Studied all your pfsense videos and took the plunge. Mini pc, managed switch and ubiquiti AP point and got the whole system working. Superb work Ed and without your videos I would not have taken this project on. Absolutely brilliant!! Please do continue to add more pfsense videos to the series.
I have been looking into pfSense a lot the past two weeks. Then, of course, you drop a video on how I could do this with my unRAID server. You're AWESOME Spaceinvader One. Thanks so much for taking time on these videos making it easy to follow and understand. Each of your videos has a nice edit, good audio, and purpose. Thanks to you I have really started pushing my unRAID server to do more and more, and it just blows me away. Oh. not to mention gave me a reason to build a second server for backups and testing.
Great video as always. Was thinking of looking into pfsense and your videos are the perfect way to do that. You got me hooked into unraid (built two servers now!) so I think the same will happen for pfsense. Keep up the excellent work!
Been wanting to make a VM pfSense on my unRaid machine for a long time now, but I lack the know-how. With this series, it looks like I'm finally going to be able to do it. Looking forward to it. Keep up the good work!
This is great. I love your tutorials with UnRaid and struggle a bit with PfSense. I would love a tutorial on how to setup a VLAN for my IOT devices and Sonos
Holy shit! I LOOOOOOOOOOVE pfSense. I think it is especially important, once you get there, to spend extra time on traffic shaping and OpenVPN stuff. With OpenVPN you have to focus a lot on DNS leaks since it is not immediately apparent there is a problem and when you do find out, it is even less apparent how to handle that. AWESOME! Very much so looking forward to this one. Great work!
Great Video! I would love to see a tutorial about setting up OpenVPN - booth in PfSense and also on the client side like Windows and Android. Keep up the good work!
Fantastic, Really looking forward to the next vid, this is exactly what I have been looking for. Especially to control access for my kids devices. The current router is a good one but simply cant do what I need! Thanks for the series!
Great idea for a series of videos. If possible, I'd like to see how pfSense can be used for parental control in a home network. My son goes crazy with Internet use and, as a concerned parent, I'd like a way to manage and monitor his usage until he's able to make mature decisions on his own.
I have a hardware based PFsense that is fully configured. Will be either consolidating my hardware OR adding a 2nd pfsense firewall VM in front of unraid / containers. thanks for doing the video. going to have to check of AES-NI passes through to a pfsense VM.
Great video as always! Really looking forward to the rest of the videos. I've been running pfSense plugged directly into Verizon for almost a year now and love it. Virtualized it almost 6 months ago. Thinking about setting up a second unRAID box to have a failover VM similar to how you have your physical VM there.
I've stumbled in the pfsense software recently and love it and find it exciting. I have known about firewall systems but assumed that was something for a business and not home use. If you see this comment my question would be - when I eventually place a firewall pc running pfsense in between my ISP cable box and private network, do I turn off (disable) the ISP cable modem firewall?
Love your videos. Thank you so much. You mentioned in your setup you have a simple switch to failover from your pfSense VM to the physical pfSense box. Do you cover that more? What kind of simple switch? Or would it be a hub? What configuration do you have to do?
Excellent series on setting up pfsense! I 'm wondering if you would consider making a video going over in detail how you setup and configured you backup physical pfsense box? I would like to do the same. Thanks!
@@SpaceinvaderOne Nice! I am also interested in that. It seems that a lot of folks do not recommend to run the router OS on the same machine as all the data / server. Any input is appreciated :)
Thank you for this series. I think its wonderful you are covering this. the audio in this video felt like you were in the background, like the Mic was too far away. Might suggest either boosting your audio input or moving closer to the mic.
I was trying to setup an ad block on the network with pfsense, but I didn't get to work. I started using PiHole for a bit only to see things blocked that I didn't want blocked... So I gave up. I can't wait for the tutorial for blocking ads :D
I love unraid but due to some issues with my hardware, network speed and availability of my type of Unraid array It made sense for me to start over with FreeNAS. It's going well so far but I really miss having the awesome Unraid community behind me. The Unraid community has alway been one of the best things about Unraid. Anyways what I'm hoping is that if/whenever possible you could show the similarities or reference the differences in installation methods when setting up a PfSense VM on these platforms.
