How to Install and Configure pfSense Firewall on Hyper-V in Windows

How to Install and Configure pfSense Firewall on Hyper-V in Windows

To download, select as follows:
✅ Architecture: AMD64 (64-bit)
✅ Installer: DVD Image (ISO) Installer
✅ Mirror: Select the server closest to you.

📌 Firewall tutorials

✳️ pfSense Firewall

👉 How to Install and Configure pfSense Firewall on GNS3: updating

✳️ OPNSense Firewall

👉 How to Install and Configure OPNSense Firewall on GNS3: updating

✳️ FortiGate Firewall

👉 How to Install and Configure FortiGate Firewall on VMware Workstation: updating

👉 How to Install and Configure FortiGate Firewall on Virtualbox: updating

👉 How to Install and Configure FortiGate Firewall on Hyper-V: updating

👉 How to Install and Configure FortiGate Firewall on GNS3: updating

📌 pfSense features

pfSense® software is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD specifically tailored for use as a firewall and router that is entirely managed via web interface. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution.

✳️ Firewall and Router
✅ Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI)
✅ GeoIP blocking
✅ Anti-Spoofing
✅ Time based rules, Connection rules
✅ Dynamic DNS, Reverse proxy
✅ Captive portal guest network
✅ Supports concurrent IPv4 and IPv6
✅ NAT mapping (inbound/outbound)
✅ VLAN support (802.1q)
✅ Configurable static routing
✅ IPv6 network prefix translation
✳️ VPN
✅ IPsec and OpenVPN
✅ Site-to-site and remote access VPN support
✅ SSL encryption
✅ VPN client for multiple operating systems
✅ L2TP/IPsec for mobile devices
✅ Multi-WAN for failover
✅ IPv6 support
✅ Split tunneling
✅ Multiple tunnels
✅ VPN tunnel failover
✅ NAT support
✅ Automatic or custom routing
✅ Local user authentication or RADIUS/LDAP
✳️ Intrusion Prevention System
✅ Snort-based packet analyzer
✅ Layer 7 application detection
✅ Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
✅ Optional open-source packages for application blocking

✳️ Enterprise Reliability
✅ Optional multi-node High Availability Clustering
✅ Multi-WAN load balancing
✅ Automatic connection failover
✅ Bandwidth throttling
✅ Traffic shaping wizard
✳️ User Authentication
✅ Local user and group database
✅ User and group-based privileges
✅ Optional automatic account expiration
✅ External RADIUS authentication
✅ Automatic lockout after repeated attempts
✳️ Proxy and Content Filtering
✅ HTTP and HTTPS proxy
✅ Non Transparent or Transparent caching proxy
✅ Domain/URL filtering
✅ Anti-virus filtering
✅ SafeSearch for search engines
✅ HTTPS URL and content screening
✅ Website access reporting
✅ Domain Name blacklisting (DNSBL)
✅ Usage reporting for daily, monthly, etc.

[ttropicalgamer]

remember to uncheck allow host to use the interface is crucial if you want security if you get straight ethernet from your isp modem/router

[cojojacobs]

Could you route all the host server traffic to the the VM firewall with this setup

[ryanking]

when i try it and i get to the point where im installing pfsense it asks me to select wan and lan interfaces and then it never lets me continue saying cannot assign network interface

[asleembaig]

Why I am not able to simulate the same lab using private network (under virtual switch on hyper-v)

[CcnaLife]

Question: since there is no physical ports involved and this is only configured on virtual machine, how can any device connect to either subnets (11.1 or 12.1) ?

[nicoromero]

When I ping the internal virtual switch from inside the pfsense virtual machine I get no response. Is that normal? I do get a response when I ping from my host OS tho.