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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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    @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.

  • Mod Security (Reverse proxy with SSL)

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    Hello,

    I got it working. It seems it's not possible to do reverse proxy on 443 and 80. I had to remove port 80 to get it working.

    On proxy server settings is set port to bind to 443.
    I removed  the port 80 site proxy (with a config for port 80 and 443 it didn't work).

    You have to enter the file name only for certificate files (with full path it will search for /usr/local/apache22/etc/usr/local/apache22/etc/cert_file according to the log)
    So i think there is a typo in the path they given under the option. You have to put your certificate files in /usr/local/etc/apache22/ instead of /usr/local/apache22/etc/

    When you add full path name apache will not run and there is no proxy at all.

    You must not add a port forward in the NAT

    Greetings.

  • Changing $HOME_NET in Snort

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  • Lcdproc hd44780 rs-232 error

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    Thanks Michele,

    I installed the beta LCDproc pkg, and my service started!  ;),  these are the settings I have now,

    which is great but I still see no activity on the lcd itself

    when the service started it created this .conf file :

    [server]
    DriverPath=/usr/local/lib/lcdproc/
    Driver=CFontz
    Bind=127.0.0.1
    Port=13666
    ReportLevel=3
    ReportToSyslog=yes
    User=nobody
    Foreground=no
    ServerScreen=no
    GoodBye="Thanks for using"
    GoodBye="    pfSense     "
    WaitTime=2
    ToggleRotateKey=Enter
    PrevScreenKey=Left
    NextScreenKey=Right
    ScrollUpKey=Up
    ScrollDownKey=Down
    [menu]
    MenuKey=Escape
    EnterKey=Enter
    UpKey=Up
    DownKey=Down
    [CFontz]
    Device=/dev/cuau1
    Size=16x2
    Contrast=350
    Brightness=1000
    OffBrightness=50
    NewFirmware=no
    Reboot=no
    "

    here is what my logs say about the LCD:

    I've tried changing port speeds, content, but no luck…any clues ?

    Thanks

  • Squid 3 HTTPS (ssl connect) pages loading slowly / after retries

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    I've included this dns_v4_first option on squid3 pkg v 2.0.5_4 general tab.

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  • Country IP Blocks is considering offering free ACLs to pfblocker users

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    @CIPB:

    It's always worth discussing in order to see what can be worked out.

    Possibilities:
    Allowing pfBlocker devs occasional access to freshen up the lists in pfBlocker.

    Allowing individual pfBlocker users to register w/ CIPB and receive some sort of list access in return.

    Allowing pfBlocker to regain it's former access to CIPB lists, in trade for publishing a CIPB logo/badge on the pfBlocker tab/page in pfSense.
    (Probably needs approval by marcello/tommyboy and/or others)

    That's what I have off the top of my head.

  • Help with ntop please!

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  • SNORT 2.9.2.3 WONT START AFTER UPGRADE

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    Hi,

    I have the same (similar) problem.
    When I enter
    [2.0.1-RELEASE][admin@fire.box]/root(2): /usr/local/etc/rc.d/snort.sh start

    I get the following error message

    pgrep: Pidfile `/var/run/snort_pppoe03086.pid' is empty

    Any clue?

    Matthias

  • Broken pfsense by installing freeradius2 and how to recover?

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    Thanks a lot for the hint regarding the conf/config.xml . I did not know pfsense can be configured with the help of only this file :O and that it is versioned automatically (now i have also found the corresponding backup/restore option in the web interface).
    Had a whole bunch of old config files and after reseting to factory defaults i could again connect to the web-interface and from there (what i really liked) load one of the old configs from which i knew they worked.

    Great!

  • [help] Setup reverse proxy with authentication

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    Actually don't worry, I setup a IPSec vpn instead

  • Package request - xymon

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    @SeventhSon:

    Looks cool, might be handy in some situations :)

    If you hacked it into pfSense, can you give us an idea what you needed to do to get it running?

    sure but its standard stuff..

    1. log into via ssh,  drop to the cli
    2. type:  setenv PACKAGESITE http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/Latest/
    3. type: pkg_add -r xymon-client

    then you can configure it.

