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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.

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  • Zebedee to encrypt radius pap authentication?

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    Thank you Marcello.  Knowing that pfsense is designed to be a zebedee server and not a client has saved me some time.  I'll give your suggestion a try.

  • Squid / Snort on same box w PFSense: Good/Bad idea

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    Thanks Cry Havok,

    Actually had read the material in the link previously, but was not aware of Snort requirements.

    To the good is that won't have to break out a slide rule or an abacus to figure it out.  Memory is cheap.  Have to get a new motherboard and a quad 3.x cpu isn't gong to break the bank.

    Good to have to plan.  This may have saved me hours of pointless redos.

    Thanks again.

    Ed

  • Enable youtube for schools in Squid

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    In squid GUI you can add any additional "custom options" you want.
    You can create ACLs, rules and more. As long you use the correct squid syntax you can add this the "custom options" box which adds these options to the squid.conf.

    this parameter could perhaps help you:
    "header_replace"

  • Tftpd & tftp-proxy (inetd?) dies after WAN periodic reset or IP renewal

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  • Squid logs in other place

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    Thanks to this post
    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,49351.0.html
    with help of it i found http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Copying_Logs_to_a_Remote_Host_with_Syslog
    Thanks
    kalu

  • Squid reports Lightsquid

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    You can try the SARG as well. It is available in packages

  • LightSquid Installation Failing - sqstat.class.php failed

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    Must be fixed now.
    Thanks to marcelloc.

  • Freeradius2 with mOTP for 2 factor SSH authentication question

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    Thanks for your reply.  After looking at the articles you suggested, I saw that I needed to create an /etc/radius.conf file and specify the appropriate values in the file.  I have it working now.  Thanks again!

  • Sarg throwing up error

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    Thankyou marcelloc.
    You're great :-)

  • Update squid-reverse to Squid3?

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    @diegoriera:

    My current settings will be lost?

    No, but just in case, make a backup before update and save custom options(if any) on a text file at your computer.

  • Squid3 Reverse vs. Varnish

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    On all docs i see on internet, varnish is faster then squid.

  • HELP: Squid3 + SquidGuard + HAVP

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    If you are using authentication, squid should be fist. and havp a parent for squid.

    Dansguardian needs squid after to fetch urls.

  • HELP: Postfix configuration

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    @canefield:

    About Postfix; when defining the domain names and the internal servers in general, mail is not forwarded to them and so my mail in not coming into my mailbox. Is there more to configure and/or some logs (or something else) to debug?

    check what postfix did with your messages on log files and/org report tab.

    make sure you did disabled third part antispam config on antispam tab.

    @canefield:

    I read that Mailscanner is consuming a lot of system resources, right? Any 'how-to' how to configure Mailscanner and a 'how-to' how to debug it for future purpose.

    A good start is selecting all default options on gui.

  • Ntop 4.0.1_1 v2 coredump with 2.0.1-RELEASE (amd64)

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    I am seeing this with version 4.1.0_3 v2.3 on 2.0.1-RELEASE (amd64).
    Pentium G620 @ 2.60GHz
    2 gig ram
    4 gig SSD with 80% free

    System log entry:
    kernel: pid 57780 (ntop), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped)

    Specifically, this occurs when you try to view any of the ntop summary pages (ones listed in the menu "Summary" including the default main page that loads when you click on the ntop link in the pfsense menu). Visiting any non-summary page by directly entering the url is fine.

  • Squid proxy traffic framed ?

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    nobody has a basic ideea about this….

  • Squid cachemgr

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    @marcelloc:

    @dvserg:

    I do not see the difference, if worked. I just looked up the error in the code.

    Ok, I've published the new code. Thanks for the fix.

    Thanks!
    New proxy - good job!

  • Snort - problems with configuration

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    I solved my second problem by enabling everything under "Snort: Interface: Preprocessors and Flow" even though I don't know if it's the right way. No error so far for the categories I have enabled.

    However, i was not able to find a solution about the enabled rules (signatures) on each category. I guess i have to live with that for now :/

    But for sure there must be somewhere a description/documentation of each category, what kind of attacks is preventing but i could not find it so far..if someone has found something plz let me know

  • Freeradius question

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    Hi,

    freeradius.xml is the file you are looking for.
    This file calls this function in freeradius.inc:

    function freeradius_users_resync
  • Squid Cache management on Embedded?

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    @joebobfrank:

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    How about using Squid and Squidguard to log the URLs websites being accessed? Will this work? Do the logs get written to the CF card?

    For logging websites you should try sarg or lightsquid package.

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