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Network Security with pfSense

You're reading from Network Security with pfSense Architect, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade firewalls

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789532975

Length 152 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

pfsense

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

Manuj Aggarwal

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Introduction to pfSense FREE CHAPTER

2. pfSense as a Firewall

3. pfSense as a Failover and Load Balancer

4. Remote Connectivity with pfSense and IPsec

5. Using pfSense as a Squid Proxy Server

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Index

Load balancing and failover across multiple WAN connections

Now, let's go ahead and configure pfSense to act as a load balancer across multiple WAN connections:

Let's switch to the pfSense server. Here we are at the command-line dashboard for pfSense:

You can see here that we have configured two WAN connections. The first WAN interface is em0 and the WAN2 interface is em2. Both of them have different IPs. The LAN1 interface is em1. Basically, the third network interface was renamed from LAN2 to WAN2, and instead of connecting it to an internal switch, the third network interface was connected to a new ISP.

Let's use the Windows 2012 R2 machine to access the WebGUI console.

Note

Additionally, you can also use the Windows 7 client system to test the connectivity.

Let's move on to the configuration process for load balancing and also for failover.
Open the WebGUI of pfSense from Windows Server 2012 R2. If you remember, the pfSense server IP address is 192.168.1.1.
Navigate to that IP address and...

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Authors (1)

Manuj Aggarwal

Manuj Aggarwal

Manuj Aggarwal is an entrepreneur, investor, and technology enthusiast. Over the last few years, he has been a business owner, technical architect, CTO, coder, start up consultant, and more. Currently, he is the principal consultant, architect, and CTO of a software consulting company, TetraNoodle Technologies, based in Vancouver, Canada. He works with various start-ups on a number of cutting edge and interesting problems. Whether it is ideation and the refining of your start up idea, or building a dream team to execute the idea, he provides a diverse set of solutions that help these start-ups to succeed in their plans. He has been active in the software industry since 1997, and has worked with early-stage businesses through to Fortune 100 mega-corporations. He is passionate about sharing all the knowledge that he has acquired over the years. He is particularly interested in helping technical and non-technical entrepreneurs, founders, and co-founders of tech start-ups.

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