    -g

  • SquidGuard Blocking Issue

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    Thanks for the document , I have noticed it.. and it works fine now ../ sorry for asking such trivial question

  • New Snort Package - Issues & Suggested Fixes

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    (http_inspect) NO CONTENT-LENGTH OR TRANSFER-ENCODING IN HTTP RESPONSE

    suppress gen_id 120, sig_id 3

    (http_inspect) HTTP RESPONSE GZIP DECOMPRESSION FAILED

    suppress gen_id 120, sig_id 6

    (http_inspect) INVALID CONTENT-LENGTH OR CHUNK SIZE

    suppress gen_id 120, sig_id 8

    (smtp) Base64 Decoding failed.

    suppress gen_id 124, sig_id 10

    (smtp) Quoted-Printable Decoding failed

    suppress gen_id 124, sig_id 11

    (smtp) 7bit/8bit/binary/text Extraction failed.

    suppress gen_id 124, sig_id 12

    Thank You
    I also received those http_inspect alerts.
    Pfsense 2.0.1 X64 + Snort 2.9.2.3 pkg v. 2.5.1

    I also had to add these as well:
    #(http_inspect) UNKNOWN METHOD - 0
    suppress gen_id 119, sig_id 31
    #(http_inspect) SIMPLE REQUEST
    suppress gen_id 119, sig_id 32

  • Squid wpad and android issue.

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    The Opera browser supports adding a proxy in (See opera:config) but it doesn't seem to support autoconfigure. Firefox has options for it in about:config

  • Snort reinstall and new failing: libpcre.so.1: unsupported file layout

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    @jimp:

    Try this:

    uninstall, then from the shell:

    pkg_delete -f snort* pcre*

    Then try to reinstall.

    I checked the version of PCRE on the package server, and the one required by snort is built for amd64 so I'm not sure how you'd have pulled in the wrong one.

    THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
    your instructions helped me to get Snort Running again  :D
    I'm running Pfsense 2.0.1 X64 with Snort 2.9.2.3 Pkg 2.5.1
    Link to my post: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,52854.0.html

    Thanks again

  • Squid & Squid Guard not starting after install

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    The minimum pfSense version required for Squid is now 2.0.n
    I guess that the 1.2.3 package installer code doesn't have the code to check that, so it let you install it.
    The code in squid.inc is checking for version "2.0" to use pkg install dir names, it assumes that if you are not on 2.0.n that you are on a later version e.g. 2.1-BETA0 which uses pbi installer. So you are getting those messages about it trying to find dirs with "pbi" in the name.
    I would advise installing pfSense 2.0.1 and then install packages…

  • SquidGuard doesn't obey safesearch settings

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  • 2.0.1 - Snort won't start - New Install

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    Bumping this thread.

    I updated to 2.1-dev from 2.0.1 a couple of days ago. Using AMD64 build with the latest packages. Snort won't start with the configuration I had setup from before. Error message is the FATAL ERROR: Failed to initialize dynamic preprocessor: SF_DNS (IPV6) version 1.1.4 (-2) which definitely means it's having an issue with the IPv6 part of "Enable DNS Detection" preprocessor. Only catch is that if you disable the preprocessor, it's not actually disabling it.

    Steps to reproduce:

    Create a new snort interface (Defaults are fine)
    enable snort. Everything works fine.
    Disable snort.
    Edit the interface, go to the preprocessors tab, check the box for "Enable DNS Detection" and save the changes
    Try enabling snort again, and it crashes with the error message.
    Edit the interface, go to the preprocessors tab, uncheck the box for "Enable DNS Detection" and save the changes
    Try to start snort again, and the error message still appears.

    You can keep creating new rules and they will keep working as long as you don't enable that preprocessor. I was able to enable the HTTP inspect one, need to test the others yet.

  • Configpath

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    Thanks marcelloc, I've looked at the ipguard xml in addition to squid and spamd.

    In the ipguard xml, the only difference appears to be the format (I've seen both formats out there so I assume both are valid).

    <configpath>['installedpackages']['syslogngobjects']['config']</configpath>

    VS.

    <configpath>installedpackages->package->ipguard</configpath>

    Is my understanding correct, that I can provide a custom configpath (one that differs from the name of the syslogng_advanced.xml file) and expect pfSense to put the config in the respective area of the config.xml file?

  • Watchguard with pfsense and: Mailscanner-dev and Postfix Forward

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  • Installing python crashes pfsense

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