Does pfSense work on linode.com?
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I am a Linode user. Linode allows you to deploy premade images on your node(s). pfSense is not one of the images that you can deploy on your node, only Linux. See attached.
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OK, I guess I'll have to whittle a security appliance out of a stick.
Thanks.
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Yes, you can deploy pfSense on linode. You can put whatever os you want on linode, just start with a blank machine and download the image using finnix.
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Is there already a tutorial on how to install pfsense in Linode? I tried the finnix way and used rsync but it didn't work. Any update on this thread? Thanks in advance.
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They let you specify the networking of all your images. I think most hosters do. So if you have 10 guests running it makes all kinds of sense to put them behind a good firewall.
If you lease/buy physical hardware at a hosting site. Then it makes even more sense.
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Following back up on this - I successfully installed pfSense today on Linode.
Follow the directions here: https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/custom-kernels-distros/install-freebsd-on-linode
In step 5, replace the curl command with the following:
curl -k https://nyifiles.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-CE-memstick-serial-2.3.1-RELEASE-amd64.img.gz | gunzip | dd of=/dev/sdaEverything else works beautifully. :)
Ryan
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An update:
I had problems with routing - they appear to be solved by setting the VM mode in the linode configuration profile to Full-virtualization. (In case this helps someone else. ;))
Ryan
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An update:
I had problems with routing - they appear to be solved by setting the VM mode in the linode configuration profile to Full-virtualization. (In case this helps someone else. ;))
Ryan
You were most likely running into the VirtIO driver issue. ( https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=88467.0 )
Since you don't have access to the hypervisor side of the deal, you can't set the ethtool options. Full virtualisation is probably the only way to make it work well in this case.I'm not sure how this impacts performance, pfSense with VirtIO and the csum offload fix performs very well, but I haven't done any recent tests to see if it's working well in HVM (full virt) mode.
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Hi, thanks for the posts.
How did you manage to split the networks on same eth0 adapter please?
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Following back up on this - I successfully installed pfSense today on Linode.
Follow the directions here: https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/custom-kernels-distros/install-freebsd-on-linode
In step 5, replace the curl command with the following:
curl -k https://nyifiles.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-CE-memstick-serial-2.3.1-RELEASE-amd64.img.gz | gunzip | dd of=/dev/sdaEverything else works beautifully. :)
Ryan
Hi, I followed your tips however during during the botting of Installer Profile I am getting this error
"Cannot Direct Disk boot a disk with no MBR: Linode Configuration Profile problems detected. "
Any ideas on how to solve this?
Thank you.
