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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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    @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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    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.

  • How to make a white ip addres in pfblockerng

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    Hi,

    You should use IPv4 Custom List, bellow.

  • Asterisk not working

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    TheCook,

    I've used Asterisk and have sold and supported Asterisk platforms for several years now.  Look at the PbxInAFlash distros.  They have one (I think it's labeled "Green") that is just a straight ISO you can boot as a VM in VirtualBox.  Works really well and I think is Asterisk 10 or 11.  All you need to get it up and running is to set an IP to the VM and set up the sip.conf localnet and extip and you should be good to go.  All the dial patterns and stuff is already done and you get a FreePBX which makes life a lot easier.  I wouldn't put Asterisk on your firewall, especially with timing and jitter.  You don't want your PBX to have any unneeded load.

    Having said that, if you can get into the Asterisk CLI (which it appears you can) run a "sip show peers", "sip show registry", and "sip show channels".  That should give you an indication if your devices are registering with the PBX and if your trunks are connected.  Also, I see you have your localnet set, but do you have your external IP set in the sip.conf?  That would stop traffic.

    Good Luck!

  • [bug since 2.1.2] Unable to communicate with https://packages.pfsense.org

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    @msmith9xr4:

    confirmed works disabling ipv6 on 2.1.5 and 2.2.4 for me, 2 different WAN providers.

    You have IPv6 problems in that case. Start a new thread describing your IPv6 config, what you see when trying to traceroute6 to packages.pfsense.org (or google.com or anything else IPv6-enabled, guessing nothing will work in that case).

    Locking thread since it's been hijacked by a handful of completely unrelated things.

  • Pfflowd remnants

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    Like

    rm -f /usr/local/etc/rc.d/pfflowd.sh

    ?

  • How to rotate dansguardian logs

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  • MOVED: Squid and Squidgard not working in 2.2.4

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  • PfBlockerng issues with removing IPv4 lists

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    Worked perfect!  Thanks for the quick response.  Love pfblockerng, keep up the great work!

  • NUT & APCUPSD shutdown signal?

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    Thank you so much, dennypage.  You answered my question. Thanks for the link, doktornotor.  I'll check it out.  Much appreciated as always.

  • Packages fail to install, or install with files missing

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    No more package problems.  I’d made no changes since the last package download failures of about a week ago, and had downloaded a copy of Wireshark and started a packet capture.  pfBlockerNG and Suricata both installed fine, to include all subordinate downloads.  I installed pfBlockerNG  on my other pfSense installation, which had also been failing, and it installed with the same success.  It seems that the package download problem I’ve been having for the past few weeks just went away.

  • Dhcp and dns package

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    Why would a client need to lookup spam server?

    So are you running Active Directory or not.. You mention ldap server..  So your using ldap to auth, but not AD from MS?

    Yes bind is a good name server.. How many IPs are you talking about?  You can use either dnsmasq or unbound that are both part of pfsense without any packages added.  Do you need a full blown authoritative name server?

    Your clients need to talk to the dhcp server at some point, but normally a worse case is /2 of your lease because if your dhcp just happen to fail you could have clients that were like 1 minute away of renew of their lease at the 50% mark, etc.

    I don't see the advantage of moving dns away from pfsense unless your going to setup redundancy on that system.  Or your just moving it to a system that could also just fail..  Unless you need some specific feature of dns that is not supported in dnsmasq or unbound or even the bind package for pfsense not sure moving it off buys you anything unless the other system is AD where all members of the AD should use AD dns and dhcp since it makes it easier to work with, etc..  If your reason for moving it off is you want dns if pfsense fails - the other system could fail as well..  Just because internet goes down does not mean pfsense stops providing local name services or dhcp even, etc.

    You could always setup carp for pfsense if your worried about the system failing, etc.

  • Syslog-ng: 500 - Internal Server Error

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  • Uninstalling bind removes nsupdate

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    Sorry, NFC. File a bug at Redmine, would need PBI rebuild anyway, not fixable with the package code.

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  • Root: IP-blocklist was found not running

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    No, not with this amount of info.

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    Packages are no longer supported on 1.x versions. You're 15 releases and 6 years behind, upgrade.

  • Bug in package "Bind" for pfSense causing it not to start.

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    This bug is still here in version 2.2.4,  09.2015

  • MOVED: Version 2.1.5 Snort Missing from Available Packages

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    Ok, this Makel sense!  :-
    So I will reinstall the Firewall

    Cheers
    Christian

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