How to install and configure pFSense on Hyper-V

I have done pFSense installation and configuration guide 4 years ago and people are still interested in those. Today we will quickly go through the installation and initial configuration process. It has change a little bit, and is nothing complicated in my opinion. I still use a lot pFSense especially in my LAB environments – it has become standard for me.

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Mount Windows file share in Ubuntu

Doing windows file share mount through Nautilus (GUI) is great, but I find it much more convenient to do it through shell.

Mostly because if you wish to save something to these smb mounts, you could have hard time finding location of the smb file share mount. Currently (Ubuntu 20.04) Nautilus mounts file shares in /run/user/1000/gvfs…

Not every app will be able to access that path.

So, let’s do it through shell.

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VMs in Proxmox slow internet speed

This one left me puzzled for some time after I started with Proxmox. Hint – this will solve your problem if you are running pFsense inside Proxmox. So, if you don’t have pFsense in your Proxmox installation through which your VMs go to internet – this guide will not help you :(

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