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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

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788993173

Length 450 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

pfsense

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

David Zientara

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Contributors

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

1. Assessments

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Index

Configuring a VPN tunnel

Now that we have covered the basics of VPNs and considered the pros and cons of each of the pfSense-supported protocols, it's time to cover configuration of a VPN connection, both under pfSense and on the client side. IPsec is the most difficult to configure on both sides, and you may not get it to work on your first try. OpenVPN is probably the easiest to configure, in part because it does not have as many options as IPsec.

IPsec

When you configure an IPsec tunnel in pfSense, you are likely envisioning one of two deployment scenarios. One is to configure IPsec as a peer, which can connect to and/or accept a connection from another peer, establishing an IPsec tunnel between the two devices. Another is to set up an IPsec server as a server and accept connections from remote clients. This section will cover both scenarios.

Note

If you want to set up IPsec to act as a server with multiple mobile clients, you should begin at the Mobile Clients tab. The mobile clients configuration...

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Authors (1)

David Zientara

David Zientara

David Zientara is a software engineer living in northern New Jersey. He has over 20 years of experience in IT. In the mid-1990s, David became the lead software engineer for Oxberry LLC, a digital imaging company headquartered in New Jersey. In this capacity, he played a major role in developing a new software package for the company's equipment. In the mid-2000s, David took an interest in computer networking, an interest that led him to learn about m0n0wall and, eventually, pfSense. David currently is employed with the Prasad Corporation in a consulting position and is also the author of Learn pfSense 2.4 and Mastering pfSense 2.4, also available from Packt Publishing.

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