Configuring pfSense for Google Fiber

UPDATE (September 08, 2018): According to a post by an anonymous writer in the Google Fiber sub-reddit, VLAN and QoS will no longer needed to be configured for Internet-only customers beginning sometime in October 2018. This should mean any router can be plugged in and it should work (though I…

SCP Error in pfSense

This isn’t a homelab entry, per se. This is just a note to say the following: If you’re trying to use scp to transfer a file to a pfSense host and it’s failing with the error “Illegal option -t” then you need to use the root account for the remote…

Virtualizing pfSense in ESXi 6.5

Pardon the interruption. Once I got things up and running in my last post I got a little carried away with getting things up and running. I think it’s a good time to take a break to catch up on things here. Like so many homelabs these days, mine begins with…