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pfSense 2.x Cookbook

You're reading from   pfSense 2.x Cookbook Manage and maintain your network using pfSense

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789806427
Length 298 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

Introduction


At this point, we have installed pfSense and performed much of the basic configuration. We have already done the following:

  • Determined our hardware requirements
  • Installed pfSense
  • Assigned and configured interfaces
  • Set up SSH access
  • Added VLANs, if necessary

 

Now we are ready to configure several of the essential services that our pfSense system will provide:

  • The DHCP/DHCP6 service will enable clients to obtain IP addresses automatically.
  • The DNS server will enable clients to resolve hostnames to IP addresses.
  • The dynamic DNS service will allow pfSense to update a host’s DNS record when that host’s IP address changes.
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pfSense 2.x Cookbook - Second Edition
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ISBN-13: 9781789806427
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