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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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    Hi Guys,

    I am trying to setup Maxmind for GeoIP blocking. I have generated the license key and its configured. The update however shows:

    ===[ GeoIP Process ]============================================

    MaxMind Database downloading and processing ( approx 4MB ) ... Please wait ...

    Download Process Starting [ 07/30/25 11:16:34 ]
    /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country.tar.gz 401 Unauthorized

    Failed to Download GeoLite2-Country.mmdb
    /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country-CSV.zip 401 Unauthorized

    Failed to Download
    Download Process Ended

    What could be causing this?

  • 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 :

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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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    @elvisimprsntr Thanks, just updated, works fine! 👍 😊

  • 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.

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    Freeradius and NAS IP Range instead of IP

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    Hello, i'm in the same situation, is this possible ? does somebody know ?

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    CIDR ranges in SpamD whitelist not working

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    Looks a bug for me…. actually I already open a bug report a year ago but nobody even check... :(

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    Possible to use GUI for askterisk in pfsens 2.2.4 ?

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    OMG. Install the damned package from the package manager. There you have the GUI. (And kindly uninstall what you installed manually before that, or you'll have two broken copies of the same monster that doesn't belong on firewalls…)

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    Arpwatch not starting after upgrading from v2.2.1 to v2.2.3

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    I've found that pressing clear log also restores the list for me as well.

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    Dansguardian[15497]: Error connecting via IPC socket to log

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    Does tinc do multihomed failover?

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    This is off-topic, but I've been running the server portion of OpenVPN at the remote offices, listening on the failover gateway, and running the clients at the central site.

    I add this to the client config at the central site:

    remote rmt.fai.ovr.con pporrtt;
    keepalive 1 4;

    Seems to work pretty well.

    Total time to failover = failover timeout configured on gateway group + failover timeout configured by the keepalive statement on the client

    I believe the above OpenVPN timeout is set to 4 seconds

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    I can't get SARG Report working

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    First of Kudos, respect and props to 'marcelloc' for the amazing package

    For those who still cannot get it working please remember follow the instructions for your version 32 bit or 64 bit

    32 bit

    Reinstall Sarg Pkg

    rm -rf /usr/local/sarg-reports

    ln -s /usr/pbi/sarg-i386/local/sarg-reports /usr/local/sarg-reports

    64 bit

    Reinstall Sarg Pkg

    rm -rf /usr/local/sarg-reports

    ln -s /usr/pbi/sarg-amd64/local/sarg-reports /usr/local/sarg-reports

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    NUT double start

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    I have two pfsense severs - "pf2" normal and "pf1" with this little problem.

    Registration (may be "connection"?) you can see on remote NUT server by "upsc -c upsname". For UPS with pf2 I see one connection/registration, for pf1 - two.
    Processes on "bad" server:

    [2.2.4-RELEASE][root@pf1]/root: ps auxw | grep ups
    root    78028  0.0  0.0  18832  2416  -  Is    5:25PM    0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/upsmon ups11@192.168.99.32
    root    78081  0.0  0.0  18832  2420  -  Is    5:25PM    0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/upsmon ups11@192.168.99.32
    uucp    78366  0.0  0.0  18832  2444  -  S    5:25PM    0:01.93 /usr/local/sbin/upsmon ups11@192.168.99.32
    uucp    78642  0.0  0.0  18832  2448  -  S    5:25PM    0:01.89 /usr/local/sbin/upsmon ups11@192.168.99.32
    root    98879  0.0  0.0  18876  2380  0  S+  11:37AM    0:00.00 grep ups
    [2.2.4-RELEASE][root@pf1]/root:

    On "good" server:

    [2.2.4-RELEASE][root@pf2]/root: ps auxw | grep ups
    root    39209  0.0  0.1  18832  2548  -  Is  18Sep15      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/upsmon ups10@192.168.99.32
    uucp    39236  0.0  0.1  18832  2576  -  S    18Sep15      1:33.76 /usr/local/sbin/upsmon ups10@192.168.99.32
    root    64213  0.0  0.1  18876  2376  0  S+  11:40AM      0:00.00 grep ups
    [2.2.4-RELEASE][root@pf2]/root:

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    Bacula configuration setting issues

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    Your are right, I want to understand the logic was to build the app into pfsense, don't know the idea to have a local director.
    Once u setup bacula with this requirement, my bacula director is not able to grab the backup from pfsense, I got the error:

    '26-Oct 10:13 bacula-dir JobId 33027: Start Backup JobId 33027, Job=MBX-PFSENSEMBX.2015-10-26_10.13.05_53
    26-Oct 10:13 bacula-dir JobId 33027: Using Device "FileStorage"
    26-Oct 10:13 bacula-fd JobId 33027: Fatal error: Authorization key rejected by Storage daemon.
    Please see http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Bacula_Freque_Asked_Questi.html#SECTION00260000000000000000 for help.
    26-Oct 10:13 bacula-dir JobId 33027: Fatal error: Bad response to Storage command: wanted 2000 OK storage
    , got 2902 Bad storage'

    Did u get the same error message?

