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OpenVPN Performance Overview Depending on individual use cases, different hardware firewalls may be useful for different types of network applications and as such, Protectli offers different hardware with varying capabilities. Frequently, it is useful for a customer to know the performance characteristics of specific hardware before making a decision to purchase. This article aims to […]
pfSense IPSec VPN Performance Overview Depending on individual use cases, different hardware firewalls may be useful for different types of network applications and as such, Protectli offers different hardware with varying capabilities. Frequently, it is useful for a customer to know the performance characteristics of specific hardware before making a decision to purchase. This article […]
pfSense® CE Configuration Recommendations Overview pfSense® CE is an open source routing and firewall software which is based on FreeBSD. An article covering installation can be found at this link. This article offers some basic recommendations to configure pfSense® CE on the Vault. Some of these recommendations had been in other articles, but for ease […]
How to Configure pfSense® CE for 4G LTE Failover pfSense® CE is an open source routing and firewall software which is based on FreeBSD. It has a variety of packages easily downloaded and configurable within the GUI itself. https://www.pfsense.org/getting-started/ There are multiple articles regarding pfSense® CE on the Protectli Knowledge Base at this link. This […]
Overview pfBlockerNG is a very powerful package for pfSense® which provides advertisement and malicious content blocking along with geo-blocking capabilities. Installing pfBlockerNG Access the pfSense WebGUI (default 192.168.1.1) Click on the System tab, then Package Manager From the Package Manager menu select the Available Packages tab Scroll down and find pfBlockerNG-devel and click Install Verify […]
Overview This article covers how to enable a LAN bridge in pfSense®. LAN bridge act as a switch using the optional ports on the Vault. While not optimal compared to using a separate physical switch, it works if needed. Note: If the port being used for the web interface is added to the bridge, then […]
Overview This article covers how to enable the Vaults optional ports in pfSense®. We have included configuration files in the table at the bottom of the page. These configuration files have the ports assigned and functioning with default firewall rules and DHCP enabled. Note: These configuration files have the default admin password retained. The additional […]
Overview: Install pfSense® CE pfSense® CE is an open source routing and firewall software which is based on FreeBSD. It has a variety of packages easily downloaded and configurable within the GUI itself. https://www.pfsense.org/getting-started/ Note: pfSense® CE is open source software developed for the benefit of the community. If you are using pfSense® CE with […]