pfSense: The Definitive Guide

Written by pfSense co-founder Chris Buechler and pfSense consultant Jim Pingle, this Definitive Guide to pfSense covers installation and basic configuration through advanced networking and firewalling with the popular open source firewall and router distribution. This book is designed to be a friendly step-by-step guide to common networking and security tasks, plus a thorough reference of pfSense’s capabilities. The book covers hardware and system planning, installation and upgrades, backups, firewalling fundamentals, port forwarding and Network Address Translation, bridging, Virtual LANs (VLAN), Multi-WAN, Virtual Private Networks (VPN) using IPsec, PPTP, and OpenVPN, traffic shaping, load balancing, wireless networking and captive portal setups, redundant firewalls and High Availability, system monitoring, logging, traffic analysis, sniffing, packet capturing, troubleshooting, and software package and third-party software installations and upgrades.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Hardware
Chapter 3 Installing and Upgrading
Chapter 4 Configuration
Chapter 5 Backup and Recovery
Chapter 6 Firewall
Chapter 7 Network Address Translation
Chapter 8 Routing
Chapter 9 Bridging
Chapter 10 Virtual LANs (VLANs)
Chapter 11 Multiple WAN Connections
Chapter 12 Virtual Private Networks
Chapter 13 IPsec
Chapter 14 PPTP VPN
Chapter 15 OpenVPN
Chapter 16 Traffic Shaper
Chapter 17 Server Load Balancing
Chapter 18 Wireless
Chapter 19 Captive Portal
Chapter 20 Firewall Redundancy / High Availability
Chapter 21 Services
Chapter 22 System Monitoring
Chapter 23 Packages
Chapter 24 Third Party Software and pfSense
Chapter 25 Packet Capturing
Appendix A Menu Guide