pfSense pkg error: Shared object "libarchive.so.7" not found, required by "pkg"

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. The Background Yesterday Netgate made a big leap into a new version branching for pfSense with pfSense plus. Instead of having 2.45, 2.5 versioning, there is now a partly proprietary pfSense+ build using Month/Year Versions for all Netgate-owned devices and optional bought subscriptions. The new Versions are YY.MM.VV, so 21.02 is the first one. ...

February 18, 2021 · solariz

rescreen - Tool to move all Windows to your Win Main Screen

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Several times already I had the Problem that in Multimonitor mode of my laptop I undock it and some windows “stuck” to the old now non existing 2nd Screen. There are some things you can do to move it back but sometimes everything fails. So in first I made a small Autohotkey Script to move all Windows, but I wanted it done right and so I just put a small C# tool together. Opensource, feel free to use. Here a small Video how it works with my 2nd Screen attached: ...

January 31, 2021 · solariz

Cyberpunk Crackling Sound / Audio Noise Issue

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. A really small post here - not a big tutorial or opinion or anything like that. Just a little super annoying bug that bugged me quite a bit myself. ...

January 1, 2021 · solariz

Unitymedia / Vodafone Cable with real DUAL-Stack

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Just a tiny post about my home Internet Connection. I use a Vodafone, former Unitymedia, CableMax 1000 home connection. That’s a Gbit Coax line with 50 Mbit upstream. Problem at the beginning of the new 1G Tarif there where several Problems regarding IPv4 / IPv6 – either you got a IPv4 only connection or something like DS-Lite or a SLAAC IPv6. I quickly figured out there is a way to change your contract and let them enable “Dual Stack”. ...

December 20, 2020 · solariz
Unifi L3 Adoption with DHCP Option 43 on pfSense, Mikrotik and others

Unifi L3 Adoption with DHCP Option 43 on pfSense, Mikrotik and others

Unifi L3 Adoption Recently I installed a lot of new Unifi Sites in local Schools, due to Corona the demand of a working Wifi in School Environments boosted. Most sites we Setup run their Network split to different VLANs, so a simple Layer 2 Adoption is not always possible. But Unifi Controllers luckily have a way to solve this possible adoption issue. So I got used to set both, DHCP Option 43 and unifi DNS name on each site, no matter if VLAN (L3 Structure) or a flat L2 Network. I just set the Options and done. ...

December 18, 2020 · solariz

Resilio as Private Cloud

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Or my home Cloud without „the Cloud” :) If it comes to Syncing folders to several devices many of us go the “lazy way” using google drive, dropbox, onedrive whatever to sync your local Documents. Some may go a step further and use some kind of Encryption, but this is often not very end user friendly. ...

November 15, 2020 · solariz

Debian/Ubuntu with automatic APT unattended updates

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. I cannot point out often enough how critical it is to keep your internet-based Servers updated. I use and manage some Servers, about 20 currently. But I hate to check them on a weekly base for Security Updates. I still remember days where Sysadmins brag with uptimes – not a smart thing to do. ...

October 22, 2020 · solariz

EPIC Game Launcher slow Download speed

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Yesterday I wanted to install a Game from Epic Game Launcher in Windows. (Spellbreak, btw.) Unfortunately even I have a 1G Line, it only dripped in with about 100-500 kb/s and would take several hours to complete. ...

September 4, 2020 · solariz

pihole docker with docker-compose in my LAN

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Recently I moved from my old PI3B to an Intel NUC i3 as my “Home Server”. It has enough power to run all my local services and is still not wasteful in terms of power consumption and space requirement like a “real” Server, and it is fanless. ...

July 12, 2020 · solariz

letsencrypt auto NGINX reload on renew, doing it right...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. If you run Letsencrypt SSL Certs on your servers and use certbot you probably know what I’m talking about. In the past I had it several times that the cert itself was renewed but the webserver, for whatever readon, didn’t reload. Causing the website to report a expired certificate, even it’s not. As soon as I did a manual NGINX Reload it workend. ...

May 13, 2020 · solariz