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Mastering pfSense - Second Edition

By : David Zientara
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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)

Troubleshooting

Once you have learned the fundamentals of routing and bridging and begin to implement them in your network, it is almost inevitable that you will encounter a situation where you need to employ your troubleshooting skills. In this section, we will consider how to troubleshoot both routing and bridging.

The pfSense routing table, which can be found by navigating to Diagnostics | Routes, is a good starting point for learning about which routes exist, how they are configured, and the number of times a route has been used. The table is divided into two sections, one for IPv4 routes and the other for IPv6 routes. Each entry in the table has several columns: Destination is the route's destination, Gateway is the gateway through which the route travels, Use is the number of times the route has been used, Mtu is the maximum transmission unit, Netif is the gateway&apos...