{"product_id":"pfsense-2x-cookbook-manage-and-maintain-your-network-using-pfsense-2nd-edition-9781789806427","title":"pfSense 2.x Cookbook: Manage and maintain your network using pfSense  2nd Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eA practical  example-driven guide to configuring even the most advanced features of pfSense 2.x Key Features Build a high-availability fault-tolerant security system with pfSense 2.x Leverage the latest version of pfSense to secure your cloud environment A recipe-based guide that will help you enhance your on-premise and cloud security principles Book Description pfSense is an open source distribution of the FreeBSD-based firewall that provides a platform for exible and powerful routing and firewalling. The versatility of pfSense presents us with a wide array of configuration options  which makes determining requirements a little more difficult and a lot more important compared to other offerings. pfSense 2.x Cookbook - Second Edition starts by providing you with an understanding of how to complete the basic steps needed to render a pfSense firewall operational. It starts by showing you how to set up different forms of NAT entries and firewall rules and use aliases and scheduling in firewall rules. Moving on  you will learn how to implement a captive portal set up in different ways (no authentication  user manager authentication  and RADIUS authentication)  as well as NTP and SNMP configuration. You will then learn how to set up a VPN tunnel with pfSense. The book then focuses on setting up traffic shaping with pfSense  using either the built-in traffic shaping wizard  custom oating rules  or Snort. Toward the end  you will set up multiple WAN interfaces  load balancing and failover groups  and a CARP failover group. You will also learn how to bridge interfaces  add static routing entries  and use dynamic routing protocols via third-party packages. What you will learn Configure the essential pfSense services (namely  DHCP  DNS  and DDNS) Create aliases  firewall rules  NAT port-forward rules  and rule schedules Create multiple WAN interfaces in load-balanced or failover configurations Configure firewall redundancy with a CARP firewall failover Configure backup\/restoration and automatic configuration-file backup Configure some services and perform diagnostics with command-line utilities Who this book is for This book is intended for all levels of network administrators. If you are an advanced user of pfSense  then you can flip to a particular recipe and quickly accomplish the task at hand; if you are new to pfSense  on the other hand  you can work through the book chapter by chapter and learn all of the features of the system from the ground up. Table of Contents Initial Configuration Essential Services Firewall and NAT Additional Services Virtual Private Networking Traffic Shaping Redundancy  Load Balancing  and Failover Routing and Bridging Services and Maintenance Backing Up and Restoring pfSense Determining Hardware Requirements\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647618441269,"sku":"ByrdShop_1789806429","price":37.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781789806427.jpg?v=1781696143","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/pfsense-2x-cookbook-manage-and-maintain-your-network-using-pfsense-2nd-edition-9781789806427","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}