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How to force Dynamic DNS (DDNS) updates on a schedule at you pfSense

Posted on April 16, 2022July 28, 2022 by Thiago Crepaldi

In this short post I will describe how to force your DDNS service to periodically refresh your IP on your pfSense. In theory, that should never be needed because when your WAN IP changes, DDNS service should notice it and update your IP on demand. However, I have notice my IPSEC tunnel never reconnected after…

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How to fix R3 CA/Certificate issue on pfSense (expired on September 29th, 2021)

Posted on October 18, 2021July 28, 2022 by Thiago Crepaldi

On Wednesday, September 29th 2021 a widely used Certificate Authority (CA) from Let’s Encrypt expired and brought the world to its knees. Well, at least my homelab, anyways. The exact message would be something like “The following CA/Certificate entries are expiring: Certificate Authority: Acmecert: O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority R3, C=US” The fix is quite…

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Routing specific devices through your VPN gateway using pfSense

Posted on April 21, 2021August 4, 2022 by Thiago Crepaldi

While I was writing a post on how to route specific WEB traffic through VPN, I’ve got inspired and decided to write another post on how to route specific DEVICES (your NAS server, laptop, iPhone, etc) through VPN while the rest of your house still uses the default ISP gateway. This kind of approach might…

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Routing specific websites through your VPN gateway using pfSense

Posted on April 21, 2021August 4, 2022 by Thiago Crepaldi

For those who followed my previous post on how to configure a VPN client on pfSense, one cool application for it is to route only specific websites through the VPN while the rest of the traffic goes through the default ISP gateway, as usual. That is interesting when you want to use an IP from…

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Finding replacements for your Homelab online

Posted on April 3, 2021December 30, 2024 by Thiago Crepaldi

If you are like me, you probably got most of your gear at eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Craig’s List, OfferUp, etc. From time to time, things break or they come with missing parts, etc. I don’t know about you, but I go a long way to make my Homelab as nit as possible. Recently I’ve acquired…

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Configuring E-mail alerts on your Proxmox Virtual Environment

Posted on March 7, 2021December 30, 2024 by Thiago Crepaldi

In this post we are going to enable E-mail alerts for both our Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) and Proxmox Backup Server (PBS). The email server will be backed my GMail, which also works if you have Google Suite and a custom domain, such as yourdomain.com! Although I have separate PBS and PVE configuration in two…

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How to setup NFS on Synology NAS for Proxmox Backup Server to use as Datastore

Posted on March 7, 2021August 5, 2022 by Thiago Crepaldi

In this post we are going to configure a NFS share on our Synology NAS so that Proxmox Backup Server can use it as storage (aka Datastore) for all VMs and container backups. The first step is to configure NFS share on your Synology, then we need to mount the NFS share on the server…

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How to setup Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) community repository

Posted on March 6, 2021December 30, 2024 by Thiago Crepaldi

Recently I’ve discovered Proxmox and learned about its Community vs Enterprise versions. As I am just getting started with it, I don’t want to commit with a paid version, but who knows when I finally get the hang of it. If you think like me, this post will describe how to configure Proxmox PBS package…

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How to fix the X3 CA/Certificate issue after upgrading to pfSense 2.5

Posted on February 26, 2021August 6, 2022 by Thiago Crepaldi

If you recently upgraded to pfSense 2.5, you may have received notifications about some CA/Certificate entries close to expiring. The exact message would be something like “The following CA/Certificate entries are expiring: Certificate Authority: Acmecert: O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3, C=US” The fix is quite simple, just visit System >> Cert Manager >> CAs…

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How to setup Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) community repository

Posted on February 25, 2021December 30, 2024 by Thiago Crepaldi

Recently I discovered Proxmox and learned about its Community vs Enterprise versions. As I am just getting started with it, I don’t want to commit with a paid version, but who knows when I finally get the hang of it. If you think like me, this post will describe how to configure Proxmox PVE package…

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