Great Channel love the videos you put out i have been using pfSense for awhile now but very basic setup would really to see how to setup open VPN and allow things like netflix and gaming to bypass. Oh and the antivirus would be great every time i set that up could not surf so i just turned it off , really looking forward to this series and i use unRaid thx to you works great thanks again.
Ed, could you post more details on your VM,SFF setup please? I assume your script just boots the SFF on unRaid shutdown? Also what happens when VM returns to normal operation? Do you manually shut down the SFF?
I used pfSense on my old ADSL connection, but since I upgraded to VDSL (Fiber to the Cabinet, EE) it no longer works and I can't get an IP address from my ISP without double-nat and DHCP on my network, so it would be great if you could give detailed instructions on how to set up both the modem/ISP router and the pfSense WAN connection!
I have a pfSense box and a 10GbE switch to solve for the speed problem, although the hardware is expensive. I'd love to see you go into detail about pfSense's captive portal, and how I can use it to manage guest networks. I'd like to securely offer my guests Internet access without a password.
Thank you for great video series, would love to see the openvpn video where you show how to route different services, e.g. youtube/netflix/gaming does not use vpn, but browsing/iot/d/l does
hi. can you make a video with how you made you setup? i hear ina video that you have a backup pfsense server and a script to start it up if the main fail?
Hello, I am really trying to get my head around how to implement pfsense on unraid with a single port nic and a switch capable of vlans. Do you need to set up the vlans first then during the pfsense install base it on those
Id like to see guides for Suricata, firewall and port management, the best ways to keep all the malicious hackers and viruses away from my home network.
I'd love to see a way to allow only Netflix to bypass the VPN client rather than aliasing and setting a firewall rule for all the machines traffic to bypass the VPN (hope that makes sense)
What I do for BBC is create a BBC alias for all the BBC network ips, then create a lan rule using that alias redirecting any traffic from lan to WAN. You can do the same for Netflix and amazon as well. This way I dont have to worry about redirecting any clients and they still can use the vpn connection. i.imgur.com/MPrmeU4.png Not all the network ips are shown in image. i.imgur.com/rkAeNLu.png Lan rule
Already tried that, it doesn't work, needs every IP range to work these days, have tried the IP's from here: www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/21421/pia-vpn-neftlix-bypass-for-pfsense but alas they are only US & Canadian, if you have any info for UK based IP blocks that Netflix uses I'm all ears. Cheers.
I am really excited for this series. I've tried to use pfsense in the past by following other tutorials on RUclips and failed miserably. I have no doubts that your tutorial will be superior. Question: isn't security an issue when running pfsense as a VM on unraid?
I believe my modem binds to the 1st MAC it sees once powered up and would require reboot in order to re-bind. That said, how to do you get yours to change from one PC to another?
THIS i am dying to know how to resolve this issue, I followed setup to a T but modem requires a restart when switching between bare metal and VM have you figured this out ?
@@HaHussle I'm not sure what setup you have but I was running Proxmox OS with pfSense Container. Whenever I rebooted the PC, Proxmox would associate to the modem and pfSense wouldn't unless I rebooted the modem after pfSense was already running. I was able to resolve this but do not recall as I've since switched to unRAID, have passed through a quad port NIC to pfSense, so unRAID doesn't even see this NIC and cannot associate to the modem.
@@bugsysiegals I am currently running a very similar setup i am running unRAID with a pfsense VM quad nic passed through as well my second pfsense instance is baremetal install but he never goes into any specifics besides a user script of how he can bring down one instance and have the other pick up the traffic. when i bring down the VM baremetal will not have internet unless i restart the modem
HaHussle I believe he explained there’s a script which runs on shutdown and then does WOL to turn on the other instance. I believe he also provided the script. I don’t recall if it’s in another video or if it’s on the unRAID forum where he was answering questions about this video. I suspect you may also need to clone the MAC ID so they appear to be the same device. I know you can edit MAC ID in VM but not sure if that’s what the router sees or not. Let me know if you can’t find the info about the script.
