Tyler Johnson:

On 3/28/17, Edwin Garzón edwingarzon10@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi all. Need you help, I have pfsense *2.3.3-RELEASE-p1* (amd64) and > pkg install tor: pkg: No packages available to install matching 'tor' have been found in the repositories

I want to install a Tor relay

Thank

A quick googling shows me that perhaps Tor isn't supported on pfsense [1].

Therefore, you may have to follow this how-to: Running the Tor client on Linux/BSD/Unix [2]

[1] https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=10143.0

[2] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en

Way back I did start creating a Tor port for pfSense and left it in XML hell, but I'm sure there's a way to install on it still. I'm not familiar with how pfSense packaging is done now, but it should be easy enough. There is a ports tree in https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/, but security/tor doesn't seem to be there.

I tend to think that a system built for the purpose of being a firewall/packet filter should stick with its intentions. There's a tendency with open source projects to morph away from their original purpose, and ultimately do lots of things, and none of the correctly.

Although there is a case to make a firewall system that with many hundreds of thousands to also act as a Tor relay or bridge.

Note that the current pfSense 2.3.3 is based on FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE, when it probably makes more sense to run a fresh relay on the 11.x branch.

Instead of expending effort on getting Tor running on pfSense, I'd recommend just running a FreeBSD relay with the sole purpose of being a Tor relay.

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