Month: April 2022

The concensus seems to be that adding any software to your router is a bad idea, however, it is clear that pfsense has added software to their router, for instance, they add vim (a conceptually outdated editor that requires practice to use and is difficult for all but old hat Unix stalwarts to use). One other is that pfsense uses a very outdated shell. They use /bin/sh. Most distributions of Linux and such have moved on to products such as zsh (Apple does with their version of BSD), and bash (which itself is infrequently updated and quite dated). I set out to be able to get zsh installed for my account (can only get in with RSA keys), to allow me to do a bit more and have a more…

For the always free option you get a public IP and have a limit of 2 cores and 1gb of RAM with .5gb bandwidth. Not sure what that later part means. I set it up and decided that I didn't like the crappy hostname. I set out to change that. Go to the burger menu on the left and click "Compute", then "Instances", then "Instances Details". Then click the edit button and change the instance name. Once changed you can then reboot the instance. When it comes up it should have the new hostname. I also edited the /etc/hostname file and changed it to the name that matched what I put in the webUI.