default.
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    Squid reverse proxy - redirect subdirectories

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    FreeRADIUS bug in Pfsense 2.2 all versions till now

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    Hello, I have the same issues too on new fresh install in 2.0.3(x64) with the freeradius RC1 2.1.12_1/2.2.5_3 pkg v1.6.9 The package won't start and i have this message on the log : /usr/pbi/freeradius-amd64/etc/rc.d/radiusd: WARNING: /usr/local/etc/raddb is not a directory. Thanks for the help. Myke.
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    HAVP error on install

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    Unbound with split horizon - is it possible?

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    I ran into this same issue experimenting with unbound.  First I would confirm that unbound is able to answer the query.  Use 'dig <hostname>@<pfsense_lan_ip>' from a computer on the LAN. If that returns the correct response then you probably are running into the same thing I ran into.  With the default dns forwarder disabled the dhcp server was giving clients the dns servers listed in the general setup.  I had to explicitly put the LAN ip in the dns server dhcp server setting. – David</pfsense_lan_ip></hostname>
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    HAVP and ClamAV

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    Dynamic and Update Content To use Second Harddrive?

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    Package Server down again???

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    Found this issue was a problem with pfsense using IPv6 .. executed this command from Comman Prompt: env ip6addrctl_enable="yes" ip6addrctl_policy="prefer_ipv4" /etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl start Now I can connect… pfsense programmers should resolve this problem. Thank you
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    Dansguardian Package

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    It does work mostly fine. Except the Signal 11 problem with 2.12.03 which is the current package on pfsense.  Under heavy load it quits out and of course web stops. Upgrading to Marcells package seems to kill the GUI.
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    Squid seems to choke and stop sending Windows Update (cached) files to clients

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    thanks for the assistance.  I'll read through the content and apply (test).
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    Barnyard frequently disabled

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    @MilesDeep: Barnyard on two interfaces seem to be increasingly disabled.  Same two interfaces.  Not on the others barnyard is running on.  This is not the end of the world, just trying to figure out why. Look in the system log and I bet you will see some duplicate key errors thrown during database insert operations.  I'm assuming you have Barnyard2 sending data to a MySQL database.  If not, then post any system log errors.  If you are feeding a MySQL database, then go to the BARNYARD tab for each enabled interface and check the box to disable "sig_reference table" updates.  There seems to be a problem introduced with the recent barnyard2 update when multiple instances attempt to write to the same MySQL database.  The multiple instances try to insert some duplicate keys into the database, get a DB error due to that, and consequently die. Bill
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    Snort multiple interfaces start fails

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    @jonna99: This is the outcome of the command ; ps -ax |grep snort 11823  ??  Ss    0:00.02 /usr/pbi/snort-amd64/bin/snort -R 36542 -D -q -l /var/log/snort/snort_ovpnc1365 30425  ??  SNs    3:31.75 /usr/pbi/snort-amd64/bin/snort -R 36542 -D -q -l /var/log/snort/snort_em036542 12633  0  S+    0:00.00 grep snort and thank you for taking your time Jonna I think you are the victim of a bug in the DUP interface code added to Snort a few revisions back.  A fix for that is coming up shortly.  Notice the number following "-R" in the output you posted is exactly the same:  36542.  They should be different.  Did you by chance create the VPN interface by clicking the + icon next to an existing interface? To fix this now, before the update is released, requires a number of manual actions including renaming some directories using the command line.  If you want to try the manual fix, send me a PM (private message) here on the Forum. Bill
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    Varnish 3 can't get it to work without NAT

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    reinstall the package, and give the 'ip matches ip or alias' acl a try, you can just put the name of a ip-alias there and it should work.. remember the list is only reloaded when config is written again while starting haproxy.. changing an alias does not currently trigger that.
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    Snort Redirect & CloudFlare

