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…
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…
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…
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…
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 be answered wherever children and young people have access to the Internet, whether in schools, clubs, libraries, at home or any other public Read more…
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…
Since 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…