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    • R
      ravi
      last edited by

      Hi all, i have installed pfsense 2.4.4_3 but in web interface , could not find any interface for snort under system->package manager and also no snort option under services.

      How can i get snort thing.

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
        last edited by

        you need to install it - do you see other packages available for install?

        snort.png

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          ravi @johnpoz
          last edited by

          Under both Installed and Availiabe packages noting is there.

          Is my installation has some problem?

          Installed version is pfSense-CE-2.4.4-RELEASE-p3-amd64.iso.

          can you suggest me what to do?

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          • KOMK
            KOM
            last edited by KOM

            Nothing as in no snort? Or nothing as in nothing at all?

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              ravi @KOM
              last edited by

              @KOM

              what?

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              • KOMK
                KOM
                last edited by

                @ravi said in no snort option under pfsense pkg manager:

                Under both Installed and Availiabe packages noting is there.

                You said 'noting is there" and I assume you meant 'nothing'. Then I asked you if 'nothing' meant other packages are in the list but not snort, or if the entire list is empty.

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                  ravi @KOM
                  last edited by

                  @KOM Got it.
                  Entire list is empty.

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                  • KOMK
                    KOM
                    last edited by

                    Lots of things could cause that. No route to host, Netgate doing maintenance... Some others had problems with the auto-update check, and disabling it solved the problem after an hour or so.

                    What happens if you shell in and run:

                    pkg-static update
                    
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                    • johnpozJ
                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                      last edited by

                      If you have no packages listed as available, then could be a connectivity issues to netgate/pfsense - did you have stuff installed before and now its not listed.. If that is the case than you could have something wrong with your local install.

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                      • DerelictD
                        Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                        last edited by Derelict

                        It is almost always:

                        1. The firewall itself cannot resolve DNS
                        2. The firewall itself cannot connect to the update servers

                        In more rare cases, the package database is corrupted and needs to be re-built.

                        This might kick things into gear in that case:

                        pkg-static clean -ay; pkg-static install -fy pkg pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade; pkg-static upgrade -fy

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                          ravi
                          last edited by

                          Thank you all. I will try them and come back.

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                            ravi @KOM
                            last edited by

                            @KOM VirtualBox_pfsense_12_07_2019_10_06_21.png

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                            • DerelictD
                              Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                              last edited by

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                              So you have dorked around with third party repositories and broke your package database.

                              My advice: back up your config, reinstall a fresh version of pfSense from https://www.pfsense.org/download/ and restore your configuration.

                              Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
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                                ravi @Derelict
                                last edited by

                                @Derelict Thank you. Sure. I will do that.

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                                  ravi
                                  last edited by

                                  Done fresh installation. Snort came. Thank you.

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