Many of us have more than one pfSense (maybe connecting our home and office, our home and our parents, etc) which would benefit with a direct connection between them. In this post I will describe how to create a routed tunnel that connects both ends, in a way that Site A can directly access Site…
From time to time, I need to reference the use of a IP alias called RFC1918 to separate traffic from local network from other (aka “Internet”) traffic. RFC 1918 was published to “Address Allocation for Private Internets”, which is our local network. There is nobody on internet using any IP in the range described by…
On pfSense’s documentation own words, “the basic idea of traffic shaping is raising and lowering the priorities of packets or keeping them under a certain speed. This concept seems simple, however, the number of ways in which this concept can be applied is vast.” pfSense supports “Traffic shaper” and “Limiter” (and they can be used…
A OpenVPN server is useful if you want to safely connect to your house/office’s network from a remote place, say Disneyland or from abroad. In this article we are going to setup an OpenVPN server on your pfSense using pfSense Local Database for authentication. Getting ready A brief word on performance running VPN depends on…
Enabling NTP server can be a good idea to help keeping synchronized all clocks on your network! pfSense already includes a NTP daemon, so we need minimal configuration to get started! Verify your timezone Our first step should be double check our pfSense is set to the correct timezone. Go to System >> General setup,…
A typical home network is a simple single network and if any of your devices is compromised or infected with malware, the attacker may be able to spread malware or compromise all of your other devices. You can better protect your home network by separating your home network into sub-networks (aka subnets). Devices in a subnet do…
In previous posts we have discussed how to enable SNMPv1 support on your APC UPS for remote monitoring. Here we are going to leverage this configuration to allow your Synology NAS to monitor your UPS and protect it from outages! The first step is to open Control Panel >> Hardware & Power >> UPS. Note…
In previous posts we have discussed how to enable SNMPv1 support on your APC UPS for remote monitoring. Here we are going to leverage this configuration to allow pfSense to monitor your UPS and protect it from outages! The first step is to install the nut package on pfSense, if it is not installed yet….
In previous posts we have seen how to factory reset an APC UPS Network Management Card (AP9631) and how to upgrade your APC UPS to the latest version. The next step is to enable SNMPv1 to allow remote devices to read and monitor status and, possibly, shutdown when appropriate. This steps was tested on a…
A Unifi controller is a required piece of software if you have any Unifi gear, such as their famous Access Points. You can have the controller running on a dedicated hardware, as Unifi Cloud Key or Dream Machine Pro. However, in this post we are going to install the Unifi controller on a Docker container…