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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. Identify any three types of load balancing algorithms.
  2. (a) What are the advantages of client-side load balancing? (b) What are the advantages of server-side load balancing?
  3. What are the two modes of load balancing supported by the built-in pfSense load balancer?
  4. If I am using pfSense's load balancer and I add a server to a server pool but no traffic from outside the network is reaching the new server (and traffic from outside the network is reaching other servers within the pool), what is the likely cause? Assume that my server pool setup was functioning correctly before I added the server.
  5. Identify which of the following can be synchronized using pfSense's High Availability Sync. (a) firewall rules; (b) packages; (c) virtual IPs; (d) system logs.

  1. In a normal CARP configuration, do we need to create a virtual IP for the...