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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 Thank you very much for this, I just tried your proposed solution and it did work! That was driving me crasy! Way simpler than deleting the haproxy_server_state file.
  • 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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    Hi all. Just wondering if I’m the only one that noticed this after upgrading to 25.07 and pFblocker 3.2.7: I have my pfBlockerNG set to update every night at 02:00am and it does (like it also did before). But after the upgrade I also have a pfBlockerNG PHP script running at about 16:00 on one box and 19:00 on another. The command is: /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng-php dcc(php) This process eats a lot of CPU, about 1 minutes worth of one core @ 100% on my 6100 and one core @ 100% for about 5 minutes on the less powerfull 2100 box (This is 50% of the 2100 CPU power). It seems it does a GEOIP update as that is the only thing thats referenced in the extras.log of pfBlockerNG. Why is this suddently so different from running on 24.11? And why is this not done at 02:00 when its scheduled to update?
  • 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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    @EChondo What's your pfSense version ? The instructions are shown here : [image: 1753262126227-1acdc586-cb29-4148-9e36-81ade4e5e60c-image.png] A restart of a service will start by re creating their config files. If a certificate changed, it will get included. When the process starts, it will use the new certificate. @EChondo said in Issue with ACME Certificates Refresh & Restarting HAProxy: I haven't been able to confirm if the above works(mine just renewed, don't feel like doing it again just to test), so we'll see in 60 days I guess. No need to wait x days. You can re test / renew right away, as you are 'allowed' to renew a couple (5 max ?) of times per week.
  • 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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    @totalimpact Tailscale 1.54.0 is 2+ years out of date. Tailscale has made quite a number of changes since Tailscale 1.54.0, likely rendering it incompatible with their servers. I would consider manually updating the Tailscale FreeBSD package. FreshPorts does not maintain an archive of all the releases, only the latest compiled by the volunteer maintainers. The key to manually upgrading is knowing which FreeBSD version your pfSense release is running, i.e. 14 or 15. You can following along here.
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    SOLVED. Turns out nothing wrong with my tunnel setup and not due to CGNAT. The reason PING works and other traffic doesn't is due to packet size and MTU. Something on the wireless network means that the default MTU doesn't work, forcing a smaller MTU to 1280 on pfSenseB fixed this. This Reddit thread has more details of this issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/WireGuard/comments/qmsa2n/ping_works_but_sites_arent_loading/
  • Unable to get Squid3-dev (and squidGuard-squid3) working on pfSense 2.2

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    I did a little research and the crash seems to be related to a memory access violation by Squid.  You're running an alpha build of 2.2 so I'm not shocked, but still.  What is your configuration? i386, x64?  Virtual, physical server or miniPC (ALIX board etc)?  Any other packages?
  • I must configure two range

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  • LigHTTPD services shows "Not running"

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  • PFSense 2.1.3 AVAHI issue

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    Hi, if the installation breaks after a specific time, it is usually a timeout issue. This happens in the "extracting" phase, because no data is sent over the wire. This is a problem I had. Avahi is relatively large and last long, so this can happen easily. You could still install a package on command line. Regarding AirPrint: Avahi is able to announce services (like an AirPrint printer) to devices, but there needs to be a CUPS Printer Spooler doing the actual print job and conversion to the actual Wifi printer, in case it is not able to do this by itself. Unfortunately you are not able to edit the services directly, but you can edit the files either thru the WebUI or via SSH. You can find the files here: usr/pbi/avahi-i386/etc/avahi/services By default, Avahi on pfSense announces SSH and SFTP. Regards, Darko
  • SquidGuard and URL Blacklist

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    You can change the size via System - Advanced - Miscellaneous - RAM Disk Settings. Edit:  Removed bogus advice to not increase RAM disk on nano. See this thread: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=80410.0
  • Squid3-dev SSL Bump Exclusions

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  • Snort 2.9.6.2 pkg v3.1.1 Update – Release Notes

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    @chemlud: @Supermule: When pinging from Scandinavia we get this: PING files.pfsense.org (208.123.73.81): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 208.123.73.81: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=152.243 ms So we dont get a mirror on the package files… My ping goes to the same IP. …to me this whole story is kind of VERY disturbing... For Nano image boxes, make sure you have at least 200 MB of free space in /tmp.  The package manager code gets tripped up if it runs out of space to unpack and install a package.  That might be what's happening to you. There was also a problem a few days ago with the SHA256 checksum files not getting uploaded to the packages servers.  The developer team pushed a fix for that I noticed a few days ago. Bill
  • Dansguardian broken - can't get alternate repository working

