
Set up pfSense from scratch by connecting to the internet and a PC, accessing the web GUI, using default admin credentials, and configuring WAN/LAN, DNS, and domain name.
Explore pfSense features by navigating the customizable dashboard, monitoring system information, configuring interfaces and firewall rules, and using built-in services and packages for VPN, DNS, and diagnostics.
Learn how to verify pfSense connectivity, add a second network interface, configure a new LAN (LAN2), assign a static IP, enable DHCP, and create firewall rules to permit internet access.
Secure dhcp ip address assignments with static mapping of the router’s mac to an ip outside the dhcp pool on the lan interface, and verify by renewing dhcp.
Enable static ARP entries to bind a MAC address to a specific IP, securing IP address assignments and restricting access to authorized devices in the pfSense lab.
Bridge the LAN and LAN2 interfaces on pfSense, assign a bridge IP, enable a server on the bridge to issue IPs, and verify connectivity to the internet.
Learn pfSense firewall basics in a beginner lab, building rules to block ping and SSH while enabling web access, and mastering rule order and implicit denial.
Explore how VLANs turn a flat network into separate broadcast domains in pfSense labs, with per-VLAN subnets and gateways, and traffic control via trunk and access ports.
Implement VLANs on pfSense by creating VLAN interfaces for 10 and 20, enabling DHCP, and configuring trunk and access ports on a managed switch to segment devices.
Apply quality of service in pfSense by creating two 2 Mbps limiters for upload and download and applying them via a firewall rule using a PC alias.
Learn to back up and restore pfSense configurations, perform a live lab, and restore from XML backups to revert interface descriptions and settings.
Learn to monitor pfSense traffic with built-in graphs and an enhanced package, enable default graphing, and view hourly, daily, and monthly totals for LAN interfaces.
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Hi, my name is Maher Haddad and I going to to be the trainer of this course.
pfSense is becoming very popular these days due to the rich features that it has and the reliability that it provides. However, configuring pfSense applicances is extremly difficult if you do not know the theory behind each of the technologies.
For that reason, I have decided to make a course to be addressed for beginners who wish to start learning pfSense. In this course, I will go slowly talking about each of the topics and will apply each topic on a LAB so you can understant how things are being configured. The LABs will be make using GNS3 emulation, that means you have 0 cost to re-do the LABs again and you do not require to buy any hardware.
Some of the topics that will be explained in this course are:
Adding a new Interface on pfSense
DHCP Server with static entries and ARP
Bridge
Firewall
VLAN
QOS
Backup and Restor
Graph
The course is meant for beginners on pfSense and you only require to have baseic TCP/IP knowledge and a computer with internet access.
If you are ready to start learning pfSense, just grab this course and I assure you that by end of the course you will be able to configure pfSense for a small/medium companies.