Learn and Share: PFSense User Interface

PFSENSE

Today i will be sharing to you the firewall i have made in our institution, but for now user interfaces will only be shown today. So as we prepare to learn this day, I will introduce to you the pfsense ui and it's brief difinition or uses.

LOGIN PAGE

| where you can input your username and password

SYSTEM

| Change of passwords, Install Packages, DNS Server Settings, Routing

INTERFACES

| VLANS, Assigning of Interfaces, WAN Configuration, PPPOE Configuration

FIREWALL

|Alliases,Port Forwarding, Traffic Rules, Bandwidth Limiter

SERVICES

|Website Restriction, Google Safe search, Load Balancer, DNS Resolver

VPN

|Open VPN, L2TP

STATUS

|Monitor Gateways, Reports, System Logs, Traffic Graphs

DIAGNOSTICS

| Backup and Restoring of files, Reboot, S.M.A.R.T. Status, Testing of Ports and Tracing of routes

HELP

| All about PFSense management

GENERAL SETUP

|Is where you can assign your Hostname and Domain Name. You can also configure the DNS Server Settings. Changing of timezone, language, adjust the theme and even edit dashboard columns.

WAN INTERFACE

| Assigning of Username of Password or if you have PPPOE account you can also register it to pfsense.

RULES

|Where you can see all your configured VLAN's, Configure Restriction per VLAN's and applying drag and drop inorder to change the rule order.

DHCP SERVER

| Every end devices that is connected to the network will automatically absorbed by the firewall if user is using dhcp on ip configuration.

SQUIDGUARD

|one of the most important package to be installed in a firewall is the squidguard. You can block websites by downloading squidguard and install it to firewall and you can now configure the squidguard after installation.

Any comments question is highly appreciated just comment down below and i will give you my best time answering your queries.

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@jriel