Questions tagged [pfsense]
A free firewall based on Packet Filter (pf) and FreeBSD 6.
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Bios recognizes USB drive and partitions, but won’t boot from it
I bought a mini PC that had no ram or ssd and obviously no OS. I added my own 8gb ddr4 2400mhz and ssd connected by SATA. I can boot into the bios and it recognizes the ram.
I created a bootable ...
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pfSense and USB ethernet
I'm looking to build a pfSense box at home. It seems most ideal to locate a machine with dual ethernet, and designate them WAN and LAN. But I was wondering if it would make sense to use a machine I ...
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pfSense VPN to Debian with NAT for DMZ
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Hello there,
currently I have the following system running:
A pfSense Firewall/Router with a dynamic public IP address and NAT on port 80 into my DMZ network. It also has dynDNS ...
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pfsense - slow connection to internet from wired network but not from wireless/wifi
summary: internet speed tests indicate that the connection to the internet from my wired network is very slow, while speed tests from a device on my wifi network gets the expected (much faster) result....
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Unifi guest hotspot: "Redirect using Hostname" but no DNS?
I have a Unifi UAP-AC-LR access point and wanted to setup the guest portal for friends. It sort-of-worked on my phone, but didn't work on my laptop. I think it had to do with the self-signed cert/...
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Cannot access Synology File Server from VPN using pfSense
OK, here is the situation: I have a Synology file-server/NAS on my home network, watched over by pfSense (router/firewall). I am trying to set up a VPN going through pfSense so that I can connect to ...
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Can't get Ubuntu virtual machine connected to virtual router through VMware
I'm running a virtual router through VMware that has a two virtual NICS connected to it. A bridged NIC for the WAN side to connect directly to the internet and a NIC for the LAN side. I have two ...
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Securing a webapp with nginx, modSecurity and pfsense
As a hobby project, I started a website on my PC. I built it with nginx and everything worked fine.
Now, trying to secure it, things get complicated.
Im trying to setup a firewall/waf physically on ...
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Bridge-Mode to prevent double NAT/Firewall advantages?
In my network I currently have a cable connection with an ISP provided (consumer grade) modem/router combo device. Behind this modem there is a pfSense box. The pfSense box is acting as firewall and ...
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How do you properly allow two devices on separate subnets to communicate (PFSense)?
I'm trying to figure out how to get 192.168.0.22 to properly ping/be able to transfer files with 192.168.77.10. Firstly, is this a dumb setup? I'm mainly using it right now just for educational ...
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Reconfigure pfSense to use wifi/eth bridge instead of internal Ethernet interface
I am using pfSense as an Internet router. So far I have not used the wifi adapter (it is present but disabled). I only use one of the Ethernet ports for the internal interface. For wifi I have a ...
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Does pfSense in access point mode support WPS clients?
TL;DR: I would like to connect a wifi client which supports only WPS to a pfSense running in access point mode. Is that possible, and how?
I am in the process of replacing my ISP provided router with ...
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Setting up high availability LDAP authentication using FreeIPA
I am trying to setup pfSense LDAP authentication using FreeIPA master/replica nodes.
I was able to directly connect to the master LDAP server using the hostname/ip-address but when it goes down how ...
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Configuring pfSense for IPTV delivered via separate VLAN on WAN link
I am trying to set up pfSense as my primary Internet router, replacing the provider router.
Basic Internet connectivity works as it should: configure the external interface as a DHCP client, configure ...
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How to connect OpenVPN clients to a LAN network with 2 default gateways
I am currently doing a test for our OpenVPN setup through Pfsense, we have 2 Pfsense running on the network,
For the default gateway of the LAN Network as Main Firewall.
For the OpenVPN Clients as a ...
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