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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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    I saw where the Netgate kernel developer updated the Suricata package in the pfSense 25.07 development branch to work with the new kernel PPPoE driver. But so far as I know that updated package has not been migrated to 2.8 CE.

    Here is the commit into the DEVEL branch: https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commit/68a06b3a33c690042b61fb4ccfe96f3138e83b72.

  • 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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    @AlexK-0 said in Can't receive GeoIP databases updates anymore, banned:

    Days ago, I received from MaxMind an email, notifying me that my country has been banned to receive GeoLite City database updates.

    You've found a reason to use a VPN.

  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @elvisimprsntr thanks for your suggestion. I will give it a try.

  • 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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    @patient0 Thanks for further suggestions. The tunnel is definitely up and so I don't think this is a CGNAT issue after all. WAN firewall rule is in place for UDP on port 51823 (otherwise the tunnel wouldn't work, right?). I can ping from client 1 -> client 2 and visa versa and also ping all points in between like you suggest. I just can't open an HTTPS connection from pfSenseB from Client 1 using a browser. But I can do this the other way round i.e. from Client 2 to pfSenseA

    I will try and do some packet capture to see if that reveals anything.

  • Siproxd, setup and configuration for voip… works great!!!

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    And what will happen if I have CARP, so my WAN have a private ip address?
    I will have to use host_outbound = mypublicip in the configuration file, but how to edit the file and avoid pfsense gui to overwrite it?

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    @Supermule:

    Didnt that get updated via the GUI??

    @DigitalDeviant:

    I jusat signed up for VRT rules and cannot get them to install after a reinstall and reconfiguration of snort. I'm currently running 2.0.2-RELEASE (amd64).

    Edit: The issue may lie with my Snort account. I was unable to manually pull 2.9.4.1 rules with my Oinkmaster URL; I got an error saying I was not a subscriber, though I can manually download the 2.9.4.1 rules. I was able to pull 2.9.4.0 via Oinkmaster URL.

    Edit 2: All problems with my account are cleared and I still cannot automatically download Snort 2.9.4.1 rules.

    Edit 3: I had to change {$oinkid} in snort_check_for_rule_updates.php with my actual Oinkid. Then it worked.

    I haven't had time to troubleshoot any further. I have confirmed I have the right Oikcode in the GUI. Unless I change it in both spots it wound download the MD5 or rules. I don't have the exact errors from the system logs but it seemed like the download link was wrong so I'm guessing that it's not getting the Oinkcode variable. Troubleshooting time is minimal so any ideas on how to proceed would be appreciated.

  • Squidguard block two particualr websites

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    Hey Barry!

    I got it blocked it using squid and squidguard!

    My settings squid on transparent proxy and on squidguard with blacklist "http://www.shallalist.de/Downloads/shallalist.tar.gz",

    denied these two "[blk_BL_hobby_games-misc] - [blk_BL_hobby_games-online]" on both tabs Common ACL and Groups ACL!
    and it blocked those two websites.!

    One more thing about squidguard after making all the changes inside move to the "General settings" tab and scroll to the end and SAVE the settings first and then HIT apply on top of the same page.

    Good-Day!

  • Freeradius: [pfsense-2.0.2] "no response from server" [RESOLVED]

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    The 127.0.0.1 user entry did the trick!  Before this, I had even created an entry for the specific IP address of the pfsense box, which didn't work.

    Thank YOU!

  • How can I block remote access services

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  • WPA-Radius and freeradius2d

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    Hi,

    can you make sure that the server certificate for the RADIUS server is a "server" certificate and not a client certificate ?
    Where did you create the certificate?
    Did you select the CA and the server cert in freeradius –> EAP --> CERTIFICATES FOR TLS ?
    If you created the certificate/CA on pfsense then you need to empty the "Private Key Password".

    Sometimes it works after clicking a second time on the "Save" button on the freeradius --> EAP page.

    If your Linux/Android clients does not support PEAP + MSCHAPv2 then you should use some other mechanism than MSCHAPv5. Try with MD5. It's not a security problem because PEAP establishes a TLS tunnel and this is secure and it doesn't matter what is happening within the tunnel unless it is compatbile with your devices.

  • Squid2 + HAVP on pfsense 2.x - is HAVP outdated ?

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    Thank you for your feedback.

    If I remember correct on an some weeks old test environment I installed HAVP and I could see that ClamAV version wasn't the actual version as it is on the clamav homepage. I am not sure if all signatuires and programcodes are still up to date on the HAVP package or if these will update automatically.

