ENV: pfSense 2.6.0-RELEASE (amd64) as a KVM Guest on Proxmox 7.2iOS 15/16 with the Official WireGuard App Install On the latest pfsense install WireGuard through the System > Package Manger Menu. Package is “WireGuard”. pfsense package version used in this…
Category: pfSense
Limiters, Traffic Shaping, pfSense
Class-Based Weighted Limiters in pfSense 2.6.0
ENV: pfSense 2.6.0-RELEASE (amd64) as a KVM Guest on Proxmox 7.2Goal: Class-Based Limiters to manage traffic shaping on the WAN. Attempting to set priorities for each class whilst still allowing any-one client to use the entirety of the WAN Bandwidth…
Info, Pi-hole, pfSense
Home/Business DNS Resolving in 2022 aka Modern DNS Security
DNS Security Modern DNS Security on a small network can be divided into two areas of defense.The first is DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) used to ensuring that resolved results can be trusted and the second is DNS Transport security, usually…
CentOS, Pi-hole, Proxmox, pfSense
Pi-hole on a business network
(Or a home network.) ENV: Pi-Hole 5 on a Centos 7 LXC Container on Proxmox VE 6Skipping the original home of Pi-hole here (RPI) and going straight to desktop series processors on proxmox for reduced latency and better performance when…
Solar Systems, Zabbix, pfSense
Monitoring a solar system with Zabbix 5.2
ENV: Zabbix 5.2.6 (edit: now 5.4.4 with recent release) Server on rhel8 eq, Zabbix Proxy 5.2.6 on rhel7 eq, Zabbix Agent 5.2.6 on same host as proxy. Sungrow SG8K-D (AU) Solar Inverter. With a heavily modified solariot script for querying…
NBN, Proxmox, pfSense
[Resolved] pfSense and NBN – Dropout Issue
Issue: Dropouts every couple of hours, not consistent but always fell on the 1/4 hour. Traced it back to DHCP timeout issues. ENV: Aussie Broadband Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) NBN. Basically an Ethernet WAN service. pfSense 2.4-5 (continued into…
VPN, pfSense
IPSec / IKEv2 VPN for Mobile Clients on pfSense 2.4.x with Let’s Encrypt Public Certificate
Tested with: iOS and MacOS devices, Android 8+ devices, Windows 10 (Built in VPN Client)ENV: pfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE (amd64) on FreeBSD 11.3-STABLE running on Proxmox VE 6.1-8 as a full VM. 0.5GB RAM, 2 core common kvm64 proc. AES-NI CPU Crypto:…