pfsense Archive

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 very easy to send logs over...
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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 be wise to place both physdiskwrite.exe...
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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 limitations imposed by the vendors. Despite being based on FreeBSD, the administration of pfSense is done via a web...
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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 to pfSense covers installation and basic...
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