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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)

Questions

Answer the following questions:

  1. What is the purpose of traffic shaping?
  2. (a) Identify the three types of queuing supported by the pfSense traffic shaper. (b) Identify a queuing discipline that tends to ensure that low-priority traffic is not starved of bandwidth. (c) Identify a queuing discipline that uses a two-part nonlinear curve and decouples bandwidth from latency.
  3. Can we implement Layer 7 traffic shaping with the built-in pfSense traffic shaper? Assume we are using the current version of pfSense.

  1. Identify the two wizards with which we can implement traffic shaping in pfSense using the built-in traffic shaper.
  2. Identify a type of queue which provides for end-to-end notification of network congestion without dropping packets.
  3. Under which tab can you find the firewall rules generated by the built-in pfSense traffic shaping wizard? (Hint: It is the only rules category...