Pfsense Tutorial Instalation
pfSense is a focused operating sysem for use a firewall and router, pfSense is a descendant of FreeBSD that have been in customization.
Minimum hardware requirement
CPU - 100 MHz Pentium
RAM - 128 MB
Live CD:
CD-ROM drive
USB flash drive or floppy drive to save the configuration
Installation to the hard drive:
CD-ROM for initial installation
1 GB hard drive
pfSense installation
First prepare pfsense cdrom livecd, for its iso can be downloaded Top
then change the computer to boot from the cdrom and then wait a few moments to complete the system boot process, then we will ask whether to create a VLAN, enter only n if we are not going to create a VLAN
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then we are asked to specify the interface to be used WAN and LAN interfaces, usually the system can immediately detect the network card installed on the computer and we live alone determine which interface we point to the LAN and WAN
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then will be asked whether to make the interface optional (opt), if we do not have it eat empty it and press and then we will be asked again whether to continue the process, enter y to continue.
after a while we will meet with pfsense console menu, to continue the installation process number 99 and press enter to continue
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| Configure Console |
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| Install pfSense |
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| Select disk |
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| Add caption |
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| Format disk |
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| Partition disk |
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| Edit partition |
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| Partition anyway |
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| Information |
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| Select partition |
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| Sure? |
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| Information, partition was formated |
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| Select sub partition |
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| Install kernel |
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| Install bootblock |
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| Bootblock successfully install |
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| Pfsense successfully install |
pfSense configuration
After installation complete we simply adjust the other configurations we need, to access the administration web page using a browser pfsense on a computer that is connected to the LAN interface on the pfsense and input the address to http://192.168.1.1 with the username admin and password pfsense (default ), then we'll see a wizard page that will help us set up pfsense as shown below:
pfSense Wizard
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| pfSense wizard - General Parameter |
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| Time and Zone Config |
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| WAN Network Config |
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LAN Network Config |
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| pfSense Admin Password |
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| Finish |
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| pfSense Admin Panel |
