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

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    Can I use pgblockerng aliases in Haproxy?

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    If it was a firewall rule, typing pfb would produce a dropdown to select.

    Here it has to be written, but will it work? Is it supported?

  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    @bmeeks So after upgrading to the newest PfSense 2.8.0 everything is now working like a charm!

    Suricata no longer seems to strip off tags like it did before! Which means I can now use my network segmented by VLANs and still use the benefits of Suricata Inline IPS! Very niiize!

    I checked in the Alerts section and it is indeed generating the correct alerts from the different VLAN sections, I put Inline IPS on the parent interface of all the VLANs.

    I assume this is because the FreeBSD version is also updated with the new PfSense 2.8.0 version?

    Because before, as soon as I selected Inline IPS mode, my entire VLAN tagging would break and nothing was reachable until I switched back to Legacy mode.

  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @pulsartiger
    The database name is vnstat.db and its location is under /var/db/vnstat.
    With "Backup Files/Dir" we are able to do backup or also with a cron.

  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @Gertjan
    Hello,
    Thank you.
    I had exactly the same issue, and your solution helped me fix it.

    Ask ChatGPT

  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @jhg Please post the output of the following commands:

    pkg info | grep nut usbconfig dump_all_desc
  • 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 :

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    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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    I had a similar issue with Routed VTI over IPsec recently. FRR lost its neighbors after rebooting or when a tunnel went down. It never re-discovered it automatically. Only restarting FRR (either in GUI or via CLI) brought the neighbors back.

    When I manually added those under the OSPF neighbors tab in the GUI it seems to solve the problem as well.

  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    Hello,
    I am unable to get the Tailscale package to work. The page at VPN > Tailscale > Authentication is stuck. It displays the error "Tailscale is not online," but also shows a "Logout and Clean" button, with no option to log in.
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    This state persists even after performing the following troubleshooting steps:

    Rebooting the pfSense router.

    Completely uninstalling and reinstalling the Tailscale package multiple times.

    Clearing browser cache and using a private browser window.

    Toggling the main "Enable Tailscale" checkbox in the settings.

    Checking the logs, which show the service gets a "terminate" signal and shuts down cleanly; it does not crash.

    Manually trying to delete the state file with rm /var/db/tailscale/tailscaled.state, which failed because the file does not exist.

    It appears that the package's configuration is corrupted in a way that persists even after reinstallation. Can anyone advise on how to perform a complete manual cleanup of all Tailscale files and settings?

  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    I've read through some other posts about this, but they either didn't say whether the proposed solution worked or they were very convoluted and difficult to understand. Here is our scenario: We have 6 locations--Las Cruces (LC), Sunland Park (SP), El Paso (EP), Abilene (ABI), Fort Worth (FW), and Plano (PL). LC and ABI have software that is accessed by the other 4 locations via VPN. There are WireGuard VPNs set up between LC and those 4 locations (SP, EP, FW, PL), and ABI and those 4 locations (SP, EP, FW, PL). There is also a WireGuard VPN connection between LC and ABI. LC and ABI have 2 internet connections. SP, EP, FW, and PL each have one internet connection.

    If the primary internet connection goes down at either LC or ABI and failover occurs to the secondary internet connection, is there a way to set up the WireGuard VPN connections so that they also failover without purchasing some 3rd party application?

    Thanks.

  • Snort & Barnyard2

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    Not sure this was the right way to fix it but what worked for me was:

    ln -s /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.18 /lib/libmysqlclient.so.18

    Result:

    ldd /usr/local/bin/barnyard2 /usr/local/bin/barnyard2:         libmysqlclient.so.18 => /lib/libmysqlclient.so.18 (0x280d8000)         libz.so.5 => /lib/libz.so.5 (0x283e7000)         libpcap.so.7 => /lib/libpcap.so.7 (0x283f9000)         libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x28427000)         libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x28441000)         libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x2854a000)         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x2863e000)         libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x28649000)

    Both snort and barnyard2 start on reboot. (The symlink persists on reboot, so barnyard2 starts normally.)

    I don't know how permanent this fix is. I've always had some kind of issue with barnyard2 since pfSense v1.x. I will keep my eye on it, probably with a cron job.

    Hope this helps.

