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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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    @MacUsers

    https://help.zerossl.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060119933-Certificate-Revocation

    edit: oh you prob out of luck

    You can revoke any certificate issued via the ZeroSSL portal. Currently, certificates issued via ACME can not be revoked from inside the portal - please follow the instructions of your ACME client for revoking those certificates.

    the gui in pfsense does not have the ability to revoke - you prob have to move the certs to something you have certbot installed to and revoke that way.

  • 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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    For 25.07 RC, this worked for me (run sh first)

    [25.07-RC][root@r1.lan]/root: sh # export IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes # pkg add https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.84.2.pkg # service tailscaled restart # tailscale up # tailscale version 1.84.2 go version: go1.24.4 # tailscaled -version 1.84.2 go version: go1.24.4
  • 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.

  • Local Transparent + WAN Authenticated Squid Proxy possible

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  • Bandwidth monitoring?

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    Yes, the draw graph checkbox should now be checked on initial install. The graph data should go on and off based on the checkbox setting (previously it always did "draw graph", the checkbox was not effective). The "bandwidthd has nothing to graph…" initial page got cached in my browser (Firefox) - I messed around for a while wondering why nothing displayed, then forcibly refreshed the page and the bandwidthd graphs appeared. So try a page refresh, or clear your browser cache. bandwidthd tries to write its data to different places in "/usr" depending on the pfSense version: switch ($pfs_version) {   case "1.2":   case "2.0":     define('PKG_BANDWIDTHD_BASE', '/usr/local/bandwidthd');     break;   default:     define('PKG_BANDWIDTHD_BASE', '/usr/pbi/bandwidthd-' . php_uname("m") . '/bandwidthd'); }

    But on nanobsd "/usr" is read-only. So everything goes well until it wants to actually write the graph data!
    There used to be some other issues with packages that wrongly left "/usr" read-write. At those times, bandwidthd could "jump in" and write its graph data. If the system was in this state for a few weeks, there were lots of writes to the CF card. I think this was a reason why I killed a CF card a few months ago.
    Anyway, bandwidthd on nanobsd is not expected to work at present (certainly does not work on 2.1-BETA0). I am going to make some code changes to put the graph data in "/var" on nanobsd but haven't got to it yet. For that, I also need to think about what to do about periodically saving a copy to the CF card (and at shutdown) and reloading it on startup.

  • Cannot Play Youtube Videos Using Squid Proxy

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    Hi,

    First of all thanks for your replies, my problem is solved, it was following two lines in config http://fpaste.org/wKm7/

    request_body_max_size 20 KB
    reply_body_max_size 51200 deny all

    i changed this two lines & now youtube is working correctly.

    Thank You.

  • Snort Categories

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    As logger mentioned just click the Edit button next to the interface you want to configure.
    Kind of makes sense since you might want different categories and rules for different interfaces.

    Logger, thanks for the suggestion about preprocessors.

  • Tracking down traffic

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    ntop and bandwidthd will tell you what ip/protocol did the traffic

  • Snort White/Suppresion lists

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  • Snort not respecting whitelist aliases anymore

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    Thank you Ermal, for the quick response.
    What config files and logs specifically do you need?

    Do you need the specific blocking events logged by snort?
    Or the contents of the Aliases from the config.xml?

  • Auto Squid Cache Clean Script

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  • Squid msgget failed

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    thanks for reply.

    1 i can't find the ssl_crdt command
    /usr/local/libexec/squid/ssl_crtd -c -s /var/squid/lib/ssl_db

    2 can't find this directory
    delete /var/squid/lib directory

    i think i must be running a different version of pfsense/squid.

    3 /usr/local/sbin/squid -z
    i've been seeing a lot of this command, so i decided to jump in using this

    http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/OperatingSquid#I_want_to_restart_Squid_with_an_empty_cache

    and so far, squid been up.

    thanks much for the reply

  • Snort 2.9.2.3 pkg 2.5.1 not generating any alerts or blocking

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    @RoFz:

    How dumb of me! I've just found the categories tab and after enabling the needed categories everything started working. My apologies for posting such a dumb problem.

    how do you enable those rules and found the categories tab ? shed some light TIA

  • OpenBGPD 0.5.2 unable to start

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    I am facing the same problem , what do you mean by "run /var/etc/openbgpd/bgpd.conf" ?

  • Dansguardian force safesearch

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    @hanzer:

    thx! will check it out!

    BTW… the other thing you might want to consider is that google now does SSL search by default if you are logged in (see http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=173733). If someone is using SSL google search, the URL parameters and the returned content is not checked by Dans. You can get around this by making some changes to resolve the google address to nosslsearch.google.com.

  • Bandwidthd - where to write on nanobsd

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  • Varnish and pfSense 2.1 betas. Is it compatible package?

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  • Block facebook for android app with squid

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    I managed to solve the problem with Aliases (CIDR) and firewall rules also with enabled transparent proxy in squid.

  • Google noop crashing snort

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    Doesn't cause any problems on our systems.
    However it may not be down to snort per se but could be caused by the rules you have active.

    Is there anything in the system logs?

  • Cant get squid to work properly.

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    Nope I unchecked it and now its simply caching static stuff. There is no config I can make it cache dynamic as youtube, windows update or other.

    Simply when I tick cache dynamic content, all I get are TCP MISS 200, if I uncheck it, I get hits for static content.

  • OpenBGPD 0.5.6 - Simple startup bug fixed - Hello package maintainer!!

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    @pfinch:

    In pfSense 2.0.1-RELEASE, OpenBGPD 0.5.6 the /var/etc/openbgpd/bgpd.conf permissions are set wrong causing OpenBGPD not to start.

    chmod 600 /var/etc/openbgpd/bgpd.conf fixes the issue.

    On a clean install I'm facing this issue too: pfSense 2.0.1-RELEASE (amd64), OpenBGPD 0.5.6

    My setup also complains for missing /usr/local/etc/bgpd.conf
    To be able to run OpenBGPD I've had to:

    ln -s /var/etc/openbgpd/bgpd.conf /usr/local/etc/bgpd.conf chmod 600 /var/etc/openbgpd/bgpd.conf
  • [Solved]Dansguardian installed but doens't filter

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    Ok, fixed.
    Thanks to the replies above!

  • Anyone actually got upstream proxy working on 2.0 using 2 pfSense boxes?

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    @marcelloc:

    On first Box, create a nat rule with
    source LAN nat
    destination any
    Destination port 80
    server ip second pfsense on dmz
    Server port 3128

    On second box enable squid.

    So.. squid in transparent mode and all that setup on the first box?  As in, all of the cache management settings have to be setup on the first box ?
    Lightsquid setup on which box?  If it has to be that cache and lightsquid need to be setup on the second box, how can i transfer all lightsquid logs from the first box to the second one?  i would like that all of the data that i see now in my lightsquid reports, still be on the new setup, combined with all new data.

    In the past i think you mentioned that in this setup squid needs to be installed on both boxes.. i just wonder where all the settings for cache management need to be setup, i would guess the second box, but i dont see how i can have squid enabled on the first box without any settings.

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