Setup WiFi via commandline on Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS
Category: Computer Networks
Setup freeRADIUS3 on pfsense with external MySQL (or Mariadb)
Ever want to have your Radius sessions, user credentials, user groups etc stored in external MySQL (or Mariadb) database instead of in system level config files? You can easily configure MySQL (or Mariadb) as your data store for all these information for ease of management. To do so, I have freeRadius3 setup on my pfsense
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Setup WiFi Radius Auth with Unifi AP, Controller & pfsense
Assuming you do not have freeradius3 installed on pfsense in the past Go to: Note: To help with troubleshooting, you can refer to logs in pfsense. However, I find the default logging which logs to System Log is not very friendly with search, therefore, I changed the setting for RADIUS to log to /var/log/radius.log instead
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Free Cloudflare services (DNS, Security)
Cloudflare is one of the great provider for services such as DNS, CDN, and many security related services, and they’ve even ventured into more on the application side. Most importantly, they have free tier that you can play around with. I’ve been using Cloudflare for a number of years, on their free services. I started
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Unifi AP lost connectivity to AP
Do you migrate your Unifi controller? Do you change the IP of your Unifi controller? Do you experience any issues, where your AP is showing as offline in your controller after that? Normally this can be done by going through the migration process in your unifi AP, however, it didn’t seems to stick, and kept
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Upgrade DD-WRT While Keeping Stock Firmware Intact
I’ve installed dd-wrt on my 1200AC linksys device over a year ago. There has been many updates since and I’ve decided to update my firmware to catch up with any bug fixes or new features introduced over the past year. However, I’d like to keep my stock firmware, rather than allowing dd-wrt upgrade to over-write
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AWS VPN to Third Party AWS Cloud
I’ve recently worked on a piece of work, which involves establishing a VPN connectivity from AWS hosted applications to web services hosted in another third party AWS cloud. It is interesting to find out that AWS Managed VPN connection works quite differently from a typical VPN connection to a remote host. It is actually expecting
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