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pc engine - pfsense as router / firewall

Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +1300

Just built a pfsense router on a pc engine to replace my aging 7390 fritzbox…. Very very awesome and fast!

Perfect for UFB (ultra fast broadband) here in New Zealand - FTTH has arrived :)

I’m currently running these services on it (2 x 1GHZ cpu, 4GB RAM, 16GB msata SSD);

dhcpd - DHCP server
miniupnpd - UPnP server
ntpd - NTP server
squid - Transparent Proxy & Reverse Proxy
snort - IDS (Intrusion Detection System) / IPS (Intrusion Prevention System)
ssd - SSH server
unbound - DNS Server
ipsec - IPsec VPN (site to site VPN)
openvpn - Open VPN (client VPN)

Check these links for some great advise…

Cisco - adding a static route to router

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1200

To show what routes your cisco router currently has loaded type the following command (from the enable prompt) ;

show ip route

To add any new static routes you need to use the following command (from the config terminal prompt) ;

ip route 10.10.20.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.100.1

the syntax as above is ip route network netmask gateway

Router on a stick - Adding VLANs to a cisco router

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +1300

Telnet to your cisco router, enable then go into config t. Passwords may be required depending on how it has been configured…

config t

Ensure that ip routing has been enabled…

ip routing

To create the VLAN adapter you’ll need to run the following commands to create a “router on a stick”… Note: the .2 after the interface name creates a virtual adapter on the interface.

interface FastEthernet1/1.2 description “VM Host Network” encapsulation dot1Q 2 ip address 172.25.2.1 255.255.255.0

Virtual Appliance - Virtual Router

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +1300

This is quite a handy app for creating small virtual routers. See the website for more detail… The commandline is similar to cisco - so its good for practice if you are going for your CCNA.

http://www.vyatta.com/products/virtualized.php

Oh - its open source and free!

I’m a bit lazy in most cases and just add a few virtual nics into my VM’s and do the routing though them. But some people may find this handy for a single point to manage networking.