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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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    @AlexK-0 said in Can't receive GeoIP databases updates anymore, banned:

    Days ago, I received from MaxMind an email, notifying me that my country has been banned to receive GeoLite City database updates.

    You've found a reason to use a VPN.

  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @elvisimprsntr thanks for your suggestion. I will give it a try.

  • 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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    @patient0 Thanks for further suggestions. The tunnel is definitely up and so I don't think this is a CGNAT issue after all. WAN firewall rule is in place for UDP on port 51823 (otherwise the tunnel wouldn't work, right?). I can ping from client 1 -> client 2 and visa versa and also ping all points in between like you suggest. I just can't open an HTTPS connection from pfSenseB from Client 1 using a browser. But I can do this the other way round i.e. from Client 2 to pfSenseA

    I will try and do some packet capture to see if that reveals anything.

  • Official Wazuh agent support?

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    @buggz I second this. It would make things much easier than enabling the FreeBSD repos, if that still even works. I might end up giving it a whirl with one of my internal fws. I've also considered the syslog route but the agent seems like it may provide more info/customization etc.

  • Pfsense new install no software packages available

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    Thanks for all the replies.

    I ran the upgrade in the command line

    pfSense-upgrade -y

    and am on 2.7.2 now.

    All packages seems to be populating again.

  • LCDproc

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    fireodoF

    Hi,

    there is another problem with LCDpros 0.12_1 (beside the increase processor activity since the update 12-13.05.24) when there is a Gateway latency problem or the WAN gets unexpectedly down,

    Aug 6 04:28:48 rc.gateway_alarm 23648 >>> Gateway alarm: WAN_PPPOE (Addr:217.xxx.xxx.xxx Alarm:0 RTT:9.355ms RTTsd:.223ms Loss:5%)
    LCDProc is flooding the log with this:

    Aug 6 04:30:03 php 25120 lcdproc: Connection to LCDd process lost ()
    Aug 6 04:28:55 php 25120 lcdproc: Connection to LCDd process lost ()
    Aug 6 04:28:54 php 25120 lcdproc: Connection to LCDd process lost ()
    Have a nice day,
    fireodo

  • LCDproc totally broken in 0.12_1?

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    fireodoF

    Hi,

    there is another problem with LCDpros 0.12_1 (beside the increase processor activity since the update 12-13.05.24) when there is a Gateway latency problem or the WAN gets unexpectedly down,

    Aug 6 04:28:48 rc.gateway_alarm 23648 >>> Gateway alarm: WAN_PPPOE (Addr:217.xxx.xxx.xxx Alarm:0 RTT:9.355ms RTTsd:.223ms Loss:5%)

    LCDProc is flooding the log with this:

    Aug 6 04:30:03 php 25120 lcdproc: Connection to LCDd process lost () Aug 6 04:28:55 php 25120 lcdproc: Connection to LCDd process lost () Aug 6 04:28:54 php 25120 lcdproc: Connection to LCDd process lost ()

    Have a nice day,
    fireodo

  • Troubleshooting telegraf - influxdb

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    Might help someone, I had similar issues, but it turns out my pfsense didn't trust the self signed CA that signed the influxDB cert. Found out by stopping the service:

    ps aux | grep tele kill -9 <PID>

    And then running telegraf manually:

    /usr/local/bin/telegraf -config=/usr/local/etc/telegraf.conf

    Note that the service restart/stop buttons in the web gui did not work for me, only the start button (which shows up after I killed the process)

  • isc-bind package upgrade

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    @allxi said in isc-bind package upgrade:

    https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commit/279801056eb46b74ce3828a77a7b679225817a2d#diff-a69ffe76fc45ab53d7931b2ee22b96681a82a9ef3245d8ea08eb0a217db0bb60

    Thanks (sorry for the delayed response)

    However its great we have this but this doesnt show when it will hit CE at all, as this commit was 2 years ago, but 9.16 is still in CE

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    While looking for something else I found that I also have similar messages in my syslog. Looking further I found this recommendation for the vnStat package:

    "Every NIC is added on install. So if a NIC is added (or removed) on the firewall, remove the package and install again. If the firewall has data for a NIC vnStat will report the data even if the NIC has been removed.
    A reinstall of the package will not change this as the firewall has data pertaining to the non existent data and thus other packages such as vnstat2 will report the data it has or has found."

    Link: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/packages/traffic-totals.html

    Indeed I changed my hardware and restored the configuration from the old one. Some NICs changed from 1Gb to 10Gb.

