My pfSense Setup - VLANs, VPN, Firewall, DHCP

I actually woke up with that thought "i need to figure out how to setup my pfsense" lmao, thank you for the video

Great guide!

hi
can you pls tel me how to configure secondary wan configuration

NO I NEVER HAVE. YES, it is very very weird

"Limit your guest to 10Kbit/s, and then they'll want to go home.........perfect!" haha, a man after my own heart

Great video. Long time pfSense user here. Any reason you are using Pi-Hole over pfBlockerNG? Same functions just built straight into Resolver and you can turn off forwarding by eliminating the Pi-Hole.

I'd like to know how you connect your Macbook to the box and use the screen and keyboard as input. Do you have a video on that?

I too have issues with the DNS resolver / Unbound in pfSense. I had to turn on the forward option to disable the direct pull of DNS from root domains. It seems to happen more on AT&T internet services (VSDL/Fiber) one part is a connection with no response from the root servers filling up the NAT table in their service gateways. The NVG 589 for example only has 4k entries even if you use passthrough it still takes a session from the box. I saw really bad issues when my State Table in the pfSense box go near 4k entries and 1/2 of them were requests from my DNS with no response. I don't know if AT&T is blocking or there is something with the IP passthough since there is no native bridge mode in AT&T equipment.

Hello Sir, can I get your personal email or any form of communication channel to discuss a challenge am facing with pfsense for your help?

How to create openvpn in pfsense and restrict my openvpn users to allow access to only specific ip? Please share how i can do this

Hi, thank you for this info. All these firewall rules are related to interVLAN communication. But what about rules for incoming traffic? Is pfsense having a standard set of rules for this. Is everything closed? Bit confused about this.

That intro tho hahahahaha

I just "discovered" your channel - super nice. I don't use pfsense but opnsense - but 90% is the same - just "vertical" instead of "horizontal" menu ;-)

Do you recommend this for a 10g network?

I'm currently use pfSense but having issue with port forwarding sume of game..

I just recently had that specify gateway issue...I reworked my openvpn clients (NordVPN) and for some reason my two vlans completely stopped working. Banged my head into the wall for two days before I came across that specify gateway option in my "allow all" rule for the vlan, figured since I had tried everything else I would set it for my WAN gateway and everything started working again. Been set up for a few years now without issue but something in setting up a NordVPN client again caused the issue, I guess something to do with the Nord gateway even though the WAN gateway is set as the default. I'm glad to see that this isn't only a ME issue, so I'm not feeling crazy haha.

great video thank you. how do you tell a device what vlan you want it to go on please say your setting up a alexa device

I've also had a pfSense firewall for years, right behind my provider router. They only see my phones and a single device, my firewall 😉

Is there a network simulation tool which I can use to first build a simulation for my homelab network and test before actually implementing it. May be something like cisco packet tracer but with the ability to use pfsense etc

You roll out pfsense to clients?