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Wednesday, February 6, 2019

PFsense Configuration with Topology and Screenshots

pfSense is an open source routing and firewall software that is based on the FreeBSD distribution. The basic features including:
pfSense Home Topology

  • Static/default/dynamic routing
  • Stateful firewall
  • Network Address Translation (NAT)
  • Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
  • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
  • Domain Name System (DNS)
  • Load balancing and so on. 

With many supported add-on packages, other advanced features including:
  • Snort (for Intrusion Detection and Prevention)
  • FreeSWITCH (Voice over IP)
  • Squid (Proxy)
  • SquidGuard (URL Filtering/HTTPS inspection)
  • Darkstat (Network Traffic Monitor)

Here is my home pfSense firewall topology and configuration with screenshots and YouTube videos.

1. Topology and Installation


pfSense Installation YouTube Video:


2. Configuration Screenshots
2.1 Log into pfSense and Dashboard shows


2.2 System - General Setup


2.3 System - Package Manager
I have following packages installed:

  • Cron: The cron utility is used to manage commands on a schedule.
  • Lightsquid: LightSquid is a high performance web proxy reporting tool. Includes proxy realtime statistics (SQStat). Requires Squid package. 
  • Open-VM-Tools: VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine's guest operating system.
  • Squid:High performance web proxy cache (3.5 branch). It combines Squid as a proxy server with its capabilities of acting as a HTTP / HTTPS reverse proxy.
  • squidGuard: High performance web proxy URL filter. 


2.4 Interfaces




2.5 Firewall Rules


There are some NAT settings, but all are default.

2.6 Services - Cron
I have set up a daily restart task for my pfSense.

2.7 Services - Squid Proxy Server




2.8 SquidGuard Proxy Filter







2.9 Squid Proxy Reports






Notes: If in the status report, it only shows IP name, here is a solution I found online:

In an environment were pfSense is the only DNS server internally I have configured pfSense to look to itself first.  This is what my config looks like.
  • Disable DNS resolver
  • Services | DNS Forwarder

check - Enable DNS forwarder
check - Register DHCP leases in DNS forwarder
check - Register DHCP static mappings in DNS forwarder

  • System | General Setup | DNS Servers

1st DNS Server - 127.0.0.1
2nd DNS Server - 8.8.8.8
3rd DNS server - 1.1.1.1
4th DNS server - 8.8.4.4
uncheck - Allow DNS server list to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WAN



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