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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 ChatGPT had the right idea but gave me 100 different places to put "load-server-state-from-file none". Your post was worth more than ChatGPT could ever offer!
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    @bmeeks your work outclasses so many individuals and developers. Your stuff is amazing. Cheers
  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @Antibiotic No it’s not possible with NtopNG as it is not a Netflow collector. You need nProbe for that which will “translate” recieved netflows into flows that NtopNG understands and can visualize (with very very little detail might I add as Netflows has no additonal information apart from sender/reciever and volume). The NtopNG package and the product in general is more geared towards visualising and recording traffic details from actual packet captures. This contains MUCH more metadata about the sessions than netflows (DNS names, protocol information and myriads of other things). But pffSense Plus has a builtin Netflow exporter if you have an external netflow collector on hand.
  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    Same issue on 25.07.1 pfBlockerNG-devel 3.2.7 Database Sanity check [ FAILED ] ** These two counts should match! ** ------------ Masterfile Count [ 26379 ] Deny folder Count [ 26378 ]
  • 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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    Hi, Please help to forward / report the bugs in ACME 1.0 package. Thanks.
  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    Anyone else happen to notice that when configuring BFD, if you create a peer and select a profile - after save, re-edit the peer and the Profile is not represented. It appears as "None". You have to check the raw config to determine if the profile was actually assigned to the peer. This is on 2.8.1 (all packages up to date as of the date/time of this post). UPDATE: if re-edit and save (without re-configuring the profile none to what you want) - the save will strip the profile from the peer.
  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    Hi All, I use HAProxy to redirect to a range of https internal resources, this works really well at the moment through the WAN where I have source limits set up, and I can connect to the internal resources from limited external IP Addresses. Given I have tailscale I would like to basically be able to put custom dns entries in to point these hostnames to my pfsense tailscale IP4 address (100.89.148.118) but I am not having any luck getting this working. At the moment, I am just trying to connect to HAProxy using https://100.89.148.118 but it is getting blocked by the firewall. Sep 11 11:55:58 tailscale0 Default deny rule IPv4 (1000000103) 100.89.148.10:53148 100.89.148.118:443 TCP:S I have tried with and without NAT redirecting internally to 127.0.0.1, and I also have rules set up to allow any traffic to and from my tailnets (defined in an alias) but I still keep getting these connections from my other tailscale machines being blocked on the pfsense machine. Can someone give me some pointers on what I am missing because I can see the requests are coming through to the pfsense machine, and in theory the rules should allow it through but I cant see why they don't. I do have tailscale ACL in place, but clearly that is not an issue as the requests are making it through to the firewall. 0/0 B IPv4+6 TCP/UDP TailNets * TailNets * * none Allow across Tailnets 0/0 B IPv4+6 TCP/UDP * * * 443 (HTTPS) * none Allow Tailscale IP4 I also tried adding a EasyRule but because the tailscale0 interface doesn't exist in pfsense it throws an error and won't let me add that rule. Appreciate any help or tips, Cheers.
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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  • Snort blocking my local IP

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    @mudmanc4: I have changed the whitelist for that interface to the one created earlier,  restart snort, and made various protocol requests - no blocking that I can see at this point. Big info from you on this, much appreciated bmeeks ! Thank you.  Glad it's working for you now.  One item on my TODO list is to update the Snort package documentation and then include links to it from various spots in the package. Bill
  • Sarg reports broken in 2014

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    I have a fix! sarg can examine more than one log file, so regardless of order of execution of the rotate and log generation, just ensure all the logs, rotated or not, are used thus: [image: index.php?action=dlattach;topic=71070.0;attach=40150;image] Steve ![Screen Shot 2014-01-26 at 00.28.49.png](/public/imported_attachments/1/Screen Shot 2014-01-26 at 00.28.49.png) ![Screen Shot 2014-01-26 at 00.28.49.png_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/Screen Shot 2014-01-26 at 00.28.49.png_thumb)
  • Snort 2.9.6.0 released, can we have an upgraded package?

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    @BBcan17: @bmeeks: So I think we are stuck staying with a version that is at least 30 days old, or else require everyone to buy the paid subscription.  That would not be popular :'( Thanks Bill, If its not too much trouble, maybe you could post both updates and users could choose which version would work for them? This would allow us to debug the most recent Snort version while having the option to go down one version just in case? Well, that is a good idea.  There was, at one time, an active snort-dev package maintained by the old maintainer.  It was really bleeding edge, though.  I had considered resurrecting that old snort-dev tree, but not for "free" versus "paid" subscriptions, but instead to try and keep the most recent Snort binary out there.  I've just been busy lately with the current package and doing some work on a Suricata package, and just have not gotten around to it. Bill
  • Pfblocker breaks amazon

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    by using the country blocker, you'll also find it kills your ability to generate a return ticket and shipping label at Amazon.  (why is Amazon's return label eneration routing through Asia??) There is another thread here on using pfBlocker to generate the lists to be used by Snort and the rules set. I've found this option makes every problem like this (that I was having) go away without having a lot of custom pass rules. https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,64674.0.html Rick
  • Snort not blocking for a full day? v2.9.4.6 pkg v2.6.0

