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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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    @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.

  • PfSense+Squid cannot connect to LDAP Server (Windows 2008 Server)

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    on access.log

  • NTOP-displays 0.0.0.0

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    Hello,

    Three months later… but i didn't find any other post about that.

    I have exactly the same problem monitoring about 130 hosts, running pfsense 1.2.3
    Some of them are displaying 0.0.0.0 as their IP address on the board.

    But if you click to access the info panel, you can see their actual unicast address, so it's not really a problem.
    If you're bored to see those 0.0.0.0, you can try to reset the stats and it will show you correct IP instead.

    But it doesn't solve the problem anyway, so if anyone has any idea he's welcome.

  • Snort just blocking traffic and not the host

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  • Squid Proxy Authentication

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    We do a setup just like this using the captive portal.  We allow access to only whitelisted URLs on our LAN (10.21.1.0/24) and open internet once authenticated through the captive portal on OPT1 (192.168.1.0/24).  We manually list out the OPT1 IPs in the 'do not filter' box in the Squid GUI and it accomplishes exactly why you describe.

  • 2.0 RC1 - SNORT Rules

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    Same here.  Seems like the Oink/Snort db service was offline etc. when I tried to connect.  Last night mine updated as well.

    Now the big question becomes - how many of those rules to turn on? :)

    Dayblade

  • Lightsquid Server Aggregation

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  • Passing traffic for two hosts on LAN

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    HAProxy, Squid or other load balancer/reverse proxy packages - a search of the forum should find you many threads on the issue.

  • Open-VM-Tools fails to install due to perl package not found

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    I also have this with 2.0-RC1 (i386) :

    Downloading http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/icu-4.6.1.tbz ...  could not download from there or http://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/All/icu-4.6.1.tbz. of icu-4.6.1 failed! Installation aborted.Backing up libraries... Removing package... Starting package deletion for open-vm-tools-nox11-313025_2...done. Skipping package deletion for fusefs-kmod-0.3.9.p1 because it is a dependency. Starting package deletion for fusefs-kmod-0.3.9.p1.20080208_7...done. Skipping package deletion for fusefs-libs-2.7.4 because it is a dependency. Starting package deletion for glib-2.26.1_1...done. Starting package deletion for python27-2.7...done. Skipping package deletion for perl-5.10 because it is a dependency. Skipping package deletion for pkg-config-0 because it is a dependency. Skipping package deletion for pcre-8 because it is a dependency. Starting package deletion for icu-4.6.1...done. Skipping package deletion for libdnet-1.11_3 because it is a dependency. Skipping package deletion for libiconv-1.13.1_1 because it is a dependency. Starting package deletion for pcre-8.12...done. Starting package deletion for perl-5.10.1_3...done. Starting package deletion for pkg-config-0.25_1...done. Starting package deletion for python27-2.7.1_1...done. Starting package deletion for icu-4.6.1...done. Removing Open-VM-Tools components... Loading package instructions... Include file open-vm-tools.inc could not be found for inclusion. Deinstall commands... Not executing custom deinstall hook because an include is missing.
  • Snort won't start

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    Seems each updated snapshot wipes snort rules and config. Yes i have save config if removed set.

    Updating snort rules generally fixes the issue your speaking of in my case.

  • Install Squid 3.2?

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    There is no FreeBSD port of Squid v3.2, in the ports tree, currently so you will need to download the source and compile your own package on a separate i386 FreeBSD box and then install that on to your pfSense box.

    Btw BETA5 is old, would suggest upgrading to RC1.

  • Lightsquid "500 - internal server error"

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    Gave it a go, but still seeing a 500 Internal Server Error.  No worries, I plan up upgrading from 1.2.3 RE to 2.0 RC1 shortly.  Thanks though.

  • Access.log won't update until I …

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    thx wagonza - your reply nudged me into the right direction.

    if I do a pfctl -sn | grep http - I am suppose to see the redirect rule :
    rdr on re0 inet proto tcp from any to ! (re0) port = http -> 127.0.0.1 port 80

    After browsing I found the solution in the http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,20690.15.html discussion… in a nutshell, it looks like there is some sort of race condition in rc.  so by commenting out the 'rm -f /tmp/filter_dirty' line fixes the problem!

  • 2.0RC1 - Command Line Email

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    FYI- pfSense does not include a CLI mail client.

  • MOVED: "No Network Devices Available" Sysinstall in a jail

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  • How to remove a page from cache

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    try some of the things outlined in the squid manual http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/OperatingSquid

  • NRPE and SSL

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    ok i solved this problem.

    If somebody is interested:

    First setup a virtual maschine of freebsd
    In the NRPE ports dir edit the Make File and enable SSL
    make config recursive
    make package recursive

    put the nrpe package on the pfsense host

    install the depend packages
    and install nrpe
    pkg_add PATH TO PACKAGE
    edit nagios config file and enable nrpe in the startup script

    now nrpe should work with ssl

  • Squid/Lightsquid Internal DNS Resolver for logs

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    Is there anyone that can help me get this setup on 2.0?

  • 2.0 RC1 snort blocks ipsec

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  • 2.0RC1 Slow Squid proxy server

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    An update:

    using this as /boot/loader.conf

    autoboot_delay="1"
    #kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0"
    hint.apic.0.disabled=1
    kern.hz=100
    #for squid
    kern.ipc.nmbclusters="32768"
    kern.maxfiles="65536"
    kern.maxfilesperproc="32768"
    net.inet.ip.portrange.last="65535"

    seems to let squid download about 20% (or about 40-80MB) of a file at full link speed. After that, the speed just tumbles to 200-300kbits/s. Really frustrating. Not using any traffic shaping mechanisms.

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