• Configuring pfSense to access a bridged modem

    This primarily applies to CenturyLink’s (and BrightSpeed’s) array of modems, including Actiontec, Zyxel, Greenwave, and who knows whatever else they decide to provide. This tutorial may function for non-CenturyLink modems that support bridging or some form of transparent bridging. Most of the leg work for this tutorial takes place on pfSense.

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  • CenturyLink & IPV6 with pfSense 2.4+

    Over the years, IPv6 has been on the up and up in terms of implementation and usage. pfSense has had native IPv6 support since the 2.x series, unfortunately, CenturyLink’s IPv6 implementation has been riddled with ‘fun road bumps’ along the way – be it downtime, slowness, among other fun routing issues observed. CenturyLink (as of early 2020) still does not provide static IPv6 allocations to Fiber or DSL customers – it still remains as DHCP (of sorts). Before you continue onward with this article, please keep in mind the following… Your DSL Modem is in ‘bridge mode’ and NOT ‘routing mode’. Your pfSense install is 2.4.x or newer. You are aware of the CenturyLink region that you’re in. As some regions do not require the VLAN 201 tag on WAN port! I’ll

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  • Windows 10 NIC Teaming and PowerShell

    In recent months (as of this post), Microsoft decided to apparently cripple the UI panels for Teaming, VLANS, and a few other options in the Network Interface properties tab section. On update 1903 of Windows 10 Pro, this was very much so the case – no UI, but only PowerShell commands.

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  • UniFi Guest Network with pfSense

    A starter’s guide to getting UniFi’s guest network functional with a pfSense installation. pfSense in its own regard is an amazing piece of software that works just about on any combination of hardware… only just that its WiFi support (as of June 2019) is rather limited. Which is where Ubiquiti’s UniFi software and line of hardware come into the mix. This article assumes that you… Have full admin rights to both pfSense and UniFi GUI panels. Amazingly, no need for a terminal window! Know your way around both pfSense and UniFi’s control panels. Dedicated running UniFi machine/instance for the UniFi controller. I run my UniFi on its own dedicated VM. The CloudKey should also function for this. This is required for the hotspot manager! Have a decent understanding of the hotspot manager

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