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  • Discussions about packages which handle caching and proxy functions such as squid, lightsquid, squidGuard, etc.

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    Retested on 24.11-RELEASE (amd64) all seems to work. So it seems right to file a bug for this issue.
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    So since there is no version 25.03. There is an official 25.07 now but only get a 7.08.2 what happen to the rest up to Suricata 7.0.10 or 7.0.12?
  • 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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    @rasputinthegreatest said in pfBlockerNG not logging anything by default?: This IP does exist on my LAN but why it resolves some weird random desktop-sdshdsd.local? Then it's time to visit that device "192.168.1.85", and inspect it. pfSense was just replies on a DNS request coming from it. Loads of DNS request is 'normal' these days. Btw : buy yourself a big collection of connected devices (preference : 'foreign origin") and you wind up with loads of bizarre DNS requests. For example, a classic "Windows 11 Home" PC is already considered as 'bloated', which means that the list of all these xbox, candy store and other 'essential' processes is quiet big? And they all call 'home'. And ask yourself this question : "do you really know what users actually do with their devices" ? @rasputinthegreatest said in pfBlockerNG not logging anything by default?: Also no 192.168.51.5 exists on my network either Is "192.168.51.5" a typo ? It doesn't show up in any logs ... If your pfSense LAN uses the 192168.1.1/24 network, and a device connected to that LAN using the 192.168.51.5, it can't communicate. A network with statically assigned IP info (IP, mask/network, gateways and DNS) is hard to manage. That's why DHCP was invented, and activated by default for every device you buy. @rasputinthegreatest said in pfBlockerNG not logging anything by default?: I assume it is related to time servers? Why do you presume that ? Look them up and you'll see. "ntpns.org" is probably the NS server of ntp.org A lot of devices want to know the exact time. Even when DHCP can propose a time server - you can set up pfSense as a time server for your LAN devices - many devices will disregard this info, an insist in using their own hard coded time server source. For example, a Microsoft PC will default to time.microsoft.com, but you can set it to 192.168.1.1 or pfsense.your-sense-domaine.tld (which will point to 192.168.1.1 = pfSense). You could to do this for every LAN device. @rasputinthegreatest said in pfBlockerNG not logging anything by default?: .local addresses What is your pfSense domain set to ? @rasputinthegreatest said in pfBlockerNG not logging anything by default?: Its very mysterious and I only see this now with pfblockerNG. Set : Services > DNS Resolver > Advanced Settings : Log Level to : [image: 1754468971160-b17dd7a5-9427-497e-a3d0-5936024787b0-image.png] and save, apply. Now have a loo here : Status > System Logs > System > DNS Resolver or better : console : tail -f /var/log/resolver.log Don't forget to set back the Log Level to 1 !! ( !! ) as the resolver.log will get very big very fast. Conclusion : there is a lot of DNS traffic. These are all small packets, and finally just a small percentage of the total traffic.
  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @jhg said in NUT fails to start after 2.7.2 -> 2.8.0 upgrade: Interesting. I would have thought the initial reboot, which occurred as part of the upgrade, would have done the trick, but it took a second reboot, just now, to get things working. Glad you have it sorted. There was no difference in the output of usbconfig show_ifdrv at any point -- before or after unplugging/replugging the USB cable, nor after rebooting. ... Question: What would tell me whether or not a driver was loaded? If there were an attached driver, it should have shown up with the show_ifdrv command. If you use the command and look at the other usb devices, I think they will show attached drivers. I don't expect to see a driver attached to the ups, because there is a quirk that tells the OS to ignore that device (and not attach a driver). Look for idVendor and idProduct in the above output. The Vendor ID for your device is 0764, which corresponds to Cyber Power Systems, and the Product ID for your device is 0601, which is registered as "PR1500LCDRT2U UPS" (don't sweat an exact match for the name). You can see the quirk with the following command: [25.07-RC][root@fw]/root: usbconfig dump_device_quirks | grep 0764 VID=0x0764 PID=0x0005 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE VID=0x0764 PID=0x0501 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE VID=0x0764 PID=0x0601 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE [25.07-RC][root@fw]/root: Your device is third on the list. The HID_IGNORE quirk says to ignore the device and not attach a driver. @jhg said in NUT fails to start after 2.7.2 -> 2.8.0 upgrade: You might consider adding this resolution to the release notes for 2.8. LOL... sorry, I don't have input to the release notes (I don't work here). While I wrote and maintain various packages, including NUT, I'm still just a volunteer. Most packages are actually written by volunteers.
  • 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 : [image: 1753262126227-1acdc586-cb29-4148-9e36-81ade4e5e60c-image.png] 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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    said in Please update frr on Pfsense+ to FRR 10.3: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15785 now frr 10.4.1
  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    @veddy254 said in How to update to the latest Tailscale version?: @lbm_ said in How to update to the latest Tailscale version?: https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.84.2_1.pkg pkg: An error occured while fetching package I would recommend verifying the DNS settings in PfSense and verifying date/time is correct. Barring that, try again later and see if it still fails. I was able to successfully run the command on my 2.8.0 install (I didn't install it because I've already installed it) so it seems localized. Interesting. After I (reinstalled) tailscale the /etc/resolv.conf was overwritten. So I just readded the DNS entries in the Pfsense WebUI, and not it worked. pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.84.2_1.pkg Fetching tailscale-1.84.2_1.pkg: 100% 11 MiB 11.9MB/s 00:01 Installing tailscale-1.84.2_1... Newer FreeBSD version for package tailscale: To ignore this error set IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes - package: 1500054 - running kernel: 1500029 Ignore the mismatch and continue? [y/N]: y package tailscale is already installed, forced install Extracting tailscale-1.84.2_1: 100% And pkg info tailscale tailscale-1.84.2_1 Name : tailscale Version : 1.84.2_1 Installed on : Wed Aug 6 09:17:23 2025 CEST Origin : security/tailscale Architecture : FreeBSD:15:amd64 Prefix : /usr/local Categories : security net-vpn Licenses : BSD3CLAUSE Maintainer : ashish@FreeBSD.org WWW : https://tailscale.com/ Comment : Mesh VPN that makes it easy to connect your devices Shared Libs required: libthr.so.3 libc.so.7 Annotations : FreeBSD_version: 1500054 build_timestamp: 2025-07-30T02:26:16+0000 built_by : poudriere-git-3.4.2-12-g74a54a88 port_checkout_unclean: no port_git_hash : 275975297bc ports_top_checkout_unclean: no ports_top_git_hash: 0cd2c078c1e Flat size : 35.4MiB Description : Tailscale is a mesh VPN alternative, based on WireGuard, that connects your computers, databases, and services together securely without any proxies.
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    Hi again, to be honest: I guess, I did not remember exactly what I did 2 years ago. May I was mistaken by the interface name opt2 because the SG-3100 has a physical port OPT1 and I mixed up physical and virtual names. The goal was to use 2 different tunnels, one for the mobile clients and one for the site-2-site connection. And now all is running in that way . Regards
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  • OpenBGP not switching to other ISP in multihomed setup