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    @ukhost4u: Hello. We have been running a range of testing using Snort and have 2 questions in regards to it: Is there any way to redirect blocked IP's to a web page (ever on the firewall or externally) which can tell the user that there IP is on the blacklist and how to go about contacting us to remove it. We do something similar to this on our CSF Linux software firewalls and its very useful for customers. We have a customer who does not want his traffic inspected by Snort, is there a way to set a rule so that if the destination IP meets the requirements that Snort ignores the rules and just whitelists any source traffic going to this destination IP? I hope someone can help with these questions. Thanks, Paul Hughes Senior Manager http://www.ukhost4u.co.uk/ For #1, no, there is currently no mechanism for that in the Snort package. For #2, I think you can accomplish what you want using the IP REPUTATION preprocessor.  Create a whitelist containing that customer's IP or IP range.  Assign that whitelist to the IP REP preprocessor for the interface using the IP REP tab for that interface.  Set the options on that page so the whitelist has priority.  IP addresses in a whitelist are NOT inspected by Snort other than the initial quick test to see if the IP is in the whitelist range.  Once that determination is made, the package bypasses the remainder of the Snort inspection engine. Go read up on the IP REPUTATION preprocess in the Snort VRT online manual here: http://manual.snort.org/node17.html#SECTION003219000000000000000 Bill
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    Squid HTTPS filtering

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    Lookup info on creating a wpad.dat file. It's not technically transparent, but it allows each computer to automatically be configured to use your proxy server. DansGuardian is quite nice, and very flexible as to capabilities, but is more complicated to setup and configure. SquidGuard has basic functionality, but it is far easier to get it going. If you need to enforce use of the proxy, you could try to block outgoing traffic on ports 80 and 443. If you do any of this, you will probably want to first switch the port used by pfSense's WebConfigurator to something non-standard so that you don't accidentally proxy traffic to the pfSense box. You can also use networkinggeek's answer. Neither solution is necessarily better or worse. It just depends on your network and your needs.
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    SNORT on 2.1.5 Really weird!!

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    Very annoying :( Not running out of memory, CPU or disk. It just wont boot until I remove the 2nd interface.
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    Snort Disabled After Enabling "emerging-web_server.rules"

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    I've been away for a couple of days– sorry for the intermission. I haven't been able to reproduce the memory error that BBcan177 is experiencing. I am running a (mostly) default install of pfSense and Snort on bare metal with the exception of the fact that I increased the memory of many parameters to offer headroom... to prevent out of memory errors. Just in case. Per bill Meek's request, I added the following lines to my snort.inc file: // Snort GUI needs some extra PHP memory space to manipulate large rules arrays ini_set("memory_limit", "256M"); Since I was NOT experiencing this specific issue, I didn't expect any behavior to change. Additionally, I have not had the time to whittle down the specific rule(s) responsible for my issue. There are, after all, over 5000  emerging-web_specific_apps.rules to work with. I do have a few updates to add to the log: Rather surprisingly (and somewhat disconcertingly), after several months of slowly working with this error on my own involving the two rule sets (emerging-web_specific_apps.rules and emerging-web_server.rules) which causes Snort to enter a 'Disabled' state within minutes to hours of enabling either or both of those two rule sets, I can no longer reproduce the error at all. In fact, turning ON those two rule sets will no longer cause Snort to become disabled as it once did. This new behavior was observed within approximately 24 hours of these posts to the pfSense forum. And I've made no changes to the system. None. Perhaps Bill or someone on the Snort/pfSense team read this post and fixed the issue in a rules update? I can't determine any other cause for the change in behavior. This is an exceptional coincidence in my many years of tinkering with PCs. In fact, instead of considering the issue closed and moving ahead, I am even more curious now to determine what is happening "under the hood". Another bit of info to consider: once I had determined that one or both of the rule sets in question would disable Snort, I of course verified this hypothesis by working with all permutations of those rule sets to verify that the problem was reproducible before posting to this forum. BBcan177: short of re-installing pfSense or reverting to a default configuration, have you tried to run a hardware test to ensure that your memory and other components are in working order? I have found bad memory in a number of computers over the years; bad memory can cause very strange behavior and sometimes the problem is consistent and reproducible, and other times it is not. Thank you all for your assistance and input.
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