pfSense is an open source network firewall/router software distribution which is
based on the FreeBSD operating system. pfSense software is used to make dedicated
firewall/router for a network and it is considered for its reliability and offers many
features which mostly found in commercial firewalls. Pfsense can be included with
many third party free software packages for additional functionality.
As we are using many popular firewall’s in industry level such as Cisco ASA, Juniper,
Check Point, Cisco PIX, Sonicwall, Netgear, Watchguard etc.. We can use the pfsense
in free of cost with rich web interface to configure all our network components.
pfsense supports traffic shapper, virtual ip, Load balancer and much more. It has
several Diagnostics tool by default.
This article will guide you through the basic instructions on how to install and
configure pfSense version 2.1.5 in a home/office network and offers few basic
recommendations which is based on my experience.
Hardware Requirements
Pentium II Processor, 256MB RAM, 1GB of HDD Space, CD-ROM.
2 Ethernet Card’s, Pfsense ISO file.
pfSense Installation and Configuration
1. First visit the pfSense download page and select your computer architecture and
Download Link :
https://www.pfsense.org/download/mirror.php?section=downloads
platform. Here I’ve chosen “i368 (32-bit)” as my computer architecture and platform
as “LiveCD with installer“, but in your case it would be different, make sure to select
and download correct architecture for your system.
2. After selecting the architecture and platform, you will get a list of mirrors to
download, make sure to select nearest mirror link to download the image from there.
3. After download completes, the downloaded image must be burn to an CD/DVD
media as an ISO image before we start using it. You can use any CD/DVD burning
software to burn the image to CD/DVD media.
If incase, you don’t have an CD/DVD drive, you can use Unetbootin tool to create a
Live bootable USB media or if you don’t want to follow all these procedures, just go
the pfSense download page, there you will get pre-created bootable pfSense images
for you USB media, just go there and grab the “Live CD with installer (on USB
Memstick)“. Don’t forget to select USB console type before downloading...
4. Now switch on or reboot the target machine, place pfSense CD/DVD or USB stick
and set the BIOS options to your booting method (CD/DVD or USB) according to your
choice and choose the boot options by pressing a keyboard function keys, usually
F10 or F12, pfSense will start booting....
5. As the pfSense starts booting, a prompt is displayed with some options and a
countdown timer. At this prompt, press 1 to get install pfsense by default. If we don’t
choose any option it will start to boot option 1 by default.
6. Next, press ‘I‘ to install fresh copy of pfsense, If we need to start a recovery use R,
to Continue using Live CD choose C within 20 seconds count.
7. On the next screen, it will ask you to ‘Configure Console‘, just press ‘Accept these
settings‘ to move forward for installation process.
8. If you’re new to pfsense, choose ‘Quick/Easy Install‘ option to take make things
easier or choose ‘Custom Install‘ to get advance options during installation process
(recommended for advance users).
9. Next, select the disk on which you want to install pfsense.
10. Next, it will ask you to format the selected disk, if it’s new disk you should format
or if it contains any important data you should take backup before formatting the
disk.
11. Choose the cylinder size and heads, here I’m using the default settings option
‘Use this Geometry‘ to move forward for the installation.
12. On the next step, it will prompt you a warning about disk format, if you sure about
that the disk has no data, just move forward with the selection.
13. Now it’s time to partition the disk.
For further process please visit :
http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-install-and-configure-pfsense/
based on the FreeBSD operating system. pfSense software is used to make dedicated
firewall/router for a network and it is considered for its reliability and offers many
features which mostly found in commercial firewalls. Pfsense can be included with
many third party free software packages for additional functionality.
As we are using many popular firewall’s in industry level such as Cisco ASA, Juniper,
Check Point, Cisco PIX, Sonicwall, Netgear, Watchguard etc.. We can use the pfsense
in free of cost with rich web interface to configure all our network components.
pfsense supports traffic shapper, virtual ip, Load balancer and much more. It has
several Diagnostics tool by default.
This article will guide you through the basic instructions on how to install and
configure pfSense version 2.1.5 in a home/office network and offers few basic
recommendations which is based on my experience.
Hardware Requirements
Pentium II Processor, 256MB RAM, 1GB of HDD Space, CD-ROM.
2 Ethernet Card’s, Pfsense ISO file.
pfSense Installation and Configuration
1. First visit the pfSense download page and select your computer architecture and
Download Link :
https://www.pfsense.org/download/mirror.php?section=downloads
platform. Here I’ve chosen “i368 (32-bit)” as my computer architecture and platform
as “LiveCD with installer“, but in your case it would be different, make sure to select
and download correct architecture for your system.
2. After selecting the architecture and platform, you will get a list of mirrors to
download, make sure to select nearest mirror link to download the image from there.
3. After download completes, the downloaded image must be burn to an CD/DVD
media as an ISO image before we start using it. You can use any CD/DVD burning
software to burn the image to CD/DVD media.
If incase, you don’t have an CD/DVD drive, you can use Unetbootin tool to create a
Live bootable USB media or if you don’t want to follow all these procedures, just go
the pfSense download page, there you will get pre-created bootable pfSense images
for you USB media, just go there and grab the “Live CD with installer (on USB
Memstick)“. Don’t forget to select USB console type before downloading...
4. Now switch on or reboot the target machine, place pfSense CD/DVD or USB stick
and set the BIOS options to your booting method (CD/DVD or USB) according to your
choice and choose the boot options by pressing a keyboard function keys, usually
F10 or F12, pfSense will start booting....
5. As the pfSense starts booting, a prompt is displayed with some options and a
countdown timer. At this prompt, press 1 to get install pfsense by default. If we don’t
choose any option it will start to boot option 1 by default.
6. Next, press ‘I‘ to install fresh copy of pfsense, If we need to start a recovery use R,
to Continue using Live CD choose C within 20 seconds count.
7. On the next screen, it will ask you to ‘Configure Console‘, just press ‘Accept these
settings‘ to move forward for installation process.
8. If you’re new to pfsense, choose ‘Quick/Easy Install‘ option to take make things
easier or choose ‘Custom Install‘ to get advance options during installation process
(recommended for advance users).
9. Next, select the disk on which you want to install pfsense.
10. Next, it will ask you to format the selected disk, if it’s new disk you should format
or if it contains any important data you should take backup before formatting the
disk.
11. Choose the cylinder size and heads, here I’m using the default settings option
‘Use this Geometry‘ to move forward for the installation.
12. On the next step, it will prompt you a warning about disk format, if you sure about
that the disk has no data, just move forward with the selection.
13. Now it’s time to partition the disk.
For further process please visit :
http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-install-and-configure-pfsense/
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