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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.

  • Removing safe ports from squid

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    Thanks bruv … it worked, your help highly respected and appreciated  ;D

  • Squid blocking web traffic even after it has been uninstalled

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    OMG - I just cleared the browser cache and it's working fine.  I didn't realize it would continue to cache the failure.  My apologies for wasting everyone's time who read this post.

    I'm going to see if I can find an Abacus to use for my computing needs here, hopefully I can master that at least…

    Phil
  • HAVP Trouble, ClamAV is not starting

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    @Gloom:

    The file you are attempting to download (main.cvd) is 29 meg. Your /var filesystem has 28meg free. Hence your out of disk space error.

    What sort of device are you installing to?

    It is a Watchguard Firebox, Embedded 4GB CF Card

    Okay, I deleted rdd and now it was enough space for the main.cvd, it is still not enough for the daily.cvd.
    Due to 1.5GB of RAM, i had the idea to use a tmpfs in RAM for storing the db. Including it in fstab and directly mounting /var/db/clamav to that ram-partition. 
    However, it will be refreshed frequently, so a reboot won't be that bad.

    Goal 1 Archieved: clamd is up and running. But DB Version is from 2011 :-(

  • Asterisk Requirements with PfSense?

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    @marcelloc:

    @acald:

    Might it be beneficial to update the package description to make this distinction?  Currently it reads as if you install the package and you have a full fledged IP-PBX and you don't need anything else.

    If you know how to configure asterisk config files, then you don't need anything else.

    Sure . . . that makes sense, however . . . .

    @dhatz:

    Btw if the idea was to provide a pfsense package to be "sip/iax gateway/proxy/firewall to protect internal voip server" I understand that other VoIP software is better suited for the task (this however doesn't diminish the value of marcelloc's great work on this a several other packages).

    Asterisk on pfsense should be used if one plans to implement a relative barebones (compared to specialty asterisk-distros like Elastix) VoIP-only (i.e. no cards) IP-PBX.

    . . . . would make me think that a clearer definition of it's reason for being implemented would assist some in making a better informed decision as to install it or not. (of course, not removing the possibility of using it for more.)

    just my 2¢

  • DansGuardian not blocking anything

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    GOT IT!! deinstall every package, installed every package..I also had to remove dirs left over

  • Snort 2.9.2.3 pkg v. 2.5.4, Custom Rules and THX

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  • Sargs Report - Have to manually update from the shell

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    @marcelloc:

    what arg did you configured schedule?
    1M?

    1d (small cap)

  • Bandwidthd after update 2.0.2 or 2.1-Beta

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    Has anyone reported this to the bug tracker?

  • Squid reverse - ProxyPassReverseCookiePath

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  • How to use quagga in pfsense

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    help please, is anyone here try to test quagga package in pfsense. saw a quagga package but beta version is
    it safe for deployment if ever it will be use for commercial purposes.  or any suggestion on how to route another public IP on the outside world. thanks in advance :)
    it's been great to be part of this community :)

  • Squidreverse (squid3): problem after each ip change!

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    Maybe a "force package resync on restart" option on gui could help on it.

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    committed the fix, thanks!

  • LightSquid setup

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    Not yet, should be in the near future. Only have a few more chapters left to edit, and 2.1 is about to hit RC1.

  • UNBOUND errors on 2.1

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    They are working on it:

    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,58871.0.html

  • Sysloy server or proxy on pfsense

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  • Snort won't start

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    Have you looked under Status > System log? All the snort messages should be logged there.

    Turns out the issue I had posted about previously was just a temprary downtime of files.pfsense.org. After about an hour I was able to install again.

  • Squid does not install properly

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    So I reverted back to before I installed squid and updated to the latest snapshot with only openvpn export and pfblocker packages installed however the console is trying to start squid and apache w/ mod security even though they are not currently installed.

    I did try previously to install them but encountered the same stalling.

  • Trouble getting sarg reports populated

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    Thanks you for your reply.

    Under Sarg-Reports > Schedule>
    Action after sarg is set to none, no rotation of logs

    Log rotate for Squid is set to 0

    Yesterday i had executed sarg -x twice at different internval however the new reports doesn't pop in.
    For second report .1, there is no index.html file generated
    For third .2, the report doesn't get populated into view report, but it has got index.html.gz

    kindly see the attached screenshot.

    I have disabled the compression now and waiting for the crontab to execute the sarg.

    Thx,
    Nav

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  • Sarg reports

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    Select create index file too.

  • Dansguardian permission error

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    @joshfokis:

    fixed this issue but now cannot extract blacklist states cannot find dir.

    try to reapply the blacklist.

    Check if clamav user exists on your system.

    check if /usr/local/pkg/blacklist.tbz needs permission fix too.

    after fixing all permissions, try a save config and see if it changes something.
    then try a reboot to see if clamav users still exists.

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