Select an IP and an FQDN for Rancher UI and create and entry on your local DNS rancher.example.com 10.10.10.159 Load Balancer Use the ACME plugin in pfsense to request and add a certificate for rancher. Then we go to our pfsense and configure one more Virtual IP like we did in part 3 Click on …
pfsense is a free network firewall software with capabilities envied by its commercial counterparts. The load balancing mechanism is provided by a plugin called HAProxy In this configuration we have deployed two pfsense VMs, one on ESXi1 and one on ESXi2 and configured them in HA. On a previous part we made a note of …
Too many servers, too many equipment, too many logs to check. Better to consolidate them all in one location. Right? Splunk would be my first choice but it is quite expensive and the free tier of 500Mb is a joke. So I stumbled across Graylog . Graylog Open is free and you can install it …
DNS filtering is a nice security feature from Fortinet, provided of course that it works. As you can see in the screenshot below, the Fortiguard Rating servers are unreachable. Chances are, if you are running a small network or a home lab that your are using your Fortigate as a DNS server too and, since …
Yes, yes, I know, I am complaining about Fortinet again. Well, the previous post is months old, I just copied it from my previous site so I did not complain for some time now. A bit of a background I have a lab at home for testing, experimenting etc etc. At some point I …
So, a few days ago, I scheduled an upgrade of a Fortigate HA pair from 6.2.3 to 6.4.5. The task was to be performed remotely but the car was all fueled up, permission to access the premisses in case of trouble was given, the maintenance window was long enough, all images that I was going …