    However, after removing and installing the package I see this in the log:

    Monitoring (10): tun_wg0 (1000 Mbit) pppoe1 (1000 Mbit) pfsync0 (1000 Mbit) pflog0 (1000 Mbit) ix1 (10000 Mbit) ix0 (10000 Mbit) igb1 (10 Mbit) igb0 (10 Mbit) enc0 (1000 Mbit) em0 (1000 Mbit)

    And it's incorrect. My pppoe1 sits on ix0 and my fiber speed is 3/3Gbps, so higher than 1000Mbit vnStat thinks. Also igb0 and igb1 are 1000Mbit, not 10Mbit (they are not assigned yet, though).

    I suppose the log messages we see are no more than a minor nuisance but is there a way to assign correct interface speeds for vnStat or disable these messages?

  • Performance with widget Speedtest by ookla

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    @Gertjan

    Thank you! I Understand activities use resources, but if we have 50%+ cpu idle, probably not causing a problem? Or is that misleading?

    I have the exact same hardware pfsense firmware/software all with the same speedtest gui in 3 different ISP/locations.

    One location I have ATT Dedicated Fiber (new Install) that basically has zero network load but speed tests are all over the map (and large majority of tests are below the 90% minimums)

    The other 2 locations have a lot of network traffic, have shared fiber and they are much more stable than the ATT dedicated fiber.

    Since I have those three comparisons, I feel that proves the issue is with the ATT Dedicated fiber service. Yes or No / Agree disagree? Thanks!

  • pfSense Repository down?

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    @SteveITS said in pfSense Repository down?:

    https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/upgrades.html#packages-netgate-com-has-no-a-aaaa-record

    Correct, no A or AAAA record.
    This time SRV records ("server records ?") are looked for.

    This is probably is, I'm just thinking out loud : everything is fine, but DNS isn't. pfSense can't call out for self. Seen that before, and I never understood how people to so. Default 'Netgate' DNS settings work, as I've shown above.

  • no Available Packages in Package Manager

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    @dhenzler THANK YOU for posting this!!!!

    I had been fighting this (and losing) for months now but, ran across this thread today and decided to try it out.
    It WORKED!!!
    At first I was more confused because I went to the system update and it showed the version 2.7.2 BUT, didn't give me an option to do the update from 2.7.0.
    I ran the certctl rehash in the Diagnostics/Command Prompt box which then let me access the update.
    And even before I ran the update I tested to see if the package manager would populate the list and, it did!
    And it still works after doing the update! YAY!!!!

    So again, thank you!

  • Avahi service stops / won't start when enabling reflection

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    @beechclose FWIW, it turns out the limit isn't number of reflectors, but just the line length. There is a hard coded line length limit of 256 characters for the ini file. It is a known issue.

    I put up a PR to increase this to 1024.

  • Squid migration from 5.8 to 6.6 issues

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    It is working like a dream outside of the status pages it is 100x faster with browser traffic on my secure system that I hunt for bugs with.

  • Nrpe

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  • SNORT no longer scanning Stopped 6/28/24 at 21 hour

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  • Ping monitoring

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    @bigjohns97 said in Ping monitoring:

    Help me understand what the risks are here, to me this is nothing more than what an nmap scan would do.

    Ntopng is an autonomous agent, whereas nmap is not. Consider that. You should look at the ntopng code and decide for your self. The best I can tell you is that I have, and I recommend against enabling it.

    FWIW, you may have different views on network security that I do.

  • Avahi : Windows not found my printer

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    @fjmp24 said in Avahi : Windows not found my printer:

    a rule IPv4 UDP VLAN_1 subnets * 224.0.0.251 5353 *
    a rule IPv4 TCP/UDP VLAN_2 subnets * Printer * *
    a rule IPv4 UDP VLAN_2 subnets * 224.0.0.251 5353 *

    Posting rules like doesn't help much to be honest.. Have no clue to what could be above that making those moot..

    Are those on the same interface even? You have 2 rules with vlan2 subnets as source, and another rule with vlan1 as source.. How would both networks be source into the same interface?

    Seems you got it sorted so that is good, but next time you need help a picture of your rules showing the interface they are on, etc. is worth 10k words..

  • Slave zone in BIND (9.17)

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    Hello @LarryFahnoe
    Thank you. I know it. But sometimes I need to use a server without internet. (master is not available)

  • System Patches Package Programatical Apply

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    @tkriviradev Did you have any success making a curl command?

  • awscli in pfSense

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    @kaioh84

    Hey guys,

    Some time ago, I encountered the same issue. To resolve it, I installed "awscli" using Python version 3.11.

    To fix this, you need to install the package with the following command:
    pkg install py311-setuptools-63.1.0_1

    After that, apply the "rehash" command. Follow these steps:
    rehash

    Then, execute the following command to install awscli:
    python3.11 -m pip install awscli

    That's it! Now, it should be configured as you desire. In my case, I configured it for the s3 bucket.
    These steps were executed on Pfsense 2.7.2 running version 14 of FreeBSD.

  • Can I join active directory users with Freeradius?

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