pfSesne being based on FreeBSD, it always had FreeBSD darling VI installed in it. So if you ever need to modify anything over SSH, you will end up using VI as editor. Now, if there is anything… I always have loved to learn new stuff but VI is on another level when it comes to
Author: Gaurang
First thing I would like to write is a question .... Why the hack people write their bio in 3rd person ?
I am Gaurang. I work as DBA / DEV for local company in CT. When I am not working, I am either reading other blogs n news OR "researching" / "experimenting" about things that I can do at home / at work OR tinkering with some new hardware/software OR playing games on my desktop.
If you ever wanted to contact me, I can be reached by meATgaurangpatel.net
Curious case of pfSense
So after my last not-so great experience with prosumer grade stuff, I dwelled more deeper into depth of Router/Firewall OS. After spending some time reading, I decided to give pfSense a try. And it has been working fine for me for a while. There are many things to learn and possibilities are limitless (along with
pfSense – my new choice of router
After my not so great experience with prosumer grade router UDM, I got more curious and tried to look for alternative of that. And I found that there are more than few options available… some of which are open source and free. Among them pfSense was seem to be popular and offered similar feature with
My close encounter with another kind … another kind of Router that is
Well… as title says this post is about my experince with new shiney toy that I tried from Unify called Unify Dream Machine. Story goes like this… I have decent enough internet connection that gets me 200 Mbps downstream and 12 Mbps upstream (I know I know it is not Gigabit) but I use router
Copy ISOs for Proxmox
After my recent discovery of this great virtualization tool, everyday I am getting amazed by all features this software has and I am learning something new everyday. Just like any other hypervisor, in order to create VM (or container) it needs source in form of ISO file. The way Proxmox works is, it stores these
Proxmox–Poor man’s virtualization server ??
I have more than few laptops laying around that are too old to run anything but Linux… But I don’t want to part from them. Because I think they are still poweful enough to do things but also because there is no real good way to recycle them. And I always wished to find better
Headless installation of Raspbian
Do you happen to have a situation where you have spare Raspberry Pi laying around and get some project in mind… but don’t have spare monitor/keyboard/mouse? Or you are simply lazy like me to get off desk to put things together ? I found out that it is really simple to actually do headless installation