Alert Settings

[revengineer]

The Alter Settings for pfBlockerNG are behaving erratic for me. I modified the the original number of entries and upon hitting save I find that the number of entries for deny, dnsbl, permit, and match are always set to the number chosen for dnsbl. Also the maximum number of entries is 9. If I select 10 with the up arrow, it goes back to one. Also it will not save the auto refresh and auto resolve check boxes. Is this a know issue?

Is there a way to edit the config manually to bypass the issues with the GUI?

Thanks for help in advance.

[BBcan177]

@revengineer

Are you using pfBlockerNG or pfBlockerNG-devel... If not devel, I'd recommend to upgrade to that...

[revengineer]

Thanks for the quick reply. I am using the regular pfBlockerNG, not the dev version. Is this then a known bug for the non-dev version?

[BBcan177]

@revengineer said in Alert Settings:

Thanks for the quick reply. I am using the regular pfBlockerNG, not the dev version. Is this then a known bug for the non-dev version?

I haven't seen others post about it, but I am trying not to touch the old version unless its a critical fix that is required.

There are a lot of improvements in devel that most should be migrating to it...

[BBcan177]

@revengineer said in Alert Settings:

Thanks for the quick reply. I am using the regular pfBlockerNG, not the dev version. Is this then a known bug for the non-dev version?

You can manually edit the /conf/config.xml and edit these options:

grep -A10 "<pfblockerngglobal" /conf/config.xml
            <pfblockerngglobal>
                    <pfbdenycnt>50</pfbdenycnt>
                    <pfbpermitcnt>5</pfbpermitcnt>
                    <pfbmatchcnt>5</pfbmatchcnt>
                    <pfbdnscnt>45</pfbdnscnt>

[revengineer]

Interesting, none of these keywords exist. In my config, it simply reads

<pfblockerngglobal>7</pfblockerngglobal>

I think I chose "7" as the number of entries to list, but this may be a coincidence.

For now, I restored an older config. I will try you suggestion above and in the long run plan for upgrading.

Thanks again.

[BBcan177]

@revengineer said in Alert Settings:

Thanks again.

You can goto pfSense Diagnostics > Command Prompt page > Execute PHP Commands:

And paste the following commands, and hit "Execute"... Should get you back to normal!

$config['installedpackages']['pfblockerngglobal'] = array();
$config['installedpackages']['pfblockerngglobal']['pfbdenycnt'] = '5';
$config['installedpackages']['pfblockerngglobal']['pfbpermitcnt'] = '5';
$config['installedpackages']['pfblockerngglobal']['pfbmatchcnt'] = '5';
$config['installedpackages']['pfblockerngglobal']['pfbdnscnt'] = '5';
write_config('pfBlockerNG patch');

[revengineer]

@bbcan177
Thank you, that worked great!