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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

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788993173

Length 450 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

pfsense

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

David Zientara

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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

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Preface

pfSense is open source firewall/router software based on the FreeBSD packet filtering program PF that can be used as a perimeter firewall, router, wireless access point, DHCP server, DNS server, or VPN endpoint. Mastering pfSense, Second Edition, is a comprehensive guide to installing, configuring, and customizing pfSense.

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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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