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      biggsy
      last edited by biggsy

      Trying to install openBGPd from the FreeBSD repository on a new install of pfSense 2.6. (Yeah, I know, not supported, etc).

      Following the instructions in the documentation I've had no luck at all. I did do this successfully on 2.5.2 when that was set up.

      I edited /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf to enable FreeBSD, rebooted and tried:

      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/All/openbgpd-5.2.20121209_4,1.txz

      That and other variations - https, no .txz, just openbgpd - return "Not Found".

      The FreeBSD pkg repo has had browsing disabled below a certain level, so it's no longer possible to find the exact path and file name.

      Anyone have any ideas how to work around this?

      Thanks

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        biggsy
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        So I discovered that it has to be:

        openbgpd-5.2.20121209_4,1.pkg

        not

        openbgpd-5.2.20121209_4,1.txz

        Perhaps the documentation needs to change.

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Any particular page?

          The main recommendation is do not install FreeBSD packages at all.
          You shouldn't need to enable the FreeBSD repo in the pkg conf file. Installing a single pkg directly like that doesn't require it. And doing so means it will pull in any dependencies from there potentially overwriting the custom pfSense versions.

          And also use FRR for BGP 😉

          Steve

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            biggsy @stephenw10
            last edited by

            @stephenw10 said :

            Any particular page?

            Thanks, Steve. Sorry, it was getting late. This is what I was following.

            I do know about the recommendation not to install FreeBSD packages. OpenBGPd has no dependencies - something I checked when I first installed it a few years ago.

            I don't use OpenBGPd (or anything else) for "proper" BGP.
            In my case, it's used to directly update a pfSense alias containing fail2ban'd IPs sent from my mail server. It's instantaneous and very low overhead.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by stephenw10

              Ah, that's fine then. You've obviously done the work in advance. 👍

              I mention the issues here because unfortunately there are many users who do not do the work and reap the consequences! 😉

              Yes, we could update that page to use a current example with the alternative file suffix.

              Steve

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                biggsy @stephenw10
                last edited by

                @stephenw10 said:

                Yes, we could update that page to use a current example with the alternative file suffix.

                Curiously, I couldn't find any FreeBSD documentation or discussion about that change of file extension. Still wondering whether I might have got something wrong. OpenBGPd is installed though.

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  If you run pkg -d update you'll see it tries both in current versions. I have no insight into the change though.

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                    biggsy
                    last edited by

                    So, I set /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf back to "no" and deleted the OpenBGPd pkg. Thanks for that tip, Steve. Although, I hadn't made a note of doing this originally but, after a few failed attempts, I went back to the pfSense documentation.

                    Tried this again after making the change:

                    pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/All/openbgpd-5.2.20121209_4,1.txz

                    and the result was:

                    pkg: http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/All/openbgpd-5.2.20121209_4,1.txz: Not Found

                    Changed .txz to .pkg and it installed OK.

                    Might post a question on the FreeBSD forum.

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      If you specify the exact filename, as you must when using a different repo, then it will only use that. If you do something like pkg install nano the pkg system will try both file types. But only against the configured repo.

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                        biggsy
                        last edited by biggsy

                        Hi Steve,

                        Yes, in fact I tried the following variations:

                        pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/All/openbgpd
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/All/openbgpd.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/All/openbgpd.pkg

                        All returned "Not Found".

                        Edit: Same with "pkg install . . ."

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Yup you need the precise file name including the build number to use pkg add.

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                            biggsy
                            last edited by

                            Yep, sorry, I misread your previous post.

                            Thanks again.

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                              biggsy
                              last edited by

                              Just to follow up on this, I found this post from Feb '22 on the FreeBSD forum:

                              "The extension for FreeBSD packages changed from .txz to .pkg recently. The static pkg tool in base still expects the old name.t"

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