Configure The Advanced Features Of PfSense 2.0 With Packt's New Book

pfSense 2 Cookbook is a new book from Packt that gets under the hood to exploit the power of pfSense's core functionality. Written by Matt Williamson, this book is filled with detailed examples of interfaces, firewall rules, NAT port-forwarding,etc.

pfSense is an open source distribution based on FreeBSD with a wide array of configuration options, which highlights the importance of determining requirements to fit any environment's security needs. The versatility of pfSense provides a platform for flexible and powerful routing and firewalling.

pfSense 2 Cookbook helps readers determine their deployment scenario, their hardware, throughput, andinterface requirements, and to select the right platform version of pfSense. They will be able to configure essential networking services such as DHCP, DNS, Dynamic DNS, and will be able to provide external Remote Desktop Access to an internal machine.

Through this book, readers will learn to create multiple WAN interfaces, virtual IPs, a virtual LAN, gateways, and bridged interfaces. They will be able to configure traffic-shaping and Quality of Service (QoS), firewall redundancy with a CARP firewall failover, and external logging with syslog.

Network administrators will find this book an interesting and beneficial read. This book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit https://www.packtpub.com/pfsense-2-cookbook/book