@@bugsysiegals I found the script he mentioned a long time ago on the forums so thats no big but i was thinking of the mac cloning idea as well because otherwise how would your modem know to talk to that router unless you reset it
Hi there. Yes Unraid is an operating system that is used for storage with a raid like file system. It also allows the use of docker container and also VMS. So i made a vm version of pfSense for no other reason than just to make good use of resources. I myself use a physical pfSense machine and my vm pfsense I use as a failover that kicks in should the main one go down. hope this answers you question. Thanks for watching :)
I'm just wasting my time on internet without getting any results. I'm on unraid 6.8.0 and I tried PfSense but I have 0 network interface. I don't have any PCI-E NIC yet and I wanted to create a virtual network interface that uses the onboard NIC and passthrough that. Is it possible? I just have br0 and virbr0. I think virbr0 stands for VirtIO drivers which PfSense doesn't seem to work with. Any temprary solution?
I would really like to see how to config pfSense DMZ. My kids play games like Minecraft and Terraria and keep begging me to setup a gaming server for themselves and their friends. I refuse to do this on my local LAN, but would do so if I could figure out how to host a server in a DMZ that the local LAN and people from the Internet can access without exposing my local LAN. I currently have a pfSense router in use.
Do pfsense and pihole working together with more than 4 dns servers, I'm using like 12 with Google and opendns as the top ones. I currently have a quad port Intel NIC passed to my pfsense VM with three ports currently unused. I'm using the virtual 10GB lan interface to interface with my lan. On the lan interface I have another quad port nic going to 4 ports on the switch, in unraid I have load balancing set to ALB. When I get a managed switch I'll just run a single or dual 10GB link between the server and the switch.
Pfsense is great! But after forcing the AES-NI as a mandatory requirement they limited the hardware options to install it. For home usage no all of us need AES instructions.. I’m moving to Sophos or OPNSense.. Although I still love Pfsense and will keep it usage on other stuff..
I believe so as long as you don't need any additional LANs or VLANs. I currently have mine running on a quad NIC card, but am only using 2 of the ethernet controllers, one for WAN and one for LAN.
Studied all your pfsense videos and took the plunge. Mini pc, managed switch and ubiquiti AP point and got the whole system working. Superb work Ed and without your videos I would not have taken this project on. Absolutely brilliant!! Please do continue to add more pfsense videos to the series.
Well I must say I didn't know what pfSense was!
But I'm definitely going to give it a go!!! I love unRAID.
I have been looking into pfSense a lot the past two weeks. Then, of course, you drop a video on how I could do this with my unRAID server. You're AWESOME Spaceinvader One. Thanks so much for taking time on these videos making it easy to follow and understand. Each of your videos has a nice edit, good audio, and purpose. Thanks to you I have really started pushing my unRAID server to do more and more, and it just blows me away. Oh. not to mention gave me a reason to build a second server for backups and testing.
Great video as always. Was thinking of looking into pfsense and your videos are the perfect way to do that. You got me hooked into unraid (built two servers now!) so I think the same will happen for pfsense. Keep up the excellent work!
I've actually been eyeballing pfSense lately... Looks like this series will seal my deal! - Looking forward to it.
Been wanting to make a VM pfSense on my unRaid machine for a long time now, but I lack the know-how. With this series, it looks like I'm finally going to be able to do it. Looking forward to it. Keep up the good work!
Excited to begin this project next. I'll be closely watching for new videos. Thanks! Love this channel
This is great. I love your tutorials with UnRaid and struggle a bit with PfSense. I would love a tutorial on how to setup a VLAN for my IOT devices and Sonos
Holy shit! I LOOOOOOOOOOVE pfSense. I think it is especially important, once you get there, to spend extra time on traffic shaping and OpenVPN stuff. With OpenVPN you have to focus a lot on DNS leaks since it is not immediately apparent there is a problem and when you do find out, it is even less apparent how to handle that. AWESOME! Very much so looking forward to this one. Great work!
The Dom Deluise caricature @ 5:00 cracked me up because it was so unexpected. It's Captain Chaos!!
Great Video!
I would love to see a tutorial about setting up OpenVPN - booth in PfSense and also on the client side like Windows and Android.
Keep up the good work!
Great! Just on time. I am waiting for my Intel quad nic to arrive and set it up in an unraid VM. Congrats for choosing pfsense for this video!
This whole series is one of the best tutorials for PFSense out here... It finally helped me sort out VLANS and UPNP problems. Great job.
