pfsense

Recently noticed my Domain name and or Domain controller could not be pinged recently through devices that were domain joined, settings have not been adjusted or changed, originally was on Unifi Early access and switched back to the newest official release, this originally started with some...

Just got my hands on a dell 610 been looking at trying to install pfsense to this god forsaken machine, noticing a couple issues, and now a bigger one A. only ix0 - 3 exist in pfsense b. all networking jacks do not respond to either a cable plugged in from a switch and or plugging into a...

Hello, Does the network setup with external switching shown below make sense? Or does it introduce unnecessary complexity? Currently, I run my OPNsense firewall on bare metal, which I prefer. I plan to upgrade my hardware and am willing to virtualize OPNsense under Proxmox VE or XCP-ng to run...

Looking to build a system to run pfsense/opnsense and wanted something a bit more "modern" than the M720Q/920Q/P330, especially the P340/350 seemed interesting as it already has the riser installed (planning to add a quad 2.5Gbit/s NIC), however noticed that PCI-e instead of directly to CPU the...

Hello everyone, apologies if this isn't the right place, my first post here. I bought one of these off aliexpress and have been running pfsense on it for about 30 months with no issue. It's suddenly stopped working. no routing, no video out, ip address provided to anything connected is 169.254...

Hi folks I have two switches (SX6036 and ICX7450) with 40gb qsfp+ ports that I'd like to use for connecting to the router. My current router that I purchased before I got the switches with sfp/qsfp ports only has RJ45 that can handle 2.5gb (this cwwk box). I could go down the path of...

Hi Everyone, I have a BKHD-1264-NP4L N100 running PFSense, its a great little unit and runs really well however I have a very annoying issue, the clock seems to drift forwards by 1 or 2 mins every day so it quickly gets out of sync. I have tried changing the time counter hardware selection in...

I purchased an AMD Ryzen R7-5800U box from the official CWWK store on AliExpress about 18 months ago. The device worked perfectly for the first 12 months, but then it gradually began to freeze and lock up. I’ve tried different operating systems, memory, SSDs, and other hardware to rule out any...

Just ordered two (Mini PC Q20300G9-S10 Series CPU Atom C3808, 10G SFP+/ 2.5G LAN/ Qotom Mini Server/ Router Firewall) devices with the goal of having two of my locations have a site-to-site vpn. I'm a techie but a noob at this. The CPU in these devices is an Intel C-Series that has embedded...

Hello everyone :) In a homelab / home network, the main priorities are usually: energy-efficient, small, quiet. Noise isn't an issue for me, as it's absorbed. As for hardware requirements, here's what I have in mind: pfSense/OPNsense Typically no more than 5 users The full bandwidth of the...

Hello, I'm new here and I hope to get some advice. I'm trying to build a mini firewall pfSense PC with unusal setup: two WiFi network cards in one box. Let's put aside the fact that pfSense is considered very poor for wireless networking due to limited support of wireless cards. That would be a...

I'm looking for recommendations for 3 mini computers: Very, very tight budget - price is a significant consideration, and import taxes in my country are high. They must handle heat well - my country has very high temperatures in the summer and they will be located in a non-air-conditioned...

How do I connect Hassivo Managed Switch to Unify Switch passing all tagged traffic?

I'm new to the roll your own router game, and I'm coming from a ubiquity edge router device. I have a symmetric 1gb connection and might later move to a 2gb. the price is surprisingly cheap 85 per month. anyway I'm got a nas server box and I like to tinker so this is the next project. I...

I currently run pfSense on a SuperMicro microATX board with intel i3-6100, 16GB ECC RAM, and a quad Intel 1GB NIC in a small Fractal Design Core 1100 mini tower case. It is rock solid and zero complaints other than the space it takes up. Given the plethora of mini PCs out there that could...

I am looking for guidance on how to setup a dual stack system in my homelab using Verizons fios ipv6 on pfsense. My setup looks like this now: 1. Pfsense is doing firewall duties only. Routing is offloaded to a brocade layer 3 switch connected via a transit network on the OPT1 interface. 2. I...

After watching/reading the reviews on STH for this little unit I decided to get one for myself and try out Proxmox and VMs with PfSense with the intention on going with a multi gig connection. It handles my gigabit connection without any issues and I ended not going multi gig since I don't have...

I'm in a bit of a crisis, Wanting to setup a home network with two WAN inputs, Starlink & the current ISP. I'm not sure what hardware is needed for such a setup to allow Loadbalancing / Failover. I would love to run pfsense or openwrt as well if possible. I plan on setting up Pi-hole, Unbound &...

I'm new to setting up a pfSense router and am having some odd cases where some URL's are not working. I do have pfBlockerNG setup, but I've tried disabling the firewall/removing rules and none of those helped. So my guess is that it's not the firewall, but some sort of DNS resolver issue. My...

Good day all, I'm in the process of converting from ESXI to Proxmox. I have pfSense virtualized and working on Proxmox with 2 bonded networks, one for WAN and one for LAN where the WAN is directly connected from the Proxmox host to the Modem. The next step is to configure Proxmox HA for the...