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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 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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    @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.

  • Certificate error when installing packages on 21.05.1

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    @jimp
    It worked, many thanks!

  • SARG -x SARG: Cannot set the locale LC_ALL to the environment variable

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    @periquito said in SARG -x SARG: Cannot set the locale LC_ALL to the environment variable:

    Ola a todos,

    instalei o e2guardian + sarg, nao consigo executar o sarg

    sarg -x
    SARG: Cannot set the locale LC_ALL to the environment variable

    ja fiz os procedimento

    rm -rf /usr/local/sarg-reports
    ln -s /usr/pbi/sarg-amd64/local/sarg-reports /usr/local/sarg-reports

    mesmo assim no view report aparece.

    Error: Could not find report index file.
    Check and save Sarg settings and try to force Sarg schedule.

    observação ja setei no general o index.

    desdeja obrigado

    O amigo conseguiu!? Estou com mesmo problema...

  • Remote Logging over VPN (Syslog-NG?)

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    @wblanton I don't think the built-in syslog has the capability to store and forward syslog messages.
    I did find this article where the author uses rsyslog to do what you describe, but I don't know if/how you can get that working inside pfSense, as there is no rsyslog package available.

    Depending on your environment, you could conceivably run the rsyslog on a *nix box/vm beside the pfSense and have pfSense forward its syslog output to this box which in turn is responsible to forward it to your central syslog over VPN, and it would queue up whatever it can't send until the link is restored.
    Ultimately though, this whole concept relies on the fact that TCP is a reliable transport, but there is no validation that log message "x" was successfully recorded on the central server.
    Furthermore, in the event of a link outage, using the above system, once the link is restored a stream of log messages would be added to the central syslog, which would then not have a linear view of time. Your central syslog would have to record the message generation time separately from the message reception time. A mechanism would be required to view records at the time they were generated, not simply received, since they could conceivably be out of order.

  • Double VPN'd?

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  • Packages won’t update

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    @markn62 said in Packages won’t update:

    @bmeeks Thanks again. Was a quick checkbox fix from this post. Working now. 😁

    👍

  • syslog-ng latest package broke tls

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    I did upgrade the package today and now everything is working !

    Thank you

  • Syslog-Ng fails after 2.5.2 update due to tls not found

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    I did upgrade the package today and now everything work !
    Thank you

  • ntopng history of used applications

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  • Snort not starting on WAN Interface

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    @bmeeks This is excellent news!!!

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  • latest version of ntopng

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  • pfsense available packages not showing

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    @kom Thanks for your help, I've found the problem, it was a slow internet connection, was too far from my AP, now all is showing again, cheers.

  • PIMD configuration help

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    @stan said in PIMD configuration help:

    @iHaveAstream
    Some further thoughts about your situation. Using a switch to create VLANs and UPnP for connectivity has a certain attraction as being elegantly simple. However, if you're already running pfSense, I think you would have more effective control and fewer problems by adding the VLANs to pfSense, using firewall rules to accomplish your goals, and disabling UPnP. That would also avoid security issues associated with UPnP.

    thanks for your detailed replies. I'm gonna go thru it soon.

    The reason why I decided to manage VLANs on L2 is because when done so on pfSense, there is the limit of 1 GB/s which is the bandwidth limit of the physical LAN port of the NIC...

  • Wireguard mass peer adding using direct XML or conf edit doesn't work

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  • Antivirus

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    @bmeeks said in Antivirus:

    Pick and choose carefully, and monitor things frequently so you can get ahead of any false-positive blocks.

    yeeeep ... nothing to add here !

    and because it's always commin up ... do not start with an IDS/IPS system
    start with pfBlocker and keep in mind what @bmeeks mentioned

  • Avahi daemon interferes with Apple’s HomeKit

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    As an alternative, I'd recommend trying udpbroadcastrelay:

    https://forum.netgate.com/topic/155698/how-can-i-get-this-udp-relay-package-for-casting-across-vlans

    Hope this helps.

  • Strange behavior for OpenVPN

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  • I can't install crontab on version 2.4.2.

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    @gertjan Oh yes, thank you very much for your answer, it's just that I didn't want to update PFsense now, as I have openvpn configured and I'm using openbgp with routing protocol, and I saw that in newer versions there is no support for openbgp, but it does have the frr which supports all other routing protocols.

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  • Apcupsd - Widget question.

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    @nullvalue I dont know why it shows a full Battery in red and if you klick on the Widget Title you get an "404 Not Found
    nginx" so i think there is still some work to do on this Widget Code ... 🤔

    Regards,
    fireodo

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