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  • Discussions about packages which handle caching and proxy functions such as squid, lightsquid, squidGuard, etc.

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    I even tried deleting and creating a new certificate. Any suggestions?
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    @NRgia said in Suricata on Pfsense: Your suggestion is preferred, but from I understood from you, nobody is interested or have the knowledge. Again thank you, for updating this package over the years. I'm sure there is someone here on the forum using the package that has the knowledge to maintain it. Another option if IDS/IPS is critical is to use the Linux package on a separate virtual machine or hardware appliance. Inline IPS performance would actually be very good using a Linux box (or even a FreeBSD box) with two separate NICs and configure true netmap hardware-to-hardware mode. That is many times more performant than the hardware-to-host mode that is required when using netmap within pfSense. Of course using a separate box would mean no GUI, but that's how the vast majority of the world uses Suricata already (without a GUI).
  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @Antibiotic No it’s not possible with NtopNG as it is not a Netflow collector. You need nProbe for that which will “translate” recieved netflows into flows that NtopNG understands and can visualize (with very very little detail might I add as Netflows has no additonal information apart from sender/reciever and volume). The NtopNG package and the product in general is more geared towards visualising and recording traffic details from actual packet captures. This contains MUCH more metadata about the sessions than netflows (DNS names, protocol information and myriads of other things). But pffSense Plus has a builtin Netflow exporter if you have an external netflow collector on hand.
  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @Gertjan Thanks for your reply – that’s also my impression. The point is: I don’t really see any lists right now that are actually “maintained” in the sense of being actively cleaned up, checked for dead domains, categorized, etc. That’s why my main interest is more about the demand: Would curated lists really be a game changer for admins? Would they be more helpful than what’s available today, or are most people already using other alternatives? If so, which ones? And from your perspective, what would be your expectation towards “community lists”? (e.g. reliability, update frequency, categories, fewer false positives?)
  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @jhg said in NUT fails to start after 2.7.2 -> 2.8.0 upgrade: Interesting. I would have thought the initial reboot, which occurred as part of the upgrade, would have done the trick, but it took a second reboot, just now, to get things working. Glad you have it sorted. There was no difference in the output of usbconfig show_ifdrv at any point -- before or after unplugging/replugging the USB cable, nor after rebooting. ... Question: What would tell me whether or not a driver was loaded? If there were an attached driver, it should have shown up with the show_ifdrv command. If you use the command and look at the other usb devices, I think they will show attached drivers. I don't expect to see a driver attached to the ups, because there is a quirk that tells the OS to ignore that device (and not attach a driver). Look for idVendor and idProduct in the above output. The Vendor ID for your device is 0764, which corresponds to Cyber Power Systems, and the Product ID for your device is 0601, which is registered as "PR1500LCDRT2U UPS" (don't sweat an exact match for the name). You can see the quirk with the following command: [25.07-RC][root@fw]/root: usbconfig dump_device_quirks | grep 0764 VID=0x0764 PID=0x0005 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE VID=0x0764 PID=0x0501 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE VID=0x0764 PID=0x0601 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE [25.07-RC][root@fw]/root: Your device is third on the list. The HID_IGNORE quirk says to ignore the device and not attach a driver. @jhg said in NUT fails to start after 2.7.2 -> 2.8.0 upgrade: You might consider adding this resolution to the release notes for 2.8. LOL... sorry, I don't have input to the release notes (I don't work here). While I wrote and maintain various packages, including NUT, I'm still just a volunteer. Most packages are actually written by volunteers.
  • Discussions about the ACME / Let’s Encrypt package for pfSense

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    Hi, Please help to forward / report the bugs in ACME 1.0 package. Thanks.
  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    Anyone else happen to notice that when configuring BFD, if you create a peer and select a profile - after save, re-edit the peer and the Profile is not represented. It appears as "None". You have to check the raw config to determine if the profile was actually assigned to the peer. This is on 2.8.1 (all packages up to date as of the date/time of this post). UPDATE: if re-edit and save (without re-configuring the profile none to what you want) - the save will strip the profile from the peer.
  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    Hi All, I use HAProxy to redirect to a range of https internal resources, this works really well at the moment through the WAN where I have source limits set up, and I can connect to the internal resources from limited external IP Addresses. Given I have tailscale I would like to basically be able to put custom dns entries in to point these hostnames to my pfsense tailscale IP4 address (100.89.148.118) but I am not having any luck getting this working. At the moment, I am just trying to connect to HAProxy using https://100.89.148.118 but it is getting blocked by the firewall. Sep 11 11:55:58 tailscale0 Default deny rule IPv4 (1000000103) 100.89.148.10:53148 100.89.148.118:443 TCP:S I have tried with and without NAT redirecting internally to 127.0.0.1, and I also have rules set up to allow any traffic to and from my tailnets (defined in an alias) but I still keep getting these connections from my other tailscale machines being blocked on the pfsense machine. Can someone give me some pointers on what I am missing because I can see the requests are coming through to the pfsense machine, and in theory the rules should allow it through but I cant see why they don't. I do have tailscale ACL in place, but clearly that is not an issue as the requests are making it through to the firewall. 0/0 B IPv4+6 TCP/UDP TailNets * TailNets * * none Allow across Tailnets 0/0 B IPv4+6 TCP/UDP * * * 443 (HTTPS) * none Allow Tailscale IP4 I also tried adding a EasyRule but because the tailscale0 interface doesn't exist in pfsense it throws an error and won't let me add that rule. Appreciate any help or tips, Cheers.
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    @HFADmin If it is no Site2Site-VPN then you don't need any gateways in the first place... If that is true but you want to monitor the connection then you could create dummy-gateways just to ping the remote ip-addresses.
  • Freeradiuis

