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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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    bmeeksB

    I saw where the Netgate kernel developer updated the Suricata package in the pfSense 25.07 development branch to work with the new kernel PPPoE driver. But so far as I know that updated package has not been migrated to 2.8 CE.

    Here is the commit into the DEVEL branch: https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commit/68a06b3a33c690042b61fb4ccfe96f3138e83b72.

  • 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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    @AlexK-0 said in Can't receive GeoIP databases updates anymore, banned:

    Days ago, I received from MaxMind an email, notifying me that my country has been banned to receive GeoLite City database updates.

    You've found a reason to use a VPN.

  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @elvisimprsntr thanks for your suggestion. I will give it a try.

  • Discussions about the ACME / Let’s Encrypt package for pfSense

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    @MacUsers

    https://help.zerossl.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060119933-Certificate-Revocation

    edit: oh you prob out of luck

    You can revoke any certificate issued via the ZeroSSL portal. Currently, certificates issued via ACME can not be revoked from inside the portal - please follow the instructions of your ACME client for revoking those certificates.

    the gui in pfsense does not have the ability to revoke - you prob have to move the certs to something you have certbot installed to and revoke that way.

  • 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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    For 25.07 RC, this worked for me (run sh first)

    [25.07-RC][root@r1.lan]/root: sh # export IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes # pkg add https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.84.2.pkg # service tailscaled restart # tailscale up # tailscale version 1.84.2 go version: go1.24.4 # tailscaled -version 1.84.2 go version: go1.24.4
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    @patient0 Thanks for further suggestions. The tunnel is definitely up and so I don't think this is a CGNAT issue after all. WAN firewall rule is in place for UDP on port 51823 (otherwise the tunnel wouldn't work, right?). I can ping from client 1 -> client 2 and visa versa and also ping all points in between like you suggest. I just can't open an HTTPS connection from pfSenseB from Client 1 using a browser. But I can do this the other way round i.e. from Client 2 to pfSenseA

    I will try and do some packet capture to see if that reveals anything.

  • Squid 3.4.9 error

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  • Problem with range requests on squid

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    Anyone? I work in an IT shop so a lot of our traffic are updates, it would be great if the 206 requests were pulled out of the cache rather than across the internet.

  • PfBlocker doesn't update rules automatically

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    Thank you for the reply but I found what was the problem.

    In the Interface / Lan menu, I had the IPv4 configuration type set to "Track Interface" for some reasons.

    I set it to "None" and the rules got automatically added in the Firewall/Rules section after enabling pfBlocker.

  • Bug in apcupsd package

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    Thanks.

    This script needs an update.

    Also, you can modify the path to lockfile on the GUI.  :-[

  • Squid error messages in disabled Auth Portal logs

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  • Filter local server mail

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  • Squid does not work

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    Have you tried setting the logging option to either "Encode" or "Allow" ?

    strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL. This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396. deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid Request" message. allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The whitespace characters remain in the URI. encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are encoded according to RFC1738. chop:The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the first whitespace.

    With "squid3-dev" you could try with "forwarded_for transparent" typed into "Custom ACLS (Before_Auth)" field (and with the "Disable X-Forward" not selected off course.)

  • Pfsense/snort crash memory related

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    I don't have a theory to explain what caused the out-of-memory message.  If this was a single event, it may just have been due to the phase of the moon relative to the spontaneous decay of a Higgs boson …  ;).

    If, on the other hand, it is a repeatable error for you, then some further investigation is called for.  I assume from the info provided in your first post this is a pfSense 2.2-BETA box.  Do you have any other packages running besides Snort?

    Bill

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  • Odd SNORT Block Entries

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    Thanks Guys!

  • Snort Search Method

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    @wbennett77:

    I have Snort Alerts added on my Dashboard but it doesn't show the most recent alerts. Is this normal?

    Cheers!