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    Just a follow up, this is resolved. It was actually an issue with the provider that was not working. They had to update a MPLS record on their side. Once they did that, it worked as expected and fails over automatically.
  • Chromecast over multiple networks.

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    @belrpr If you do not specify a domain name in the DHCP server, it will use the domain name of the firewall. This is almost certainly what you want. Unless you are trying to achieve something very specific, I would recommend staying with the defaults (delete the domain name specification from both DHCP and from Avahi).
  • NUT Using Excessive CPU

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    @jompigrande Unfortunate that NUT doesn't complain bitterly about that... Glad you got it fixed.
  • Where is all the settings for Avahi?

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    @monster4000 What settings are you looking for?
  • OpenBGPD First Time

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    This is resolved - it was a bad config error - config file location is alright. New Config is: AS xxxx fib-update yes listen on 0.0.0.0 router-id xxx.xxx.xxx (1) network xxx.xxx.xxx (azure subnet)/24 group "Azure" { remote-as xxxx neighbor xxx.xxx.xxx(2) { descr "to_as_65001" announce all local-address 0.0.0.0 } } deny from any deny to any allow from xxx.xxx.xxx(2) allow to xxx.xxx.xxx(2)
  • OpenVPN auto-rotate

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    If you have all tunnels up together you could policy route using Firewall Rules with timers (Schedule) to loop the traffic. -Rico
  • Snort LAN alert source ip not local ip

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    Think about how network traffic works on a firewall. Once your LAN host initiates a conversation with another external host (through your LAN and then out of your WAN, for example), pfSense creates a state table entry that will now allow that external host to talk back to your internal LAN host. So if the external traffic starts a session it will be the "source" and your LAN host is the "destination". This would be the case if you clicked a web site URL. The web server will become the "source" of the web traffic and the browser and your LAN host the "destination" as the web server sends the HTTP or HTTPS traffic back to you. So who is "source" and who is "destination" changes back and forth during operation.
  • net-snmpd stops responding after certain amount of time

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    I went back to bsnmpd.. Although it has no IPv6-support.
  • Resolved - FreeRadius 0.15.7 Issue

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    @NogBadTheBad said in Resolved - FreeRadius 0.15.7 Issue: @jimp said in Resolved - FreeRadius 0.15.7 Issue: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/radiusd.sh restart Wasn't sure exactly how it was started so I was doing it from the GUI. That's essentially what the GUI does, but if you run it at the shell you might see an error that the GUI doesn't display
  • Troubleshooting issues with Telegraf package?

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    I found one troubleshooting tip based on an earlier post: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/129002/telegraf-memory-stats-broken-on-2-4-3 From CLI on the pfSense box, you can run: /usr/local/bin/telegraf -config=/usr/local/etc/telegraf.conf --test For example: [2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@ang-router.localdomain]/root: /usr/local/bin/telegraf -config=/usr/local/etc/telegraf.conf --test 2019/04/05 04:30:08 E! Error parsing /usr/local/etc/telegraf.conf, line 41: field corresponding to `arguments' is not defined in `*ping.Ping'
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  • Graylog 3 and pfsense

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  • openbgpd PfSense and no gateway

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    Ok understood. I can set the 4 BGP Neighboors as Gateway. But these are non routable blackholes which request one of our RIPE-Public IP to be the source. Is that configurable? Source 1.1.1.1/32 -> GW 2.2.2.2/24 Like it can be done on Diag-Traceroute for the Source-Interface. But now for the whole system.
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  • pfsense tsc: p-state invariant , performance statistics about

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  • package Install issues - solved?

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  • Iperf 2.0.13

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    iperf3 does json which way better than csv To be honest iperf on pfsense not really all that good anyway, its a router - you should be doing iperf "thru" it not to or from it. Go to one of the hundreds of places online to convert your json to csv or excel example http://convertcsv.com/json-to-csv.htm
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    patched by me: https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/pull/632 With this patch, when you revoke a certificate you need to go to radius config -> eap and "SAVE" to regenerate the CA+CRL file. Next patch coult be add a funcion similar to openvpn_refresh_crls() that should be called from /usr/local/www/system_crlmanager.php when you update all the other CRLs. This is my 2nd day on PFSense, so first I need to see if there is a functions file dedicated to components not installed as default and then write the function. Any advice?
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    After a few USB re-plugs and restarts of pfSense it finally figure it out and started working.
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