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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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    cyb3rtr0nianC

    @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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    dennypageD

    @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.
    link text

    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.

  • Cannot Access NTOP

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    did you actually configure it and enable it?  Via the ntop settings under diag menu.

  • More Information on Package Development

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    Well.. if you want to block/inspect traffic packets passing through pfSense, then that is not something that php will do. if you take the basic concept of pfSense it is just the php 'glue' that makes all parts work together with a nice webgui. Changing or adding new parts of that 'glue' is relatively easy.

    The packet processing is mostly being done by FreeBSD (the OS) and PF (the firewall).

    Or perhaps you would like to do something more like Snort and Suricata, and maybe create a custom 'ruleset' for one of those two with your packet inspection rules as far as they can support your intended case..

    But developing on any those software parts is a entirely different thing than the usual 'pfSense package' which takes a existing binary application and wraps in into a easy to use php webgui without actually changing the binary code of the application or changing the internal flow of network packets, well a package like 'tinc' does add mesh vpn capabilities, but the 'pfSense package' just installs and configures that existing piece of software.. If your intending to go make changes in those parts then a little knowledge about script writing wont really help much. Would need some good general programming knowledge preferably in C or C++ .. its imho not something that can be learned by reading a single wiki page..

  • Mailreport and outlook.com

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    Gertjan,
    thank you for your answer.
    Current situation is :

    Sending test email works with Outlook.com

    Alert emails (e.g. UPS events or Gateway events) are sent

    Mail reports are not sent

    Unfortunately I cannot use Postfix any more (I am leaving the company), therefore I am forced to switch to outlook.com. Furthermore : I am in China and this limits the selection of email providers I can use (Google does not work here and I already tried with pfSense, but no success).
    I will try to switch back to Postfix and confirm that the issue lies in the switch between the two systems.

  • Ntopng fails to restart

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  • Zabbix log monitoring

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    I suggest you send the logs elsewhere, the zabbix user won't have access to them locally.

    Regards.

  • Zabbix Proxy not starting

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    @Beni:

    Hi,

    Have you tried to delete the pid file and the sqlite.

    rm /var/run/zabbix-proxy/zabbix_proxy.pid /var/db/zabbix-proxy/proxy.db

    Regards
    Beni

    Do this and show the proxy log, please.

  • Zabbix agent does not start after reboot

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    Is this still happening?

    zabbix_agentd.sh is the rc script from pfSense.
    zabbix_agentd is the rc installed with the FreeBSD port.

  • Zabbix Proxy VMware Support

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    It's all enabled now.

    https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/tools/conf/pfPorts/make.conf#L144-L162

  • Package Zabbix Proxy 3.4

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    This was fixed with 1.0.1 version of proxy

  • HAProxy ssl verify and Android/Chrome issue

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    https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8228#note-5

    "Leave all these options empty"

  • Want to BLOCK IDM & uTorrent

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  • Haproxy + Change Host Request Value

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    Hello,

    thank you for your reply.
    I test hdr without success but this line working :

    sni ssl_fc_sni check-sni vhost.yourdomain.local

    Thank you

  • Syslog-ng stops working after logroate run

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  • Glances

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    GertjanG

    Did you check how many times the word "Glances" was mentioned on this forum ?
    The answer is a start of a possible answer.

    pfSense can be instructed to make cafe, launch nukes, or sprinkle your lawn.
    Al you need is some time, PHP knowledge and some pfSense knowledge, and a (new) need for something.
    If you're missing one of more of those, you need to find someone. Did you see this forum : https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?board=34.0

  • [SOLVED] freeradius stopped working and it won't restart

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    radiusd -X
    }
      # Loading module "datacounterforever" from file /usr/local/etc/raddb/mods-enabled/datacounter_acct
      exec datacounterforever {
            wait = yes
            program = "/bin/sh /usr/local/etc/raddb/scripts/datacounter_acct.sh %{request:User-Name} forever %{request:Acct-Input-Octets} %{request:Acct-Output-Octets} %{request:Acct-Status-Type} %{request:Acct-Session-Id}"
            shell_escape = yes
      }
    /usr/local/etc/raddb/mods-enabled/counter[2]: Failed to link to module 'rlm_counter': Shared object "libgdbm.so.4" not found, required by "rlm_counter.so"

    error, radius not start. (freeradius3)
    help me please

  • Squid, pfSense 2.4.2p1 and unable to configure SSL Filtering

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    Yes, I see that X under the Internal column.  And that would make sense as the firewall needs to create the certificate for the SSL/TLS endpoint in order to filter SSL/TLS traffic.  Sorry for the confusion on my part.

  • Snort FATAL ERROR

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    bmeeks, you're the source of all the information I'm looking for! I literally can't even thank you enough because the forum says I have to wait 1 hour before I can applaud you again :)

    I have Suricata in the global settings currently pointing to the snort 29110.tar.gz which I believe is the latest.
    I wish I could have stuck with snort, but that startup issue kills the entire IDS. To me, having some kind of IDS is better than not having one at all. I used to have snort setup with the service watchdog in case it crashed (it did that quite often too), but that wouldn't be a good idea in this case because the watchdog would have tried to keep starting it up and it would have kept failing. It would have just sat there in a constant loop eating up resources.

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    This rule is in openappid-ads.rules. Disable it temporarily until it has been fixed. The problem is that there's the same error on this rule as well:
    I can't seem to find the SID in any of the openappid categories… ?

    alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET any (msg:"scribd_upload";flow:from_client;appid:scribd_upload; sid:71443 ; classtype:misc-activity; rev:1

    Edit: Seems many rules have the same problem at the present time: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=79855.msg771713#msg771713

  • Squid Redirect Mappings

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  • Gold Member, but Auto Config Backup account no longer configured?

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    jimpJ

    There was a temporary outage on Sunday around when you first posted that error. It was back up not long after that time.

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