When all goes bad and you can’t get to the web interface of your Netgate pfSense, you’ll have no option but to try using the CLI (command line). This happened to me recently and this article explains what i did to recover. A few worthy points: The pfSense configuration file
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Watch our video tutorial series on setting up your pfSense firewall appliance. We cover VLANs, DHCP, Captive Portals, OpenVPN, IDS/IPS, Transparent Proxy and backups. Watch the introduction video that provides some context to the following series of mini projects. Learn how to create and manage VLAN. We work through
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This article demonstrates how to install and configured FreeRadius for basic authentication. By “basic authentication”, I mean we’re going to configure local users in clear text. This is the simplest way to configure FreeRadius. We’re installing this on CentOS 8. Install the software: yum install freeradius freeradius-utils Add the client
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If you get the error message “sql_exec_internal: sqlite3_step failed: database disk image is malformed” preventing you from starting or logging into OpenVAS, this article should help. The issue may have been caused by an unexpected power-down, but whatever caused it, the DB is corrupt. Not that this is the same
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The article I’ve linked to below wasn’t written by me but is something worth noting for when things go wrong with your pfSense. My only thoughts to complement this article is to use Linux with the “minicom” command line tool to gain access to the pfSense firewall (using a USB
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I’m not married to the idea of using any product over another. It’s not the branding, how nice it looks or how much it costs (although those things may have an impact) that sways me one way or another. It’s the use of technology. It’s the principle and philosophy of
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Getting a transparent proxy up and running can be troublesome especially getting it to terminate the HTTPS (TLS) connection, inspect it (if need be) and re-terminate it. Most businesses these days don’t want to actually inspect the traffic but can’t go without some-kind of internet monitoring so a minimalistic transparent
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I’ve spent the past week installing, configuring, learning and experimenting with Google Home automation. For the most part it has been an easy exercise but it comes with serious frustrations. The frustrations aren’t to do with limitations in the capabilities but rather in the faults and unexpected behavior (and my
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This article is a short walk-through demonstrating the process of installing and configuring mod_security on Apache. In this tutorial, we’ll be using CentOS 7. We’re starting with a pre-configured and running web server running httpd listening on port 80 and 443. There’s no other services such as Varnishor Nginx running.
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This article shows the Jason for a custom IAM policy to allow snapshots with the minimum required access. I bet it can be improved upon but this is pretty close. { “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Effect”: “Allow”, “Action”: [ “ec2:CreateSnapshot”, “ec2:DeleteSnapshot”, “ec2:Describe*”, “ec2:CreateTags” ], “Resource”: “*” } ] }
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