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PfSense Web Filter With pfBlockerNG – Filter Ads and Malicious Websites

If you visit an average website today, countless scripts and trackers are loaded. This allows the website operators, Google, Facebook, etc. can collect data about you and track you through the vastness of the internet. Fortunately you don’t have to surrender to this hustle and bustle and there are many Read more…

By Stephan, 5 years ago
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PfSense Web Filter – Filter HTTP(S) with SquidGuard

» Click here to check out our new guide! « » PfSense web filter with pfBlockerNG – Check out our new guide! « As the system administrator of a school, you are constantly faced with the question of how far you should filter content from the Internet. This question must Read more…

By Stephan, 7 yearsJanuary 23, 2018 ago
Top 5 open source software for schools
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Top 5 Open Source Software For Schools

For many years, we have been relying heavily on open source applications in our school – on the server, but also on the computers and laptops. Especially on the server-side, open source software is widely used and many great software projects can be used wonderfully in a school. Therefore today Read more…

By Stephan, 5 yearsOctober 10, 2020 ago
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5 Great Open Source Apps We Use In Our School

For 1.5 years our school uses almost exclusively Open Source software. This step has already saved us more than 5000€ in license costs in this short time. But that’s not our main reason for using open source software. The reasons are as follows: Freedom and independence from a vendor the low Read more…

By Stephan, 7 yearsDecember 22, 2017 ago
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How Important is High Availability in a School Network?

School networks are becoming more complex as requirements grow. A school server, school-wide WLAN, the use of tablets and laptops in the classroom, a school cloud, uniform logins for all services – the requirements for a network administrator or service provider in the school are many and varied. If everything Read more…

By Stephan, 6 yearsMarch 5, 2019 ago
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HowTo

pfSense Monitoring with Check_MK

For the monitoring of our network infrastructure we use Check_MK. Check_MK supports a variety of services and agents. Data can be monitored with the Check_MK agent, SNMP or simply by ping. In the past, we used to monitor our firewall via SNMP, which is already integrated in pfSense (You can Read more…

By Stephan, 7 yearsJanuary 5, 2018 ago
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HowTo

Automate pfSense with pfSsh.php

pfSense has a completely redesigned user interface since several versions (checkout our install guide). All settings can be easily reached and adjusted with this interface. The freely configurable dashboard is also a fine thing. However, there is sometimes the case that you would like to make settings via an API Read more…

By Stephan, 6 yearsNovember 29, 2018 ago
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HowTo

How to Connect an Access Point to pfSense

PfSense is an open source firewall solution that can be used at home, at school or in a company (see our install guide with hardware recommendations). In most cases you don’t want to connect clients exclusively via network cable, but also wirelessly. The easiest way is to connect a WLAN Read more…

By Stephan, 6 years ago
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HowTo

How to Install pfSense 2.4

pfSense is one of the most widely used open source firewall solutions. We have been using it in our school for several years now and are very satisfied with it because it simply offers many features for which you have to invest a lot of money elsewhere. Today I want Read more…

By Stephan, 6 yearsDecember 17, 2018 ago
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