Having choosen your keyboard, the next screen will ask you on how to partition your disk. The next screen is for keyboard distribution. Rescue shell and Recover config.xml are very usefull options if things get messed up The other two options are useful if you had a pfsense already running that you need to recover because something is messed up. In that bootloader screen, just hit the Enter key, let pfSense boot and wait until you see the following Copyright notice Copyright and distribution noticeĪfter reading and accept that notice, choose Install on the next screen. On the main site you can also pay for commercial support or appliances, get access to the documentation, etc.

You can download the community edition from here: you can choose for a CD image to burn on a physical disk or an USB image depending or what you have. I have VirtualBox, so I’m setting up everything on my PC and the other pc, the router and the webserver are actually virtual machines. This computer will have two network cards.īut… there is a but: I’m working at home today and I don’t have 4 computers.

Another computer where we will install pfSense for routing data packages between that LAN and the internet.

A mini LAN with a pc and a WebServer that we’ll enable access only to the http service from the outside world.

I made up a network for this article, consisting in: at least they said so, speaking only for me: I trust in this solution. PfSense is an special distribution of FreeBSD intented for network routing and firewall and is rapidly becoming the world’s most trusted open source network security solution….

With some practice and reading you could turn later on an advanced router with the firewall capabilities you could need on your network. In this tutorial I will show you how to setup a basic router and firewall with pfSense.

Installing pfsense