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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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    NUT version is 2.8.2_5 (I've already tried reinstalling the package)

    NUT seems to think it can't find the UPS, but usbconfig shows it to be present:

    [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@janus.jhmg.pvt]/usr/local/etc/rc.d: usbconfig ... ugen0.5: <PR1500LCDRT2U UPS Cyber Power System, Inc.> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON (2mA) ...

    Below is the console log attempting to start NUT from the command line.

    [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@janus.jhmg.pvt]/usr/local/etc/rc.d: ./nut.sh stop stopping NUT [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@janus.jhmg.pvt]/usr/local/etc/rc.d: ./nut.sh start starting NUT Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.8.2 Network UPS Tools upsd 2.8.2 fopen /var/db/nut/upsd.pid: No such file or directory Could not find PID file '/var/db/nut/upsd.pid' to see if previous upsd instance is already running! Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.53 (2.8.2) listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 USB communication driver (libusb 1.0) 0.47 listening on ::1 port 3493 Can't connect to UPS [CyberPower-1500] (usbhid-ups-CyberPower-1500): No such file or directory libusb1: Could not open any HID devices: no USB buses found No matching HID UPS found upsnotify: failed to notify about state 4: no notification tech defined, will not spam more about it Driver failed to start (exit status=1) Found 1 UPS defined in ups.conf Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.8.2 kill: No such process UPS: CyberPower-1500 (primary) (power value 1) Using power down flag file /etc/killpower

    Also

    [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@janus.jhmg.pvt]/usr/local/etc/nut: more ups.conf [CyberPower-1500] driver=usbhid-ups port=auto [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@janus.jhmg.pvt]/usr/local/etc/nut: egrep -v '^#' nut.conf MODE=none

    and this, which singles out the usbhid-ups driver as the problem:

    [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@janus.jhmg.pvt]/usr/local/etc/nut: /usr/local/libexec/nut/usbhid-ups -a CyberPower-1500 Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.53 (2.8.2) USB communication driver (libusb 1.0) 0.47 libusb1: Could not open any HID devices: no USB buses found No matching HID UPS found upsnotify: failed to notify about state 4: no notification tech defined, will not spam more about it
  • 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.

  • Installing Dashboard,Squid,bandwidthd on Pfsense

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  • Squid + Virtual IP. HTTPS won't work

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    As stated in the docs, you can proxy https and other traffic through squid but you must tell each program about the proxy, because if you tried to transparently proxy https traffic you would get security warnings.

  • SquidGuard https bug?

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    @jimp:

    I think that only works for AD, though you can setup WPAD and make people put their browsers on auto detect for proxy settings.

    Or just tell them "If you want HTTPS, use the proxy, otherwise you're stuck with HTTP"

    I use WPAD & this is good way - i can redefine proxy settings once for all users.

  • Snort rule modifcations broken?

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    @Derek:

    Yep.  it looks like you should be able to select a category in the drop-down box and then edit the rules from that category, but selecting something new in the drop down box changes nothing.

    That's not as big an issue for me.  I can still get to the various categories from the other page.  It's the actual rule editing that is messing things up for me.

  • Snort and packet logging

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  • RRD Graphs in SPAMD not working

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    I got the same under:
    RDD graphs => Traffic
    RDD graphs => Packets

    These works just fine:
    RDD graphs => System
    RDD graphs => Quality
    RDD graphs => Queues
    RDD graphs => Queuedrops

  • Need porn IP blacklist

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    Or you can use OpenDNS and not have to use the packages.  Shallalist is ok, but not anything close to comprehensive.

  • Snort dies whith automatic reset of PPPOE

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  • Installing bandwidthd on 1.2.3-RELEASE

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    I think you will need to download the existing config file and manually edit out any instances of bandwidthd , upload the edited config and reboot then install bandwidthd again.

  • Snort 2.8.6.1 pkg v1.34 on pfsense 1.2.3-RELEASE not working

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    Hello again!

    Snort is once again dead…

    After a reboot, it did not start, so I looked in the system logs and saw this:

    snort[2015]: FATAL ERROR: /usr/local/etc/snort/snort_20163_re1/snort.conf(423) Invalid configuration line: /snort_x11.rules May 22 17:01:05 snort[2015]: FATAL ERROR: /usr/local/etc/snort/snort_20163_re1/snort.conf(423) Invalid configuration line: /snort_x11.rules

    These rules were activated since I installed Snort.  Last time I posted here, they were activated and Snort was running fine (at least seemed to…)  So why now snort dies?

  • Snort Version Mismatch

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  • SquidGuard block partial URL String?

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    I guess I could block the home.php landing page, but I think I tried that and it also didn't work.

  • Snort is configured but not blocking or generating alerts

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    I checked my setup last night.

    Make sure you go to the Preprocessors tab and check all of the check boxes there.  If you don't, Snort won't inspect the http traffic, etc.

  • (portscan) UDP Filtered Portscan

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    Hi,

    First off i would like to thank you for helping me, i found it easier to disable the pre-processor ( option 3 ) for port scanning. When Snort was installed it never said to read the manual for help nor as far as i am aware gives any links to read a manual although i could be wrong.

    I dont think its very polite to start off your post the way you did but i am sure you meant well. You carnt say that to someone (in my case ) that never got the option to read the manual.

    Finally, with option 3 all i had to do was to uncheck "Enable Portscan Detection" - Detects various types of portscans and portsweeps. ??

    That's all i did, saved it and then restarted the snort interfaces

  • Nrpe2 commands

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    I found the solution:

    edit the /usr/local/pkg/nrpe2.xml
    In this file are all dropdown entrys defined.

  • Bandwidth graphs…

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    Hey Jimp,

    Yeah, I saw those. Apparently you have to set up the config part for County Block each time you upgrade in 2.0. I have corresponded with the guy who wrote it on this forum and I don't think there will be any issues. At least I hope not!

    I'm glad to hear you think that Country Block would be worse because I'm fairly certain that it will work fine.

    I can get around Linux and FreeBSD to a degree, but I'm not anywhere close to you guys. So I don't want to dig a hole I can't get out of!

    Thank you!

  • Avahi and some Macs keep changing their names

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    It must be something like that, but not sure why all are not impacted. I have two OpenVPN tunnels from my house in Atlanta to some servers north of the city, each going to a separate LAN interface on that pfSense, might that be the culprit? That network has two subnets for PCI Compliance (Internet facing servers separated from internal stations and not allowed to talk to the internal nodes).

  • BPF filters with pfflowd

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  • Squidguard - centralized config

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    Thanks for the response…I agree, I have thought of the parent/child proxy set up - but you are right, bandwidth usage would be very inefficient, so I don't really want to go that right...if there is no way to centralize the config, then we will just keep modifying them all :)

    Thanks!

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  • Squidguard Web filter list Error

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    There won't be enough room in /var on an ALIX to handle that. The blacklists should probably be downloaded to /root instead so it can work on nanobsd.

    Though with the amount of data and processing that goes into setting up the blacklists, be aware that it will cause a lot of writes on your CF, potentially shortening its life.

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