by wwarren | Jul 27, 2021 | Comcast, Firewalls
i ordered a block of 5 static ipv4 from Comcast. Of course they require us to use their modem/gateway device. AND it’s also a technicolor(known in the industry as technicrap). I almost rejected the install right there..and looking back, i should have. The...
by wwarren | Apr 7, 2021 | Annoucements, Firewalls, Hardware, Security, Security Alerts
I do work for another firm out in California and one of the biggest clients there suddenly found their guest network offline. When the firewall was attempted to be logged into all account credentials have either been changed or deleted..locking us out of the...
by wwarren | Jan 22, 2021 | Annoucements, FreeBSD, PFSense, Security
Right as I start building a firewall monitoring and configurations service…things change drastically. Luckily, as a smaller company I am able to be quite agile in responding. I had heard rumblings of something a couple of weeks ago…now those rumblings...
by wwarren | Dec 9, 2020 | Firewalls, Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Hosting, Linux, Open Source, PFSense
RedHat announces the death of CentOS. To quote the article: In the past, CentOS has been a community build of the current RHEL source, providing a robust production distro for those willing to do without Red Hat support. When RHEL gets a fix, the project aims to have...
by wwarren | Jan 24, 2020 | Firewalls, Security, Ubiquiti, Uncategorized, WIFI
This is a client that has become a very loyal client. For the longest time their network had no real segmentation. Their Cc machine was on the same network as the wifi guest network and all of them were on the same subnet as their main internal network. ...
by wwarren | Jun 25, 2019 | Firewalls, PFSense, Ubiquiti
Unifi is a great networking system. For less than a quarter of the price you can do most things with it that Meraki can…but no subscriptions. The gear mostly just works and it is very easy to setup. The Unifi firewalls do have some serious shortcomings:...
