When our classic Mondaine wall quartz clock died after more than twenty years, I really wanted another one. I asked Mondaine if they had a radio clock (that receives a time code transmitted by a radio transmitter connected to a time standard such as an atomic clock). They did not, but they do have the MSM.25S11, a smart wifi wall clock. How smart exactly is this clock? Let’s find out…

Setting up High Availability on pfSense is not that difficult. It consists of configuring the state and settings synchronization (pfsync), creating virtual IPs (CARP) and changing the settings for DHCP, DNS and NTP so that you clients use the virtual IP. But things get tricky if you have only 1 IPv4 WAN address and it is assigned via DHCP by your ISP. If CARP is not an option for the WAN interface, how can we make sure we get the same public IP address on both firewalls?

Telenet is an ISP in Belgium that provides its customers with IPv6. Everywhere I looked on the net I read that you should configure your firewall with a /56 IPv6 prefix, but I could not get it to work with my modem in bridging mode. I got it working after changing it to /60. Read along for the full explanation