Yes Ed, loving it. I'm running. Pfsense on a APU2C4 but I don't maximize its use. Your videos will help.
Looking forward to the next video mate.
Very keen for these upcoming videos!
Will follow this series.
Using pfsense now but need to learn more.
You make the best tutorials! Thanks Spaceinvader!
can't wait for the the howto guide hope you put it out in next few days
earlier videos in a series are often under-loved and under-liked therefore I'm hitting a lie on this super useful intro too!
Hey, thank you Mistery Man, much appreciated :)
Fantastic, Really looking forward to the next vid, this is exactly what I have been looking for. Especially to control access for my kids devices. The current router is a good one but simply cant do what I need! Thanks for the series!
So happy to see this on my feed! Looking forward to seeing how to set up Squid proxy.
Great idea for a series of videos. If possible, I'd like to see how pfSense can be used for parental control in a home network. My son goes crazy with Internet use and, as a concerned parent, I'd like a way to manage and monitor his usage until he's able to make mature decisions on his own.
Also interested in this!
Or, you can enable bandwidth limits and let him be.
"I'm watching a video on internet privacy and how I can get my government's nose out of my business, but I really want to know how to spy on my kid."
I have a hardware based PFsense that is fully configured. Will be either consolidating my hardware OR adding a 2nd pfsense firewall VM in front of unraid / containers. thanks for doing the video. going to have to check of AES-NI passes through to a pfsense VM.
pFsense is the best! I've got a HA setup at home with multiple VLAN routing. It's rock solid.
Great video as always! Really looking forward to the rest of the videos. I've been running pfSense plugged directly into Verizon for almost a year now and love it. Virtualized it almost 6 months ago. Thinking about setting up a second unRAID box to have a failover VM similar to how you have your physical VM there.
Looking forward to the next part
Super keen for this series of videos :)
Great overview of pfSense man! Keep up the good work. Would love to see you cover some intrusion detection as well.
Nice job... great introduction and explanation... I love it... Tks again Spaceinvader...
I would like how to build and configure your redundant router configuration that you explained in this video, please.
Great topic and look forward to the series! Thank you
glad you liked it Matt :) Thanks for watching.
Great video brotha, thanks for your time and knowledge!
I've stumbled in the pfsense software recently and love it and find it exciting. I have known about firewall systems but assumed that was something for a business and not home use. If you see this comment my question would be - when I eventually place a firewall pc running pfsense in between my ISP cable box and private network, do I turn off (disable) the ISP cable modem firewall?
Love your videos. Thank you so much. You mentioned in your setup you have a simple switch to failover from your pfSense VM to the physical pfSense box. Do you cover that more? What kind of simple switch? Or would it be a hub? What configuration do you have to do?
Looking forward to this series of videos! Thank you!
+1 for a video on setting up snort ids
Excellent series on setting up pfsense! I 'm wondering if you would consider making a video going over in detail how you setup and configured you backup physical pfsense box? I would like to do the same. Thanks!
Great suggestion! I will add to my list as i am planning on making a few new pfSense videos in the near future :)
@@SpaceinvaderOne Nice! I am also interested in that. It seems that a lot of folks do not recommend to run the router OS on the same machine as all the data / server. Any input is appreciated :)
@@SpaceinvaderOne Awesome! Is this still a video you plan on making in the near future? 2022? Thanks!
@@SpaceinvaderOne Hey, just wondering if the physical failover setup video is available. Would like to try that config.
Thank you for this series. I think its wonderful you are covering this. the audio in this video felt like you were in the background, like the Mic was too far away. Might suggest either boosting your audio input or moving closer to the mic.
I was trying to setup an ad block on the network with pfsense, but I didn't get to work. I started using PiHole for a bit only to see things blocked that I didn't want blocked... So I gave up.
I can't wait for the tutorial for blocking ads :D
Nice ideas. Would love to see what's possible with pfsense.
waiting for the next video :) its really great, thanks!!
Snort vs Suricate comparison would also be nice and setting up Let's Encrypt
I love unraid but due to some issues with my hardware, network speed and availability of my type of Unraid array It made sense for me to start over with FreeNAS. It's going well so far but I really miss having the awesome Unraid community behind me. The Unraid community has alway been one of the best things about Unraid. Anyways what I'm hoping is that if/whenever possible you could show the similarities or reference the differences in installation methods when setting up a PfSense VM on these platforms.