    Update: I also had to update the sensor.last_cid value or barnyard2 would die with a fatal error about that table and field, complaining about duplicate values in a unique primary key field? Something like that.

    At first I tried a value that was 1 greater than the largest value in event.cid but that choked, and barnyard2 died again – same error, just different field value reported as duplicate.

    What did work was I decided to add 10 to the highest value from event.cid to update sensor.last_cid value.

    Warning: Your mileage may vary with these hackish fixes.

  • [Fixed] [git] rc.start_packages: XML error

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    Yeah, OK now… TY!  8)

  • Squid proxy clients limitation

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    Limitation by traffic not supported in proxy. Try to use CaptivePortal & Radius

    Also, by my oppinion if you have unlimited internet tarif good idea bandwidth limitation per host.

  • Stunnel and IP Cameras

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    @apple5:

    you can try listening socket IP address and port $WAN:443

    ???

  • Package Manager: Unable to communicate with www.pfsense.com.

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    This thread - http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,66357.0.html - has some advice about how to cleanup package binaries and their startup scripts after doing a factory reset of the config.

  • AppCafe.org PFSense packages???

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    pfSense 2.1 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 and uses the PBI package system for the add-on packages.

  • Packages still present after factory reset

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    And there are probably package start/stop scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d

    [2.1-RC2][root]/usr/local/etc/rc.d(14): ls -l -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1311 Sep 10 07:12 bandwidthd.sh -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  325 Sep  9 09:42 cron.sh

    The pfSense bootup will be trying to execute each of these to start the corresponding package/daemon. Deleting these will stop that happening.
    The factory default config will have got rid of the GUI menu entries for any packages. And after doing pkg_delete as suggested by JimP you "should" be back to the base system. But there might be other remnants of some packages - as JimP says, a full wipe/reinstall is the way to be sure.

  • Advanced pfSense setup help. (Multi-package setup issues)

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    It would appear that all is well.  I halted the system waited 30 seconds powered it back on an were a go.  Everything came up.  Guess I will live with it for now.  Hope they fix the problem with it installing the additional package when its not needed.

    Is there a place I should post this as a bug to let the SG or Squid package makes know?

    Thanks again for all the help.

    DrClaw

  • Bandwidthd installation issues

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    I have added checks for this in the code, since people do this/report this quite often. It is easy enough for the code generating the config to not put the same subnet spec into the config twice.
    https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-packages/pull/482

  • Transparent Proxy an iPhone app store download doesnt work

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    another way is check these settings:

    Bypass proxy for Private Address Space (RFC 1918) destination

    Disable X-Forward

    Disable VIA

    Suppress Squid Version

    (then restart squid and try it)

    (basically I think apple is being fussy because squid was tattling on its self.  This should fix that, if its the issue.  Thats just a thought - I've not tested it specifically to see how it effects iPhone)

  • How can i Bypass squid proxy

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    Hi,
    it does not work with eg: google.com on squid GUI. squid GUI only allows IP addresses or aliases.

    Aliases can be created on pfsense FIREWALL –> Alias
    So if you want to bypass a website like www.google.com you need to find out the IP addresses or subnets google.com uses. Then you put these IP addreses into an alias and put this alias into squid GUI.

    I am not 100% sure but you can use google.com in a "Host" alias which then resolvs all IP addresses in the background. This alias can also be place on squid GUI.

    HINT:
    google.com does not resolve IP addresses for maps.google.com. So you need to put all domains and subdomains into this alias you need.

  • Squid3 & Sarge issue?

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    Could you post a screen of your config?

  • Ipfw-classifyd error

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  • How to upgrade packages?( such as: squid 1.0 Upgrade 1.5)

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    不用谢.  留神. ;)

  • NRPEv2 Feature Request

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  • Need help on FreeRadius!

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    Hi,

    you should start with this. It explains the basics, what to configure and what to test:
    http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/FreeRADIUS_2.x_package

  • Snort & VOIP

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    @lpallard:

    but Im WONDERING!  Quite different.

    I am wondering as well… if all the people wondering about all the borkage started nagging upstream directly about their obviously untested uberparanoid rules, would that fix something or is this just a completely lost cause.  ??? :-\ I wouldn't bet a dime on the commercial rulesets being any better.

  • Light squid report empty

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  • Why is Mailscanner using all my inodes?

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    Yeah, but that won't solve the real issue.

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