pfSense

I support this idea, because it is not difficult to implement and solves many problem.
Currently Im changing binary manually...

Tomas: what are you changing the binary to, just the one from stock FreeBSD ports?

Yes, I have used this steps from forum (credit Andrew)
But I did pkg stuff on another pfsense and extracted only binary, because i dont want to have pkg stuff on production system.

OK, I think I've cracked it. I've posted the instructions to upgrade to igmpproxy 0.1 (no IPTV problems for me after upgrading!), but I can't be held responsible if you brick your pfSense box whilst doing it.

First you need to upgrade igmpproxy in the shell.

pkg
pkg update
pkg install igmpproxy

However, once you've done this, because the command line options for igmpproxy 0.1 are different to the existing version on pfSense, igmpproxy won't start on boot. You therefore need a custom shell script to do it:

Create a new file called igmpstart.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/

Use the vi editor to put the following line in it:

/usr/sbin/daemon igmpproxy /tmp/igmpproxy.conf

Make the file executable:

chmod +x igmpstart.sh

Then, when you reboot, all should be well.

I've updated the post. There's a better way. Rather than creating igmpstart.sh, you can just edit the line in the script in pfSense that launches igmpproxy.

Use the editor in the GUI to open etc/inc/services.inc

Find the line which reads: "/* NOTE: -d4 means everything LOG_WARNING and smaller */"

Edit the line underneath to change -d4 to -v -v:

mwexec("/usr/local/sbin/igmpproxy -v -v {$g['tmp_path']}/igmpproxy.conf");

(n.b. the -v -v enables verbose logging, which might be useful if you're having problems. You can leave that out if you don't want your system logs to record igmpproxy activity.)

This is the way to implement it if igmpproxy 0.1 is being built into the next release of pfSense.

Tomas Ulicky wrote:

Yes, I have used this steps from forum (credit Andrew)
But I did pkg stuff on another pfsense and extracted only binary, because i dont want to have pkg stuff on production system.

OK, I think I've cracked it. I've posted the instructions to upgrade to igmpproxy 0.1 (no IPTV problems for me after upgrading!), but I can't be held responsible if you brick your pfSense box whilst doing it.

First you need to upgrade igmpproxy in the shell.

pkg
pkg update
pkg install igmpproxy

However, once you've done this, because the command line options for igmpproxy 0.1 are different to the existing version on pfSense, igmpproxy won't start on boot. You therefore need a custom shell script to do it:

Create a new file called igmpstart.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/

Use the vi editor to put the following line in it:

/usr/sbin/daemon igmpproxy /tmp/igmpproxy.conf

Make the file executable:

chmod +x igmpstart.sh

Then, when you reboot, all should be well.

p.s. just in case it wasn't obvious, you still need to update igmpproxy to version 0.1 - the above just relates to ensuring pfSense launches the new version of the service (as the command line syntax is different in 0.1).

Can this be done for 2.2.5 please? There is a whole galore of people complaining about this... https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=93293.0

Andrew, your suggested change to /etc/inc/services.inc didn't work here. Strangely, it seems services.inc hangs at the mwexec call and the pfsense menu doesn't appear after booting on the console. It's like igmpproxy got started but didn't detach. I am no expert on FreeBSD/pfsense. I simply also changed mwexec to mwexec_bd and this seems to work here. Or should I use deamon to start igmpproxy?

Ouupps. Of course I ment mwexec_bg and not mwexec_bd

I think, as you say, igmpproxy is starting but not detaching. Obviously it needs to run in the background, so if mwexec_bg works across all versions of pfSense, then that seems the way to go.

I didn't make that change on my install of pfSense (from the Live installer CD) but it seemed to work anyway for me.

igmpproxy has been quite idle for some time at https://sourceforge.net/projects/igmpproxy/

There seems to be a new home for igmpproxy on GitHub, which includes a lot of the patches scattered all over the interwebs (including also some FreeBSD related patches):
https://github.com/pali/igmpproxy/

Is there any chance to get igmpproxy updated to this version?