Articles by neofire

• pfSense - Squid + Squidguard / Traffic Shapping Tutorial

  Author: neofire • Tags: other, freebsd • Comments: 24

  pfSense - Squid + Squidguard / Traffic Shapping Tutorial In this tutorial I will show you how to set up pfSense 2.0.1 up as an Internet Gateway with Squid Proxy / Squidguard Filtering. I will also show that you have to configure some extra features of pfSense like traffic shapping with squid. This type of configuration would be useful for people who want to set up wireless hot spots or Internet cafe's etc.

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• How To Use pfSense To Load Balance Your Web Servers

  Author: neofire • Tags: freebsd, high-availability, web server • Comments: 8

  How To Use pfSense To Load Balance Your Web Servers In this HowTo I will show you how to configure pfSense 2.0 as a load balancer for your web servers. This HowTo assumes that you already have a pfSense box and at least 2 Apache servers installed and running on your network, and that you have some pfSense knowledge.

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• How To Configure A pfSense 2.0 Cluster Using CARP

  Author: neofire • Tags: other, freebsd • Comments: 7

  How To Configure A pfSense 2.0 Cluster Using CARP In this HowTo I will show you how to configure a pfSense 2.0 Cluster using CARP Failover. pfSense is quite a advanced (open-source) firewall being used everywhere from homes to enterprise level networks, I have been playing around with pfsense now for the last 3 months and to be honest I am not looking back, it is packed full of features and can be deployed easily within minutes depending on your requirements.

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• Upgrade/Migrate VMware ESX / ESXi 4.* To ESXi 5.0

  Author: neofire • Tags: virtualization, vmware • Comments: 6

  Upgrade/Migrate VMware ESX / ESXi 4.* To ESXi 5.0 VMware has recently released its new VM hypervisor product, VMware ESXi 5.0. VMware is replacing its current ESX model with ESXi and the biggest change (between ESX and ESXi) is the architecture, as most of you VM gurus are well aware of, but for the people that don't know I will quickly explain.

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• How To Upgrade VMware ESXi 3.5 To 4.1 Update 1 (Free Version)

  Author: neofire • Tags: virtualization, vmware • Comments: 2

  How To Upgrade VMware ESXi 3.5 To 4.1 Update 1 (Free Version) In this guide I will show you how to upgrade VMWare ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.1 Update 1 (Free Version) without going through the pain of reinstalling your host server and then restoring your VMs.

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