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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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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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

Questions

Answer the following questions:

  1. What is the final step in troubleshooting a networking problem?
  2. A site can be reached by pinging the IP address but pinging the hostname fails. What is a likely cause of this?
  3. Name a wireless standard that uses the 2.4 GHz range (there are two).
  4. Which wireless encryption standard sends challenges in the clear and is generally considered insecure now?
  5. Identify a method of determining whether an interface is up or down from within the pfSense web GUI.
  6. What tool can be used to monitor the pfSense state table, and can be used from within the web GUI or the command line?
  7. What tool can be used to ping a site that blocks ICMP traffic but allows TCP traffic?
  8. What are the two main purposes of traceroute?

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