I’m planning on swapping out our dd-wrt firewall for pfsense box again. I haven’t done it yet as I still need to get the new pfsense box all configured correctly first before I make the switch.
The reason why I want to switch the box out is because of the shitty DHCP range limitation of dd-wrt. dd-wrt only supports a dhcp range between 172.16.0.0-172.16.0.255 which is a bit problematic for the amount of people who come into the space.
If we set the dhcp lease time to never expire we run out of ip addresses to lease.
If we set the dhcp lease to expire ip addresses start to change.
The solution is getting a new firewall that supports a dhcp range from 172.16.0.0-172.16.255.255. The new pfsense box supports that.
The new pfsense box is an old but never used hp 1u server. It’s got an intel pentium D d920 dual core, 8gb of ram, 2x1gbit nics built in, a pcie 2x1gbit network card, and an atheros wireless card with antennas mounted on the front of the server. It’s sitting in the rack right now.
Whats been completed:
2x1gbe network card installed
PCI-E to mini-pcie card with an atheros wireless card installed
Newest version of PFSense installed using GEOM software raid1
What needs to be finished:
Configure wan port to use our static IP (info is on our modem)
Configure lan port to 172.16.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0
Setup DHCP and internal DNS
Copy over static leases from dd-wrt router
Once it’s all configured and dns/dhcp is confirmed working we can make the switch. If anyone wants to jump on this go for it.
that’s the plan! Gonna confirm its all working first before making the swap
tho as dhcp/dns/subnets have caused us a pain in the past. Really
considering buying some ubiquiti hardware to do this.
I have an AC LR and installed one this week.
A single Ubiquity AP would cover the whole space.
I buy from Lin Haw, it’s pretty much the same as retail but I’ll get them at my cost for VHS.
The one on Craigslist is slightly more than my cost (sans taxes) and is probably an older model
Lets go with the 2.4+5 one, cause on teusday nights we can get a lot of people in the space. I’ll chip in for half the cost. Or do you want to run a tilt for it?
I don’t think it’s worth running a tilt for it. I’ll pickup an AC LR next week and drop it off at the space. Anyone who wants to can put a couple of $$$ into the kitty for it.
The LR has both 2.4 & 5 GHz. We will need a Linux box (Ubuntu) to put the UniFi software on. A cloud key is around $130.00 and not worth the cost in this case (money better spent on a 2nd AP)