Questions tagged [pfsense-2]
pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution.
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connect two private network using pfsense
I have two pfenses (say p1 and p2) in two separate networks. Each has a public IP. There is an internal network on each side (say n1 and n2). I want to connect these two networks through these two ...
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How to solve high ping "spikes" to pfSense when ipSec connections are active?
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We have latency/freeze problems with our pfSense. To be able to answer the question i will first give some general background information:
We run pfSense V2.6.0 on following ...
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Can pfSense do routing or port forwarding based on DNS name?
Currently our network looks like this:
The issue is that OpenVPN Access Server does not support working behind a proxy server so some features are currently not working. As we only have 1 external IP ...
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Access IPSec site from another IPSec site
Our company delivers, installs and maintains custom build hardware at customer sites. In all cases the delivered setup contains at least 1 server and 2 network devices. To keep the control over the ...
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Is it possible to setup IPsec behind NAT without port forwarding?
We want to setup a IPsec connection between customer sites and our office so we can manage the hardware we place at customer sites (e.g. barriers). Its important that the VPN connection stays up all ...
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How Does a Firewall (pfSense) Check Packets Against Rules
For packet rule testing, legacy 5 tuple based techniques employ decision tree, decomposition or hardware (usually TCAM) based approaches. What specific technique do pfSense firewalls employ to test ...
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Why can't i reach devices in the other network?
I have 2 networks and want to connect them with each other. It should be possible that all devices in network A can communicate with devices on network B and other way round. 1 network is "managed" by ...
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How to setup OpenVPN to PFsense? [closed]
How to setup OpenVPN to PFsense?
My OpenVPN server used Angristan Openvpn-install, so I need to add there 3 lines to
Advanced Configuration -> Custom options
tls-client
tls-version-min 1.2
tls-...
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What does "delta" stand for in arpwatch?
I've just set up Arpwatch on my pfSense machine and started getting emails about flip flops in my network. As the network is quite big, I understand that the flip flops indicate that a certain IP-...
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Issues trunking VLANs from pfSense to Cisco switch
I am currently using an old desktop with a dual port PCI NIC as a pfSense router. Interface em0 is assigned to the WAN interface, and em1 is assigned to the LAN interface, as well as 3 VLAN interfaces ...
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Limit the bandwidth for microsoft windows updates with pfsense
In our infrastructure we have no WSUS installed so when microsoft pushes new updates all our computers start excessive downloads, we use pfsense and as I am new to it, I need an advise how can I limit ...
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Issues with port forwarding with Layer 3 switch [closed]
Since I have upgrade my switch, I have been experiencing issues with port forwarding on my pfSense gateway. I have done some researching on google, but didn't come to any conclusive results.
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Is it possible to create an offline VLAN?
I currently setting up my home network with a Dell PowerEdge R300 running pfSense as my router and a Cisco Catalyst 3560G switch. In the end I want to have two separate networks, one that is connected ...
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pfSense Web UI not showing Dynamic DNS IP address
I'm running pfSense 2.2.6-RELEASE and have configured two DynDNS providers: no-ip.biz and nsupdate.info.
(I added the latter since no-ip.biz started nagging that I need to log in every 30 days and ...
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pfSense update page (and/or regular web pages) not loading properly
Some weeks ago I installed pfSense on one of these boards, it has been working well, but today weird things started to happen.
Webpages did not load properly, but only specific elements fail (date ...
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pfSense 2.3 How to setup each Lan traffic goes only over specific gateway
I am running a pfSense 2.3 box with 4 NICs. Now i have 2 different ISPs (one Cable & one DSL). How Can i configure, that all traffic from LAN1 goes ONLY over WAN1, and all traffic from LAN2 goes ...
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Pfsense with WAN (NIC 1) and routing between two networks(NIC 2 and 3)
I have a server with three NICs running PfSense. The first NIC connects to my ISP, the second NIC connects to local computers in my office (LAN-1). For the third NIC(LAN-2), i have connected it to a ...
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Limit Internal LAN Traffic and Internet Traffic - Managed Switch?
I have a small business network (192.168.10.x/24) with a pfSense firewall (about 20 hosts: mix of Windows, Macs and Linux machines and printers...). The ISP modem from the WWW connects to the firewall ...
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Configure pfSense to not give 'potential DNS rebind attack detected' warning for local server
I am needing to access a local LEMP server through its domain name for a PHP package that uses domain names in every link, making IP address usage not possible for this application.
I can access the ...
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pfSense multi-wan Bridge, NAT, Load balancing and CARP
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I currently have :
1 pfSense 2.0.2 router (on a Firebox X-Peak X5000)
2 WAN
1 LAN
3 Servers
My interfaces
WAN1 68.XX.XXX.98 to 69.XX.XXX.102
WAN2 65.XXX.XXX.58 to 66.XXX.XXX.62
LAN 192.168....
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