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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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    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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    @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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    @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.

  • CRON job - calling URL

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    @rcoleman-netgate THANK YOU :)
    That did the trick

  • Netgate SG-1100 unable to install packages

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    @spectre-988 said in Netgate SG-1100 unable to install packages:

    I've been working on using the device at my home for a HA fail over device. I've got the device to become part of the HA but when the primary wants to sync the packages they aren't able to due to packages not being installed. I try to install myself but package manager just sits at waiting for the update system to initiate. I am not sure if the version of Pfsense I am using is the problem or the Bios. I know both are older and tried to update Pfsense version and get that the system is on a later version than the official release.

    Without physically separated interfaces the 1100 is not suited for HA. It could do it, sure, but the WAN, LAN, and OPT are all the same NIC in the system, just VLAN'd to a switch. Your expectations should be very tempered -- failover cannot happen based on physical disconnection and is going to be unreliable.

  • Zabbix Uncaught Error

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    Hi,

    The solution it'a in this link: https://github.com/rbicelli/pfsense-zabbix-template/pull/118

    I hope help somebody.

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  • HAproxy can only connect to "Default Backend"

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  • Tailscale - package request / work opportunity

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    @returntrip https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_jIPVcioY

  • HAProxy - route by domain name

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    @nasheayahu said in HAProxy - route by domain name:

    wwwkohanyimcom Host matches: no no www.kohanyin.com
    kohanyimcom Host contains: no no kohanyin.com

    I found the problem, my domain was spelled incorrectly... 😧

  • How to get tcptraceroute, or a functional equivalent

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    I know that this question is old, but it actually helped me getting tcptraceroute on opnsense. The key thing was pkg add from freebsd. So for me it needed to be updated since I am on freebsd:13:amd64, I found https://freebsd.pkgs.org/13/freebsd-amd64/ with search :)

    So for me the resulting command was:

    pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64latest/All/tcptraceroute-1.5beta7.txz

    Still same version of tcptraceroute 2 years later, but it is how to find the package name that is important

    So thanks for this thread.

  • Wireguard Works only when OpenVPN Running in 2.6.0

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  • 22.05 upgrade - site-to-site wireguard broken

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    @buzz2912
    Sounds like;
    https://forum.netgate.com/topic/173074/22-05-upgrade-breaks-remote-access-openvpn/15

    same problem.

  • stunnel won't start

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    Nvm im dumb... didn't read this line:

    [!] Service [Wireguard_SSL]: Protocol not supported
  • Freeradius limit access

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    @mcury Thanks but this doesn't work in the users file. I think it's very restricted in what sort of entries can be made :(

  • pfSense+ 22.05/Wireguard dependency not documented

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    @jimp Ok. So I took a few minutes and there's somthing I'm not getting.

    When the Update setting is set to 22.05 the Package Manager shows two updatable packages, WireGuard 0.1.6_1 and ipsec-profile-wizard 1.0_4.
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    And much to my surprise, when the Update setting is set to 22.01, I see one updatable package WireGuard 0.1.6_1 !:
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    Is this correct? Is WireGuard 0.1.6_1 supposed to work on 22.01, or not? Upgrading WireGuard to 0.1.6_1 is the action that took down WireGuard in our NH router.

    Here are the messages from the NH log that appear to describe the problem:

    Jun 27 21:12:15 kernel linker_load_file: /boot/modules/if_wg.ko - unsupported file type
    Jun 27 21:12:15 kernel KLD if_wg.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch

    What's wrong?

  • bind no longer running after pkg/pfsense updates

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    @dvl Great. Option 2 would have been to reinstall and restore from backup. 😥

    The upgrade thing catches lots of people. I put it in my sig a while back. One such problem is when the package is dependent on a PHP version that doesn't exist in the older pfSense, so it gets upgraded. There's a redmine to hopefully fix it or at least block/warn people.

  • Bind upgrade producing errors on pfsense 2.5 upgrade

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    Well one issue with the move to the new version. Previously bind was installed on my /cf now it is in /var/etc/named/etc/namedb/ a side effect, is whenever the router is restarted all my keys specified as global option will vanish

    include "/etc/namedb/acme-keys.key";
    include "/etc/namedb/ddns-key-inf.key";
    include "/etc/namedb/ddns-key-sec.key";
    include "/etc/namedb/ddns-key.key";

    An idea would be to save them in the pfsense configuration.

  • WebUI takes forever to load if UPS unreachable...

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    @dennypage said in WebUI takes forever to load if UPS unreachable...:

    I am assuming that the host running the NUT sever is using a fixed IP address, yes? And in the NUT config on pfSense, are you using the IP address (rather than hostname) to identify the NUT sever?

    Yep, my whole network is based around fixed IP's, either both on the machine and dhcp server or only in dhcp server. And yes pfsense connects via IP.

    @dennypage said in WebUI takes forever to load if UPS unreachable...:

    You might want to consider moving to using pfSense as the NUT sever and having the other host as a client. NUT on pfSense is very stable.

    Well my room is kinda limited because of the network cabling, the pfsense box and the UPS is on the opposite end of my room. Would require a 5 meter+ cable to connect the 2. Thats why i opted for a dedicated box and ATM this problematic box is the only one i can use. Done a few things to it including installing intel-microcode package and seems to be stable now ( knocks on wood ).

  • System -> Patches results in 404 after 22.05 upgrade from 22.01

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    @jimp Thanks that worked. It seems like the install process did not recognize that the Patches package was there and re-installed it. But left the menu option in place.
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  • PF, FreeRadius and SQL

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  • No upgrade icons

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    @bmeeks OK ... I understand

  • Nmap package

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    Hmm, looks like that was changed here:
    https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commit/7f64c9db1a0f5c0ffc18afe7a9f7a9b9f82f9c67

    Not sure how you ended up with both though.

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