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Mastering pfSense

You're reading from   Mastering pfSense Manage, secure, and monitor your on-premise and cloud network with pfSense 2.4

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788993173
Length 450 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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David Zientara David Zientara
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Preface 1. Revisiting pfSense Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced pfSense Configuration 3. VLANs 4. Using pfSense as a Firewall 5. Network Address Translation 6. Traffic Shaping 7. Virtual Private Networks 8. Redundancy and High Availability 9. Multiple WANs 10. Routing and Bridging 11. Extending pfSense with Packages 12. Diagnostics and Troubleshooting 13. Assessments 14. Another Book You May Enjoy

Configuring traffic shaping in pfSense

Traffic shaping in pfSense can be a challenge to configure, partially because of the number of options and the complexity of the shaper rules and shaper queues. It is generally recommended that you begin with the web GUI's traffic shaper wizard. You can access the wizard by clicking on Firewall | Traffic Shaper and then clicking on the Wizards tab. There are currently two wizards available: Multiple Lan/Wan and Dedicated Links. Multiple Lan/Wan can be used in a variety of scenarios in which there are one or more LAN-type interfaces, and one or more WAN interfaces. Dedicated Links, on the other hand, is designed for cases in which specific LAN/ WAN pairings do not mix with other traffic. For example, users on one subnet may have a different internet connection than users on another subnet. Therefore, there are two separate WAN interfaces...

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