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Mastering pfSense

pfSense is open source router/firewall software based on FreeBSD. This book shows how to install and customize pfSense in a variety of scenarios, providing many concrete examples.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

15h

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for those with at least an intermediate understanding of networking. Prior knowledge of pfSense would be helpful but is not required. Those who have the resources to set up a pfSense firewall, either in a real or virtual environment, will especially benefit, as they will be able to follow along with the examples in the book.

Book content

chapters 15h total length

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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