If you enjoyed this book, you may be interested in another book by Packt:

pfSense 2 Cookbook
Matt Williamson

ISBN: 978-1-84951-486-6

• Determine your deployment scenario, hardware/throughput/interface requirements, form-factor, and which platform version of pfSense is right for you
• Secure remote access using the SSH and/or HTTPS protocols
• Add, assign, and configure network interfaces
• Configure essential networking services (such as DHCP, DNS, Dynamic DNS)
• Create aliases, firewall rules, NAT port-forward rules, and rule schedules
• Enable external Remote Desktop Access to an internal machine, following a complete example of the core pfSense functionality
• Configure the PPTP, IPSec, L2TP, and/or OpenVPN services
• Create virtual IPs, a virtual LAN, 1:1 and outbound NAT rules, gateways, static routes, and bridged interfaces
• Configure traffic-shaping and Quality of Service (QoS)
• Create multiple WAN interfaces in load-balanced or failover configurations
• Configure firewall redundancy with a CARP firewall failover
• Configure external logging with syslog
• Use a variety of built-in networking tools such as Ping and traceroute
• Configuration backup/restoration and automatic configuration-file backup
• Update the pfSense firmware
• Monitor and view all sorts of system and feature statuses/logs using RRD graphs and status monitoring tools