Working through all the examples in this chapter will require at least three working pfSense systems, either in a real-world or virtualized environment. If you are implementing a CARP setup on your network and plan to have two or more redundant firewalls, be aware that this means two or more WAN interfaces, which will require either additional public internet addresses from your ISP, or a router to interconnect the WAN interfaces with your modem (or whatever internet connectivity device you use).
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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Mastering pfSense - Second Edition
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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