There are no additional technical requirements for this chapter. A working pfSense firewall with at least a WAN and LAN interface (the WAN interface should provide internet access, so your internet connection should be somewhere upstream from it) and at least one node on the LAN network should be enough to work through the examples in this chapter. Working through the examples and seeing the results are useful in reinforcing the concepts learned in this chapter.
Mastering pfSense - Second Edition
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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.
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Preface
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Revisiting pfSense Basics
Advanced pfSense Configuration
VLANs
Using pfSense as a Firewall
Network Address Translation
Traffic Shaping
Virtual Private Networks
Redundancy and High Availability
Multiple WANs
Routing and Bridging
Extending pfSense with Packages
Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
Assessments
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