Tor Relay On Pfsense 2.3.3-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)

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

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

Tyler Johnson:
On 3/28/17, Edwin Garzón <edwingarzon10@gmail.com> wrote:
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]
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. g -- 5F77 765E 40D6 5340 A0F5 3401 4997 FF11 A86F 44E2

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.
FreeBSD.org is fine for that. And OPNsense will be the most up to date of any of the BSD firewall projects. It's based on 11.x and has current tor packages of 0.2.9.9 and 0.2.9.10. https://opnsense.org/
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Edwin Garzón
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George
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grarpamp
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Tyler Johnson