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      tomaswaldow
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      Hi Marcello, i have make tests now with de new version in transparent mode and is working as expected. Only issue is in the log, https is not showing in te real time only http.

      Thanks for your work, very nice!

      Tomas @ 2W Consultoria

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        marcelloc
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        @Tomas:

        Hi Marcello, i have make tests now with de new version in transparent mode and is working as expected. Only issue is in the log, https is not showing in te real time only http.

        Thanks for your work, very nice!

        https://github.com/e2guardian/e2guardian/issues/359
        https://github.com/e2guardian/e2guardian/issues/360

        These guys work really fast!

        Log issues fixed and Unofficial repository updated.  8)

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          navarre
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          Hi Marcello,

          you are great! I love V5.

          Found a little mistake:

          I change logfile format to "squid style". Because I want to you lightsquid to parse logfiles.

          In the squid format there is a bug: internal ip of requestor is missing. :-(

          Seems this was a bug on V4 who was already fixed, but is in V5 here again.

          Another question:

          Can someone give me a hint how to send e2guardian access.log to remote server?

          I have graylog up and running. The Pfsense Logfiles could be sending to graylog sever, but I have no idea how to send e2guardians log.

          Best Regards,
          Kai

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            navarre
            last edited by

            @navarre:

            Hi Marcello,

            you are great! I love V5.

            Found a little mistake:

            I change logfile format to "squid style". Because I want to you lightsquid to parse logfiles.

            In the squid format there is a bug: internal ip of requestor is missing. :-(

            Seems this was a bug on V4 who was already fixed, but is in V5 here again.

            Addition: Just read about fixed issue in your former post - I´ll give it a try

            Another question:

            Can someone give me a hint how to send e2guardian access.log to remote server?

            I have graylog up and running. The Pfsense Logfiles could be sending to graylog sever, but I have no idea how to send e2guardians log.

            Best Regards,
            Kai

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            • marcellocM
              marcelloc
              last edited by

              try latest pkg version. E2guardian team fixed it today

              https://github.com/e2guardian/e2guardian/issues/359

              About remote syslog, I did not tried any tool yet.

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                susamlicubuk
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                @marcelloc:

                try latest pkg version. E2guardian team fixed it today

                https://github.com/e2guardian/e2guardian/issues/359

                About remote syslog, I did not tried any tool yet.

                I think I made a mistake
                some sites do not open
                Can you share configuration screenshots

                thanks.

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                • marcellocM
                  marcelloc
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                    susamlicubuk
                    last edited by

                    marcello
                    congratulations and thanks
                    I did not test mobile devices but the pc works very well
                    but realtime logs look empty
                    why

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                    • marcellocM
                      marcelloc
                      last edited by

                      @susamlicubuk:

                      I did not test mobile devices but the pc works very well
                      but realtime logs look empty
                      why

                      check if you box has the e2guardian logs on /var/log/e2guardian.

                      You can also try to change log type under Report and Logs tab.

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                      • marcellocM
                        marcelloc
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                        Amazing performance

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                          susamlicubuk
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                          Marcello
                          Congratulations on your work
                          it works fine but it will be my responsibility
                          Do not have user (ip) site login authorization section? ips only has one group. why?
                          for example:
                          192.168.1.10 facebook block
                          192.168.1.11 facebook pass - youtube block
                          SquidGuard is very flexible and accomplished in this way
                          but with SSL proxy problem

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                          • marcellocM
                            marcelloc
                            last edited by

                            @susamlicubuk:

                            Do not have user (ip) site login authorization section? ips only has one group. why?
                            for example:
                            192.168.1.10 facebook block
                            192.168.1.11 facebook pass - youtube block

                            Just create another group and change acl combination.

                            @susamlicubuk:

                            SquidGuard is very flexible and accomplished in this way

                            Definitely not. You will need more time to understand it's config style but e2guardian config is full featured.

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                            • marcellocM
                              marcelloc
                              last edited by

                              Version 5 can really be scaled both horizontally and vertically.

                              I have a box with 15k working process running really nice.

                              Amazing work e2guardian team did on it.

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                              Help a community developer! ;D

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                                pfsensation
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                                @marcelloc:

                                Version 5 can really be scaled both horizontally and vertically.

                                I have a box with 15k working process running really nice.

                                Amazing work e2guardian team did on it.

                                You're right. I just jumped in today, taking extra precautions. I cloned my pfSense VM twice and then jumped in. So far the transparent proxy is working brilliantly and exactly how I wanted it. I've got my pfSense box entirely virtualised in ESXi and it's running brilliantly so far at home. Hopefully it continues to run stable, I've got it running under Squid for some light caching. In addition to this, when changing the settings around in the GUI, E2Guardian no longer lags or locks up like 4.1, it applies the config nearly instantly and is back up and running.

                                @Marcelloc could we add some filters to the logs? It would be really useful to go through denied websites based on groups, logs, times and categories. And would help tune E2Guardian better.


