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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)

Captive portal

Businesses providing internet access for customers (usually via a wireless connection) is something that has become ubiquitous. Consequently, network administrators need a form of access control that covers such scenarios. You may want to redirect users to a login page to control access. Even if you don't want to require authentication, you may still want to redirect users to a page containing your terms of service. In such cases, you can utilize pfSense's captive portal service. Captive portal can be used to redirect wireless users to a login page, and it can also be used for wired users. Earlier versions of pfSense were limited to use of one interface on your firewall, but the current version allows you to enable captive portal on multiple interfaces.

Implementing...