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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 Please post the output of the following commands:

    pkg info | grep nut usbconfig dump_all_desc
  • 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.

  • DansGuardian 2.12.0.3_2 pkg v.0.1.12

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  • Antivirus for all protocols

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    Ah, sorry. For a moment, I thought you were asking to scan the packet stream.  I agree with P3R in that ClamAV isn't that great.  I gave up on it when it was killing our performance, and we already have client/server protection.  Managing an AV service infrastructure isn't simple or cheap, and I can't imagine any FOSS project being able to keep up with the big boys in that regard.

  • Bandwithd not working after update

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    @mattlach:

    @mattlach:

    @DaveQB:

    Running:

    pfSense 2.1
    bandwidthd 2.0.1_5 pkg v.0.3

    My solution was.

    [root@pfsense /usr/local/www]# rm bandwidthd
    [root@pfsense /usr/local/www]# ln -s /usr/local/bandwidthd/htdocs/ bandwidthd

    The symlink was originally pointing to /usr/pbi/bandwidthd-i386/bandwidthd/htdocs

    Hmm…

    This did not help for me.

    It replaced my "Please start bandwidthd to populate this directory." message with a "404 - Not Found" page :(

    Any suggestions?

    Never mind, I was being an idiot.

    Looks like this was fixed, but I was getting th emessage because I actually DID forget to start bandwidth d.  Then I moved the symlink to the - now - incorrect location.

    I found the correct one in /usr/pbi/bandwidthd-amd64/bandwidthd/htdocs/, and recreated the symlink and now everything works. :p

    Ahh I see. Well I hope I put you on the right track with my post.

  • Dansguardian /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock

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    no one ??  :-\

  • Unable to communicate with http://packages.pfsense.org.

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    Well, glad you found what breaks it, but in order to fix it, you have to understand how it breaks it - either by changing routing or by blocking via pf… That I can't probably help you - I do not use OpenVPN.

    However - if that is the only thing being blocked, you can always temporarily stop tunnel to check updates as the last resort :)

  • Squid proxy efficiency

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    Solved.

    Similar topic:

    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=67607.msg369910#msg369910

  • Snort 2.9.6.0 is now EOL for rule support

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    Yes, great thanks, that was quick :)

    Upgraded as well, seems to be working normally so fr.

  • SqidGuard

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    Makes since.

  • Cant expand SquidGuard Target Rule List

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    KOMK

    I'm glad its working for you.  Yes, it can be little confusing when the options for a feature are spread over more than one tab.

  • Ntop can't see IP detail information

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    I have to report to redmine.pfsense.org.It's report for me.

    there's nothing broken in general with ntop. it needs to be deprecated and replaced with ntopng regardless.

    So,Is it will be use ntopng?

  • Pfsense + snort vrt subsciption error 505 (solved)

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    @reza.mnp:

    thanks

    this problem solved automatically after several hour.

    Glad it's working.  If you had a brand new just purchased code, it may have taken a little while for it to work its way through the Snort VRT web site systems such that rules download server recognized it.  That's just a guess, though.

    Bill

  • Squid getting RST ACK from monoprice.com

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    Yep, the header that was causing monoprice to fail was actually "X-Forwarded-For: Unknown".  I wasn't allowing IP leakage, but I was trying to get dansguardian to pass the orig ip to squid.  Squid was setting it to Unknown before making requests.

    I'm using dansguardian & squid together, so if you want squid to be able to use traffic buckets to limit per IP you have to pass through the information somehow.  Or if you want any other Squid ACL's to work.  http://dansguardian.org/?page=faq#c1

  • Squid3-dev transparent mode

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  • LIGHTSQUID NOT UPDATING REPORTS

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  • Squid error when enabling AV scanner

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  • NTOP 5.0.1 v2.3 not working under pfsense 2.1-RC1

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    Hi all,

    I had a similar problem after updating and tried the reinstall approach.

    What I found was that I had to go back into ntop settings and set a new admin password. After I did this, the service started normally.

    Cheers,

    Toby

  • Squid Build Options & Apple Caching

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  • PfBlocker Un-Clean Uninstall

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    I had a question/request. The pfblocker dashboard widget conveniently shows the status of the block list as well as a packet count of hits. This is very valuable for determining what is happening as far as blocks.
    But it resets quite often automatically which prevents me from seeing over a long period of time what block lists are being hit.

    Anyway to prevent it from resetting, except when I want to clear it?

  • SquidGuard issue - blocked javascript hangs pages

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  • Squid and Dansguardian not working

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    Ive managed to work through this thread, with input and learnings from a few others and finally have a working
    squid / dansguardian setup.
    Ive found a strange issue in that everything works great for the first ten minutes or so, then web surfing becomes slower before eventually stopping. If I shortcut the localhost chain (NAT 80 -> DG 8080 -> Squid 3128 -> Web) by setting my proxy direct to Squids 3128 port everything resumes as normal.
    If I restart Dansguardian things return to normal as well so it appears to be some kind of memory leak / cache / buffers filling up type issue.
    Any ideas? Ive killed squids caching along the route of debugging this matter and that didn't help.

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