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

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    Adding load-server-state-from-file none to the Advanced Settings > Backend pass thru section of each backend overrides the behavior and makes backend changes apply immediately when reloading. I am also using the global GUI setting Force immediate stop of old process on reload. (closes existing connections). [image: 1754764767072-67de741e-7dbf-4766-8e17-1a550e6684b0-image.png]
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    @NRgia said in Suricata on Pfsense: @bmeeks Thank you for what you did for Snort or Suricata. I'm not sure what you want me to do on Redmine, due to is a bug tracker. My question is for Product Management, which I will ask it here to be public: What is the plan for these 2 packages, Suricata and Snort? Thank you Yes, Redmine is for both bug reports and feature requests. Asking for the Suricata binary to be updated to the latest 7.0.11 version from upstream is a legitimate Redmine request. I would suggest simply asking for the binary version update instead of asking about future Netgate strategy (such as the support plans for the packages). Strategy discussions typically don't get very far because they deal with proprietary information or plans that a company may not want to publicly discuss. Redmine is where the Netgate developer team tracks all the code changes they make for pfSense. They will see Redmine reports much quicker than a forum post.
  • 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?: its made up of multiple sources so it does make sense that it resolves some of these weird private hosts An public NTP pool like pool.ntp.org would not list host names with weird random paddings that reference local devices. "domaincontroller-gPHvwjYS.local,192.168.1.86" is a reverse PTR, and is requested by one of your local devices. Why , I don't know. @rasputinthegreatest said in pfBlockerNG not logging anything by default?: I find them in pfblockerNG dns_reply log under Logs No URLs there, only host names. [image: 1754736735409-c09607c2-c95a-4971-bdb4-f63fe08bebe8-image.png]
  • 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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    @totalimpact Tailscale 1.54.0 is 2+ years out of date. Tailscale has made quite a number of changes since Tailscale 1.54.0, likely rendering it incompatible with their servers. I would consider manually updating the Tailscale FreeBSD package. FreshPorts does not maintain an archive of all the releases, only the latest compiled by the volunteer maintainers. The key to manually upgrading is knowing which FreeBSD version your pfSense release is running, i.e. 14 or 15. You can following along here.
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    This is still an issue as of 2.8.0 / 25.07, and it drives me crazy. Gateway failure works as expected, the wireguard tunnels will fail over to the backup gateway and continue on as normal, but will never recover once the failed gateway comes back online. While a reboot will (usually) fix it, I usually just go into my routing settings and mark the secondary gateway as down, forcing it to revert back to the primary... the users tend to dislike it when I reboot the firewall in the middle of the day
  • How filter youtube.com on pfsense using squadgard and rules firewall

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    If you already have Squid and Squidguard installed you just need to set Times for that time slot and apply them to the Group ACLs. Steve
  • FreeRadius CA Validation Broken 2.4.5

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    @jimp thanks for the fix. It works now.
  • FreeRadius 0.15.6 CA Validation Broken on pfSense 2.4.4

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    Fixed in 0.15.7. https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/9082 Thanks @jimp for addressing this issue so quickly.
  • Looking For A Monitoring API or Service

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    Collectd can gather your interface stats and output to several different types of storage, you could script against that. For pf blocking stats i honestly don't know there are probably some, you could manually poll from a script using pfctl but there could well be a service that works better.
  • OpenVPN - Client Export for Yealink Phone - Not Working

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    @jimp said in OpenVPN - Client Export for Yealink Phone - Not Working: e they have fixed that in a recent update, though. Thank you very much for you reply. Finally got it to work. SHA1 and TLS Encryption ON is crucial. Otherwise it wont work according to my testing. Also i had to edit the configuration file manually: the line ncp disable had to be commented out (not supported by yealink phones) Maybe this could be fixed in the export for yealink phones...
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    Thanks for all the help pointing me in the right direction. I'll keep my list at 10 years for now.
  • install zabbix server in pfsense

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    You cannot install the server or frontend on pfSense. Only the agent and proxy packages are available.
  • Packages not starting after config restore on pfSense 2.4.4

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    Thanks for the prompt reply. One of the first things that I noticed didn't resolve was the repository. No packages were available, and the Status page couldn't check for updates. Since I was restoring a config from a backup, that's why I thought this might help.
  • BIND Package

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    Out of the box access list are going to be auto - but you might need to add that for your vpn tunnel network sure. query name min is when you are walking down from roots and vs asking for www.domain.tld you only ask roots for tld, he says oh .com go ask the ns for .com, you then go ask .com ns hey whats ns for domain.tld.. Only when you get to the actual authoritative NS do you ask for the full record. Keep in mind this can cause issues with some domains and cnames, etc.. There are some threads here where testing that and believe technet and stuff from ms one of the domains that wouldn't resolve.. How is it you couldn't look up the RFC that is clearly listed in the notes about that setting "Only send minimum required labels of the QNAME and set QTYPE to A when possible. Best effort approach; full QNAME and original QTYPE will be sent when upstream replies with a RCODE other than NOERROR, except when receiving NXDOMAIN from a DNSSEC signed zone. Default is off. Refer to RFC 7816 for in-depth information on Query Name Minimization." You really have little use in the advanced section until you know what your doing ;) And are wanting to do something a bit out of the box. Quick look there and one thing you might want to enable is "Serve cache records even with TTL of 0" Prob give you better cache hits. Your hide options are exactly that - they will NOT answer those sorts of queries.. Unless you were going to let the public query it there is no reason to enable those... Unless you think someone on your own local network or connected to your vpn is going to query your unbound for its version info and then from that HACK it ;)
  • APCUPSD package

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  • tinc: Establishing a gateway to tinc network

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  • Unable to Update 2.4.3 packages

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    @grimson guess we have to plan earlier than expected. thank you!
  • Bind manual configuration...

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    @johnpoz said in Bind manual configuration...: Read this http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596100575.do It will change your life.. I confirm. Live did become easier when one knows what DNS is (and not what one thinks it is). I have an old edition and will order the new one.
  • watchdog schedule

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    oh yes it was because watchdog was empty as i have removed the vpn from. Sorted thank you
  • haproxy not starting

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    same behavior for me, 2.4.4 on SG-1000. Although I have one lua-file in HAproxy, for doing the LetsEncrypt-Challenge. EDIT: solved by uninstalling and reinstalling the 2 packages, and re-adding the lua-script.
  • Tinc 1.0.35 security release.

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    Yep. Thanks Jim.I appreciate the good work that goes into keeping pfSense current.
  • Squid Reverse proxy works inconsistently

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  • Monitoring bandwidth by month on a system using an SSD Drive

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    I don't think that is much of an issue with modern SSD drives. Disk writes like these were problematic with unmanaged flash memory like CF-Cards and USB sticks, but it should be safe to treat an SSD like any other disk. If you installed using ZFS, I believe TRIM should already be active.
  • Zabbix agent broken on 2.4.4? PHP error

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    @jimp said in Zabbix agent broken on 2.4.4? PHP error: As has been covered in numerous threads all over the forum, you can't install new packages on 2.4.3 because it will break the system as it's trying to pull things in from the 2.4.4 upgrade repo. Ok, noted. Thanks.
  • Offline Package Management?

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    The forum conversion apparently mangled the syntax above. In this case, you'd just put haproxy there, so pkg install pfsense-pkg-haproxy. But pkg add works for local files as well.
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