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pfSense 2.x Cookbook

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Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789806427

Length 298 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

pfsense

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

David Zientara

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Initial Configuration

2. Essential Services FREE CHAPTER

3. Firewall and NAT

4. Additional Services

5. Virtual Private Networking

6. Traffic Shaping

7. Redundancy, Load Balancing, and Failover

8. Routing and Bridging

9. Services and Maintenance

10. Backing Up and Restoring pfSense

11. Determining Hardware Requirements

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Authors (1)

David Zientara

David Zientara

David Zientara is a software engineer living in northern New Jersey. He has over 20 years of experience in IT. In the mid-1990s, David became the lead software engineer for Oxberry LLC, a digital imaging company headquartered in New Jersey. In this capacity, he played a major role in developing a new software package for the company's equipment. In the mid-2000s, David took an interest in computer networking, an interest that led him to learn about m0n0wall and, eventually, pfSense. David currently is employed with the Prasad Corporation in a consulting position and is also the author of Learn pfSense 2.4 and Mastering pfSense 2.4, also available from Packt Publishing.

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