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pfSense is an open source firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD. It is installed on a computer to make a dedicated firewall/router for a network and is known for its reliability and high-grade features.

pfSense is an open source firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD. It is installed on a computer to make a dedicated firewall/router for a network and is known for its reliability and high-grade features (Web GUI, VPN, multi-resolvers, multi-WAN, packet scrubbing, ...).

It is a fork of m0n0wall and it is mainly focused on full PC installations, as opposed to m0n0wall being focus on embedded hardware.

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Why does *BSD uses driver specific names for network interfaces? Does it imply limitations?

I notice that depending on the brand of the network card, interface names differ (driver dependent I suppose). Why does *BSD uses driver specific names for network interfaces? Does it mean there is no abstraction layer describing "a generic network…
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Find out what /dev/cuaU maps to?

I have an USB 3G modem (Huawei E353-u2) on pfSense 2.0.2 (which is based on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13), it seems to create 2 /dev/cuaU devices: /dev/cuaU0.0 /dev/cuaU0.3 1) Why are there 2 devices? Is one of them maybe the usb mass storage of the…
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Invalid multicast interface

I am trying to use ping with specified interface with a command ping -I re3 192.168.1.1 I know re3 exists from ifconfig re3: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 …
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Expanding the disk size on pfsense under VMWare ESXi

I've been testing pfsense on ESXi for a while. And now I'm almost running out of space. Currently it holds around 30GB and I would like to expand it to 150GB as I'm planning on installing squid for caching. So far what I did is; Tried to expand the…
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Increasing disk size on FreeBSD 11.2 (pfSense | ESXi)

I tried to use this link to solve my problem but to no avail; Expanding the disk size on pfsense under VMWare ESXi. I'm using pfSense and I wish to increase the disk drive from 11 GB to 200 GB. Steps followed: View the initial partition sizes: #…
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How can I fix an overlapped FreeBSD/UFS partition?

I have a Seagate 1TB Drive [ST1000LM010-9YH146] which had one FreeBSD slice and was formatted as UFS and mounted at /home on a pfsense box. While changing some hardware around, the drive was inadvertently was plugged into a FreeAgent GoFlex cable…
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grep entire filesystem blocks on devices

Command grep -rHinF --colour=always -e "aa:aa:aa:aa" / Output grep: /dev/geom.ctl: Operation not supported by device grep: /dev/devctl: Device busy It seems that grep can not proceed because it is waiting for a device. How can I skip such devices?
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pfsense: blocking a 2nd DHCP server

In my LAN I am using a PFSense server with one DHCP server on it. I need to block a second DHCP server showing up in my LAN. I think I can use the PfSense firewall to refuse the other DHCP server IP address. What should I do?
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Install man on FreeBSD 10.1 based pfsense 2.2

I'm running a pfsense 2.2 router. While not required most of the time, sometimes using the console is the way to go. Unfortunately pfsense doesn't come with /usr/bin/man I was able to run pkg pkg update though. Is there some way to install "man"…
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How to measure network traffic (with pfSense/freeBSD)?

Is it possible to measure network traffic (per month, per WAN, per direction) with pfSense/freeBSD? There are following programs listed https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/How_can_I_monitor_bandwidth_usage but neither seems to work normally for me.…
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Is it possible to implement IPSec with failover between one pfSense firewall and Amazon VPC (no BGP)

I'm trying to create a VPN connexion between my firewall (a pfsense 2.0.1) and my Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Amazon provides two peers endpoints to mount two IPsec tunnels on the same VPC. At this moment, I'm able to mount an IPSec tunnel…
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How do I set up a OpenVPN server on pfsense

How do I set up a OpenVPN server on pfsense? I want to be able to VPN in from a labptop when I am on the road. I set up a openvpn server in the openvpn menu. I duplicated that NAT rules for the VPN server. I tried opening the fire wall ports. I…
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Port Forwarding over VPN link cloud VPS (To bypass CG-NAT)

I have a radio setup on a 4G connection that utilises CG-NAT. This means I am unable to access the radio remotely using the supplied remote software. To get around this I have setup a cloud VPS wireguard server and have a pfsense router local to the…
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How to fix my partition after mistaken gpart bootcode?

I was trying to make my HDD bootable and did gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i1 ada0s1 and now I got "Invalid partition" message on boot. /boot was from USB drive, not from HDD (which is ada0s1). Is it possible to restore partition…
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how to re-spin usb .img file to use a different bootloader?

I have a bit of a strange use-case, and after searching for 3 days, I am no closer than I started. So my goal is to install pfSense (freebsd based), onto a Beelink Z83-II. The only problem is that it is a 64bit cpu, for a 64bit OS, with a 32bit…
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