Recently, I decided that I needed to upgrade my home network from an old Sophos UTM 110/120 that I converted a few years ago to pfSense. First, I’ve decided to move on from pfSense. I have many reasons, but the first is that if enshittification was a company, Netgate would be the perfect definition. I’ve […]
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Something I’ve wanted to do for a while now is share my /48 from Hurricane Electric’s Tunnel Broker service over my Wireguard network to other servers that don’t have IPv6 available. Well, they do, but, the data center will only route a /48. They were more than happy to setup RA on my VLAN, but
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While firewalls like OPNsense and pfSense are great, I’m not fond of them. While FreeBSD, the OS that OPNsense and pfSense are built on top of, is incredibly secure and stable, each of these firewalls are anything but lightweight. They run PHP as well as a web server to serve that PHP interface. These extras
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This is an argument I keep having with one person on Mastodon about the future of pfSense. As of this blog post, it’s been almost 1 year and 4 months since the last release of pfSense CE. Do you know what has happened in that time? Did you see that last one? PHP 7.4 went
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