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                                  MR-NT
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                                  @marcelloc:

                                  Here are install instructions for UNOFFICIAL e2guardian package for pfSense(R) software 2.3.x

                                  Install
                                  You can enable Unoffical repo creating or downloading the file below using diagnostics -> command  prompt -> Execute Shell Command prompt menu:

                                  2.3 AMD64

                                  
                                  fetch -q -o /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/Unofficial.conf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcelloc/Unofficial-pfSense-packages/master/Unofficial.conf
                                  
                                  

                                  2.3 I386

                                  
                                  fetch -q -o /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/Unofficial.conf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcelloc/Unofficial-pfSense-packages/master/Unofficiali386.conf
                                  
                                  

                                  2.4

                                  
                                  fetch -q -o /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/Unofficial.conf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcelloc/Unofficial-pfSense-packages/master/Unofficial.24.conf
                                  
                                  

                                  After fetching the repo file, you can see these packages under System -> Package Manager

                                  Without enabling Unofficial repo, you can add it using console/ssh with

                                  
                                  cd /root
                                  fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcelloc/Unofficial-pfSense-packages/master/pkg-e2guardian/files/install_e2guardian_23.sh
                                  sh ./install_e2guardian_23.sh
                                  
                                  

                                  E2guardian requires a cache/upstream server , so if you do not want to use squid together with e2guardian, point e2guardian proxy configuration to 127.0.0.1 port 8888 to use tinyproxy cache server instead.

                                  http://www.shallalist.de/Downloads/shallalist.tar.gz is one of compatible blacklists for e2guardian. Configure it under blacklist tab.

                                  Once it finishes, all must be in place. If you do not see the menu after it finishes, try to install any pfSense package from GUI, like cron for example.

                                  WARNING

                                  Use it at your own risk.

                                  This script install packages from freebsd and change your config file.

                                  Excellent , i think this is the only i can block based on Page content , am right or wrong ?

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                                  • marcellocM
                                    marcelloc
                                    last edited by

                                    @MR-NT:

                                    Excellent , i think this is the only i can block based on Page content , am right or wrong ?

                                    Right !

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                                      susamlicubuk
                                      last edited by

                                      Hello Marcello
                                      The e2 guardian does not work after the pfsense firewall is restarted.
                                      e2Guardian from the interface does not work without pressing the save and apply button.
                                      Do you have a solution?

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                                        pfsensation
                                        last edited by

                                        @susamlicubuk:

                                        Hello Marcello
                                        The e2 guardian does not work after the pfsense firewall is restarted.
                                        e2Guardian from the interface does not work without pressing the save and apply button.
                                        Do you have a solution?

                                        Have you got the blacklist downloaded and the watch dog turned on? Turning on the watchdog should make sure that E2guardian is running.

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                                          GoldenShark
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                                          @pfsensation:

                                          @susamlicubuk:

                                          Hello Marcello
                                          The e2 guardian does not work after the pfsense firewall is restarted.
                                          e2Guardian from the interface does not work without pressing the save and apply button.
                                          Do you have a solution?

                                          Have you got the blacklist downloaded and the watch dog turned on? Turning on the watchdog should make sure that E2guardian is running.

                                          I have same problem also.

                                          I tried watch dog it doesnt work for this issue.

                                          The problem is when you restart your pfsense its going to show to you : APPLY CHANGES.

                                          If i will not apply it , it wont be work.

                                          I have to apply every after restart pfsense

                                          I can send you picture what he need : http://prntscr.com/iu6tr5

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                                            pfsensation
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                                            @GoldenShark:

                                            @pfsensation:

                                            @susamlicubuk:

                                            Hello Marcello
                                            The e2 guardian does not work after the pfsense firewall is restarted.
                                            e2Guardian from the interface does not work without pressing the save and apply button.
                                            Do you have a solution?

                                            Have you got the blacklist downloaded and the watch dog turned on? Turning on the watchdog should make sure that E2guardian is running.

                                            I have same problem also.

                                            I tried watch dog it doesnt work for this issue.

                                            The problem is when you restart your pfsense its going to show to you : APPLY CHANGES.

                                            If i will not apply it , it wont be work.

                                            I have to apply every after restart pfsense

                                            I can send you picture what he need : http://prntscr.com/iu6tr5

                                            You're right. i've been having this from the start, but it's one of those things that didn't really bother me too much because it only occurs when you do a full restart. pfSense is not really something you need to restart often at all, furthermore, I somehow managed to get it to auto startup using a combination of Service watchdog from the package manager and E2G's own watchdog. This way, after a reboot, I still get the prompt to save the configurations, but it still starts up the service automatically and everything seems to work as normal.

                                            @Marcelloc, I'm having problems with Regex for enforcing Youtube Restricted. Do you use this on your network? Anyone else here using it? It seemed to be working fine on 4.1, but on v5, that's stopped working. I've yet to pin down if its a change Youtube made on their end or if its E2G for sure.

                                            The below is what I'm using for YouTube:

                                            # Enforce restricted mode in YouTube
                                            #
                                            "(^https://www.youtube.com)"->"https://restrict.youtube.com"
                                            "(^https://m.youtube.com)"->"https://restrict.youtube.com"
                                            "(^https://youtubei.googleapis.com)"->"https://restrict.youtube.com"
                                            "(^https://youtube.googleapis.com)"->"https://restrict.youtube.com"
                                            "(^https://www.youtube-nocookie.com)"->"https://restrict.youtube.com"
                                            #
                                            
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