🌎Basic BGP Configuration on pfSense

Hey there guys, hope you're doing well. In this video we will be exploring how to configure BGP on a pfSense firewall. I'll be talking about some nice use cases and things I think the pfSense can use BGP for. I'll also be going over the steps needed to configure BGP on pfSense. Including what package you need to download and some of the quirks that come with it when configuring BGP(Or any other routing protocol). Hope you enjoy!

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Timestamps:
📕00:00 - Introduction
📕01:00 - Use-cases and info
📕03:36 - Installing FRR Package
📕04:22 - FRR Global settings
📕05:17 - FRR BGP settings
📕08:41 - BGP Route Maps
📕10:08 - BGP Neighbors
📕12:47 - Verify peering status

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[TheNetworkBerg]

Hey guys just some reference material, I highly suggest you watch the two videos I created on BGP using MikroTik for better understanding. Please also use the documentation as always.

pfSense Docs:

MikroTik BGP vids:

[thetechpastor]

This may be a couple of years old, but this was the best video on YT for setting up BGP. Just placed an edge router running PFSense and everything worked flawlessly. Thanks!

[shahid]

Thank so much to create this video on bgp .

[justanotherearthling]

Thank you for the Video. This has the answers that I needed for FRR.

[Uxrandom]

Thanks for covering this. It's great to see subjects like this being covered.

It's also explained clearly. I will come back to your channel more often.

[johnthoithi]

Great Video I Have Learnt Alot, I Have a Question If I Have Two WAN IP Addresses (Primary Fiber Link On WAN On WAN1 Port (ix3) And WAN 2 On WAN2 Port (ix0) Wireless Uplink From Same ISP) How Do I Advertise The BGP Networks To Both WAN IPS?

[MrArp]

thank you.
Some sites are filtered for my country. I am going to connect my pfsense to external vpn service that I have on a server in America, and the traffic of sites that are filtered will pass through this way.
how can i do ? please ...

[GpconnectInfohotspot]

so we can use bgp as a failover gateway in pfsense ? thanks

[gjkrisa]

to see routes on your mikrotik did you have to configure that as well or is it just able to listen and learn?

[shaider]

hi. do you have a tutorial pfsense ospf to mikrotik ospf?

[djbartles]

I have this setup slightly differently but am having an issue. I have 2 neighbors setup in BGP and the first is getting BGP routes coming back and is advertising the routes specified outbound to the 1st neighbor.

The 2nd connection/neighbor is advertising BGP routes back to my pfsense BUT the pfsense is NOT advertising routes to this 2nd neighbor. How can I get pfsense to advertise routes to more than 1 neighbor? For reference, I have P2P network connections so there is no internet connectivity to the pfsense. Any thoughts?

[LampJustin]

Awesome, been using FRR on Opnsense together with MetalLB for quite some time now, it's great, although I'd rather use vtysh and configure the daemon myself. But with a nice simple GUI I guess it's much nicer and faster to setup

[liefesaver]

Are the Mikrotik and the pfSense in the same network ? what I didn't quite understand is how they could still communicate after you disabled the GW.

[carlbarker]

This was Amazing! I'm using pfSense with my VMware NSX lab and its working! Thank you so much!!