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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.

  • Fixing / manually uninstalling Broken Packages

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    Not without the logs.

  • Pfsense blocking websites i want to access

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    @doktornotor:

    Either flush the states or reboot the box. Instead of disabling it, you could of couse also stop using blocklists that apparently do not fit your needs. Or, whitelist the sites in pfBNG. Or…. just read the pfBNG GUI hints.

    Ok that works.

    Thank you very much for the help

    Alex

  • PHP Errors in BIND Package

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    https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-packages/pull/1072

    (If all of this got eval()-ed on install and the install aborted due to buggy code, we'd get a useful error and quick fix. Not a stupid bug hidden in the code for months… )

  • NUT as a server?

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    Thank you!
    I never thought of creating a NAT rule to do a redirect. That definitely did the trick.

  • Change freeradius2 password weekly via script

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    Hi,

    would also try it with Captive Portal and disallow simulatenous connections. So when someone give the password to someone else then they are kicking thmself off the network because only the least active connection will have access. So on the first days they will share their credentials but if there are 10 people sharing the same credentials they will not have any fun with that.

  • Rotate Proxy Server with mod_security 0.1.7 logs

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  • Tinc not generating RSA keys

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    Thanks for testing.

  • Samba server on pfSense 2.0.2

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    I love it how people justify garbage setups because of minuscule costs..

    So you could pickup a pogo plug (tiny computer) for under $20 uses like zero power.  You could pickup a pi again for under $35 for sure.. You could get the latest and greatest pi 2 b+ kit with SD card, etc.. for $55 uses like nothing for power..

    pogo you can run arch linux on, has usb 2, usb 3 and even 1 USM/SATA Slot
    http://www.amazon.com/Pogoplug-Series-4-Backup-Device/dp/B006I5MKZY

    So your setting up something that clearly is unsupported because its a power saving issue, or cost of running a new piece of hardware?  That you can get for pennies?  Clearly you paying for internet, have a laptop, and most likley multiple pcs?  Since you mention old PC buty don't want to leave it on because of power.

    But you can not afford $20 to have a new toy to play with!!!  And also provide your samba sharing server…

  • Replacement for cisco webvpn

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    Guess you have to continue to pay the piper.

  • FreeRadius2 802.1x authentication setting

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    johnpozJ

    So yeah ran into the same issue.. Pretty simple work around just use openssl to put a password on it.

    So your saying you can import the .key file without a password?  I will have to try that - but I agree its a bit of a hassle.

    Did you import the server cert?  I my iphone 5s, my wifes 5c and my older ipad all using eap-tls to auth with out any issues.

    Sep 13 07:56:26 radiusd[57374]: Login OK: [j-phone] (from client uapac port 0 cli AC-FD-EC-62-34-97) j-phone
    Sep 13 07:31:05 radiusd[57374]: Login OK: [k-iphone] (from client uap-ac-lr port 0 cli 80-00-6E-9D-EA-DE) k-iphone

    Here are too recent auths from the log for my phone and my wifes phone.

    What I ended up installing was the p12 you can export after putting a password on it and the actual server cert and eap-tls is working great..

  • MOVED: HAVP package custom pages folder obsolete?

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  • PHP errors in package installation-php55-pgsql

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  • Package Request: Ubiquiti UniFi Controller Software

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    @johnpoz:

    Well there are instructions right - so do it that way.  Why do you need a package?  While many of the packages are written by people that wanted some functionality to me, and this is only my personal opinion since I have no ties to the development.

    The inclusion of a package you can click an install is somewhat of a signoff by the developers that it is ok to do such a thing.  Take freeradius package for example or the vnstat2, or snort or squid.  While these packages sometimes break and can break functionality of the pfsense in general.  I might be in left field on that, but that is how I see it.

    You don't see any packages for turning pfsense into a nas now do you ;)  Many a request for that over the years.

    If you want a package, please create one or maybe put in a bounty for it, etc.  If gets high enough sure someone will take it on - then it would be up to the developers if included in the package list or not, etc.

    But for now if you really want it running on pfsense - I am quite sure I have seem a quide or even 2 on how to do so over on the unifi forums.

    I had this running on my pfSense appliance and it was a huge problem. Most services would not start upon reboot and that's if a requested reboot would take place. UPnP would not work due to the Java using a shared port (1900 if I recall). This would need to be a supported package or just not run on the pfSense appliance. I went with the latter.

  • PFSense 2.0.1, squid installation problem

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    Upgrade your pfSense to a supported version. Bye.

  • Who can made for dnscrypt

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    Who are you hiding this traffic from?  Your isp.. Well just use a vpn and now your resolvers queries to its authoritative servers would not be seen by your isp.

  • Packets dropping after installing ipguard_dev

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    @ashima:

    I am sorry for the late reply… but I didn't get your point - 0.1.1 is merged no need for manual hack.
    Does that mean I need not install ipguard and I can do MAC-IP pairing.

    No, I mean you can simply install the updated package….

  • BIND with Authorative Zone not Visible on WAN

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    @doktornotor:

    There's nothing horrible about bind. Running public DNS server on your firewall is entirely different matter. Frankly, unless this is running on some fat line serverhosting/VPS, I'd just completely forget about running my own DNS server. It can be run for free by your domain registrar, or by HE Free DNS service, or whatever.

    No idea what do you mean by "default" ACLs. Would assume default is just deny which your logs are pretty much confirming.

    This ^^

  • Issues installing packages… Constant Checksum errors...

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  • Bind and DNS forwarding

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  • Switching from PEAP to EAP-TLS … How do I bind certs to users?

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    Ok finally got back to this.. I want to use just eap-tls, so there really is no reason to create a user in freeradius, just create the user cert in the CA.  If there is no user there is no way to auth without the cert.  So this solves my problem, now that I figured out how to install the certs on apple ios devices I can play with this more and switch over to wpa2 enterprise only for my normal wlan and just leave psk for guests to use.

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