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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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    @jhg Please post the output of the following commands:

    pkg info | grep nut usbconfig dump_all_desc
  • 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.

  • Is Snort ignoring host names in pass lists?

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    Hi BBcan177,

    Questions:-

    (1) Will it work on Suricata?
    (2) I have the passlist in place. Will the script wipe the passlist? If so, I want the passlist + the script run together. Is it possible??
    (3) if multiple hostnames, how can I do it?

    If you use the pfctl -t xxxx -T delete, it just delete the IP from the block list. eventually, the ip will be blocked again. It is the other way around.

    How can I update the passlist ip using script?

    @BBcan177:

    I didn't test it, but try this in an sh script

    Create new script
    vi myip

    **#!/bin/sh

    MyIp="$(host -4 my.hostname.com | grep -oEw -e "[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}/[0-9]{1,2}" -e "[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}")"

    pfctl -t snort2c -T delete $MyIp**

    (Save and exit)
    :wq

    (make script executable)
    chmod +x myip

  • Snort configuration on 1Gbps/1Gbps uplink?

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    @msrachelchen:

    I ended up using Suricata instead. Though with cpu pinning, the load is still pretty intense atm 😂

    Looking pretty juicy, 19.82 MB/s. Though most of the “CPU usage” went to NIC queues

    State Table: 47% (3987752/8500000) Load average: 9.39, 9.96, 9.60 CPU usage: 68%

    Nothing is running except Unbound, pfblockerng (DNSBL), IPSec and Suricata. I haven’t started HAProxy and TC yet…

    Suricata is multi-threaded whereas the current Snort release is still single-threaded.  That can help a little under high loading.  The new 3.x BETA versions of Snort are multi-threaded.  Once the 3.x tree goes to RELEASE, it will get pulled into pfSense.

    Bill

  • FreeRadius3 With WindowsAD 2008 as User Backend.

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    vallumV

    Any one using this feature?

  • Bandwidthd - Display Hostnames in Main Table

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    Unfortunately, bandwidthd is no longer maintained, its last update was more than 10 years ago.

    I have made the modification myself to the bandwidthd source code and display the hostname next to the IP address, in addition, I also updated the maximum IP listed in the HTML from 20 to 50. 20 IPs were probably a lot back in 2005, but these days 50s are probably the norm.

    If you are comfortable with compiling c code, I can attach my changes here.

  • DHCP Web List

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  • Feature request - Cron package - add a Name and/or Notes field

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  • Having trouble installing php72-7.2.1.txz package

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    GertjanG

    Hi,

    Your lucky. The answer is simple. You can't do that.
    pfSense is using itself PHP for the GUI.
    There are probably many lines in the scripts of the GUI that wouldn't be compatible with PHP 7.2.

    Btw : this is like asking how to install core Windows 10 files on a Windows 8 PC. Experts can't (and won't ask the question).

  • Deny Video Streaming

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  • Postfix Backup MX

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    The only downside of not having a backup MX is having to wait hours (4+) for retries to come through, or longer if it's a prolonged outage. It's not the end of the world, though, messages will be resent.

    If you botch the backup MX config then it could be worse. You could accidentally reject mail and never receive it, or let even more spam through on a continuing basis.

    The best backup MX is an exact duplicate of your primary mail server hosted off-site.

  • Can snort block torrent streaming?

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    I don't know the answer definitively, but you can install it and try it out.  I would set it up in IDS (non-blocking) mode first and let it run a week or two in order to get a feel for the kinds of alerts generated.  Expect to see quite a bit of alerting related to the HTTP_INSPECT preprocessor.  You can search the IDS/IPS sub-forum here in Packages to find threads about configuring Snort.

    Bill

  • LAN is not passing through Squidgard

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    @Dezireman25:

    Hi All!

    Just want to ask for your help. I install 2.4.2 pfsense and add squid, squidguard and lightsquid packages. I followed some instructions in youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2gy1bLHm5o) and do some research but LAN did not pass through my squidguard. Squid and squidguard services are running.

    When i check using proxy test my internet users are not going through squidguard.

    please help

    TIA

    1st :- You need to allow your LAN Subnet in squid:-

    Squid  Proxy Server  > ACLs >  Allowed Subnets (put your LAN subnet here)

    2nd :- in squidguard by default everything is blocked , you need to allow some list:-

    SquidGuard Proxy Server > Common ACL  > target Rules List >Target Categories > (default is deny at bottom , allow specific list as required)

  • HAProxy, websockets, "timeout tunnel" and the defaults section

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    Found your post whilst trying to fix a similar problem.

    I managed to get things to work with your hint.

    I simply added the "timeout tunnel 3600s" under the relevant backend -> advanced settings -> backend pass thru

  • Python 3?

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    Hi,

    The linked post doesn't mention anything regarding Python 3. It's just about installing mitmproxy in a Python 2.7 virtualenv.

    Could you maybe give a brief explanation how you got python 3 on pfsense in the first place?

    Thanks.

  • Debugging Email Reports

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  • Traffic Totals - All VLANS collects Parent Interface data? (Solved)

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    I do the question before because i do not want to reset the data and could be other problem.

    Disabling and resetting and/or disable graphing and maybe not needed to delete and reinstall the package seams solve the problem.

    Maybe a broken déjà vu but i thin i have tried this before, months ago.

    Anyway thanks for the feedback and solutions, i should know this. I will wait couple of hours and put a solved on the topic if this stay good.

  • Bind 9.11 error in pfsense 2.33

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    Don't cross post, and dig up threads from year ago..

    What part in your zone file do you think is correct about this?

    @ IN NS 192.168.1.1.

    So you think its ok to put in an IP for your NS record?

  • LightSquid Issue - lightsquid_web services won't start

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  • FreeRADIUS 3 with Active Directory Authentication and Authorization?

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  • SquidGuard: Blocking youtube on the Andriod app

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    GertjanG

    @rodgomesc:

    google.com -> 216.239.38.120

    google.com resolves to more then one IPv4 :

    dig TXT +short _netblocks{,2,3}.google.com | tr ' ' '\n' | grep '^ip4:' ip4:64.233.160.0/19 ip4:66.102.0.0/20 ip4:66.249.80.0/20 ip4:72.14.192.0/18 ip4:74.125.0.0/16 ip4:108.177.8.0/21 ip4:173.194.0.0/16 ip4:209.85.128.0/17 ip4:216.58.192.0/19 ip4:216.239.32.0/19 ip4:172.217.0.0/19 ip4:172.217.32.0/20 ip4:172.217.128.0/19 ip4:172.217.160.0/20 ip4:172.217.192.0/19 ip4:108.177.96.0/19 ......
  • LCDproc: no nexcom.so ?? (pfs 2.3.5)

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    After looking around some more, it looks like support for the Nexcom devices was added to the "generic" hd44780 driver after all:

    ConnectionType=lcm162

    Code change:
    https://github.com/lcdproc/lcdproc/commit/9e80b177ffb1755e27109dd284ad568319fe4e6a#diff-b5b7491d509ceae9b603712026311903

    Documentation change:
    https://github.com/lcdproc/lcdproc/commit/4a50059b81910d7a6f9a70791766dfd12c61bb99#diff-056b4c550c4f9828ca095124588909ed

    So, these Nexcom devices are supported by the base lcdproc project code. Not sure the pfSense integration package was updated, though…

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