Mastering pfSense : Manage, secure, and monitor your on-premise and cloud network with pfSense 2.4, 2nd Edition.
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Birmingham :
Packt Publishing,
2018.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; Dedication; Packt Upsell; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Revisiting pfSense Basics; Technical requirements; pfSense project overview; Possible deployment scenarios; Hardware requirements and sizing guidelines; Minimum hardware requirements; Hardware sizing guidelines; The best practices for installation and configuration; pfSense configuration; Configuration from the console; Configuration from the web GUI; Configuring additional interfaces; Additional WAN configuration; General setup options; Summary; Questions; Further reading.
- Chapter 2: Advanced pfSense ConfigurationTechnical requirements; SSH login; DHCP; DHCP configuration at the console; DHCP configuration in the web GUI; DHCPv6 configuration in the web GUI; DHCP and DHCPv6 relay; DHCP and DHCPv6 leases; DNS; DNS resolver; General Settings; Enable DNSSEC support; Host Overrides and Domain Overrides; Access Lists; DNS forwarder; DNS firewall rules; DDNS; DDNS updating; RFC 2136 updating; Troubleshooting DDNS; Captive portal; Implementing captive portal; User manager authentication; Voucher authentication; RADIUS authentication; Other settings.
- Troubleshooting captive portalNTP; SNMP; Summary; Questions; Chapter 3: VLANs; Technical requirements; Basic VLAN concepts; Example 1
- developers and engineering; Example 2
- IoT network; Hardware, configuration, and security considerations; VLAN configuration at the console; VLAN configuration in the web GUI; QinQ; Link aggregation; Add firewall rules for VLANs; Configuration at the switch; VLAN configuration example 1
- TL-SG108E; VLAN configuration example 2
- Cisco switches; Static VLAN creation; Dynamic Trunking Protocol; VLAN Trunking Protocol; Troubleshooting VLANs.
- General troubleshooting tipsVerifying switch configuration; Verifying pfSense configuration; Summary; Questions; Chapter 4: Using pfSense as a Firewall; Technical requirements; An example network; Firewall fundamentals; Firewall best practices; Best practices for ingress filtering; Best practices for egress filtering; Creating and editing firewall rules; Floating rules; Example rules; Example 1
- block a website; Example 2
- block all traffic from other networks; Example 3
- the default allow rule; Scheduling; An example schedule entry; Aliases; Creating aliases from a DNS lookup; Bulk import.
- Virtual IPsTroubleshooting firewall rules; Summary; Questions; Chapter 5: Network Address Translation; Technical requirements; NAT essentials; Outbound NAT; Example
- filtering outbound NAT for a single network; 1:1 NAT; Example
- mapping a file server; Port forwarding; Example 1
- setting up DCC; Example 2
- excluding a port; Example 3
- setting up a personal web server; Network Prefix Translation; Example
- mapping an IPv6 network; Troubleshooting ; Summary; Questions; Chapter 6: Traffic Shaping; Technical requirements; Traffic shaping essentials; Queuing policies; Priority queuing.