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pfSense 2.x Cookbook

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Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789806427

Length 298 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

pfsense

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

David Zientara

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Initial Configuration FREE CHAPTER

2. Essential Services

3. Firewall and NAT

4. Additional Services

5. Virtual Private Networking

6. Traffic Shaping

7. Redundancy, Load Balancing, and Failover

8. Routing and Bridging

9. Services and Maintenance

10. Backing Up and Restoring pfSense

11. Determining Hardware Requirements

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Determining our throughput requirements

In this section, we will understand the throughput requirements, and subsequently the processing and memory requirements needed for our environment.

We'll want to prepare for determining our requirements by gathering the following information:

Our internet connection speed
Our network hardware speed (10/100/1000 Mbps)
The connection speeds different users will be expecting

Let's begin by considering the throughput guidelines provided on the official pfSense website:

Firewall throughput	Processing power required	Hardware (PCI-X/PCI-e NICs)
21-50 Mbps	500 MHz CPU	No
51-200 Mbps	1 GHz CPU	Recommended (for 100 Mbps and faster)
201-500 Mbps	2 GHz CPU	Recommended
501+ Mbps	3 GHz CPU	Recommended

The following table defines any additional system requirements that would be necessary if deploying...

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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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