How to Install pfSense on Your PC: Step-by-Step Tutorial for Beginners

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Discover how to turn your standard PC into a powerful firewall using pfSense! In this comprehensive guide, I walk you through the step-by-step process of installing pfSense on your computer, perfect for beginners looking to enhance their network security. From preparing your hardware with additional NIC cards to setting up the pfSense software from a USB stick, this video covers everything you need to get started.

What You Will Learn:
1. How to prepare your PC for pfSense installation.
2. Step-by-step instructions on installing additional NIC cards.
3. Downloading and flashing pfSense onto a USB stick.
4. Detailed setup of pfSense from the initial boot to configuring network interfaces.
5. Accessing and configuring pfSense via its web interface for secure network management.l
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[horatiumarasescu]

Some considerations: power consumption for a fully fledged computer is not sustainable, a router/firewall needs to be up 24/7/365.
Alternatively, one can look for s small factor PC or a thin client, like HP T620 Plus, under 15W running
More, most motherboards have integrated Realtek NIC which are known to have driver issues under BSD stack.
A second hand quad Intel NIC is a world of difference when it comes to speed, stability and features.
Nevertheless, good to see more people promote pfSense and open source software for routers and firewalls.

[askmethod]

Thanks bro . good job . keep on for second videos

[TMavC]

Nicely done. Low tech but very informative.

[josephmulvey]

can you use a USB nic for an additional interface?

[PatricksDIY]

Thanks for this tutorial, It was actually as straight forward as I thought, but The reason I searched for these videos was because I was looking to see if Pfsense could run on the same pc and still be used as a PC, but it looks like this takes up the entire PC for routing. Thats okay, but it means I need to go look for an old PC to use for PfSense.

[xfilercuba]

Thank you for the video. It was very instructive. You need a faster internet though lol

[OMGTheCloud]

Nice, thanks for sharing. Subscribed!

[ObaleSamLam]

It's absolutely fyn video, thou i can't download the pfsense from the site...

[nimrodjohncuanico]

Hello, can I ask what is the minimum system requirements for installing PFsense?

[nuryansahthamrin]

dear sir @Torogi Pro
please make a tutorial pfsense load balancing 3 isp, isp A=60mb isp B=60mn isp C=20mb and games route traffic to isp C only

[kevinsulatra]

Sir can you do a tutorial on site to site VPN between Azure, AWS or GCP and On Prem using PFSense. Thank you sir

[gamuchiraindawana]

1 cable will be connected from eth1 to the LAN Port on your router, how about the other cable?

[misterdabs]

as I understand it the second network card you added will be the WAN then?

[RD]

I purchased a pretty loade pfsense box with Lan and wan ports. I need to connect. A laptop to it. What cable from the laptop to the pfsense pre loaded box

[theunclemez]

Hello Torogi
I loved this tutorial and the way you presented things but one of my main request here would be know if you can make a video or 2 (or even more) focusing onhow to deploy a captive portale on PfSense.
Captive portals actually is an additional security level for people like me who have high speed internet at home (for work purposes) but would love manually allow peoples in or take them out, also build profile that I can shape easily allowing this and disallowing that because each person have different needs.

Will be pleased if such serie could be recorded and published.

[fabiogiehl]

I have a n5105 with 16gb, could be nice use squid?

[jesusvillafranca]

I install two NIC cards using PCIE which has two Ethernet ports each plus the integrated one that comes in my computer. How do I determine which one is re0, re1, etc ?

[johndarylceleste]

hi master when i try installing pf its the other nic card is not detected only the re0 is detected please help me

[Jappmannen]

My installation halts on the BTX loader in the beginning.
What am I doing wrong?

[Martin-otxj]

Hi there, i have a question, why you didn't add wifi card instead of lan card ?? one lan card as wan connect to router and wifi card as lan give internet to all your devices wirelessly ??!!