How to Install and Configure pfSense Firewall on Virtualbox

How to Install and Configure pfSense Firewall on Virtualbox

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📌 Firewall tutorials

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📌 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
✅ IPv6 router advertisements
✅ Multiple IP addresses per interface
✅ DHCP server, DNS forwarding
✅ Wake-on-LAN, PPPoE Server
✳️ 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

✳️ Intrusion Prevention System
✅ Snort-based packet analyzer
✅ Layer 7 application detection
✅ Multiple rules sources and categories
✅ Emerging threats database
✅ IP blacklist database
✅ Pre-set rule profiles
✅ Per-interface configuration
✅ Suppressing false positive alerts
✅ 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
✅ Reserve or restrict bandwidth based on traffic priority
✅ Fair sharing bandwidth
✅ User data transfer quotas
✳️ User Authentication
✅ Local user and group database
✅ User and group-based privileges
✅ Optional automatic account expiration
✅ External RADIUS authentication
✅ Automatic lockout after repeated attempts

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[skimlk]

Hi, I follow this tutorial but I am trying to setup a captive portal in pfsense but it doesnt work. can you make a tutorial how to make captive portal in pfsense?

[janiceferrer]

Please make video on seconion installation and configuration. Thankyou so much sir

[mttwesj]

Thank you very much for this knowledge, . You have changed my life, . But i want to ask what kind of Version of Oracle VM are you using!!?

[fpekejs]

Hello. I need your help. I have a Mikrotik router which is also a dhcp server. I installed pfsense in a virtual box on my computer (it is connected to one switch with other users) and one adapter is in the NAT and the other is in the bridge and receives IP from Mikrotik via dhcp. How do I make all traffic to be monitored by pfsense? Also, if there was an external attack on my router, would this firewall detect it? Is there a route to write on the router?

[adesamtutorial]

sir when i start the vm i got this error: Failed to open/create the internal network Host-Only Ethernet Adapter'
Failed to attach the network LUN
Result Code:
E_FAIL (0X80004005)
Component:
ConsoleWrap
Interface:
IConsole


please help me.

[orla]

Hey Sir Thank you so much .I had a problem . After configuration, i can't ping pfsense 1 and pfsense2 too.How can i do ?

[JayMakwana-xlgo]

Can we make LAN 12 as Internal network and allow other VM's to connect to pfsense network using LAN12?

[zfrocc]

How do I access my pfsense firewall in a separate windows 11 vm? I can only access it on my host system.

[syafiqrahim]

may i know what is the function on LAN 12 ?

[RoyalNatangwe]

where did you access the browser from?