Previously, I posted about adding Meraki VPN On Pop_OS! I also work a lot of Ubiquiti Unifi products and needed to setup a VPN. Here’s what I did to get that working: Software Install I covered this part before in the Meraki post, but I’ll go over it again here. We’ll need to install L2TP […]
Read MoreI’ve been using Ubuntu and Pop_OS! more and more for work and need to setup a VPN back to my office, which utilizes Meraki for the firewall/VPN appliance. Unfortunately, Ubuntu based distros, and probably others, do not support L2TP (Layer Two Tunneling Protocol) type of VPNs out of the box. Here’s what I did to […]
Read MoreWe host our Unifi Controller behind our primary Unifi network without about 85 other locations that connect back to it. A problem that we were seeing was the USG for our primary site would constantly show in a state of “Adopting” even though the devices were already adopted and received their configurations. This is caused […]
Read MoreWe need to have staff use MFA when connecting to our VPN connection. Luckily Microsoft Azure has an MFA extension that you can install on your NPS RADIUS server! Installation Downlead the NPS Extension from Microsoft to your NPS server and run the installer. BY default, the NPS Extension will install to C:\Program Files\Mircosoft\AzureMfa. Once […]
Read MoreA reverse proxy server is a type of proxy server that sits behind the firewall in a private network. It redirects client requests to the appropriate backend server and is fantastic to use for your homelab! Prerequisites A base install of Ubuntu LTS with a static IP address A domain or subdomain pointing to the external IP address (like inepttech.com) Firewall ports 80/443 open […]
Read MoreWe host our Unifi Controller on Ubuntu and needed a way to back it up to our Windows server (don’t ask). Prerequisites A base install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with a static IP address When editing a file with Nano, to save your changes to do the following: Ctrl+X to Exit Y to save the edits currently stored in the buffer […]
Read MoreSometimes a device will either not work or have reduced speeds when connected to the network. To rule out the cable, you can either swap it with a known working cable or test the cables from the switch back to the client directly from the Unifi switch itself. This is a short one, but one […]
Read MoreUbiquiti’s Unifi line doesn’t really provide any logging and sometimes I need to see a little more to diagnose an issue. Here’s my setup for a quick an dirty Syslog server. Syslog Installation Syslog is available in the default Ubuntu repositories sudo apt install rsyslog Once installed, edit the conf file sudo nano /etc/rsyslog.conf Uncomment […]
Read MoreWe had about 40 locations (now up to 90) that we had Unifi setup for our security network utilizing Ubiquiti’s Cloud Key for each site. The guy before me setup this up and it was a nightmare to manage. We also had a high number Cloud Keys kept dying on us. My solution to this […]
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