How to Install pfSense - Start to Finish!

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We use #pfSense as our firewall here at 2GuysTek. It’s the system that protects our virtual servers and PCs from the Internet, filters and blocks bad IP and DNS addresses, and acts as our VPN endpoint. pfSense is a super-powerful, enterprise-grade firewall that you can run for free in your #homelab! We thought it would be a great idea to walk you through setting it up from start to finish, let’s get to it!

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**TIMESTAMPS!**
0:00 Intro
0:52 Let's talk network design!
1:44 pfSense hardware requirements
2:23 How to download pfSense community Edition
2:59 How to create a bootable USB stick of pfSense
3:36 Plug in your WAN connection!
3:50 Installing pfSense Community Edition
7:32 First boot of pfSense Community Edition
8:45 Logging into the pfSense dashboard with default credentials
9:04 First time setup wizard for pfSense
11:38 Walkthrough of the pfSense dashboard
12:57 Adding dashboard widgets to pfSense
13:28 Thanks for watching! Join our discord and talk #homelab with us!

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This video is awesome! I always enjoy learning about enterprise level products and you guys do an amazing job explaining in detail. Please keep the videos coming!

gregoryrogers

This is awesome! More PfSense stuff please!

kittysreview

I only have an SSD on my laptop, if i install pfsense will this result in clearing all the data in my SSD ?

Shake_Well_Before_Use

Great setup video. I appreciate that you guys went over the minimum hardware requirements as I’m considering putting together a dedicated system. So what hardware are you guys running pfsense on in production? The specs from your video indicate xenon based systems, or are they just VMs for the demo? Thanks!

jgm

I plan on switching back to pfsense from my UDM Pro because I got At&ts 5 gig speed and it is way way better! am just going to run my controller for my unifi access points and switches on my PC. Am building a pc for it with a 10 gig rj45 card and a 10gig sfp+ card.

GotWire

Is it better to use pfSense before UniFi in terms of network placement, or can it be fine with UniFi only?

SBPepperminion

I was able to install the software itself. My questions is, once I install the software, and I reach the screen with the multiple numerical options like 0 for logout, 1 assign interfaces, etc. Should I restart my machine and boot from my laptop that has the software installed or use another machine to access the pfsense login window? I tried using my Macbook to reach the site, but it takes too long to respond.

@2GuysTek Thank you for the video for installation. It's been a great help!

tetsuoakira

@2guystek - I have a question on setting pfsense lan interface configuration.

My pfsense wan port is connected to lan port on isp router ( isp providing internet by telephone cable). Based on this configuration pfsense wan interface received ip address (192.168.1.x) from isp router by dhcp server.

Based on wan interface ip in pfsense, I changed pfsense lan ip address to different network (192.168.10.x). Then clients connected to lan interface are unable to reach internet.

Any suggestions enabling internet on lan?

My pfsense configuration:

VMware Esxi 7 hypervisor.
Virtualized pfsense.
4 port gigabit network card.

rahulpulagamofficial

Please continue making pfsense helpful video help..

billygormack

How did you go from the screen at 8:41 to the pfsense dashboard screen at 8:47?

TimachinimaCinema

etcher fails to flash for me
on 3 diff memory sticks... will look into rufus

xXSuiceAngelXx

what to do with all these settings and what do they all do

fastshuther

btx loader 1.00 btx version is 1.02 . i faced with this problem while installation

ManarIslamicRadio

my installation stucks at something like:

KDB: enter: panic
Stopped at kdb_enter+0x3b : movq
db>

it doesn't get to the "Copyright and distribution notice" page

Chris-xrgg

Very strange; i downloaded balenaEtcher. It seemed like it destroyed 4 usb sticks, at least my Win 10 would no longer recognize them after it said it failed with the install of the PFsense image. Now the strange part. Both times i downloaded the Etcher software there was an Imageusb download following in the q. So i tried the Imageusb software from Osforensics and it successfully installed the PFsense software on the usb stick that Win 10 had refused to recognize.

Truthvector