    Using an "old" version of HAVP proxy isn't the main problem i think because it is just redirecting traffic throu7gh ClamAV but it makes no sense (in my opinion) to redirect traffic through an old/utdates antivirus scanner and lose performance even if the scanner is not on the newest version an cannot find "all" viruses.

    I would be interested if ClamAV is independent from HAVP and updates itself? How does this work on other packages like Danguardian?

  • Snort segfaulting on startup w/ http pre-processors enabled

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    What a great find!!!

  • Snot not starting: Invalid argument to 'server_flow_depth'.

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    @AhnHEL:

    @bmeeks:

    FYI.  I now have this functionality working in my latest test build of the Snort GUI.

    Wow, that was fast Bill.  Excellent work, cant wait to try out all the new improvements.

    Here is a link to my Github repository showing my latest changes:

    https://github.com/bmeeks8/pfsense-packages/commits/master

    You can look at the Commit History.  Changes after March 22 have NOT yet been submitted to the pfSense team.  I hope to do that in a day or two.

    Bill

  • SARG daily reports

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  • Reverse Proxy - Squid3 or Varnish

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    Search the forum on squid3 of reverse squid3. There are a lot of topics over this. Including instructions.
    Beter is just try. I prefer squid3.  It's easy to use and to learn.

  • Snort Rules Update weirdness

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    @ccb056:

    Maybe there is something wrong with running both Snort and ET rules at the same time….

    No there shouldn't be a problem, I run both sets in my production system.  I run different sets on different interfaces.  My updates happen without any problems.  If you have not yet, a reboot of that box might help.

    I'm still doing quite a bit of testing various scenarios with the newest Snort package in a virtual machine environment.  I have found a few quirks in the PHP code that I am cleaning up and improving.  Hope to have a GUI code update to submit this weekend.  One area where I made some changes is in the rules update code (but nothing that I expect would definitely cause or correct the issue you see – still, it might help).

    Bill

  • How to select the transparent interface for Squid

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    thx for your answer !

    The thing is, I wanna do Radius or Local authentification on LAN (because the computer are multi-user) and just Mac logging on Wifi (wich is single user device).

    So I need the LAN interface not to be transparent and the WiFi to be (espcially because Android's Phone older than 4.0 can't add proxy settings for browsing ).

    Not sur i'm really clear …

    On IPCOP or smoothwall I can do it juste like that :

    So it's possible but I don't know how to do it with Pfsense …

  • Dansguardian block report to cgi crash

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    what version of dansguardian are you using?

    If you are using latest version, it's better to post it on dansguardian sourceforge bug report.

  • Does Snort work on Virtual IP's?

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    No worries. Will set one up during easter holidays when wife and kids are out shopping :D

  • Maia Mailguard or another SpamAssassin Frontend?

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    @adiadasman:

    You mean just drop down to the FreeBSD prompt and install the package? Not in a jail? I am sorry, I have just started using pfSense, so I am still trying to familiarize myself with it. I would also need to install MySQL as well, correct?

    Yes, just use pkg_add -r

    for amd64 on freebsd 2.0.x

    pkg_add -r http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/amd64/packages-8.1-release/security/maia-1.0.2a_3.tbz

    Test it on a virtual machine first to see if it breaks or not pfsense gui.

  • Snort blocks WAN IP after update

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    @joako:

    My understanding it was already patched but with the same version number, uninstall + reinstall resolved it for me.

    Correct.  The Version Number was not incremented for the latest fix for WAN IP blocking.  Just uninstall and reinstall as suggested and the "fix will be in"… :)

    Bill

  • How do you tell Squid to redirect all connections?

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    Redirects only function when a page is blocked - it's the replacement for a block message.  Try it with a block message and no redirect and see if the clients you wish to redirect get the block message.  You will also need to add a the redirect site to the Target Categories tab then set that page to Allow on the Allowed Clients rule or Whitelist it on the Common ACL page.  Otherwise it ends up in a loop of trying to visit the redirect page, oops, redirect page is blocked, so redirect, oops, redirect page blocks, so redirect . . .

  • Will vnstat2 retain old data on NanoBSD system?

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    If it stores the data in /var or /tmp then no it will not survive a reboot.

    The RRD backup only works for RRD graphs built into pfSense, not packages.

  • Pfsense with squid and squidGuard blocks http access

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    It works!  ;D
    Thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much!
    I tried so many different and complicated things that I am so disppointed that it was such a detail !
    @ futare
    I do not know if it could help but I found today a very good article here : http://fafadiatech.blogspot.fr/2012/05/build-your-own-unified-threat.html
    It explains how to calculate cach size and many other things.
    Hope you'll find information which will help you.

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