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Policy Based Routing with Unifi, PIA, and pfSense: How I Route My IoT External Traffic through PIA VPN

Introduction In this post, I will show you how to use policy-based routing in Unifi to route specific traffic through a VPN client (I use Private Internet Access) on pfSense. This setup allows you to retain complete control of your devices and subnets via Unifi’s Network app while taking advantage of pfSense’s ability to host a VPN client. With this setup, I am getting my full ISP speeds on devices using a VPN for encryption. Depending on your hardware, you should be able to get full speeds as well. ...

November 7, 2022 · 6 min · Robert D. White
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How to Use pfSense and Unifi to Anonymize and Encrypt VLAN Tagged Traffic

#UPDATE 11/05/2022 Original post date: 2021-04-05 This update contains specific configuration options to use 4096 bit RSA keys, SHA256 Auth digest algorithm, and AES256 encryption. The original post used the default key length of 2048 from PIA, SHA1, and allowed for AES128. Throughout the post, I will tag updated information with #Update. Introduction This post aims to show you how to use pfSense within a Unifi network behind a Unifi Gateway [in my case, the gateway is the Unifi Dream Machine Pro (hereafter referred to as UDMP)]. I will explain my current network configuration including applicable subnets, VLANs, and wireless SSIDs needed to make this setup successful. The end goal is to be able to add a client on my Unifi network to a particular VLAN either by joining this client wirelessly to a particular SSID or by tagging the client’s physical port to that VLAN. This VLAN will be tied to a subnet that sends data through the pfSense machine which is acting as a VPN client (I use Private Internet Access). This method allows the UDMP to continue to act as the DHCP server for these clients while allowing pfSense to anonymize and encrypt the data of the clients in question. ...

November 5, 2022 · 11 min · Robert D. White
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Tails OS with Encrypted Persistence on Unraid as a VM

This post will show you how to run Tails OS as a VM with the Persistence feature enabled. Running Tails as a VM is not recommended generally as it defeats many of the security features in Tails. For example, virtualization requires that you trust the hypervisor host, as the hypervisor has extra privileges over a VM that can reduce security and privacy of the VM. I recommend reading Tails’s official documentation about virtualization considerations before continuing: https://tails.boum.org/doc/advanced_topics/virtualization/ ...

January 24, 2022 · 5 min · Robert D. White