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  • pfSense Remote Logging To Kiwi Syslog Server

    pfSense Remote Logging To Kiwi Syslog Server

    Recently, I had to enable logging for several firewall rules on a pfSense box, of course this was going to result in an increase in the number of logs and possibly fill the 4GB compact flash card pfSense is installed on. Fortunately pfSense makes it...

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  • Write a .img to a Compact Flash with Physdiskwrite

    Write a .img to a Compact Flash with Physdiskwrite

    For this tutorial I am going to write a 2GB pfSense image to a 4GB Compact Flash card using Physdiskwrite a command line utility for Windows. Sometimes the images may be compressed, extract the contents before attempting to write them to a card. It would...

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  • pfSense Installation Guide

    pfSense Installation Guide

    PfSense is an open source firewall and router distribution based on FreeBSD and the result of a m0n0wall fork. PfSense is rock solid and doesn’t suffer from hardware or software vendor imposed limitations. Administration is done via a WebGUI (web interface) that is mature, capable,...

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  • Upcoming Book: The Definitive Guide to pfSense

    Upcoming Book: The Definitive Guide to pfSense

    If you use pfSense as much as I do you may be interested and perhaps exited to find out that pfSense is getting it’s own book. From the Reed Media website Authored by pfSense developer Chris Buechler and pfSense consultant Jim Pingle, The Definitive Guide...

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