Book description
This book is unique in its coverage of all the features of pfSense, empowering you to exploit the firewall's full potential. With clear instructions and detailed screenshots, it helps you configure even the most advanced features.
- Harness the power of pfSense's core functionality
- Get under the hood to see how pfSense performs load balancing and failover
- Detailed examples of interfaces, firewall rules, NAT port-forwarding, VPN services, and much, much more!
- Full of illustrations, diagrams, and tips for making the most of any pfSense implementation using clear step-by-step instructions for relevant and practical examples
In Detail
pfSense is an open source distribution of FreeBSD-based firewall that provides a platform for flexible and powerful routing and firewalling. The versatility of pfSense presents us with a wide array of configuration options, which makes determining requirements a little more difficult and a lot more important, compared to other offerings. Through this book you will see that pfSense offers numerous alternatives to fit any environment's security needs.
pfSense 2.0 Cookbook is the first and only book to explore all the features of pfSense, including those released in the latest 2.0 version. With the help of step-by-step instructions and detailed screenshots of the pfSense interface you will be able to configure every general and advanced feature from creating a firewall rule to configuring multi-WAN failover. Each recipe includes tips and offers advice on variations of the topic or references to other related recipes and additional information that can be found from other sources.
pfSense 2.0 Cookbook covers the gamut of available features and functionality. The first three chapters will take you from a non-existent system to a basic pfSense firewall. The next chapter focuses on configuring any number of the VPN services available, a very important and sought-after feature for anyone implementing a firewall. The following two chapters describe how to configure the most advanced features available in pfSense; features that may only be relevant to the most experienced network admins. Chapter 7 is dedicated to understanding and configuring the "grab-bag" of features that are available in pfSense, but are often stand-alone options and unrelated to each other. The first appendix explains how to use the status monitoring tools available for many of the features. The second appendix wraps up with helping you to decide how and where pfSense may be incorporated into your system and what type of hardware is required based on your throughput needs.
Over 70 simple but incredibly effective recipes for taking control of pfSense
Table of contents
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pfSense 2 Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- pfSense 2 Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. Initial Configuration
- Introduction
- Applying basic settings in General Setup
- Identifying and assigning interfaces
- Configuring the WAN interface
- Configuring the LAN interface
- Configuring optional interfaces
- Enabling the Secure Shell (SSH)
- Generating authorized RSA keys
- Configuring SSH RSA key authentication
- Accessing the Secure Shell (SSH)
- 2. Essential Services
- 3. General Configuration
- 4. Virtual Private Networking
- 5. Advanced Configuration
- 6. Redundancy, Load Balancing, and Failover
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7. Services and Maintenance
- Introduction
- Enabling OLSR
- Enabling PPPoE
- Enabling RIP
- Enabling SNMP
- Enabling UPnP and NAT-PMP
- Enabling OpenNTPD
- Enabling Wake On LAN (WOL)
- Enabling external logging (syslog server)
- Using ping
- Using traceroute
- Backing up the configuration file
- Restoring the configuration file
- Configuring automatic configuration file backup
- Updating pfSense firmware
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A. Monitoring and Logging
- Introduction
- Customizing the Status Dashboard
- Monitoring current traffic
- Configuring SMTP e-mail notifications
- Viewing system logs
- Configuring an external syslog server
- Viewing RRD graphs
- Viewing DHCP leases
- Managing services
- Monitoring the packet filter with pfInfo
- Monitoring traffic with pfTop
- Monitoring system activity
- B. Determining our Hardware Requirements
- Index
Product information
- Title: pfSense 2 Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2011
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849514866
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