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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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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

VLAN configuration at the console

VLAN configuration can be done at the console; in fact, it can even be done on the initial setup, although many of the more esoteric features of VLANs (such as QinQ tagging) are not available from the console menu. Another disadvantage is that there does not seem to be a way of renaming the optional interfaces, although you could do so from the web GUI later.

To begin VLAN configuration from the console, use the Assign Interfaces option in the console mentioned (it should be option 1). pfSense will provide a list of available interfaces in a table which provides the interface device name, the MAC address, link status (up or down), and a description of the interface. For VLAN configuration at the console, perform the following steps:

VLAN configuration from the console
  1. When you select the Assign Interfaces option, the first prompt will be Do...
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