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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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    @qinn
    Sent him an email Dan an email to the address on his site.. Not sure what is happening, my Teams stopped working. Disable it/turn it off and the problem went away.

  • 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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    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.

  • Snort: 2.9.2.3 pkg v. 2.2.1 - Is it stable now?

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    I agree it is still not stable, honestly does not seem to have really improved, since starting my recent journey into pfsense. I just went through a total fresh install. I am starting to loose faith in a stable product here and it's becoming harder for me to say this is a good stable choice for my employer.

    As many others have stated why is there no way to roll back packages to a working version? Why is there not more stringent testing going on before pushing to your stable version? There has to be a simple way to get things sorted out here until you have the "updated" version working, or is this a difference between "paid" support and free?

    Me personally, I am waiting about another week before calling this way to unstable for my taste for such a product, since multiple weeks broken is too long in my opinion, especially for those of us new to pfsense and trying just get a working install of listed features. I feel setting up a personal repo is way over kill to get a functioning system, then "cherry picking" the proper revisions for what packages we want to use, again especially just coming into the product.

  • Imspector install fails on sqlite download…

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    Beauteefull!  You're a prince among men.  Thank you.

  • Lightsquid 1.8.0 pkg v.2.32 pbi package not working, perl coredumps

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    i did a gitsync if that was ok… no perl cordumps now :-) but i had to link the config file

    error

    /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/www/lightsquid/lightparser.pl today cat: /usr/pbi/lightsquid-i386/squid/logs/access.log: No such file or directory

    quick fix at the command prompt and its in business

    rm /usr/pbi/lightsquid-i386/etc/lightsquid/lightsquid.cfg ln -s /usr/local/etc/lightsquid/lightsquid.cfg /usr/pbi/lightsquid-i386/etc/lightsquid/lightsquid.cfg
  • Hiding Quagga OSPFd in the Dashboard?

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    Fixed:
    https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense/commit/58816510ae391de12e16a72e803336cfeb37c747

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    Increasing the buffersize helped to 2097152 bytes (2MB) helped. I can now watch ~1500 entries.

    @dvserg
    Limiting the size is very important and a good thing. But I do have so many entries in the "blocked" file that I am not able to watch back more than one day. That's the reason why I would like to increase the buffer a little bit. Perhaps you can find a way to implement an option to modify the buffer size and the lines in the logfile when doing a logrotate.

    Thanks both of you for your help!

  • Manually installing sqlite does not work

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    Try this again now, it should be pulling the right file. (Give it about 5-10 minutes after this post)

  • HAVP + 2.1-BETA (amd64)

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    FYI- If you're on a current snapshot HAVP should be adding its own user again, but it may need other fixes for the config path and such.

  • Vhosts documentation, where?

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    @Cino:

    I created a small script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d so it starts on boot.

    Is that part of the standard 2.1 distribution or package now? Because I just upgraded to the lates build, and it turns out vhosts was up without me starting it manually. Unless your change was in the latest build, it would seem that even though the process isn't launched upon package activation, it's lauched upon reboot???

  • Typo in dansguardian package…

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    Have a look at http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,47676.0.html
    I do small fixes for typos, little code bugs etc via this method. Lately I have found that the Github online editor used through Firefox does not want to edit large files. I resorted to using IE (which brings up has a different, simpler editing interface on Github) and it works for the bigger files. Github have admitted that there is a problem they are trying to track down in their fancy online editor that appears with Firefox.
    The main pfsense code is in the pfsense repo, filed in directories that match where it is on an install (/etc/inc, /usr/local/www,…)
    The package code is in the pfsense-packages repo, config folder, with a folder for each package.
    I am living and working In Nepal, but from Australia. I see how difficult English is - so many exceptions to every rule. It's a pity that much of the world is having to standardise on such a poorly organised language. So, well done to those who have learnt English later in life.

  • Typo in Antivirus HTTP proxy page…

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    I cleaned up that and a good deal of other text in HAVP. Might have missed some things, was just looking through the source in the main havp.xml.

  • Vhosts broken???

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    rcfaR

    And then, besides getting the service started, there's also this:

    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,46062.0.html

  • Lightsquid proxy state error

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  • Snort whitelist seemingly not working

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    I'm using 2.01 with Snort installed in last few days… Snort 2.9.2.3 pkg v. 2.2.1

    As I'm new to snort I'm stumbling along really... I've enabled basic rules and emerging threats and ticked all categories and pre-processors...

    Seeing both of your posts I just rebooted my two firewalls and still see the following in my System Logs:
    ET SCAN Cisco Torch SNMP Scan [Classification: Attempted Information Leak] [Priority: 2] {UDP} MY_NAGIOS_HOST -> IP:SNMP

    But I've whitelisted my Nagios box so won't expect to see anything about traffic from it.

    Is this the only log - it's hard to see what's happening with only system log and snort widget on dashboard.

  • Vhosts and IPv6 addresses?

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  • Newbie - Snort missing "Categories/Rules" tab

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    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,27611.0.html

    I think this is still valid…

    Greets

  • Pfblocker rules and other rules ordering

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    Cheers Thanks,

  • SquidGuard

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    Hi,

    I'm currently using chrome. I tried with Firefox but it's still the same. I've tried with IE too (but it's an old version) and I think it doesn't understand a lot of Javascript.
    Have I something else to configure before making filters ?

    Airy

  • Dansguardian Package

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    As a testament to searching for your answers before asking… this post helped me figure it out! Thanks!

  • NTop change RRD settings (simple)

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  • SNORT - PFSense.org signature ruleset

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    @mschiek01:

    I brought this up to them yesterday.  They indicated that the ph ruleset no longer applies as it rolled into the other ruleset.  The snort package will be updated to remove this link.

    thanks mschiek01! I haven't updated my ruleset in 3 days since its been stable for me.. Guess when I do another re-install or a rule update, it will be missing

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