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    @mschiek01: This should work for you.  I just tried it on one of my boxes. Again this for a 64bit box. 1. Install the broken package with the package manager. 2. from the command line "pkg_info" you will see dansguardian 2.12.0.3_2 is installed. 3. from the command line "fetch http://files.pfsense.org/packages/amd64/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.3-amd64.pbi" 4. from the command line "pbi_add –no-checksig -f dansguardian-2.12.0.3-amd64.pbi" 5. from the command line "pkg_info" you will now see dansguardian-2.12.0.3_1 is installed. 6. reboot. 7 from the command line "/usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/dansguardian.php fetch_blacklist"  download and reapply blacklist. 8 go back through and resave each configuration page. Ever since doing this, Dansguardian no longer shows up on my pfSense GUI as a service.  Any idea why?  I've tried uninstalling the package and re-installing.  The process looks to be completing successfully, but it doesn't show up.
  • Squid3-dev pfsense 2.1.4 x64

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    Like I said earlier, squid3-dev can be a real pain.  What are you trying to do that you couldn't do with Squid 2.7.9?  If you look at the system log (Status - System logs - System - General), is there anything about squid in there (use the filter to show just lines with 'squid' in them)?
  • Squid3-dev pfsense 2.1.4 x64 LDAP "fix"

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  • Squid3-dev, SSL-filtering and certificates

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    Hey KOM, I used QLProxy and these instructions and it works great: http://sichent.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/filtering-https-traffic-with-squid-on-pfsense-2-1/ You have to do a bit of console work but it is worth it. 199 euros per year for a big organization is a really good deal especially since all the site categories are being updated daily. 12 earos per year for personal use is a really good deal. Just need to setenv PACKAGESITE http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/amd64/packages-8.3-release/Latest/  to get python/apache loaded. Jim
  • Attn Devs: pfSense 2.1.x pkg_add broken again

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    Does someone is able to install any package under 2.14-RELEASE ? Nothing working for me. Ending up with lib* files not found etc (Case for Xauth)
  • [SOLVED] "Available Packages" hangs after HAVP dashboard widget

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    @iorx: Anything I can do to help isolate the issue? No idea? I'm out of idea's for the moment. (tried a lot, found nothing conclusive) I have 4 systems at hand, all on the same level (2.1.4), different breeds (nano/full) and also 2 ISP's. 2 of them give no issue, on 2 other it does not work. Also, I've just lost connectivity again to the forum (it did not resolve so no access for more than 10min) So I'm still suspecting it to be an issue with the server? In meantime I think it's a better idea to wait for someone from ESF to feedback with news or instructions…
  • Snort & snorby

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    @master9712: Hi I wanna to integrate Snort on pfsense to snorby on ubuntu. Can you help..! To feed Snort data to Snorby, enable Barnyard2 on the Snort interfaces on your pfSense box.  Do this on the BARNYARD tab.  Enable MySQL DB output on the BARNYARD tab in Snort and provide the database connection credentials.  That's all on the pfSense side. There are some How-To documents you can find from a Google search for setting up Snorby on Ubuntu. Bill
  • Quagga zebra and ospfd restarting whenever a package restart is triggered

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    I kept digging around in the forums looking for a way forward on this and came across this thread https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=76597.0 which was helpful. I was puzzled as to why an address change had been detected (based on the log entry in my previous post) when it is the same and is actually static from the ISP in this case.  Looking at rc.newwanip the "ip address change" message is a little misleading in that it would seem (I don't know PHP so I am mostly going off the comments here) when all dynamic interface types (PPPoE in my case) come up a reload of lots of things, including all packages, is always triggered regardless of the IP address. In my case I do not believe any of the packages that I have installed (Bacula, Squid, Squid Guard and Quagga) need to be reloaded when the WAN interface comes up, but I understand that there are packages that do need reloading. Does it make sense to have an option on a per package basis to enable/disable a reload on at least a WAN, or possibly any, interface state change? I would not have thought though that Quagga should ever be reloaded just because an interface changes state? As per the above mentioned thread I have commented out the call to restart_packages() in rc.newwanip to see if that resolves my issue without introducing any other issues. Thanks Mike
  • Snort ignoring passlist after update

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    Happens to everyone at some time or another …  :)
  • Redirction loop with SquidGuard rewrite option

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  • Can't access ISP's IPv6 DNS servers (pfblocker issue?)

