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pfSense 2.x Cookbook

pfSense is a FreeBSD-based firewall that provides a platform for flexible and powerful routing and firewalling. This book focuses on configuring essential and other commonly used pfSense services; such as traffic shaping, redundancy, high availability, static and dynamic routing, backup and restoration of pfSense, and diagnostic tools.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

9h56m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is intended for all levels of network administrators. If you are an advanced user of pfSense, then you can flip to a particular recipe and quickly accomplish the task at hand; if you are new to pfSense, on the other hand, you can work through the book chapter by chapter and learn all of the features of the system from the ground up.

Book content

chapters 9h56m total length

Initial Configuration

Essential Services

Firewall and NAT

Additional Services

Virtual Private Networking

Traffic Shaping

Redundancy, Load Balancing, and Failover

Routing and Bridging

Services and Maintenance

Backing Up and Restoring pfSense

Determining Hardware Requirements

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