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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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    @qinn
    Sent him an email Dan an email to the address on his site.. Not sure what is happening, my Teams stopped working. Disable it/turn it off and the problem went away.

  • 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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    @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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    @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.

  • Squidguard little problem

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    @dvserg:

    Allow news - not use White.

    thank you for your help. It works great. It is written but i've missed it. :)

  • IMSpector

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    What you did should suffice, however I have noticed that imspector only works when it wants… any chance to fix this by the package creator?

    My install only captures one out of every many IM conversations via MSN...

  • [ask] sibling with 2 pfsense proxy

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  • Slow DNS w/Squid - Fix

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    for troubleshooting issues with squid, looking at the output from squid using the squid manager info screen to be invaluable.  From the command line you can do something like:

    #squidclient -p 3127 mgr:info

    This will show you, among many other tasty squid-related treats, the various amount of time different parts of the squid request took.  If you find DNS resolution taking an obscene amount of time, then your troubleshooting task is already mostly done.

  • Squid slowing down internet?

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    Those didn't really help.  It turns out that the problem was my browser.  It never completely shut down and therefore was taking up a ton of memory and being unresponsive.

  • Allow access to a site wich is blocked by category (socialnet)

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    I'm assuming that you're doing transparent filtering using squid+squidguard.  If this is the case, you're quite limited in your ability to filter.  You can create an alternative filter set with a group of allowed sites you want and allow those before blocking the rest.  Or, if you need to only allow those sites to a handful of users, you'll want to consider using authenticated filtering instead of transparent since then you can filter by user or user group.  It is also possible to filter by requesting IP, so it really depends on your requirements how to attack this problem.  Spend some quality time with the squidGuard documentation and I'm sure you'll find the solution that best fits your scenario.

  • Squid Configuration

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    Some tips like that can be found here:
    http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Squid_Package_Tuning#Caching_Windows_Updates

  • Rate Package

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    There are some small bugs with rate that have been fixed here and there on 2.0. I'm not sure if that was one of them, but if rate is that important, you might give 2.0 a spin and see if it's been resolved there.

  • Squid cache management page does not save

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    get clean install again perhaps …

    and dont much installed/uninstalled package for machine

  • Anyone able to install SqStat on 1.2.3?

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    it should be in official package :)

  • Snort emergingthreats New Rulesets

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    @ToxIcon:

    jamesdean

    emergingthreats.net:  The New Rulesets are Ready!!!! Saturday, 09 October,
    how can i point snort to http://rules.emergingthreats.net/open/snort-2.8.6/
    to pull the new open ruleset . or is it pulling the rules from their.

    Thanks

    Soon as I can thanks for the update.

  • I cannot remove package from "installeg packages" in web gui

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    Thank you for quick help.
    It was very easy:
    1. find config.xml file in /conf folder.
    2. remove all squid entries in it.
    3. reboot system.

  • Squid - Bypass proxy for these destination IPs

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    Exists rules priority:
    white - hight
    block - normal
    allow - low

  • Havp-0.91_1

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  • Unable to install Open-VM-tools on v1.2.3

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    no one really ?

    does nobody installs pfSense in virtual machines or nobody's using this package ?

  • SNORT install broken? (PFS 1.2.3)

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    I did a fresh install of pfSense-1.2.3. Try to Install Snort-2.8.6.1. interface just shows "Installing perl-threaded for x86… Please wait Installing..."

    I can configure snort just by URL. Snort is running and logs alerts and attempts to systemlog. Only snort isn't in the services-sevtion nor in submenu as snort neither in "installed packages". According to browserwindows snort has version 2.8.6.1 v1.34 but i downloaded version 1.35 from packageslist. something is really broken here! A fix please.

    hardware;
    PIII600, Intel440BX-chipset, 512MB sdram, 512MB compactflash Transcend UDMA with IDE2CF-convertor, 3x 3Com ? (xl-drivers).

  • Mount_smbfs - Mount a remote Windows share

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    That was exactly the issue.
    Thanks a lot!!

  • How to pass LAN IP via SQUID to PF?

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    This has been brought up before, and many people find it to be a security risk.  The simple explanation is that squid/proxy happens BEFORE the firewall, and therefore there is no way to subject people behind the proxy to firewall rules.  Search this package forum and you might find some old posts on this same topic.

  • Streaming video performance kinda sucks with Squid…

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    Sir, you are a scholar and a gentleman. Thanks for the tip!

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