How To Install pfSense + Beginners Configuration Guide

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📜 Ever wondered how to step up your network game by installing a robust software router like pfSense? 🤔 Look no further! In this video, I take you through the guide on setting up pfSense, using my Topton 12th-gen router mini-PC, a mainstay in my homelab setup. 🛠️💻

⏰ Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:24 Install pfSense
3:00 Basic Config
11:17 Outro

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📌 What You'll Learn:
1️⃣ How to configure LAN & WAN interfaces.
2️⃣ A first look at pfSense’s Web UI and some basic configurations.

🛠 Equipment Used:
1GB USB Flash Drive

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Stay tuned for my next video where I'll guide you through connecting pfSense with Pi-Hole for a network-wide ad-blocking utopia! 🛡️🚫

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[SirFancyPantsMcee]

Thank you so much for the video! It helped out a lot. I had to reset my connections for the vims to see each other. So if anyone is having issues with connections try that out.

[chrisgrose]

Thank you big time
I was stuck and you helped restore my sanity

[kristof]

Thanks, bought the same Topton and will install pfSense.

[srvuk]

The first 4 minutes was generally fine but then you killed the whole point of the video by stating that you were not going to install it because it would disrupt your network. Either show it from start to finish or not, especially for beginner that want the step by step helping hand.

And as a more general observation, slow down a little. Every single video feels like a race to the finish.

[Kevin-cmow]

Huge question: I'm new to this and i just bought the new router you suggested, part of the equipment that came with it is the RF cables which i concluded you need to install inside the router to attach the WiFi antennae outside; my problem is where does the end of the RF cable connect inside the router, they looked like something to be smolded not attached (no that i could find where to attach it to)

Please an explanation on how and where to put that in would be helpful. I haven't set up the antennae -yet which i feel would be important, since I'm not connecting the WAN Ethernet to anything

[rinobito]

Wait, great tutorial but im lost as to which system you installed the pfsense into. Does it need to be a seperate device? must it only be a router type device? if so on router, how did you proc the screen and the router to react that way. I was hoping that would be showed at the very start of the video on where or what exactly you placed that flash drive into.

[Sirius-mezy]

Hi sir pfsense menu not responding, click interfaces nothing happened, can't even logout

[TheElevenBravo]

Great video! Helped a
Much appreciated, senor Ninja!-The the it Italian?

[gb-vmyt]

thank you.
Unfortunately, I have only one interface on this machine, so it picks that up for WAN and then I can't configure another interface for the LAN. how do I resolve this ?

[ppal]

Didn’t see what screen you used and how you connected to the box.

[lanphanh]

Can we install PFsense on the Netgear Nighthawk x6S AC4000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 5 Router?

[Qupid-]

How would i forward ports from my vpn on my computer to my ps5 on my computer hotspot

[hamilton]

I'm a complete newbie so this may be a stupid question, but do we have to have a physical router, like a Topton, to be able to use the PF Sense software?

[antonshevchenko]

Laughed too hard for the “if you’re learning I’ll bet it will be 2” (at 9:55). That was a good one 😂

Seriously: the cc should say “I’ll bet it will be too”, not 2. Specifying 2 will make your internet not working properly

[SunshineDave]

How much RAM storage memory does the Topton n100 need to operate in this manner?

[aliencreation]

fren, thankyou for your video. I must ask, when you say router do you mean server??
Thankyou again.

[anand-nbbb]

Hi Bro,

I need your help. I have Ubuntu 18.04 on my laptop and it has a VPN settings configured on it. I think its managed through pfsense I use this VPN to connect to my work environment

Now my query is that when I connect to this VPN I connect to my work network & am able to work inside it, but this disconnects the internet connectivity that is working on my base machine.

I want the internet to be working on my base system as well & also should be able to connect to my work network as a lot of websites are blocked inside the work network. Split Tunneling is enabled on the VPN server but it seems my system is missing some configuration which is causing it to not work


Can you please tell me what settings I need to do on my laptop VPN to make this work. Kindly help.


Thanks & regards,

[Myst]

hello sir how can i block mobile teethering from desktop or mobile and laptop or sharing their network using captive portal

[thiagozanella]

I did the exact step by step but the windows pc doesn't find the pfsense ip 😥

[.millionvolts]

unrelated but you have a nice music taste