As I mentioned earlier, recently I have acquired an AP9631 Network Management Card (NMC) and after factory resetting it, I’ve decided to upgrade to the latest firmware available. Here is how: Find a Windows machine (APC doesn’t support Linux, MacOS or other platforms for upgrades) Factory reset is an optional step, but I needed it…
Recently I’ve purchased an APC Network Management Card AP9631 at eBay. After installing it on my APC UPS, I couldn’t get it to get an IP, possibly because it was configured with a static IP. As I didn’t have a serial cable for it, I had to reset it. Here is how. Turn on your…
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…
Load balancing, as the name implies, is the act of distributing load (in this case network packages) to one or more interfaces, which can be WANs if you have more than one ISP service connected to your pfSense appliance and/or VPN connections over a single WAN. Failover is similar, but instead of distributing, it switches…
Surfshark provides a cheap VPN service that allows unlimited number of devices with ad blocking. In this tutorial we are going to configure pfSense with Surfshark and assign an interface to it so that we can route it to other services. Surfshark information The first step is getting your Surfshark credentials. Go to the login…
By default, pings are not allowed and actually not recommended. Bu during a network debugging, it can be quite handy. In order to allow ping incoming on the pfSense WAN port, go to Firewall >> Rules >> WAN page and create a new rule by clicking on Add button (down arrow icon) and do as…
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 LDAP for authentication based on Synology’s LDAP server. Getting ready A brief word on performance running…
In this article we are going install Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates on a Synology NAS, but with a twist! The certificates are actually issued by pfSense, which is in the edge of our Internet setup, and then reused by Synology NAS too. Configure pfSense In short, you have to use pfSense to issue a certificate…
In this article I’m going to show how to authenticate users on your pfSense using LDAP server powered by Synology DSM. The steps will include SSL encryption based on Let’s Encrypt certificates. You need to issue Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates, configure SSL certificates on your pfSense, and finally configure SSL certificates on your Synology that…
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…