    Your fix is working?

    Thanks.

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    Siproxd error

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    MOVED: Random crash after squid package update…

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    Installation problem : OpenVPN Client Export Utility

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    I have neither of those set and just use the resolver in pfsense for all my dns, both for pfsense itself and clients on my network..  And have no problems downloading packages..

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    Radius stopped after pppoe change ip

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    Failed to install packages (After upgrade Pfsense 2.2.4)

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    Same problem here. After installing pfSense 2.2.4 "fresh" (on a Intel Core2Duo 2.5GHz white box with 1GByte RAM), the Package manager is not able to download the OpenVPN Client export utility in my case. Tried this and other packages over several days, the same result every time.

    Using the download links mentioned in any of the error messages in a browser, I can download all packages without a problem. An example link:  https://files.pfsense.org/packages/10/All/zip-3.0_1-amd64.pbi

    There is no proxy on my own network and the command TRACERT (Windows, sew me ;)) shows no apparent proxies or DNS problems either. My topology is a simple one: internet <<>> pfSense router <<>> unmanaged switch <<>> my computer

    The provided links point to *.pbi files only. Where can I find alternatives for manual installation?

    The titles of posts in the pfSense forum from sections 'OpenVPN' and 'Installation and Upgrades' do not look to cover the problem. However, that is the general inability of people to describe their problem concisely.

    A forum search using term "cannot download" resulted in this https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=100128.msg557921#msg557921, but that doesn't work either.

    *Edit:
    The solution mentioned at the link above is only half of the solution. There are 2 check boxes on the mentioned pfSense 2.2.4 configuration page. The first one needs to be off/disabled, the second one needs to be on/enabled. After I did that, I was able to install packages.

    The 1st checkbox in this case is called: Allow DNS server list to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WAN
    The 2nd checkbox in this case is called: Do not use the DNS Forwarder or Resolver as a DNS server for the firewall

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    MOVED: sarg not reporting

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    Postfix forwarder

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    I'll shorten your dilemma: The package never worked on pfSense 2.2.x :)

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    MOVED: Can't isntall SquidGuard

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    PfBlockerNG - cannot open up South Korea

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    @brasilnut:

    I had all of Asia blocked, and just recently try to open up (permit) South Korea.
    I opened it by: opened the Asia tab - then unselected "Korea, Republic of-KR" - then pressed Save

    After hitting "Save", follow that with a "Force Update" to get the changes to take effect. However, a "Force Reload" is better when you remove Lists or CCs…

    Also, don't block the Inbound unless you have open WAN ports. And if you have open WAN ports, then protect only those open ports. Also its better to permit the few countries that you want instead of trying to block the world...

    See the following two links:
    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=86212.msg548324#msg548324
    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=86212.msg553921#msg553921

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    Schedule with squidguard

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    not sure if is a squid problem or an very old pfsense bug that keep connection established before the off interval.

    you can try an experiment and manual clear the firewall states for that IP and check if he still have access.

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    FreeRadius2 Diffie-Hellman 2048 bit iOS9 OSX 10.11

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    The miscalculated MPPE keys with TLS 1.2 issue has nothing to do with weak DH.

    The best solution for weak DH is to configure your cipher_list directive in FreeRADIUS to one of the following two.

    Where there is a desire to only support modern clients:

    "EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+ECDSA+AES+SHA384:EECDH+aRSA+AES+SHA384:EECDH+ECDSA+AES+SHA256:EECDH+aRSA+AES+SHA256:EECDH+ECDSA+AES+SHA1:EECDH+aRSA+AES+SHA1:RSA+AES+SHA256:RSA+AES+SHA1"

    We can verify what this gives us via:

    openssl ciphers -v "EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+ECDSA+AES+SHA384:EECDH+aRSA+AES+SHA384:EECDH+ECDSA+AES+SHA256:EECDH+aRSA+AES+SHA256:EECDH+ECDSA+AES+SHA1:EECDH+aRSA+AES+SHA1:RSA+AES+SHA256:RSA+AES+SHA1"

    And where there is a want/need for 3DES for compatibility for legacy clients (such as Windows XP), append RSA+3DES+SHA1 to the end of that string.

    This gives:

    "EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+ECDSA+AES+SHA384:EECDH+aRSA+AES+SHA384:EECDH+ECDSA+AES+SHA256:EECDH+aRSA+AES+SHA256:EECDH+ECDSA+AES+SHA1:EECDH+aRSA+AES+SHA1:RSA+AES+SHA256:RSA+AES+SHA1:RSA+3DES+SHA1"

    Again, the resultant set of cipher suites can be seen via:

    openssl ciphers -v "EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+ECDSA+AES+SHA384:EECDH+aRSA+AES+SHA384:EECDH+ECDSA+AES+SHA256:EECDH+aRSA+AES+SHA256:EECDH+ECDSA+AES+SHA1:EECDH+aRSA+AES+SHA1:RSA+AES+SHA256:RSA+AES+SHA1:RSA+3DES+SHA1"

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