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Setting up VPN client on your pfSense using Private Internet Access (PIA) service with Kill switch

Posted on December 12, 2022December 30, 2024 by Thiago Crepaldi

Private Internet Access (aka PIA) provides a cheap VPN service that allows up to 10 simultaneous devices. Recently I have switched from Surfshark to PIA because although Surfshark allows unlimited devices, having multiple connections in the same device (pfSense router) doesn’t always work. The reason is that different connections to different countries can have the…

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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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Routing Internet Traffic Through a Site-to-Site IPsec VPN on a specific Wi-fi over VLAN

Posted on January 20, 2021August 9, 2022 by Thiago Crepaldi

Yeah, I know, I need to work on shorter titles 😀 By reading a previous post, you may have created an IPSec tunnel to connect your home and office (or something like that). That is useful on its own, but it can be the case that you also want that all internet traffic to go…

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How to configure IPSec Site-to-Site VPN tunnel on your pfSense using dynamic IPs and pre-shared keys in both ends

Posted on December 23, 2020December 30, 2024 by Thiago Crepaldi

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…

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Configuring OpenVPN server on your pfSense

Posted on December 20, 2020December 30, 2024 by Thiago Crepaldi

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…

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Setting-up Load balancing and Failover using pfSense Gateway Groups

Posted on September 2, 2020August 14, 2022 by Thiago Crepaldi

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…

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Setting up VPN client on your pfSense (Surfshark) with Kill switch

Posted on August 30, 2020December 30, 2024 by Thiago Crepaldi

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…

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Configuring OpenVPN Server on pfSense with LDAP authentication

Posted on July 21, 2020December 30, 2024 by Thiago Crepaldi

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…

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