This is cool, do you have any written tutorials/guides I can check out?
Great Channel love the videos you put out i have been using pfSense for awhile now but very basic setup would really to see how to setup open VPN and allow things like netflix and gaming to bypass. Oh and the antivirus would be great every time i set that up could not surf so i just turned it off , really looking forward to this series and i use unRaid thx to you works great thanks again.
Been waiting for you to do a pfSense video!! Could you do one on setting up Netflix to run though a VPN or VPN bypass? Keep up the good work!
Ed, could you post more details on your VM,SFF setup please?
I assume your script just boots the SFF on unRaid shutdown? Also what happens when VM returns to normal operation? Do you manually shut down the SFF?
@Spaceinvader One, How reliable is this in 2021? Thanks for your videos!!
Great video, thank you. I will just say, Alexa will never enter my home :)
I used pfSense on my old ADSL connection, but since I upgraded to VDSL (Fiber to the Cabinet, EE) it no longer works and I can't get an IP address from my ISP without double-nat and DHCP on my network, so it would be great if you could give detailed instructions on how to set up both the modem/ISP router and the pfSense WAN connection!
I have a pfSense box and a 10GbE switch to solve for the speed problem, although the hardware is expensive.
I'd love to see you go into detail about pfSense's captive portal, and how I can use it to manage guest networks. I'd like to securely offer my guests Internet access without a password.
THIS IS AWESOME!!!
What are you using for network hardware (Switches, WAPs, etc)?
Thank you for great video series, would love to see the openvpn video where you show how to route different services, e.g. youtube/netflix/gaming does not use vpn, but browsing/iot/d/l does
very nice video
Good job
pfsense 2.5 will not require AES-NI anymore. They changed plans on that.
Would you consider a P2V series including creation of a rescue iso, importation of the required disc image, etc?
Hello. When a tutorial on setting up OpenVPN on pfSense and multiple clients!
Is it possible you make a video for Opnsense on Unraid server?
Would be very nice
Thanks for your Content.
hi. can you make a video with how you made you setup? i hear ina video that you have a backup pfsense server and a script to start it up if the main fail?
Hi yes i will be making some more videos on pfsense shortly. :)
Do you think you will cover the reverse proxy feature when you cover squid proxy?
You should do a guide for grafana with influxdb and how to set it up to collect different data
Hello, I am really trying to get my head around how to implement pfsense on unraid with a single port nic and a switch capable of vlans. Do you need to set up the vlans first then during the pfsense install base it on those
Id like to see guides for Suricata, firewall and port management, the best ways to keep all the malicious hackers and viruses away from my home network.
I'd love to see a way to allow only Netflix to bypass the VPN client rather than aliasing and setting a firewall rule for all the machines traffic to bypass the VPN (hope that makes sense)
What I do for BBC is create a BBC alias for all the BBC network ips, then create a lan rule using that alias redirecting any traffic from lan to WAN. You can do the same for Netflix and amazon as well. This way I dont have to worry about redirecting any clients and they still can use the vpn connection.
i.imgur.com/MPrmeU4.png Not all the network ips are shown in image.
i.imgur.com/rkAeNLu.png Lan rule
Kevin Price if only it were that easy for Netflix
I just found a post easily with google of someone doing what I do with Netflix forum.level1techs.com/t/pfsense-pia-vpn-and-netflix/123277/3
Already tried that, it doesn't work, needs every IP range to work these days, have tried the IP's from here: www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/21421/pia-vpn-neftlix-bypass-for-pfsense but alas they are only US & Canadian, if you have any info for UK based IP blocks that Netflix uses I'm all ears. Cheers.
I am really excited for this series. I've tried to use pfsense in the past by following other tutorials on RUclips and failed miserably. I have no doubts that your tutorial will be superior.
Question: isn't security an issue when running pfsense as a VM on unraid?
So Im new to Unraid ....Do i use pfsense alongside Pihole or do I use one or the other? Cheers.
Can you explain how to use pfsence to block youtube ads on home network?
