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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. Identify any three types of load balancing algorithms.
  2. (a) What are the advantages of client-side load balancing? (b) What are the advantages of server-side load balancing?
  3. What are the two modes of load balancing supported by the built-in pfSense load balancer?
  4. If I am using pfSense's load balancer and I add a server to a server pool but no traffic from outside the network is reaching the new server (and traffic from outside the network is reaching other servers within the pool), what is the likely cause? Assume that my server pool setup was functioning correctly before I added the server.
  5. Identify which of the following can be synchronized using pfSense's High Availability Sync. (a) firewall rules; (b) packages; (c) virtual IPs; (d) system logs.

  1. In a normal CARP configuration, do we need to create a virtual IP for the...
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