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Mastering pfSense

You're reading from   Mastering pfSense Manage, secure, and monitor your on-premise and cloud network with pfSense 2.4

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788993173
Length 450 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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David Zientara David Zientara
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Preface 1. Revisiting pfSense Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced pfSense Configuration 3. VLANs 4. Using pfSense as a Firewall 5. Network Address Translation 6. Traffic Shaping 7. Virtual Private Networks 8. Redundancy and High Availability 9. Multiple WANs 10. Routing and Bridging 11. Extending pfSense with Packages 12. Diagnostics and Troubleshooting 13. Assessments 14. Another Book You May Enjoy

Basic concepts

Sometimes, we want higher uptime and a higher throughput with our internet connection, and when we do, multiple WAN interfaces providing multiple internet connections is a way of doing this. Before you implement multi-WAN, you must already have a working LAN and WAN interface. Additional WAN interfaces are referred to as OPT WAN interfaces, and pfSense can support several WAN interfaces.

In order to fully take advantage of a multi-WAN setup, however, you should have separate internet connections. Ideally, you should have separate internet connections from separate internet providers, because there is a higher likelihood of a connectivity issue between your network and a provider affecting all connections to that provider than there is that a connectivity issue would affect multiple providers at the same time. And of course, if you have two connections to the same...

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