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Mastering pfSense - Second Edition

By : David Zientara
Book Image

Mastering pfSense - Second Edition

By: David Zientara

Overview of this book

pfSense has the same reliability and stability as even the most popular commercial firewall offerings on the market – but, like the very best open-source software, it doesn’t limit you. You’re in control – you can exploit and customize pfSense around your security needs. Mastering pfSense - Second Edition, covers features that have long been part of pfSense such as captive portal, VLANs, traffic shaping, VPNs, load balancing, Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP), multi-WAN, and routing. It also covers features that have been added with the release of 2.4, such as support for ZFS partitions and OpenVPN 2.4. This book takes into account the fact that, in order to support increased cryptographic loads, pfSense version 2.5 will require a CPU that supports AES-NI. The second edition of this book places more of an emphasis on the practical side of utilizing pfSense than the previous edition, and, as a result, more examples are provided which show in step-by-step fashion how to implement many features.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Questions

Answer the following questions:

  1. Name any two technologies other than NAT developed to deal with the issue of IPv4 address exhaustion.
  2. If we initially install pfSense and configure the interfaces with IPv4 addresses only, do we need to alter the Outbound NAT settings? Why or why not?

  1. If Automatic Outbound NAT is selected, how many rules are created for each non-WAN interface?
  2. We have an FTP server that must be made accessible to the internet and also must be accessible within our private network. We want to assign this server its own public IP address. What type of NAT should we use?
  3. What will happen if we create a Port Forwarding entry and set Filter rule association to None, assuming we do not make any changes to the firewall rules?
  4. Why do we normally leave Source set to any on a Port Forwarding entry?
  5. Assume we want to create a Port Forwarding entry for Remote...