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    • S Offline
      stanthewizard
      last edited by

      I got this message

      The field 'reverse HTTP port' must contain a port number higher than net.inet.ip.portrange.first sysctl value(1024).
          To listen on low ports, change portrange.first sysctl value to 0 on system tunable options and restart squid daemon.
          The field 'reverse HTTPS port' must contain a port number higher than net.inet.ip.portrange.first sysctl value(1024).
          To listen on low ports, change portrange.first sysctl value to 0 on system tunable options and restart squid daemon.

      Try to change the sysctl.conf with
      net.inet.ip.portrange.first=0

      no effect

      Try to change tunable in advanced option

      no effect

      Any idea ?

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        olivierfaber
        last edited by

        I'm getting the same error after the upgrade to 2.2-RELEASE (amd64)

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        • marcellocM Offline
          marcelloc
          last edited by

          Try to set it via console  too and/or reboot  to get it working.

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            stanthewizard
            last edited by

            Reboot doesn't change anything

            How to set it via consol

            Thank you for your commitment  :D

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            • marcellocM Offline
              marcelloc
              last edited by

              first check what you get applied

              sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange
              

              then change if not applied during boot

              sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.first=0
              

              EDIT
              You can try this too

               sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh=79
              

              Reference: http://segfault.in/2010/10/freebsd-net-inet-ip-sysctls-explained/

              net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow, net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh

              The range of privileged ports which only may be opened by root-owned processes may be modified by the net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow and net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh sysctl settings. The values default to the traditional range, 0 through IPPORT_RESERVED – 1 (0 through 1023), respectively. Note that these settings do not affect and are not accounted for in the use or calculation of the other net.inet.ip.portrange values above. Changing these values departs from UNIX tradition and has security consequences that the administrator should carefully evaluate before modifying these settings.

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                stanthewizard
                last edited by

                Either way doesn't work
                $ sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.first=0
                net.inet.ip.portrange.first: 1024 -> 1024

                $ sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh=79
                net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh: 1023 -> 79

                net.inet.ip.portrange.lowfirst: 1023
                net.inet.ip.portrange.lowlast: 600
                net.inet.ip.portrange.first: 1024
                net.inet.ip.portrange.last: 65535
                net.inet.ip.portrange.hifirst: 49152
                net.inet.ip.portrange.hilast: 65535
                net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh: 79
                net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow: 0
                net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized: 1
                net.inet.ip.portrange.randomcps: 10
                net.inet.ip.portrange.randomtime: 45

                Then I restart Squid and same issue
                If I restard pFsense the setting reverses to 1024 ..

                ???

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                  stanthewizard
                  last edited by

                  I installed a new pfsense in a VM directly from CD

                  Impossible to change
                  net.inet.ip.portrange.first=0

                  Out of the box …

                  The previous version 2.1 is impossible to change too BUT the old squid package doesn't care for it.

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                  • marcellocM Offline
                    marcelloc
                    last edited by

                    @stanthewizard:

                    The previous version 2.1 is impossible to change too BUT the old squid package doesn't care for it.

                    pfsense, not squid…

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                    • marcellocM Offline
                      marcelloc
                      last edited by

                      While fixing the package to 2.2, it was working.

                      Use old workaround instead until we find a way to fix it again.

                      Listen squid on a high port and nat it from 80/443 to configured port.

                      If you preffer, you can (re)open a redmine ticket for it.

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                        stanthewizard
                        last edited by

                        Thats the workaround I had in mind  ;D

                        Many thanks for your help

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                        • C Offline
                          Cino
                          last edited by

                          I've officially upgraded my box to 2.2 today and if you use a higher port with a nat redirect; it works with not issues from what I can tell.

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                            rodylopez
                            last edited by

                            Cino,

                            Can you elaborate about how to configure the NAT redirect as a work around?

                            I am configuring a reverse proxy to use with Lync and need to use port 443.

                            Thanks,

                            Rody.

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                              Cino
                              last edited by

                              Have squid reverse proxy listen to lets say port 8443, using loopback for its interface. Then create a WAN NAT to redirect all incoming traffic from port 443 to 8443.

                              e.g here is my NAT for port 80

                              WAN TCP * * WAN address 80 (HTTP) 127.0.0.1 9080 HTTP squid-reverse redirect

                              squid is setup for loopback listen on port 9080

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                                marcelloc
                                last edited by

                                @Cino:

                                Have squid reverse proxy listen to lets say port 8443, using loopback for its interface.

                                Until we find a another way to workaround non root users listening on low ports security rule.

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                                  rodylopez
                                  last edited by

                                  Thanks Cino,

                                  I created the WAN NAT to redirect incoming traffic from port 443 to the port 1443:

                                  WAN   TCP * * WAN address 443 (HTTPS) 127.0.0.1 1443

                                  Then have Squid Reverse Proxy listen on 1443 on "reverse HTTPS port" under "Squid Reverse HTTPS Settings" but that does not work.

                                  I don't get the part where you said "squid is setup for loopback listen on port 9080" Is this port 9080 something that I have to configure some place else for the loopback address? Then change 1443 for 9080?

                                  I don't think this is a default port, so where in Squid Reverse Proxy is this lookback port configured?

                                  Thanks,

                                  Rody.

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                                    joppybt
                                    last edited by

                                    @rody:

                                    Then have Squid Reverse Proxy listen on 1443 on "reverse HTTPS port" under "Squid Reverse HTTPS Settings" but that does not work.

                                    Did you also change the 'Reverse Proxy interface' from WAN to LAN? That took me a while to find out.

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                                      Cino
                                      last edited by

                                      'Reverse Proxy interface' - select loopback as the interface…  use a higher port like 8443 or 9443 for 'reverse HTTPS port'

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                                        joppybt
                                        last edited by

                                        @Cino:

                                        'Reverse Proxy interface' - select loopback as the interface…  use a higher port like 8443 or 9443 for 'reverse HTTPS port'

                                        In stead of using loopback I first set up the NAT to redirect WAN 443 to port 8443 on the LAN-IP of pfSense and had Squid listen to the LAN interface. This works fine.

                                        Now I changed the NAT to redirect to 127.0.0.1 and have Squid listen to loopback. This also work fine.

                                        Is there a reason to prefer one method over the other?

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                                          marcelloc
                                          last edited by

                                          @joppybt:

                                          Is there a reason to prefer one method over the other?

                                          If you do not need to listen on lan, listen on a interface that nobody has direct access to.

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                                            CubedRoot
                                            last edited by

                                            Gah! I just got hit with this one.  I just got my authetication issues figured out and decided to tighten up my proxy setup.  So, the first and only thing I did was try to set my proxy to a port lower than 1024.

                                            Checking the logs, it appears the squid process isn't able to open ports below 1024 since they are reserved ports…only root can.

                                            But, Squid 2 is able to open ports below 1024 without any issues.  Squid3 isnt.

                                            Has there been much movement on allowing squid to open ports below 1024?  I have tried adjusting the sysctl parameters with no luck.

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