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  • Is my pfSense broken? No package updates since 2.5

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    @gertjan Yup I am on 2.5.1 - just saying since 2.5 I have not really seen as many package updates as I used to. Seems like the updates are just slow - nothing is broken, thanks for pitching in.
  • TFTP addon not working on 21.05

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    @johnpoz You were right, you need to de-select any interfaces in the tftp proxy so it looks like this, then it works correctly. [image: 1623714269213-10ca2c63-d318-4302-8cab-b45a93d8a166-image.png]
  • pfSense - Packages - Edit file - Regarding

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    You need to be specific on what exactly conf thing you want exposed to be able to edit.. From your post I really have no idea what you set in the conf.
  • G Suite - Secure LDAP - FreeRADIUS (pfSense) - Configuration - Regarding

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  • FreeRadius MySQL

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    @gertjan Yea, it's one of the first things on my list when I can afford anything.
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    @lightningbit said in Any mail from the pfsense appliance has "Arpwatch Notification" in the subject line, even when it is from a completely different package: I assume this is a bug? or is there another way to fix this? The issue is already known, and a solution is in the pipeline : read https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/11366
  • Arpwatch - Telegram notifications

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    @drumsergio said in Arpwatch - Telegram notifications: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/11972 There should be a new section on the Arpwatch service page to select whether to send notifications via e-mail or Telegram. The destination of notifications is set up here : System > Advanced > Notifications Notification can be mailed and/or telegrammed and/or Pushovered (whatever that might be). Btw : You can 'have it' right now : Edit : /usr/local/arpwatch/sendmail_proxy.php Close to the last line : Replace : send_smtp_message($message, "{$config['system']['hostname']}.{$config['system']['domain']} - Arpwatch Notification : {$subject[1]}"); For : $message = $config['system']['hostname']}.{$config['system']['domain']." - Arpwatch Notification : ".$subject[1]." - "; /* or something else - I didn't test with Telegram */ notify_via_telegram($message) ;
  • Serial Terminal emulator FROM pfsense

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    @kom Thanks for the info. I was not aware of tip or cu. I'll check them out. Thanks for the warning about installing external packages as well!
  • Cannot get PIMD to work

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  • Installation of packages failed

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    @stephenw10 Yes, I think 5GB is already enough. I will try your solution, but I created a new machine in VirtualBox and freshly installed Pfsense there, and it works perfectly. All specs are the same, which is weird.
  • check_mk v2

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    I use the pfSense Check with SNMP and CheckMK Client at the moment. But I'm trying to figure out, if theres a better way like checks over SSH. Very sad, that theres no agent installation over the package manager :(
  • Avahi causes a ton of ping chatter

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    What are you trying to accomplish exactly.. Why do you think you should bridge all your networks together? Why are you trying to use a tap vpn connection? The only point to such a setup would before allowing for L2 discovery.. Ie broadcast and multicast? Why would you want/need that? Do you want to control traffic between your wireless network and your lan?
  • Error node_exporter 0.18.1_1

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    @vukuze said in Error node_exporter 0.18.1_1: I am not some kind of pfSense guru and my advice may be wrong, but here is my solution of the same problem: mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d cp /usr/local/etc/rc.d/node_exporter /usr/local/share/pfSense-pkg-node_exporter/node_exporter.sh My node_exporter 0.18.1_2 on pfsense 2.5.1 gave me the same could not open error. I used these commands verbatim and after reboot the service started up and the metrics were exposed as expected. Thank you
  • Some questions about APCUPSD

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    @whitetiger-it said in Some questions about APCUPSD: I have to display pop-ups, send an email and send a message with Telegram. So I have to use a script, but I can't get it to start when the state changes. Sorry - I have no Idea ...
  • Help I get this: "Unable to retrieve package information."

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    @dilan123 Looks like it's all working again today! You might want to see if it's working for you too.
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    Hello, this was not the trick! Removed the Database and reinstalled the Zabbix-Proxy and the Zabbix Client Nothing changed - the Problem is still there.
  • Email notifications with apcupsd not sent

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    @steveits I have been encountering the same issue and finally digested this setting in /usr/local/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf: # The ONBATTERYDELAY is the time in seconds from when a power failure # is detected until we react to it with an onbattery event. # # This means that, apccontrol will be called with the powerout argument # immediately when a power failure is detected. However, the # onbattery argument is passed to apccontrol only after the # ONBATTERYDELAY time. If you don't want to be annoyed by short # powerfailures, make sure that apccontrol powerout does nothing # i.e. comment out the wall. ONBATTERYDELAY 6 The onbattery condition is immediately logged to the apcupsd event log and syslog, but the email notification is withheld until the ONBATTERYDELAY has transpired to eliminate unnecessary notifications for brief transients. I see that your outages were only on second long, so they would not have satisfied the default 6-second condition. If you want to be notified of brief outages, you might create a powerout script in /usr/local/etc/apcupsd/ similar to the onbattery script. Galen
  • UPS Manager with statistics (and graph)

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    @whitetiger-it You may want to look at MRTG. I'm sure someone has adapted it for UPSs (either APCUPSD or NUT). MRTG I have a FreeBSD NAS (Xigmanas) which has UPS monitoring that looks a lot like MRTG. Maybe you could spin up a minimal VM with it and monitor that way? The NAS uses NUT to monitor pfSense as slave, which in turn uses APCUPSD to monitor the USB-connected APC on the host... Simple! :/ [image: 1620669889413-a3a9005e-b53a-4829-aaa5-3e13bbf5de0b-image.png]
  • Freeradius authentication - multiple instances (OVPN & wifi)

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    @nogbadthebad Cool, looks interesting. Thank you. I'll try. Yes, the Google OTP is per user, so it looks like I'll have to create every user twice (not huge effort).
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