A comprehensive guide to pfSense - Introduction

This is the introduction to a series of videos about pfSense. Both physical and VM instances will be used. Topics such as using a failover physical pfsense to work with a VM pfSense. Setting up openvpn (both an openvpn server and openvpn multiple clients).
Using vlans. Blocking ads. Setting up squid and squid guard and other topics.
This introduction part gives an overview of the series of videos and talks about pfSense and its advantages.

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[musmuk]

Well I must say I didn't know what pfSense was!
But I'm definitely going to give it a go!!! I love unRAID.

[rallygallery]

Studied all your pfsense videos and took the plunge. Mini pc, managed switch and ubiquiti AP point and got the whole system working. Superb work Ed and without your videos I would not have taken this project on. Absolutely brilliant!! Please do continue to add more pfsense videos to the series.

[plumbum]

This is great. I love your tutorials with UnRaid and struggle a bit with PfSense. I would love a tutorial on how to setup a VLAN for my IOT devices and Sonos

[blindside]

I have been looking into pfSense a lot the past two weeks. Then, of course, you drop a video on how I could do this with my unRAID server. You're AWESOME Spaceinvader One. Thanks so much for taking time on these videos making it easy to follow and understand. Each of your videos has a nice edit, good audio, and purpose. Thanks to you I have really started pushing my unRAID server to do more and more, and it just blows me away. Oh. not to mention gave me a reason to build a second server for backups and testing.

[cammelspit]

Holy shit! I pfSense. I think it is especially important, once you get there, to spend extra time on traffic shaping and OpenVPN stuff. With OpenVPN you have to focus a lot on DNS leaks since it is not immediately apparent there is a problem and when you do find out, it is even less apparent how to handle that. AWESOME! Very much so looking forward to this one. Great work!

[popple]

I've actually been eyeballing pfSense lately... Looks like this series will seal my deal! - Looking forward to it.

[rallygallery]

Great video as always. Was thinking of looking into pfsense and your videos are the perfect way to do that. You got me hooked into unraid (built two servers now!) so I think the same will happen for pfsense. Keep up the excellent work!

[razoreddy]

The Dom Deluise caricature @ 5:00 cracked me up because it was so unexpected. It's Captain Chaos!!

[jacobjrgensen]

Been wanting to make a VM pfSense on my unRaid machine for a long time now, but I lack the know-how. With this series, it looks like I'm finally going to be able to do it. Looking forward to it. Keep up the good work!

[semeonfunck]

Great Video!
I would love to see a tutorial about setting up OpenVPN - booth in PfSense and also on the client side like Windows and Android.
Keep up the good work!

[rbm]

Great idea for a series of videos. If possible, I'd like to see how pfSense can be used for parental control in a home network. My son goes crazy with Internet use and, as a concerned parent, I'd like a way to manage and monitor his usage until he's able to make mature decisions on his own.

[pimogo]

Excited to begin this project next. I'll be closely watching for new videos. Thanks! Love this channel

[ssiiolb]

Great! Just on time. I am waiting for my Intel quad nic to arrive and set it up in an unraid VM. Congrats for choosing pfsense for this video!

[burkusmax]

pFsense is the best! I've got a HA setup at home with multiple VLAN routing. It's rock solid.

[CodeXploit]

This whole series is one of the best tutorials for PFSense out here... It finally helped me sort out VLANS and UPNP problems. Great job.

[davidr]

Yes Ed, loving it. I'm running. Pfsense on a APU2C4 but I don't maximize its use. Your videos will help.

Looking forward to the next video mate.

[sarf]

Fantastic, Really looking forward to the next vid, this is exactly what I have been looking for. Especially to control access for my kids devices. The current router is a good one but simply cant do what I need! Thanks for the series!

[JJnATX]

I have a hardware based PFsense that is fully configured. Will be either consolidating my hardware OR adding a 2nd pfsense firewall VM in front of unraid / containers. thanks for doing the video. going to have to check of AES-NI passes through to a pfsense VM.

[misteryman]

earlier videos in a series are often under-loved and under-liked therefore I'm hitting a lie on this super useful intro too!

[Topdoozie]

You make the best tutorials! Thanks Spaceinvader!