Category: pfSense

Take a look on your status dashboard. SafeXcel require choosing the appropriate module under System > Advanced on the Miscellaneous tab. Choose the appropriate module to match the hardware for Cryptographic Hardware and then Save. The module will be loaded and available immediately. This is not activated by default. Now we have hardware acceleration for… Continue reading Cryptographic accelerator Netgate 1100

Remember to activate auto backup this is a free service for pfSense. Remember to write down your password and also your device see you can see under “Backup now”. I have now 10 backups to keep and pfSense will automatic take backups on my changes. You can still make a manual backup and download this… Continue reading Auto backup pfSense

The service watchdog monitor your services in pfSense and can auto start them again. You will get informed with an mail so you know what is happen. Services will be monitored so that they may be automatically restarted if they crash or are stopped

I think it is nice to have arpwatch active in pfSense this did not take much performance and you will get an mail when new devices connect to your network. This package contains tools that monitors ethernet activity and maintains a database of ethernet/ip address pairings. It also reports certain changes via email. Enable arpwatch,… Continue reading Arpwatch in pfSense

Updating to pfBlockerNG-devel 3.1.0_1 on pfSense version 22.01. And yes IP blocking is working – but the logs for IP blocking are not working after this update. DNSBL is working and have no problems. Here how to fix this. Enable SSH on your pfSense box and use this command to fix the ip log problem.… Continue reading Pfsense IP block log not working