A typical home network is a composed of a single network and if any of your devices is compromised or infected with malware, the attacker is able to spread malware or compromise all devices. You can better protect your home network by separating your home network into sub-networks (aka subnets). Devices in a subnet do not have…
Category: UDM-Pro
Install Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates on your UDM-Pro from pfSense crontab
As you may have noticed, your UDM Pro came with a self-signed certificate, which browsers don’t like much and neither do I. In this article, we are going to install Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates using crontab from a pfSense device. You can replace pfSense with any other device with crontab available. Unifi OS doesn’t provide…
Daisy chaining pfSense + UDM Pro to work together
Unifi Dream Machine Pro (aka UDM Pro) is a nice appliance for acting as Unifi controller for your Access points (APs), while it also offers a 8-port managed switch using low power, noise and heat. It is an average router, and a lousy security appliance (hopefully they will improve a lot in this area). This…
Enabling SSH on your UDM-Pro
For future posts, we will need to have SSH enabled on the Unifi devices, including the Dream Machine Pro, so let’s get this out of the way. Allow SSH access onto UDM-pro Go to your UDM-Pro page (eg. 192.168.1.1). As usual, you will have to use your Unifi account credentials to login on the UDM-Pro….