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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.

  • PfSense and Ntop Q

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    Thanks.  That fixed the problem.

  • Could Squid/Squid3/etc. consolidate live streams?

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    I'm not sure if squid3 with dynamic contents enabled can handle this.

    An option to test may be a varnish daemon configured as proxy in front of squid cache.

    http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4962

  • Not sure if bug - pfBlocker - pfctl Cannot allocate memory

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    @marcelloc:

    It's not a bug, you need to:

    empty/disable your lists

    Increase Firewall Maximum Table Entries on system -> advanced -> firewall/nat

    re enable pfblocker lists

    Yep, there it was.. config defaulted to 200K and I didn't even notice it.

    There is a bug, though. After deleting lists, the table isn't being updated correctly. Reproducing is pretty easy, but iffy - add 5 lists, delete the 3rd. Aliases update correctly, but file table does not - instead it acts as though list 5 was deleted instead of list 3. Only happens sometimes though.

  • Dansguardian not working after reboot

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    The fix is not working for me …

  • PFsense postfix how to

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    @lovin_it:

    Is there any way to use pfSense with postfix with my config? I am a little bit confused because I have found no thread concerning my problems with the POP3-matter…

    This package has no pop3 fetch integration and will not work with your full custom config. You can merge your config using custom options.

    To use postfix on you system without the gui, follow these steps:

    Remove postfix package

    On console/ssh, install postfix binaries using pkg_add -r http://files.pfsense.org/packages/amd64/8/All/postfix-2.8.7%2c1.tbz(amd64 version)

    Install filer package and open it`s gui (diagnostics -> filer)

    add postfix startup script to filer config(it will load current file)

    Edit default startup status from NO to YES and save file

    create your postfix config file and select startup script to run after file changes

    Not easy but not impossible too  :)

  • Install Package from the shell

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    @alexand3r:

    I've unzipp the tar.gz but now I do not know how I can install it on the pfsense, the command install or make install doesn't seem to work and after several searches over the web I couldn't find a way to do this.

    It is on freebsd ports, you do not need to compile it

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=Csync2&stype=all

    get the tbz package from freebsd archive:
    i386
    http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/

    amd64
    http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/amd64/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/

  • WPAD not working

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    mohandshamada,

    I think you need a rule before this http deny rule allowing access to lan_address at http port.

    If users can't access wpad file they can't get access to proxy.

    att,
    Marcello Coutinho

  • Freeradius - 802.1x lan auth

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    Some NAS do a "fake" MAC-Auth. They put the mac address of the host as username and password.
    If that's the fac then you need to add this "user" in freeradius -> users

  • Facebook Ads

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    I'm still working on figuring this out.  It seems like squidGuard won't block frames properly.  Adblock seems to remove frames and shift the content whereas squidGuard creates the frame but makes it blank.

    I'm loading easylist in to squidGuard using the following method:
    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=19756.0

    Can someone tell me if the following Facebook entries in the expressions file are correct?

    –---------------------
    ||facebook.com/whitepages/wpminiprofile.php?partner_id=
    facebook.com###fbPhotoSnowliftAdsSide
    facebook.com###home_sponsor_nile
    facebook.com##.ego_spo
    facebook.com##.fbEmu
    facebook.com##.fbEmuBlock
    facebook.com##.fbEmuEgo
    facebook.com##.fbEmuEgoUnit
    facebook.com##.fbEmuLink
    facebook.com##.fbPhotoAdsCol
    facebook.com##.fbPhotoSnowboxAds
    facebook.com##.fbTimelineSideAds
    facebook.com##a[ajaxify^="/ajax/emu/end.php?"]
    facebook.com##a[href^="/ajax/emu/end.php?"]
    –---------------------

    I'm wondering if the conversion filter (regex.sed) is working properly ("cat easylist.txt | sed -f regex.sed > expressions").    My regex.sed file is as follows:

    /@@./d;
    /^!./d;
    /^[.]$/d;
    s#http://##g;
    s,[.?=&/|],\&,g;
    s##.#g;
    s,$.$,,g;
    –---------------------

  • Squid Error Footer

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    OK I figured this out.  All you have to do is put a comment open at the ending of the error file.  i.e.

  • Squid_ldap_auth AD user password issues.

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    I'm working to see why went the users have special characters it has issues.

    Thanks for your info Gloom, see u latter!!!

  • How to troubleshoot dansguardian

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    marcellocM

    try to run dansguardian on console to see if it returns a config error

  • Http https traces who? When ? What ?

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  • Unsupported packages on unsupported architectures

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    @cmb:

    USB flash has the same write limits as CF.

    Agreed, however if the USB flash drive exceeds the max. number of writes that it can handle, it will crash and burn without crashing the entire firewall in the process. At worst it would stop showing up as a drive, and pfSense could fall back to using the flash RAM to store the files. In theory, that is. :-)

    @cmb:

    The only option would be to add an external hard drive for such storage, which is difficult and not supported for a variety of reasons, primarily because the partitions can't easily be split up in the fashion that would be required.

    Hmm.. I'm interested in the background on why external drives aren't supported, but I have a feeling that goes outside the scope of this post. If you're so inclined, PM me with the details. If not, I certainly understand.

    For the sake of argument, let's forget about external storage entirely. What about network-based storage? For instance, what if I could hypothetically mount a NFS or SMB share from pfSense to a NAS device, like FreeNAS? In that scenario the amount of storage would be virtually limitless since squidguard/squid log files are not large in the grand scheme of file storage.

    As you can see, the gears in my head are turning. These devices are incredibly useful. pfSense is incredibly useful. If there's any way to overcome the finer points of using the appliance instead of a PC, I'm all about it.

    Thanks (as always) in advance!

  • Snort: Rules with flow:established won't trigger alerts?

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  • Squidguard problems on some websites with multiple slashes

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  • Snort: List of blocked IPs not cleaned up

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    @Cino:

    re-appy the Global Settings page and Interface Edit: If Settings page. This should re-create the missing cron job

    I was having the same issue, following the above worked for me as well. Thanks

  • Help with package freeradius simultaneous connections

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    Your post is difficult to understand for me.  ;)

    If your NAS supports "account"ing then Simultaneous-Use will work.

    If you use pfsense Captive portal then try with "Disable concurrent logins".

  • Squid 3 & reverse proxy?

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    marcellocM

    follow this thread

    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,48347.0.html

    squid-reverse and squid3 is now merged.

    Try to use squid without transparent mode.

  • HAProxy 1.4.20 for PFSense

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    @jwelter99:

    Anyone working on an update?  1.4.19 is available, but 1.4.20 adds some bug fixes and specifically fixes some FreeBSD related build issues.

    Haproxy pfsense package is on 1.4.20.

    What version of pfsense are you using?

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