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    @kevin067: It seems to me whatever pfblocker is doing internally to create it's alias tables, snort should do the same. As far as I can tell pfblocker (using "Alias_Only" mode) has been blocking well. Here's a link to the code inside pfblocker that creates those tables… http://www.pfsense.org/packages/config/pf-blocker/pfblocker.inc So the idea is to let snort use snort2c tables for the immediate blocking. Then append the ip's it finds into an alias for long term blocking (one that survives filter_reload, and reboots). using a normal incoming wan/outgoing lan rule. I like where the <snort2c>table is currently located up high in the pf rule chain such that it is hit very early in the packet's traversal of the firewall.  This gives Snort a chance to block early and protect users from "quick pass" rules farther down that would bypass Snort. It occurred to me last night there may a fix for the clearing problem triggered by the filter reloads.  I need to talk it over with the Core Team, but maybe the filter reload process could persist the <snort2c>block table out to a temp file during the reload process, and then read the file back in as part of the filter reload.  It is trivial to do this with the pfctl utility (dumping a table to a file and loading a table from a file). Bill</snort2c></snort2c>
  • Not understanding openssl speed testing

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    iperf is what we normally use. On endpoints beyond the firewall on each side.
  • PfBlocker Lists

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  • SARG Schedule Starting Multiple force refreshs at scheduled time

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    @thestealth: I assume I was looking for this line: root  28032  0.0  0.3  3348  1332  ??  Ss    6:39PM  0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s No more weirdness in my log either. Thank a lot it is much appreciated. Yes as you can see their were 6 running before and you are welcome!
  • Snort Barnyard2 MSSQL support

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    Hmm… Let me look into it and I'll get back to you.
  • Web proxy

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    Not sure if this is the config you are looking for or not, but any machine on the network could run squid and serve as a proxy. It would only need one NIC to do so… Likewise, you wouldn't need pfSense at all - just squid running on a server that had access to the internet and was accessible from the other network.
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  • Vnstat2 on 2.1 broken now that rc0

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    I have updated package. Waiting on one of the devs to upload the new php_frontend file.  :-[ https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,71553.0.html [quote author=marcusone link=topic=62708.msg390896#msg390896 date=1390242650] Sorry for waking an old thread… but the same issue is back :( Beginning package installation for vnstat2 . Downloading package configuration file… done. Saving updated package information... done. Downloading vnstat2 and its dependencies... Checking for package installation... Downloading http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/vnstat-1.11_1-i386.pbi ...  (extracting) Loading package configuration... done. Configuring package components... Additional files… vnstat_php_frontend-1.5.1-updated.tar.gz failed. Backing up libraries… Removing package... Starting package deletion for vnstat-1.11_1-i386...done. Removing vnstat2 components... Tabs items... done. Menu items... done. Loading package instructions... Deinstall commands... done. Removing package instructions...done. Auxiliary files... done. Package XML... done. Configuration... done. Cleaning up... done. Failed to install package. Installation halted.
  • Snort "disable http alerts"

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    @newbieuser1234: If i am having problem with http slowness and inspect blocks is it correct to disable the alerts to make it faster? newbieuser1234: The way to solve your issues is by adding these alerts to the Suppress List.  Go to the Alerts tab, and for each HTTP Inspect block you think is bogus, click the plus icon (+) in the SID column.  That will automatically add that alert to the Suppress List and it won't cause further blocks.  Do this for all the HTTP Inspect alerts you don't want to cause blocks, then stop and restart Snort on that interface when you're done. Alternatively, run Snort in non-blocking mode for several days or weeks to get a feel for the traffic in your environment.  Look at the Alert logs and add Suppress Entries for things you believe are false positives.  Once you have a good Suppress List with few or no false positives showing up in the Alerts, then put Snort back into blocking mode.  You do this on the Interface Edit tab for the interface in Snort. Bill
  • Trigger a sync from the Pfsense-Config to the Squidquard-Config?

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  • Squid data export

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  • Missing Quagga BGP package?

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    The PBI allows for the package to sit in its own directory with its dependencies. Though the package probably needs to be rewritten to make sure that it is not moving things out of the pbi directory etc. As long as they are encapsulated I think that would work but I do not have a working understanding of either package right now.
  • Snort 2.9.5.5 pkg v3.0.2 Update Released – Bug fixes only

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    I noticed I was also getting update errors at some times during the day. I changed the 'Update Start Time' parameter to a non-standard value and it fixed the problems.
  • Snort http inspection

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    Thanks Bill
  • No graphs in bandwidthd

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    OK, Good to know. I have a spare firewall with the exact same specs which is configured the same way. I will do a complete wipe and fresh install on that one and after that do the same to this one. Thanks, Roger
  • VNstat2 и PF 2.1 calendar problem

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    @DasTieRR: thank for your help, I really appreciate it :) Your welcome  ;)
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