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pfSense Bridge Ethernet & SFP+ Configuration (on the Netgate 7100)

March 23, 2022 Andrew Galdes | Principal Consultant 1

This article discusses the process to Bridge the Ethernet switch with the SFP+ ports on the Netgate 7100 firewall appliance. The process is simple enough but there is amazingly little documentation available to help you through the process. As indicated in the title, we’re going to Bridge ports on the

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pfSense VLAN Trunk Configuration (on the Netgate 7100)

March 20, 2022 Andrew Galdes | Principal Consultant Comments Off

This article discusses the pfSense Netgate VLAN Trunk configuration. We’re using the Netgate 7100 as the firewall appliance, and a TPLink T2500G-10TS (common and fairly generic) switch to form a Trunk between. We have a computer on each side of the Trunk, each in a different subnet. See the diagram

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Netgate pfSense with 4G/5G Fail-over

January 31, 2022 Andrew Galdes | Principal Consultant Comments Off

This article discusses my recent experiences with 4G/5G fail-over for a small business running a Netgate 3100 pfSense firewall appliance. The model of the Netgate firewall appliance isn’t important. If you’re using a USB device for the 4G/5G, then it’s the pfSense drivers that matter. The question is, which 4G/5G

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IPSec Site-to-Site VPN between Unifi and pfSense

September 16, 2021 Andrew Galdes | Principal Consultant 4

In this article, we’re assuming we have multiple sites (remote offices) using Unifi networking gear, and a central network (in Azure or AWS for example) running pfSense as the firewall. We want an IPSec site-to-site VPN between them in a spoke topology. The Unifi networks will connect to the pfSense

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Configure HAProxy on pfSense with LetsEncrypt (SSL/HTTPS Termination)

January 8, 2021 Andrew Galdes | Principal Consultant Comments Off

This article demonstrates how to configure HAProxy to use LetsEncrypt to automatically manage certificates ensuring that those on the Internet accessing servers behind your HAProxy are protected with SSL security. Here’s some important points before we get started: We’re using a Netgate pfSense firewall appliance in this example but pfSense

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Restore pfSense From Backup Using The CLI (command line)

June 28, 2020 Andrew Galdes | Principal Consultant 5

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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Restoring pfSense From a USB Backup Using The Console

January 7, 2020 Andrew Galdes | Principal Consultant Comments Off

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