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

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

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

Configure Console

Install pfSense

Select disk

Add caption

Format disk

Partition disk

Edit partition

Partition anyway

Information

Select partition

Sure?

Information, partition was formated

Select sub partition

Install kernel

Install bootblock

Bootblock successfully install

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