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Installing pfSense

Installing pfSense

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Installing pfSense

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- [Instructor] The first firewall we will install is called pfSense. This comes as a ready-to-install ISO file based on BSD Linux. We can download the latest image from the pfSense website shown here. The pfSense image comes as a GZ archive from which I've extracted the ISO file and uploaded it to Proxmox. So let's create a VM. We'll give it a VM ID of 515, we'll call it pfsense. We'll select the pfsense ISO. We'll reduce our disc size to 16 gigs. Keep a single core and reduce our memory to 1,024. We won't start it yet as we have to configure it with two additional network cards. So let's just finish. Our standard, we've got the default network bridge running on the 192.168.1 subnet. Let's select pfSense hardware and we'll add a network device vmbr1, and we'll add another network device, vmbr2. Okay, we can start the VM now and open the console. We'll accept the copyright notice and we'll say OK to install pfSense, we'll keep ZFS as the file system and we'll proceed with no…

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