We will also see the Web Wizard that will appear for the first time you install and also how you can configure the Web Dashboard to your liking.įrom sessions 21 till 27, we will see the advanced system configuration options and administrative options. READ MOREįrom sessions 18 to 20, we will discuss and explore the most commonly used pfsense console options and configurations. Then we will be downloading Ubuntu which is our client computer and we will be installing both pfsense as well as Ubuntu into our virtual machines so that we can have the pfsense as well as a client computer. We will also be downloading pfsense Community Edition. We will be downloading VirtualBox from the Oracle website. The exact lab set up that we had here for the actual configuration, we are going to do it in the virtual environment.įrom session 12 to 17 we will try to setup the exact scenario that we had in our actual Lab into our virtual environment using VirtualBox. We will also setup the WAN network as well as the LAN network so that we can have the internet connection, coming from the WAN network, going through our pfsense and into our Local Area Network, that is our LAN network.Īnd the problem with this kind of configuration is that if you want to do a quick learning of pfsense, it will not be a practical option to set all these gadgets and set all these network. In the next session we will have a discussion about the network plan that we are going to include in our actual network scenario and the devices that we are going to use in the network and how we can make the connections between the devices that we are going to include in our actual network scenario.įrom the session 6 to session 11, we will see how we can boot using our bootable USB drive, then go ahead with installing pfsense in our computer.
In the next session, we will see how we can install an additional ethernet card in your PC, so that we can have the incoming connection coming in through the first ethernet card and the outgoing connection going out through the second ethernet port of our computer
In the third session we will see how we can download pfsense Community Edition from the website and then create a bootable USB drive using the downloaded file so that we can use this bootable USB drive to install pfsense in our computer. The specialities, the features of pfsense. Why should we use a firewall in our network and why are we choosing pfsense as our firewall. In session 1 & 2, we will see what exactly is a firewall. Lets see what are the topics that are included in this course. This is Abhilash Nelson and welcome to my new course ‘pfsense Beginner to Master’.