I tested this one and you don’t have to push hard to get it to work. Don’t press too hard because I’ve had a Ubiquiti network device reset button break on me. It’s on the side of the box and it’s the top indented button that you can press in. Where is the reset button? A picture would be helpful. The reset instructions are not exactly clear. Resetting the 6100 in case of initial misconfiguration

I reset the device and started over since I hadn’t done much. Initially I changed the IP range for the device and locked myself out. No point in redoing all your configuration all over again if something goes wrong with that. Test access with your new configuration to make sure you can still get to FIREWALL2 from LAPTOP2 and your new user name and password works. Test your new login and configuration changes :D Store your passwords somewhere secure obviously. Make a note of all that because if you’re like me you’ll forget the password later. I’m not sure if that was due to the particular IP address I chose. When I did that I couldn’t log into the device anymore. Do not check for updates because we still have some networking blocked.For example, you might choose to use NIST ntp servers at. Change the time servers from something other than the default NTP pool if you like.Go through the PFSense wizard to initially configure the device. Hopefully newer devices from Netgate will make that change. Most device manufacturers are now publishing a unique password for each device and it appears on a sticker on the device. This is another reason not to connect it directly to the Internet on initial start up but rather have it behind another device. It is unfortunate that pfsense still uses a common username and password. I had already configured FIREWALL 1 to a different IP address so there should be no conflict, and my LAPTOP2 is also connected directly to FIREWALL2.

As with most routers the IP address should be: 192.168.1.1. The first thing I want to do is have the firewall use CloudFlare for DNS.

DNS traffic going to some host other than my configured DNS servers.

Checking for Internet access I’m guessing using ICMP.

Netgate pfsense