pfSense: How to Turn an Old PC into an Epic Router

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Pfsense is the best way to turn an old computer into a top shelf router. This video is really in-depth and nerdy... just a warning.

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[killerbeel]

The instructions weren't clear enough. I got my 10 gigabit nic stuck in the cd drive...

[BeingAGamerguy]

*Glances at half disassembled PC nearby*  I know what I'm doing tomorrow.

[JacobStar]

I've been using pfSense for about 6 months now, and it's a treat. I have VPN's, proxies, and an IDS setup with mine including a whole lot of firewall rules. I love pfSense, any questions and I'll try to answer it for you.

[onelifelefttodie]

Yeah could we get an updated video about this?

[kulgan]

projects where you can reuse old stuff rather than throw it away is always nice

[Rad]

This video is amazing guys, you've done an excellent work!

As a petition I would like you to make a video about:
PfSense configuration for "LOAD BALANCING",

using the same NIC configuration setup as in this video, it would be like using two WAN's connected via ethernet from the ISP routers to the PC and transmit the balance of those two via WLAN.

I will be very thankful, cheers!

[nothank]

So this was the first tek syndicate video I ever watch, and have been a huge fan of the channel since. Finally found a reason to use pfsense in the home, install pfsense on an astaro 220 to push all my traffic through a vpn.


You guys are great, just felt like checking up on the old stuff.

[marcusaurileus]

I never really understood IP subnetting until you explained it! Thank you guys for making it so clear and easy to understand!

[toysareforboys]

Thanks so much for your video! I wasn't able to install it initially because I was getting an error "ad0: WARNING - ATA_IDENTIFY required due to channel reset LBA=0" but google told me to change my SATA hard drive from Compatible to AHCI and then it installed perfectly. I like it WAY better than DD-WRT and the performance is simply amazing :) Thanks again. -Jamie M.

[OrderoftheWarlocks]

That guy is typing on an IBM mechanical keyboard. awesome.

[MrSpvdes]

So I got this opportunity to work as a QA specialist in my company .

All the servers that we will be working on are running a modified version of PF sense.

My point is, Thank you for uploading this video in the past !!!

Installing Pf sense is alot more easier than I taught !!!!

Much love from montreal !!!

[nvcumn]

This is awesome!!! I have a bunch of old computers in my home office that are used from time to time for video presentations at my brothers convention; Fandemonium, this is an amazing way to re purpose one as an amazing router. Can't believe it's taken me this long to come across this, Thank you guys SOOO much!

[kitty-lue]

* watching video on Dell Inspiron 600m with Windows XP *
hears "This is an old Dell, it used to run Windows Vista..."
me: :P

[wesmurrell]

That keyboard sounds like an IBM model M. I loooove me some model M!

[DireNeeds]

Great Tutorial. I've set up a couple of boxes and have referenced this both times. Thanks.

[ramosel]

Hands down, this is the best advice I got this year. Thanks guys for getting me started down this road. I can't believe how many hits my pfBlocker gets from Asia... Hopefully you will do more config/tuning videos on this product now that 2.1 is out and IPv6 is covered

[TheBendixSA]

Dude you need to do vidja's like these again they are epic

[chizukichan]

I really enjoyed this video. It was incredibly useful. Thank you.

[OsmosisHD]

Been using PFsense for years and I still love it, for my 'newest' router/hw firewall
I've used an older C2D Dell Optiplex that i bought dirt cheap 2nd hand.
Bought an new 30GB ssd and 8GB of ram. 2nd hand 4xGbit LAN network card from Intel (those enterprise pci-e cards)
In total spend less then 130usd /100eur and have one hell of a router!

[crazymistamo]

There is a mistake in the instructions. The subnet mask on the WiFi static IPv4 configuration should not be set to 32 otherwise it limits the DHCP server on that interface. The subnet mask is not for the host address it is actually for the network address.