Recover information when pfsense router doesn’t boot

In this entry I'm going to explain how I could recover information from my router (APU1D4) when router doesn't boot. Since a couple of days I get this error message booting device: elf64_loadimage: failed to read section headers I have to say that I had installed pfSense 2.4.2-RELEASE on my router, this distribution is based …

Hardening SSH connections on pfSense

This is a quick entry to explain how to use a low privileged user just to create a SSH tunnel (port forwarding) to access remotely to some internal service in your infrastructure. Considering these settings, let's create the user from command line on Pfsense (which is based on FreeBSD): [2.4.2-RELEASE][root@pf.acme.local]/root: adduser Username: dude Full name: …

Install and setup my LAN with pfSense v2.4.2

Much time after I bought my APU1D4 I could install pfSense on it and I'd like to share some notes about this process with you. Let's start with router hardware specifications: APU1D4 specifications Mainboard: APU ALIX Engines APU.1D4CPU: 1 GHz AMD G-Series T40E APU Dual coreRAM: 4GB DDR3Network: 3 x 1 Gbps Ethernet portsWirelessCompex WLE200NX …