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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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    NUT version is 2.8.2_5 (I've already tried reinstalling the package)

    NUT seems to think it can't find the UPS, but usbconfig shows it to be present:

    [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@janus.jhmg.pvt]/usr/local/etc/rc.d: usbconfig ... ugen0.5: <PR1500LCDRT2U UPS Cyber Power System, Inc.> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON (2mA) ...

    Below is the console log attempting to start NUT from the command line.

    [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@janus.jhmg.pvt]/usr/local/etc/rc.d: ./nut.sh stop stopping NUT [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@janus.jhmg.pvt]/usr/local/etc/rc.d: ./nut.sh start starting NUT Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.8.2 Network UPS Tools upsd 2.8.2 fopen /var/db/nut/upsd.pid: No such file or directory Could not find PID file '/var/db/nut/upsd.pid' to see if previous upsd instance is already running! Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.53 (2.8.2) listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 USB communication driver (libusb 1.0) 0.47 listening on ::1 port 3493 Can't connect to UPS [CyberPower-1500] (usbhid-ups-CyberPower-1500): No such file or directory libusb1: Could not open any HID devices: no USB buses found No matching HID UPS found upsnotify: failed to notify about state 4: no notification tech defined, will not spam more about it Driver failed to start (exit status=1) Found 1 UPS defined in ups.conf Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.8.2 kill: No such process UPS: CyberPower-1500 (primary) (power value 1) Using power down flag file /etc/killpower

    Also

    [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@janus.jhmg.pvt]/usr/local/etc/nut: more ups.conf [CyberPower-1500] driver=usbhid-ups port=auto [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@janus.jhmg.pvt]/usr/local/etc/nut: egrep -v '^#' nut.conf MODE=none

    and this, which singles out the usbhid-ups driver as the problem:

    [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@janus.jhmg.pvt]/usr/local/etc/nut: /usr/local/libexec/nut/usbhid-ups -a CyberPower-1500 Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.53 (2.8.2) USB communication driver (libusb 1.0) 0.47 libusb1: Could not open any HID devices: no USB buses found No matching HID UPS found upsnotify: failed to notify about state 4: no notification tech defined, will not spam more about it
  • 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 ( Pruned 1 sessions from cache for memcap )

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  • Problems having Snort restart automatically on Dynamic IP

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    Curious if there's any update on resolving this issue. Is there a place I can file a ticket to resolve it?

    Alternatively, can anyone suggest the location of the services startup script that gets run each time the WAN IP address changes. I'm happy to tweak that script if needed.

    Thanks

  • Authentication with Active Directory of Proxy Server

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    Maybe a typo.

    Did you joined machine to domain and changed squid auth to use ntlm?

    If don't, take a look on any samba+ squid tutorial.

  • Command to delete lightsquid logs

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    Beta version refers to the GUI. The package itself Lightsquid taken from the stable branch

  • Squid insallation: swapstate_check.php failed

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    The error says That swap php file could not be downloaded.

    Do you have this file on your repo?

  • IP-Blocklist installed but not available in GUI

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    My question would be if you still have the VM to test with if ipblocklist stops working when you install squid and squidguard. If so then you may be able to reverse that.

    I think you have two options: 1. Remove Squid or 2. Upgrade to pfblocker.

    Sorry for the late response.

  • Snort using PulledPork?

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    ermal,

    I understand all this takes time, implementing, testing, etc… Keep up the good work! Will donate again when I can.

    atpoirie,

    Nice writeup thanks, may give this a try; if/when I have time ;)

  • HAVP package 'production ready' on embedded platforms?

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  • Does Squid limits affect cached objects?

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    @hcoin:

    Success!  Thanks very much.  For me, not deleting the recipient filename on save is needed more than v2.9

    I've published version 2.3.3_1 with valid recipients fixes and improvements.

    The local file now is remote url fetch and is updated via cron as well.

    To force a update and see if there is no fetch erros, run /usr/local/bin/php -q /usr/local/www/postfix_recipients.php from console

    att,
    Marcello Coutinho

  • Getting /var/lightsquid/report errors? Here's a Possible Solution!

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    Hello,

    I found that actually going and changing the location of the log in the squid and then changing back, normaly resolves the issue. ;) do restart the service between changes ;)

    hope this is useful :)

  • Wan for Proxy Server

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    Great!
    Thank you

  • Squid and F-Secure updates

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  • Postfix Forwarder "recipients from local file" not saved?

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    Bump.  It gets worse…

    Not only does the postfix forwarder erase the relay recipient filename (try it, put a filename in, hit save and see field is erased when the save completes),  but also...

    Any time a user pushes 'save' in the GUI on the postfix screen, the relay recipient file is erased.  So, external processes that try to keep it updated have to refresh it frequently never knowing when the gui might erase it.

  • Snort Package Request:Remembering Enabled/Disabled Sigs

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    I know that which is fine for common false positives. The problem however is:

    a) you don't actually disable the rule so it is still inspecting the traffic with the rules and then not alerting so if it was something that was really heavy load and hitting often - it is actually disabled so you are still getting that load.
    b) you can't enable any rules (well have them stay enabled after your update) that you may want to use
    c) you can't properly tune the sensor to disable what you don't need to improve performance
    d) you don't reduce the false positive risk (i.e you may suppress the FPs you have seen but you don't know if a sig for some 2006 vulnerability is going to block something even though you patched it and it isn't used anymore by attacks).

    Regards,
    Kevin

  • Snort: Alterts Filter Function

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  • [Snort] Manually block an IP and HTTP server flow depth

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    Well I actually fixed two of problems: Suppressing those Snort alerts via this link: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41533.msg220893.html#msg220893

    and adding the ability to view offending packets in the Snort logs using this mod: http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2008

    So, the only question left is: Is it possible to manually block an IP with Snort, without adding a new firewall rule?

  • SquidGuard + time

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    use ext url found but webpages are not blocking pls help

  • LIGHT SQUID REPORT ERROR

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    Thanks for your response.  I figured it out last night; embarrassingly it was a cache issue with my browser.  :-[  PICNIC !!

    Thank you though for that link, the video actually proved useful for a HAVP query i had.

  • Ntop core dump

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    Thanks jimp,

    two new pfSense machines are in the works as we speak,,,doing pfSense-2.0.1
    1.2.3 has worked like a champ really…
    Seems I m always a generation behind..times .:)

    Take Care,
    Barry

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