    The Dashboard widget should show the most recent alerts, but it shows a composite consisting of all interfaces.  So if you have Snort enabled on LAN and WAN, and the "lines to display" in the widget set for 5, then it will show the 5 most recent alerts without regard to interface.  Stated another way, if the WAN had the most recent 5 alerts, then the widget would only show those. It would not show any of the LAN alerts if they were older than the most 5 recent WAN alerts.  The reverse is also true.

    Bill

  • Varnish backends down

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    varnish sucks, after few days of troubleshooting and wildguessing i've installed squid3 and settled everything in 15 minutes.

    http://serverfault.com/questions/542416/having-two-subdomains-on-one-public-ip-addres-behind-pfsense-router

    the third answer for squid3 was correct.

  • Barnyard2 stops running

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    I've found Snorby to get the rule text right most of the time.  Glad you found that rules setting.  I forgot to point it out.  If you find out something from your other queries that you think needs changing in the Snort and Suricata packages with respect to Barnyard2, post back here or send me a PM.

    Bill

  • Could cron to clear ntopng log?

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    Look here. Does this help?

  • Pfsense + FreeRadius: Force authentication?

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    Hi,

    Thanks, my switches do support RADIUS, so I will see about switching that on.

    I was kind of expecting that pfSense would have the same kind of support for enabling RADIUS for any connectivity to it, maybe that was an incorrect assumption.

    Regards,
    Rob.

  • Snort ET MALWARE User-Agent (Internet Explorer)

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    Oh nevermind, maybe they are not realted after all… when i saw IE User-Agent thought it was the CVE-2014-6332...

    Still... packet capture some of those and we will check if its FP or what it is...

    F.

  • Squid web proxy + Virtual IP

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    On page Serivce –> Proxy server. Add custom option
    include /usr/local/etc/squid/my.conf

    On my.conf write
    http_port virtual_ip:port

    restart squid
    squid -k reconfigure

    check open port
    netstat -an

  • Squid3 transparant SSL

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  • Snort 2.9.6.2 pkg v3.1.3 Update – Release Notes

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    @Hollander:

    1. The thread you posted is clear. Except for the part about 'changeSID'. I have no clue what I am seeing, as in: it doesn't fit in my limited brain; either you have enabled SID's, or you have disabled them. Why the third list?

    The modifysid option is for actually changing the text of the rule body.  For example, you could change the "alert" keyword to "drop".  This will have more meaning once a true IPS mode is implemented.  Then, "alert" rules will simply print messages in the logs and on the ALERTS tab; but "drop" rules will be the ones that actually drop (or block) the offending traffic.  Today on pfSense any "alert" causes a block, but on a true IPS that is not the case.  Alerts are like notices and "drop" rules are the only ones that should block traffic.  You might for example only want alerts for rules that identify older versions of Java or something, but you would want drops for rules that identify known malware phoning home.

    As the Snort and Suricata packages exist today, the modifysid function is not really necessary yet.

    @Hollander:

    2. Do you have thoughts on keeping separate SID-lists for Snort and Suricata? Or 'one list fits all'? (Does it? I don't know).

    This is an admin decision.  Just remember that there are many, many Snort rules that contain keywords or rule options that Suricata does not recognize.  No sense even trying to load those rules on Suricata.

    @Hollander:

    3. Do you have thoughts on the lists having exclusive SID's (-> if a SID is on list 1 it shouldn't be on list two, and vice versa), or are there good reasons to do things differently?

    If you are using only literal SIDs in the files, then it does not make sense to put the same SID in both files.  However, when you use the more advanced PCRE options; it is conceivable to match the same SID.  In those situations, the setting of the SID STATE ORDER control becomes important.

    @Hollander:

    4. How can one manage the part of new SID's appearing after an update? Is there a 'new SID's added during update' list somewhere? Because these need to be processed into the github-list one way or the other I guess(?)

    Each time the rules are updated the vendors post an updated Change Log on their web sites.

    Bill

  • Zebedee is removed?

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    The Devs have removed the package. See the following link:

    https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-packages/commit/87019e8afcb46a9be8edc461168287f6a9b92cc4

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