Please include how you connect remotely using pf sense . And plex remotely through vpn
I believe my modem binds to the 1st MAC it sees once powered up and would require reboot in order to re-bind. That said, how to do you get yours to change from one PC to another?
THIS i am dying to know how to resolve this issue, I followed setup to a T but modem requires a restart when switching between bare metal and VM have you figured this out ?
@@HaHussle I'm not sure what setup you have but I was running Proxmox OS with pfSense Container. Whenever I rebooted the PC, Proxmox would associate to the modem and pfSense wouldn't unless I rebooted the modem after pfSense was already running. I was able to resolve this but do not recall as I've since switched to unRAID, have passed through a quad port NIC to pfSense, so unRAID doesn't even see this NIC and cannot associate to the modem.
@@bugsysiegals I am currently running a very similar setup i am running unRAID with a pfsense VM quad nic passed through as well my second pfsense instance is baremetal install but he never goes into any specifics besides a user script of how he can bring down one instance and have the other pick up the traffic. when i bring down the VM baremetal will not have internet unless i restart the modem
HaHussle I believe he explained there’s a script which runs on shutdown and then does WOL to turn on the other instance. I believe he also provided the script. I don’t recall if it’s in another video or if it’s on the unRAID forum where he was answering questions about this video. I suspect you may also need to clone the MAC ID so they appear to be the same device. I know you can edit MAC ID in VM but not sure if that’s what the router sees or not. Let me know if you can’t find the info about the script.
@@bugsysiegals I found the script he mentioned a long time ago on the forums so thats no big but i was thinking of the mac cloning idea as well because otherwise how would your modem know to talk to that router unless you reset it
May I ask a humble question? As far as I know, RAID is something that deals with storage, so why have you installed the PfSense VM on the RAID server?
Hi there. Yes Unraid is an operating system that is used for storage with a raid like file system. It also allows the use of docker container and also VMS. So i made a vm version of pfSense for no other reason than just to make good use of resources. I myself use a physical pfSense machine and my vm pfsense I use as a failover that kicks in should the main one go down. hope this answers you question. Thanks for watching :)
I'm just wasting my time on internet without getting any results. I'm on unraid 6.8.0 and I tried PfSense but I have 0 network interface. I don't have any PCI-E NIC yet and I wanted to create a virtual network interface that uses the onboard NIC and passthrough that. Is it possible? I just have br0 and virbr0. I think virbr0 stands for VirtIO drivers which PfSense doesn't seem to work with. Any temprary solution?
Please include information on configuring WiFi through pFsense.
really easy i use unfi access points check them out on amazon
Anyway to go over and test dual wan loadbalancing?
I would really like to see how to config pfSense DMZ. My kids play games like Minecraft and Terraria and keep begging me to setup a gaming server for themselves and their friends. I refuse to do this on my local LAN, but would do so if I could figure out how to host a server in a DMZ that the local LAN and people from the Internet can access without exposing my local LAN. I currently have a pfSense router in use.
Also interested in this!
can you make a tutorial about using unraid server pinter server?
Do pfsense and pihole working together with more than 4 dns servers, I'm using like 12 with Google and opendns as the top ones.
I currently have a quad port Intel NIC passed to my pfsense VM with three ports currently unused. I'm using the virtual 10GB lan interface to interface with my lan.
On the lan interface I have another quad port nic going to 4 ports on the switch, in unraid I have load balancing set to ALB.
When I get a managed switch I'll just run a single or dual 10GB link between the server and the switch.
Annabella Williams Why would you bother with PiHole? pfSense already has the functionality of PiHole through pfBlocker
OPNsense?
Whats your take on that?
Pfsense is great! But after forcing the AES-NI as a mandatory requirement they limited the hardware options to install it. For home usage no all of us need AES instructions.. I’m moving to Sophos or OPNSense.. Although I still love Pfsense and will keep it usage on other stuff..
is it possible to run pfsense with only two NICs ? one in and one out
I believe so as long as you don't need any additional LANs or VLANs. I currently have mine running on a quad NIC card, but am only using 2 of the ethernet controllers, one for WAN and one for LAN.
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Great, thankyou Andy.,
I dint know i needed a router on my server. Now i need a router on my server
Captain Chaos send me