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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.

  • Build DHCP6c from source on SG-1100

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  • pimd - doesn't appear to work

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    @kmarston fixed it, thanks!

  • BIND/Avahi/radiusd packages missing from 2.6.0?

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    @johnpoz - both of those packages appear to now be in the "available packages" list. Seems odd that for a couple hours they (BIND/Avahi) were 'missing' from the list, but hours later appear. Following the commentary from posts about "install from scratch" (using the copy config.xml to USB for restore) - only impact was where those two packages were absolutely required. Interesting on the naming aspect. Under 2.5.2, made sure that all the packages had been on the latest version, prior to upgrade. Not sure if that artifact is useful.

    While a bit off topic - where BIND/Avahi weren't required, the process was flawless and (as others have noted) there appears to be a sense of increased performance. (Hats off to folks responsible)

    Thanks!

  • new System Patches v2.0

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    @luckman212 said in new System Patches v2.0:

    @jimp I had to flip my update branch from 22.05 to 22.01 in order to see the 2.0_4 version. I installed it and then flipped back to the 22.05 track. Is that "normal"?

    I didn’t have to do this
    FYI

  • HAProxy shared front end error files

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  • LCDproc port

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    The end result (that wouldn't involve recompiling my own kernel/drivers etc) was to simply change the VID/PID in the display from the out of box settings of 0x1b3d/0x0155 to the FTDI defaults of 0x0403/0x6001. You can do this with "FT_Prog" on another computer running Windows or you can do it with another computer using "ft232r_prog" on Ubuntu Linux.....

    sudo ./ft232r_prog --old-vid 0x1b3d --old-pid 0x0155 --new-vid 0x0403 --new-pid 0x6001 ft232r_prog: version 1.25, by Mark Lord. eeprom_size = 128 vendor_id = 0x1b3d product_id = 0x0155 self_powered = 0 remote_wakeup = 0 suspend_pull_downs = 0 max_bus_power = 500 mA manufacturer = MO product = LK202-25-USB serialnum = 01wwkXXX high_current_io = 0 load_d2xx_driver = 0 txd_inverted = 0 rxd_inverted = 0 rts_inverted = 0 cts_inverted = 0 dtr_inverted = 0 dsr_inverted = 0 dcd_inverted = 0 ri_inverted = 0 cbus[0] = TxDEN cbus[1] = TxDEN cbus[2] = TxDEN cbus[3] = PwrEn cbus[4] = TxDEN Rewriting eeprom with new contents. /tmp/MO/ft232r_prog-1.25$ sudo ./ft232r_prog --save MO-lk202-25.dump ft232r_prog: version 1.25, by Mark Lord. MO-lk202-25.dump: wrote 128 bytes eeprom_size = 128 vendor_id = 0x0403 <---- IT'S DIFFERENT NOW product_id = 0x6001 <---- AND THIS IS TOO self_powered = 0 remote_wakeup = 0 suspend_pull_downs = 0 max_bus_power = 500 mA manufacturer = MO product = LK202-25-USB serialnum = 01wwkXXX high_current_io = 0 load_d2xx_driver = 0 txd_inverted = 0 rxd_inverted = 0 rts_inverted = 0 cts_inverted = 0 dtr_inverted = 0 dsr_inverted = 0 dcd_inverted = 0 ri_inverted = 0 cbus[0] = TxDEN cbus[1] = TxDEN cbus[2] = TxDEN cbus[3] = PwrEn cbus[4] = TxDEN No change from existing eeprom contents.

    Once that's done, you can plug it back in to pfsense and the driver will pick it up and ugen will do it's thing etc.... You'll finally end up with all of the

    /dev/cuaU0
    /dev/cuaU0.init
    /dev/cuaU0.lock

    things that you need in /dev/ that you can then use to point the webUI/lcdproc towards.

  • How to setup FreeRADIUS + MySQL

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  • Process to get package into official repositories?

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    Typically I believe the Netgate team expects a pull request against the appropriate GitHub repository. For packages, that would be ../pfsense/FreeBSD-ports available here: https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports.

    There are some specific requirements in order for packages to work within the pfSense ecosystem. You can look over some of the packages to see what those are. GUI packages will start with the string "pfSense-pkg-*". Any underlying binary component is assumed to exist within the regular Ports tree of FreeBSD.

  • HAProxy - Shared Front End but Do not Use CSP

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    yeah - knew it must be a stupid question. found the option to add the CSP to the specific backend rather than in the shared frontend. all good

  • Backup package causes crash report in pfSense 2.6.0

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    @robert_knabe

    As far as I know, no one is complaining about the small file size handling capability of pfSense.
    The RRD files will still fit into the confiig file, and if logs are important (they are for me) an external syslogger shiould be used.

    But, why not, if you want, you can modify the php.ini file, as that's the way to change memory available to PHP.

    Two options :
    Write a small shell script that modifies the memory_limit if it doesn't contain the right value for you. Have this script started with the startcmd pfSense package. Use commands like 'sed' to replace a text in the file. You probably have to restart the PHP-FPM to take the new setting in account.

    Or, edit the php.ini file, and keep the old one.
    Create a diff file from these two files.
    Use the diff file and the pfSense patch package to patch the existing php.ini file.
    You will still have to restart php-fpm to have the modification taken in account.

    Both solutions will persist even after a pfSense upgrade.

    You could add a feature request, just keep in mind that it would be granted only if a lot of people are asking for it.

  • pfsense squid reverse proxy emails with attachments not sent via mac os

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  • avahi mDNS - enable verbose mode?

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  • Upgrading to 22.01 from 21.05.2 services broken

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    Please show the contens of /usr/local/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf, and tail -n 50 /var/log/system.log output after restarting Avahi.

  • Netgate Firmware Upgrade package not working after move to 0.51

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    Disregard. Upgraded OS to pfSense 22.01 and the package works fine now.

  • HAPROXY strange error after adding http-redirect frnt end

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  • Anyone could create a Fast.com widget based on the speedtest-widget one ?

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  • Is a new package version available for new pfSense version?

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    @steveits
    Thanks again!
    Yes, if I configure System -> Updates to stay at 2.5.2 (DEPRECATED) I do not see any available updates for my apps.

    But when I change to 2.6.0 I see updates for some of the apps. Still not for all, but this should be not an issue as they will run anyways- because there is no red sign then.

    Ok, I think I got it!

    Thanks a lot!

    /KNEBB

  • FreeRADIUS: Attributes Conflicting with GUI Login

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    @nogbadthebad

    Correct. Supermicro IPMI.

    Most of my searches found people having issues getting authentication working with Supermicro.

    My issue is that all other devices that use RADIUS for authentication are all working (UPS’s, Supermicro IPMI, TrippLite PDU). It’s just the pfSense itself.

  • HAProxy and other hosted sites on the same IP

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    Not sure if you figured it out already since this post is a few days old, but I think you need to do two things:

    Remove your "Default Backend" entry (if you have a default entry, everything will be sent to that backend, regardless of the ACL you defined above) For the "Use Backend" action, you wanna populate the "Condition Acl Name" field or else the action wont match.
    So in your case, set the "condition acl name" to "LookingGlass" (the name you gave your "Host Matches:" ACL)

    You now should get a 503 error for all other requests until you define another acl that matches the host name and send that to the same (or a different) backend via another "Use Backend" action entry.

    Hope this helps. Still a beginner with ha proxy so not sure if this is the way to go, but for me in a similar situation that was what I had to do.

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