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    Problem resolved. My IPv6 was released by my ISP, for some reason. Hence, I couldn't ping ANY IPv6 addresses, I just noticed the DNS issues first. After a restart of the cable modem, and pfsense box, everything is operating as expected.
  • Add packages using pkg_add

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    Any one? Nobody knows?
  • Same error with Snort and Suricata

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    @supermega: Hi guys I'm trying to implement an IDS/IPS system on my pfsense box. For me  it's doesn't matter if I use Snort or Suricata in the future. I started first with snort and because snort wasn't working I tried suricata. I have seen that both packages gave me back the same error. If I start snort or suricata (interface only or trough status –> service) the services doesn't start. (nothing happen, red cross stays there) Following error if I try to start Suricata via shell: [2.1.4-RELEASE][root@XXX-pfs-1.XXX.local]/root(13): /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/suricata.sh start 7/8/2014 – 16:22:27 - <info>- This is Suricata version 1.4.6 RELEASE 7/8/2014 -- 16:22:27 - <info>- CPUs/cores online: 2 7/8/2014 -- 16:22:27 - <info>- Live rule reloads enabled 7/8/2014 -- 16:22:27 - <info>-- allocated 1572864 bytes of memory for the defrag hash... 65536 buckets of size 24 7/8/2014 -- 16:22:27 - <info>-- preallocated 65535 defrag trackers of size 120 7/8/2014 -- 16:22:27 - <info>-- defrag memory usage: 9437064 bytes, maximum: 33554432 7/8/2014 -- 16:22:27 - <info>-- AutoFP mode using "Active Packets" flow load balancer 7/8/2014 -- 16:22:27 - <error>-- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_ADDRESS_ENGINE_GENERIC(89)] - failed to parse address "fe80::250:56ff:fe9e:43df%em0" 7/8/2014 – 16:22:27 - <error>-- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INVALID_YAML_CONF_ENTRY(139)] - failed to parse address var "HOME_NET" with value "[8.8.8.8,10.0.0.0/24,10.0.0.252/24,10.0.2.0/24,10.0.2.252/24,10.0.3.0/24,10.0.3.252/24,10.0.4.0/24,10.0.4.252/24,10.0.5.0/24,10.0.5.252/24,10.0.6.0/24,10.0.6.252/24,10.0.7.0/24,10.0.7.252/24,10.0.8.0/24,10.0.8.252/24,10.0.9.0/24,10.0.9.252/24,127.0.0.1,172.16.0.0/16,172.16.1.252/16,192.168.1.0/24,192.168.77.0/24,194.246.118.118,212.25.27.51,212.25.28.55,212.25.29.73,212.25.29.74/32,2001:XXX:40:304::dead:beef,2001:XXX:80::dead:beef,2001:XXX:XXX::1fe/120,2001:XXX:XXX::2fc/120,2001:XXX:XXX::3fc/120,2001:XXX:XXX::4fc/120,2001:XXX:XXX::5fc/120,2001:XXX:XXX::6fc/120,2001:XXX:XXX::7fc/120,2001:XXX:XXX::8fc/120,2001:XXX:XXX::9fc/120,2001:XXX:XXX::100/120,2001:XXX:XXX::200/120,2001:XXX:XXX::300/120,2001:XXX:XXX::400/120,2001:XXX:XXX::500/120,2001:XXX:XXX::600/120,2001:XXX:XXX::700/120,2001:XXX:XXX::800/120,2001:XXX:XXX::900/120,2001:4860:4860::8888,fd34:fe56:7891:2f3a::/64,fe80::250:56ff:fe9e:43df%em0]". Please check it's syntax 7/8/2014 – 16:22:27 - <error>-- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INVALID_YAML_CONF_ENTRY(139)] - basic address vars test failed. Please check /usr/pbi/suricata-amd64/etc/suricata/suricata_29766_em1/suricata.yaml for errors On snort I doesn't get any messages but I saw the same error (failed to parse address) in previous versions of snort. In the System Logs I'm not able to see any errors from snort or suricata. Hopefully somebody can help me out. regards supermega</error></error></error></info></info></info></info></info></info></info> There is currently an issue with IPv6 Link Local addresses in both packages.  I have a fix for Snort posted that is awaiting review and approval by the pfSense Developer Team.  Hopefully they can get it approved and posted in a few days. I also have a fix for Suricata in the works that will come out with the next update. If you know how to transfer files over to your firewall via scp (secure copy), then PM me and I can send you the Snort fix and you can help me test it. Bill
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