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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.

  • Snort Bug: HOME_NET line being mis-written. Comma at string end.

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    Bug opened, but closed.  Thanks for that. :)  Now if only I could figure out why /var/db/whitelist winds up being such a mess for me. :(  It doesn't work right at all unless I manually clean it up after each reboot.  It appears to keep dumping duplicates into the file, and unless I sort network large to small, it's no good.

    That, and I have a network, x.x.x.0/24 for I have in /var/db/whitelist, but snort keeps adding x.x.x.11 to the blocklist.  Unless I put x.x.x.11/32 in there as well, it keeps getting blocked.

  • Package that block ports

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    You can see pen connections at diagnostics>states if that helps.

  • Idea for New Package: PBNJ

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    @mrquintopolous:

    I just started using pfSense on an internal firewall where I work, and it works pretty nice. Good work guys!

    So I had an idea to extend pfSense with the capabilities of PBNJ (http://pbnj.sourceforge.net/). Basically, I think it would be a cool feature to be able to automatically scan your LAN machines with nmap and see changes over time and maybe even be alerted when a machine has a new port open. That way, an admin can jump on figuring out why this happened.

    In an attempt to figure out the internals of pfSense and waste time, I have been fiddling with getting PBNJ installed on the pfSense box. Without the ports system, it requires the following steps:

    pkg_add -r perl pkg_add -r <various 6="" perl="" modules,="" around="">3) One of the dependencies, p5-Nmap-Parser is not in the packages, so it requires downloading the tarball, extracting, installing etc. This requires a pkg_add -r gmake extract PBNJ, perl Makefile.pl, gmake, gmake install, gmake test Maye more that I subsequently forgot.

    Pretty involved, maybe installing ports and going from there would have been smarter. Anyways, I was wondering:

    Do people on this forum think that this would be a useful thing to have in a pfSense box? If so, is installing perl too much? i.e., would it be better to rewrite something similar in php? Would anyone be interested in making a package / ui frontend for it with me?

    I hope to hear your thoughts.</various>

    Not as involved as you would think.  Check out the squid package which in turns install perl.  Theres a number of packages that install multiple dependencies and then setup the package.  I don't see anything that would change this situation for this package.

    Check out http://pfsense.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/tools/pkg_config.xml?rev=1.407 and http://pfsense.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/tools/packages/

  • Are there any "packet sniffers" available?

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    Recent snapshots have a tcpdump GUI component.

  • Squid Proxy Sever Blacklist

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    Please be a LOT more specific about what you're talking about.

  • Iperf Installation problem

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    Working for me, thanks a lot!

  • MiniUPnPd and My Network Places

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    I vote him for package maintainer of the year!  ;D

  • Pure-FTPD

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    thank you very much!

  • Bleeding Threats Support in SNORT

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  • Gateway AV and Snort

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    Yes, that is true. I'm out of work right now, but if I was working I'd offer $50 and then possibly more once it was done. $30-$50 for me is my starting place for things. However I have to work though and hopefully by the end of Feb I can start a new job. If there's not a gateway AV for pfsense when I am back to work then I will be offering a bounty for it. At least I hope I can afford to do that.

    You guys who work on pfsense really do a good job on the UI and stuff.

  • No packages work for me

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    Everything is working good. The issue was I guess you had to select LAN/WAN in that window. I don't remember what area that is. Like settings area for the package or something. I had to fiddle with it a while untill I understood it better since there is no documentation for anything.

    I also did upgrade to the latest snapstop as suggested and it's good so far.
    Thank you!!

  • Squid does´nt start

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    I think I finaly fixed this today in version p15

  • Packages offline

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    Double check your boxes by sending a ping to google or yahoo in the terminal.  I haven't ever had a problem with the package system that didn't involve me forgettting about something.

  • SQUID Problem.

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    See the other 10 page long squid thread.
    set a space in the unrestricted and banned fields and it should work then.
    Commited version p9 just now.

  • Pfsense

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    The packages that exist for this are not finished/working atm. If you have some knowledge feel free to fix/finish them.

  • Squid help

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    I'm guessing there is a language barrier, try your forum language and post there if it is listed, you should have more luck, but all in all this is NOT setup to work correctly yet

  • Squid Whitelist URL Capacity

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    The current squid whitelisting and blacklisting should work starting from version p8.

    So you can try what size the limit is now :-)

  • Squid log to a remote server

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    I found a command who can do the job :
    tail -f /log/squid/access.log | logger -p "local4.info" &
    To work syslog must be configured tu send "local4.info" to the remote server.

  • Snort Alert Question?

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    Yep I just noticed that as I went to reconfigure!

    Thanks for your help guys.  ;D

    [Edit:] In fact, it would appear that Snort does not like to run on multiple interfaces; a bug perhaps?

  • Squid and Traffic Shaping possible work around?

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    I had a quick look at what you did, so I don't know what causing squid to crash, but what I said before, squid has been changed for transparent proxying.

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