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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 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 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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    @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.

  • HAroxy dashboard widget settings panel does not open (2.3.4)

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  • MOVED: HAProxy will hangs when I upgrade to pfsense 2.3.4

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  • MOVED: SQUID proxy is not creating NAT rules and forwarding to port 3128

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  • Unable to start Freeradius after upgarding 1.7.7 to 1.7.8

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    Read this and configure the certificates.

    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=128923.0

  • Unable to see mac address in Radius-Request

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    MAC addresses are local to the connected ethernet segment, they are meaningless on any other context because they are not used in connections that cross routing points.

  • LCDproc-dev and EZIO-100/MTB-134 LCD

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  • Mbmon

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    @derek_bartram:

    Hi,

    I'm having some difficulty getting to grips with temperature sensing on my Firebox x1250e with pfsense 2.2.6-RELEASE (i386)

    A number of sites include the pfsense docs site mentions it is possible using mbmon, however it appears the docs are out of date (there is references to pkg_add command which doesn't appear to exist).

    Does anyone know how I could get this installed please? Alternatively something similar to check system temperature.

    I'm looking to turn the fan speed down somewhat as it's currently unacceptable to the missus, but I don't really want to turn it down to low if system temperature is going to be excessively high.

    –--- FROM DOC SITE -----
    If you have modified the cooling in the box such as reducing the fan speed or swapped out the CPU for a more powerful one it's a good idea to test the maximum temperature is still within a sensible value.
    You can do this by monitoring the cpu temperature while forcing the CPU to 100%. On the XTM5 box you can use the coretemp module to directly read the CPU core. This is built into 2.1 already and information is on the forum to read it in 2.0.X. All the other boxes require the use of an older program to read the thermal sensor connected to the SuperIO chip, mbmon. Remount the filesystem RW (if you're running Nano) then install it:

    pkg_add -r ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.3-release/Latest/mbmon.tbz <<< Failing step, with Command not found.

    Then issue a rehash so pfSense knows where the new binaries are:
    rehash

    Monitor the system temperature:
    mbmon -I

    Im having the same problem, some hope somebody can help.

    //Nerone

  • 2.3 LCDPROC

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    Which particular post in that thread? I don't see anything on that page you linked to concerning baud rate.

    Steve

  • Feature Request: Disable Service Watchdog

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  • Tinc on 2.3.3-p1

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    Yep, that worked, thanks :)

  • SquidGuard Bug

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    Anybody found a solution to this issue?
    Thanks

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    Hi quadrinary,

    Thanks for your reply.

    Since my post, our firewalling solution is in master/slave mode without any outage.

    Your reply seems to be a good idea. We will test in the last few nights and give you a reply.

    Bertrand

  • Unexplainable Issue with BIND!!!

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    Hi Again,

    I narrowed down my findings. I logged in through the shell and notice that the actual zone files in the slave server are not being updated (though the GUI is synced with master). Deleting the zone files from the slave and resyncing solves the issue of replying of old records. It seems that the zone transfer works fine when there is no existing zone file in the slave. Sadly, it is unable to update if there is any existing file.

    I figure that the XMLRPC syncs the backend database of the GUI. To my understanding, it is then supposed to either generate the slave zone file based on that data, or it should initiate a transfer of the actual zone file of the master (like any other master-slave dns zone transfer).

    I am still unsure if there is configuration mistake or its happening because of a bug. I'll appreciate any help, opinion or suggestions. Thanks in advance.

  • Freeradius 1.7.8 on pfsense 2.4.0 : eap-tls bug on ca+crl pem file output

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    solved!
    https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/pull/344

    thanks doktornotor!

  • Avahi Disabled on WAN

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    Sure. patch the code to allow similar idiocy.

  • Is there any way to manually install an older pfsense package?

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    Hi, you can test with freebsd original package at http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:10:amd64/latest/All/ or in older realeases at http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:10:amd64/
    search for squid.
    and pkg install ….
    I use this method for revert Quagga package 11.0_2 to 0.99.16. And we use this package only with vtysh console on PFsense.
    it's possible that PFsense squid GUI package not working after that. Backup your conf !

    Bertrand

  • How to YP enable?

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  • Samba4 on Pfsense 2.4

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    This is a firewall. Do not install packages or run scripts from other sources on it. That is a giant security nightmare. You have no way to verify that those packages are secure or properly built from trustworthy sources.

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