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•You can always do more to secure your software – so extend and customize your pfSense firewall

•Build a high availability security system that’s fault-tolerant – and capable of blocking potential threats

•Put the principles of better security into practice by implementing examples provided in the text

Description

pfSense has the same reliability and stability as even the most popular commercial firewall offerings on the market – but, like the very best open-source software, it doesn’t limit you. You’re in control – you can exploit and customize pfSense around your security needs. Mastering pfSense - Second Edition, covers features that have long been part of pfSense such as captive portal, VLANs, traffic shaping, VPNs, load balancing, Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP), multi-WAN, and routing. It also covers features that have been added with the release of 2.4, such as support for ZFS partitions and OpenVPN 2.4. This book takes into account the fact that, in order to support increased cryptographic loads, pfSense version 2.5 will require a CPU that supports AES-NI. The second edition of this book places more of an emphasis on the practical side of utilizing pfSense than the previous edition, and, as a result, more examples are provided which show in step-by-step fashion how to implement many features.

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.

What you will learn

•Configure pfSense services such as DHCP, Dynamic DNS, captive portal, DNS, NTP and SNMP

•Set up a managed switch to work with VLANs

•Use pfSense to allow, block and deny traffic, and to implement Network Address Translation (NAT)

•Make use of the traffic shaper to lower and raise the priority of certain types of traffic

•Set up and connect to a VPN tunnel with pfSense

•Incorporate redundancy and high availability by utilizing load balancing and the Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)

•Explore diagnostic tools in pfSense to solve network problems

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Nicolas Boisvert Jul 31, 2019

Je pars de zéro avec pfSense et ce livre m'a beaucoup aidé.

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Xenon 6 Jun 11, 2022

Well written, readable book. The book does exactly what it says, teaching you how to use pfSense firewalls. Many customers can't afford the premium Palo Alto firewalls but pfSense is a credible alternative so being good at pfSense is a very useful skill set for an IT professional.From my experience many firewalls are incorrectly configured leaving customers exposed to hackers. Mistakes on firewalls can leave you unemployed or facing legal action so they are something you really have to know properly. If you are working in IT time spent learning about Cyber Security is time well spent.

Brian Dec 22, 2018

This isn't going to make you a master of pfSense. Nothing in this book is more helpful than you will find in online tutorials and I don't even feel like it's a decent reference book for the shelf.

SwedishMike Apr 22, 2019

This book have basically the same information as the 'Learn pfSense' book from the same author - with some added depth. IMHO - this could have been sold as basic book instead.I would not have bothered buying the basic book if I knew that this contained all this rehashed information - I'd have gone straight for this.Definitely not a book for 'mastering' pfSense - it has its moments but it is not getting all the way.

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