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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.

  • SARG -x SARG: Cannot set the locale LC_ALL to the environment variable

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    @periquito said in SARG -x SARG: Cannot set the locale LC_ALL to the environment variable:

    Ola a todos,

    instalei o e2guardian + sarg, nao consigo executar o sarg

    sarg -x
    SARG: Cannot set the locale LC_ALL to the environment variable

    ja fiz os procedimento

    rm -rf /usr/local/sarg-reports
    ln -s /usr/pbi/sarg-amd64/local/sarg-reports /usr/local/sarg-reports

    mesmo assim no view report aparece.

    Error: Could not find report index file.
    Check and save Sarg settings and try to force Sarg schedule.

    observação ja setei no general o index.

    desdeja obrigado

    O amigo conseguiu!? Estou com mesmo problema...

  • Remote Logging over VPN (Syslog-NG?)

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    @wblanton I don't think the built-in syslog has the capability to store and forward syslog messages.
    I did find this article where the author uses rsyslog to do what you describe, but I don't know if/how you can get that working inside pfSense, as there is no rsyslog package available.

    Depending on your environment, you could conceivably run the rsyslog on a *nix box/vm beside the pfSense and have pfSense forward its syslog output to this box which in turn is responsible to forward it to your central syslog over VPN, and it would queue up whatever it can't send until the link is restored.
    Ultimately though, this whole concept relies on the fact that TCP is a reliable transport, but there is no validation that log message "x" was successfully recorded on the central server.
    Furthermore, in the event of a link outage, using the above system, once the link is restored a stream of log messages would be added to the central syslog, which would then not have a linear view of time. Your central syslog would have to record the message generation time separately from the message reception time. A mechanism would be required to view records at the time they were generated, not simply received, since they could conceivably be out of order.

  • Double VPN'd?

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  • Packages won’t update

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    @markn62 said in Packages won’t update:

    @bmeeks Thanks again. Was a quick checkbox fix from this post. Working now. 😁

    👍

  • syslog-ng latest package broke tls

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    I did upgrade the package today and now everything is working !

    Thank you

  • Syslog-Ng fails after 2.5.2 update due to tls not found

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    I did upgrade the package today and now everything work !
    Thank you

  • ntopng history of used applications

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  • Snort not starting on WAN Interface

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    @bmeeks This is excellent news!!!

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  • latest version of ntopng

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  • pfsense available packages not showing

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    @kom Thanks for your help, I've found the problem, it was a slow internet connection, was too far from my AP, now all is showing again, cheers.

  • PIMD configuration help

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    @stan said in PIMD configuration help:

    @iHaveAstream
    Some further thoughts about your situation. Using a switch to create VLANs and UPnP for connectivity has a certain attraction as being elegantly simple. However, if you're already running pfSense, I think you would have more effective control and fewer problems by adding the VLANs to pfSense, using firewall rules to accomplish your goals, and disabling UPnP. That would also avoid security issues associated with UPnP.

    thanks for your detailed replies. I'm gonna go thru it soon.

    The reason why I decided to manage VLANs on L2 is because when done so on pfSense, there is the limit of 1 GB/s which is the bandwidth limit of the physical LAN port of the NIC...

  • Wireguard mass peer adding using direct XML or conf edit doesn't work

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  • Antivirus

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    @bmeeks said in Antivirus:

    Pick and choose carefully, and monitor things frequently so you can get ahead of any false-positive blocks.

    yeeeep ... nothing to add here !

    and because it's always commin up ... do not start with an IDS/IPS system
    start with pfBlocker and keep in mind what @bmeeks mentioned

  • Avahi daemon interferes with Apple’s HomeKit

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    As an alternative, I'd recommend trying udpbroadcastrelay:

    https://forum.netgate.com/topic/155698/how-can-i-get-this-udp-relay-package-for-casting-across-vlans

    Hope this helps.

  • Strange behavior for OpenVPN

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  • I can't install crontab on version 2.4.2.

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    @gertjan Oh yes, thank you very much for your answer, it's just that I didn't want to update PFsense now, as I have openvpn configured and I'm using openbgp with routing protocol, and I saw that in newer versions there is no support for openbgp, but it does have the frr which supports all other routing protocols.

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  • Apcupsd - Widget question.

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    @nullvalue I dont know why it shows a full Battery in red and if you klick on the Widget Title you get an "404 Not Found
    nginx" so i think there is still some work to do on this Widget Code ... 🤔

    Regards,
    fireodo

  • Telegraf Failing for WireGuard

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