This is an issue that no doubt has brought many people to look at OPNsense again or for the first time. WireGuard has enjoyed increasing popularity in the last year or so. Due to its stateless nature it performs really well on mobile devices that may switch between LTE, 5G, WiFi networks. There is no … Read More
Round 1 – WireGuard. Tally: OPNsense 1 : pfSense 0 Round 2 – OpenVPN. Tally: OPNsense 1 : pfSense 1 Round 3 – Backups. Tally: OPNsense 2 : pfSense 1 Round 4 – GUI. Tally: OPNsense 3 : pfSense 1 Round 5 – BGP Routing. Tally: OPNsense 3 : pfSense 2 Round 6 – Notifications. … Read More
This is like an Apple vs. Microsoft / BMW vs. Mercedes / Coke vs. Pepsi thing. First off let me clarify I am by default in the pfSense camp. We used their hardware and software at my old job, we are using some in my current job and when I moonlight as a consultant I … Read More
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/vpn/wireguard/index.html It is happening!
What: You pulled a docker container that does ACME / Letsencrypt automagically for you but does not allow for DNS validation. You use CSF and you do not want port 80 exposed to random sources. Why: Because CSF rocks 🙂 You might be hosting an application that only needs to be accessible by an ACL … Read More
What ? We want Wireguard clients to connect to a middleman box that will route out to the internet via an OpenVPN client. Why ? Some of our sites have poor performance to the OpenVPN server. Wireguard clients are more seamless and battery/resource saving on mobile devices. We have a Wireguard server in a datacenter … Read More
As I have speculated a while ago Netgate are releasing the SG-2100! I am excited! The store page is up now. Not sure when they plan to ship but an announcement should be imminent.
It seems the rumors were true! Netgate are teasing a new device in. Presumably beefier than the entry-level SG-1100 but less pricey than the SG-3100 ? We will find out soon. Leaked Netgate pfSense SG-2100 specs: • CPU: Marvell Armada 3720 (88F3720) ARMv8-A 64-bit Cortex A53 @ 1.2GHz with NEON SIMD and FPU • CPU … Read More
-bash: /usr/bin/jq: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error (23) Failed writing body Windows Defender and a bunch of other AV engines currently claim that the jq binary from the official Ubuntu Focal repository is malware. Several reports to Microsoft have fallen on deaf ears. It will quarantine jq and attempts to execute it will … Read More
-bash: /usr/bin/jq: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error (23) Failed writing body Windows 10 20.04 build 19041.450 Security Intelligence Version 1.321.1943.0 False positive. Detects signed jq bin from Ubuntu focal repo as Trojan:Win32/Casdet!rfn Edit: Several other AV Engines also hit on it. Edit 25 Aug 2020: Microsoft accepted false positive report and “fixed” it … Read More