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Tiago Stoco

Tiago Stoco

I.T and technology enthusiast with a creative mind working in a data centre and dedicating his free time to fun tech-related personal projects and family.

Let's Encrypt - Auto-renew Acme Certificates with pfSense

It was being a pain to maintain my Let's Encrypt certificates because I was using DNS servers without an API. I have been advised to use HTML verification instead, but DNS is preferred since it is a more secure method. With DNS verification you don't need

bash - Capturing packets from iptables chains

iptables chains are complex and sometime we need to capture packets from a specific chain to troubleshoot issues. For this, we can use the iptables NFLOG module that allow us to create a kernel interface and pass the traffic through it. The magic in all of this is that we

pfSense - IPsec VPN Routed (VTI) site-to-site

I am struggling to establish a site-to-site VPN tunnel between a pfSense box and an OpenWRT/Linux. As a proof of concept, I have created this LAB to test the setup with two pfSense boxes instead. In the hopes that the understanding will help to narrow the issues with the

Proxmox Cluster (Tucana Cloud) - Create a new VLAN - Part VI

Let's document the steps to create a new VLAN into the tucana cloud. 1) Interfaces & VLAN We first will log into our primary pfSense firewall and will navigate to Interfaces > VLANs > Add : The tucana cloud uses tags ending in 5 for the third octect to

Proxmox Cluster (Tucana Cloud) - ZFS Pool - Part IV

This article documents the beginning of my journey moving from data stored into singles disks to proper redundancy and backup. Every journey has a beginning and for me, it all started when a disk with (hopefully) not so much important data failed pretty much beyond recovery. With a couple of

Proxmox Cluster (Tucana Cloud) - Part III

I have recently decided to abandon the painful SSH port forwarding method of managing my infrastructure. SSH port forward is very useful but when you start to have to manage more and more systems all the hasle to port forward local ports is too much. Before deploying my servers I

Proxmox - Execute Script on Host

We sometimes need to execute a script on our host when starting or stopping a VM. I was using another solution not elegant that broke after a proxmox update. And after researching the proxmox documentation a supported solution is available. We first need to edit our /etc/pve/storage.cfg