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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.

  • Status Traffic Totals - wrong value for PPPoE

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  • Freeradius not starting on boot

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  • NTOPNG not working

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  • Block youtube but allow specific youtube video in our website!

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    @goldenshark Hi, I know this is old but....I want to do the same thing.

    So in Squidguard we are supposed to able to block domains or even by specific URL's. On the FLIP side of that, we should be able to whitelist by domain or by URL.

    Therefore, what if I block the entire DOMAIN youtube.com, but then WHITELIST a specific youtube video URL?

    In theory this should work fine and the only limiting factor here would be THE ORDER that the block or whitelist items are applied by the filter!

    So for example, In Squidguard if I block the DOMAIN youtube.com with a Target Category and then I also create a target category to WHITELIST the url, www.youtube.com/mymovie, then why would it not work? I can SET which target category gets applied before the other in my ACL's. I would ASSUME, last one applied wins. So any whitelist item would override the block list.

    So in this example, if my BLOCK list is followed by my Whitelist when a request comes in, Youtube would be blocked first, then ALLOWED by my whitelist.

    Unfortunately, I could not get this to work. An I have no idea of how squidguard is actually applying filters in this sense. It seems to not be allowing the Whitelist to override the Block list.

    Anyone know how these Target Category's work in a hierarchy?

    Also, if you really want a mess, apply a default BLACK LIST in Squid and then it seems that ALL the black list filters get applied last and nullify any Target categories you added.

    Its not cool, as it is very quirky and sometimes you need to reboot Pfsense to even get the filters to work at all.

    MP

  • NUT issue with Netgate 3100

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    @gertjan said in NUT issue with Netgate 3100:

    @jostermacedo said in NUT issue with Netgate 3100:

    Cyber Power

    With a space ;)
    What version ?

    edit :
    See also NUT upsmon : at the bottom of the page you'll find a way to test.
    Another test : power pfSense from another wall outlet,and connect the USB to the UPS.
    Have the connection established.
    Login to to the console and/or SSH.
    Now remove the power from the UPS.
    Check the main pfSense logs. And what show up on the console ?

    edit 2 :
    You use probably the USB driver "usbhid-ups" : see here

    https://networkupstools.org/docs/man/usbhid-ups.html

    scroll down to "Unattended shutdowns" and do what is suggested.

    Gertjan,

    PfSense: 21.05.2
    NUT: 2.7.4_8

    thanks for the info. I'll try it tonight.

    Joster

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  • Fusefs NTFS problem on 2.5-RELEASE

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  • Snort Subscriber rules md5 download failed?

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    @jonathanlee

    It has arrived !!! Thank you!!!

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  • Empty Available Packages

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    johnpoz,

    Thank you very much for the guidance. I will perform as per the documentation.

  • ntopng-4.2.d20210309,1 stuck at v.3.4.0 [Community build]

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    Uncheck "Keep ntopng settings, graphs and traffic data" in settings and save. Uninstall official package. Intstall official package and disable ntopng in settings. Install official "sudo" package (or root login cli) . Open CLI and add packages in this order:

    sudo pkg add -f https://mirror.xtom.com/freebsd-pkg/FreeBSD%3A12%3Aamd64/latest/All/lua53-5.3.6.pkg

    sudo pkg add -f https://mirror.xtom.com/freebsd-pkg/FreeBSD%3A12%3Aamd64/latest/All/openldap24-client-2.4.59_4.pkg

    sudo pkg add -f https://mirror.xtom.com/freebsd-pkg/FreeBSD%3A12%3Aamd64/latest/All/ntopng-5.0.d20210923,1.pkg

    Enable ntopng in settings.

    Works for pfSense 2.5.2, amd64. Now you have version ntopng 5.0.2 :)

    Link for amr (FreeBSD 12): https://mirror.xtom.com/freebsd-pkg/

  • Fail to install pfBlockerNG devel

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    @technomilm

    Try this :
    Power down the device using Diagnostics => Halt system.
    As soon as the device is actually halted, remove the power cable.
    Take a the,coffee/whatever.
    Put the power back on, boot the device.
    You should be fine.

    Btw : pfSense was trying to load some 'package' files. If you were loading any other package, like 'Notes' or 'Cron' you would most probably see the same error, so it's not really 'pfBlockerNG devel ' related.

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  • Customize the FreeRADIUS Google Authenticator QR-Code Issuer name

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  • Fall-Through = Yes attribute not recognized?

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  • FreeRADIUS and LDAP

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  • Telegraf Module Source Code?

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    @bmeeks awesome! thanks for the info! gives me a jump start when i tinker on this during the week, will definitely lab test it on some spare hardware.

  • TOR proxy

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    As evidenced by the dearth of replies to your question, TOR, however noble its original design and intention, has had its reputation severely tarnished by association with the dark web and its bad actors. Thus I suspect no self-respecting firewall admin would consider putting anything TOR anywhere near their firewall.

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    @hulleyrob If I had to guess there are some things in redmine about packages not installing on reinstall, and this one talks about forcing reinstall sort of thing..

    https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/12235

    To report the issue you have experienced we would really need some more details, and copies of your config you restored, etc..

    But as you said its easy enough to work around.. But yeah it could get frustrating for someone, sure..

  • FreeRADIUS 1st setup - authentication failed. How to troubleshoot?

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    @NogBadTheBad @Gertjan :
    I received my spare SG-1100, set it up using the absolute basics and installed the FreeRADIUS package on that unit. Exact same issue.

    So the problem was the FreeRADIUS Server Certificate which was not created automatically, like in Tom's video. Right after installing the package I got the following notice:
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    This was exactly the same on my production SG-1100 unit.

    I don't understand why the SC could not be created where the CA was created just fine. I found this other post right here on the forums of another SG-1100 user running into the same issue. Could this be related to the SG-1100 specifically?

    Anyway I created a Server Certificate under de FreeRADIUS CA and boom the server is running and it is authenticating.

    Just one question as this is the first time I create my own certificate: The common name field cannot be left blank or I'll get an error creating the certificate:
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    However I didn't know what to enter there for this special FreeRADIUS use case. So I just entered a non-existing url. Will that be adequate?

    Thanks for your help!

    Pete

  • NUT disable anonymous access?

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    @zoltrix
    It seems you are correct, if I load nut on a workstation, I can poll statistics if I know the configured name and address without any configuration on the client side. You could make this harder by choosing a unique name instead of the default 'ups'. I don't see this as a security risk, but the nut manual has a section 'Notes on securing NUT' which may be of use. An easy fix on pfsense would be to block LAN access to the NUT port for all but trusted workstations.

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