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I keep going back to pfSense it seems. Background info: my company has been doing a company-wide infrastructure refresh, and one of the “victims” was an old Alcatel-Lucent (Aruba) AP-115, which I took home with me. Therefore, it needs a project. What better than to modify Internet-in-a-Box further? Sounds like a plan to me! The ... Read More

I had today off for an appointment this morning, so I spent the afternoon getting WireGuard configured on the USG in place of an IPsec tunnel. It took be a little while and some futzing with the JSON, but I have it online and that network is reachable from both the DC and my home ... Read More

As people keep talking about WireGuard support in pfSense once it hits the FreeBSD kernel, I decided to do a quick Google at work to see if the USG-3 can do it: turns out the answer is yes, which solves the VPN issue. It should be speedier than IPsec anyway, so it’ll allow access to ... Read More

Writing this tonight to say that yes, we have a functional UniFi stack! I’d picked up a US-8-60W from Staples’ online store the other day as it was on sale, and it came in yesterday. I had some time tonight, so I reset the USG-3, dug out an old UAP-AC-LR which I reset, and set ... Read More

I had a thought the other day. I have a Ubiquiti UniFi Security Gateway that is not being used, as well as a UniFi AP: why not get a slightly larger Pelican case, that will still fit in my larger suitcase, and set that up, with one of their switches to power the AP and ... Read More

I hooked the hAP ac Lite back up today to work on getting it set up with the IPsec tunnel again. However, so far it’s giving me a little bit of trouble. I almost want to see if I can get back into the data center so I can put the SG-3100 in in place ... Read More

Proxicast updated the PocketPORT 2’s firmware to officially support the USB800, so I updated mine, factory reset it, plugged the USB800 in, and it came up without any issues. What a neat little device that solves so many problems! Anyway, I’ve still not decided on what to use going forward, but I am definitely leaning ... Read More

It works! We’re set with a replacement for the AF23 to use with the USB800. Big props to their support for getting back to me quickly after hours! The biggest question now is: what device do we use? Since I’m planning on having the USB800 as the primary connection, it really means, well, whichever we ... Read More

The aircard seems to be working fine with pfSense despite being, well, a little fussy: it’s fussy enough that I’ve got a Proxicast PocketPort 2 on order. This little jewel is powered by Micro-USB and converts a USB aircard to 10/100 Ethernet. It supports the Verizon equivalent of the USB800, so I should be good ... Read More

I went back to pfSense for my home firewall since soon I will have AT&T Fiber and need to do the bypass trick, so I decided to see if I could figure out how to get the USB800 working which actually took not much effort. I plugged it into the MicroPC and enabled the AT ... Read More