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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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    @SteveITS ...got it, I should have looked in the docs... I do too use Quad9 and have DNSSEC disabled, so I guess my question is pointless..

    Thank you for all the help.

  • 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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    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.

  • pfSense and apcupsd via serial port on vmware

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  • Monitoring an Eaton 9130 UPS with NUT on USB?

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    Giving credit to RyanM for this. This solved the USB connectivity issues and now I can monitor the UPS.

    @RyanM said in UPS master via USB:

    FWIW, I figured this out. I had to navigate to Services > UPS. Then select the UPS Settings tab. From the settings page, click the "Display Advanced" button.

    In upsmon.conf add the following:

    RUN_AS_USER root

    This is a work-around to sending email notifications. See post #642812 in the NUT package thread.

    In ups.conf add the following:

    user = root

    This will cause upsdrvctl to run as root.

    In upsd.conf add the following:

    LISTEN 127.0.0.1 LISTEN 192.168.10.1

    This will cause the UPS daemon to listen on localhost as well as my LAN IP so that a "slave" can connect to it.

    Now, however, I need to figure out how to automate VM and hardware shutdowns based on this information... Any ideas or help there?

  • WEBSITE BLOCK - NEED GUIDELINE

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    Use pfBlockerNG to create an alias using the ASN numbers, then use the alias with a firewall rule.

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  • pimd Not Working for one VLAN

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    I guess no one has any thoughts on why I am missing a VLAN in PIND? If I could access my DLNA Server without having to do IGMP or an auto discover, then I would. Sadly the software I am trying to use only allows for Auto Discover and no manual enter (same with everything other piece of software I found).

    I tried using IGMP Proxy, but I couldn't make that work either (I saw some posts that say it was bugged).

  • Traffic totals (vnstat) problem...

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  • Websocket error on squid / squidguard

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    @viktor_g said in Websocket error on squid / squidguard:

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    I just did. Still not working. I'm a bit confused why it works outside our lan but not on our lan.

  • NUT with CyberPower UPS

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    I dont know any :(

    Since none of my devices auto power on when power is restored I think I will be ok luckily.

  • how to config SQL in freeradius package

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    @Gertjan said in how to config SQL in freeradius package:

    SQL table (radcheck ?)

    yes

  • Splunk'd .. no logs

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    i've resolved this issue though Splunk's log interface is pretty terrible. May go the graylog route.

  • Logging extern syslog on Pfsense Syslog-ng.

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    Depending on what interface your Cisco WAP is on, you may need to add the proper firewall rules on that interface in pfSense. The default rules for the LAN are usually "allow all in" on the interface, but other interfaces or VLANs you create would not have that same default. So you would need to explicitly allow the syslog-ng traffic.

    I've never used the syslog-ng package on pfSense, but there may also be some security settings within the package that you need to adjust in order to allow remote devices (your Cisco WAP, for example) to log to the service.

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    @bmeeks Awesome. Thanks for the answer, and thanks for the package. That makes sense. I'll just revert back to using only the LAN interface and input a bypass rule for the DMZ subnet.

  • HAproxy rewrite in Backend - url to internalip/path

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  • Hack in Support for Better Gateway Monitoring

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    Please read https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/development/pull-request.html

    You may check https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/4336 for example

  • Log Archiving Plugin/Mailreport Package

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    Yeah, I have 2 internet connections. But again, it's archiving that I'm trying to achieve; so it can try again later and succeed then; really not looking for realtime log streaming.

  • Question around adding pfSync/XMLRPC support to sudo and nrpe plugins

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  • NXDomain with Unbound

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    They are one of the major players in dns.. their appliances are used across the globe with some really big players.. I would have to take it they in the process of changing something maybe?

    If not - someone getting fired, if its just a stupid misconfig ;) hehehe

  • HAProxy - Backend behind Open-VPN

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    @mikem123 said in HAProxy - Backend behind Open-VPN:

    Which interface will HAProxy test from? the one bound to the front end or will it choose the best interface.

    It would use the 'best' interface..

    You could probably 'force' a client-ip for the connection if your dealing with a ipsec tunnel that doesn't fill the routing-table properly that might help. But with openvpn that shouldnt be needed. (In the ipsec case the client-ip would have to be set with a 'advanced text option' the webgui doesnt provide this choice.)

    But anyhow looks like a L7 issue :), you could tell the healthcheck to expect the 403 as 'valid'.. Depends how precise you want/need the check to be.

  • no SNMP-V3 trap/inform server field in net-snmp

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    Please update Net-SNMP pkg:
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  • Problem, snort block google server

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    thankyou i try.

  • bug in web interface for bind package

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    @serbus very interesting comment John, in vi (ssh), I can see the ^M, but not with the GUI editor, just to check I selected into the editor, and copied that data back into vi again, no ^M

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