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pfsense is a customized FreeBSD+pf distribution designed for use as a firewall. It wraps many of the features of the pf firewall code in an easy-to-use web interface.

pfSense is an open-source firewall product built on top of FreeBSD and the OpenBSD pf firewall.
It provides a graphical (web-based) interface for configuring and managing firewall rules, as well as viewing traffic and firewall decisions (accept/reject).

pfsense is available as a pre-built applicance (such as OPNSense or StrongBochs) or as installable software directly from the pfSense project's site.

pfsense is similar in concept to m0n0wall, however as of this writing m0n0wall uses the ipfilter packet filter.

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What does a packet capture in pfsense do?

I have some issues with a third party to establish a VPN connection. To debug it, I made a packet capture on the device that represents our synchronous DSL line. The solution I'm using is an old pfsense-1.2.3 and I've initiated the capture using the…
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pfense needs to be rebooted to effect a change in existing NAT

Using PFSense ver:2.0-RC1 (i386) When changing an existing NAT rule in pfsense I find that the rule doesn't work when: 1. the rule existed but with a change to its port number or destination LAN ip or both 2. mapping was done using pfsense load…
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Pfsense 2.03 slow upload rate for file transfers

We are using an 8 Mbps connection(Wan) with an upload rate of 6 Mbps.With pfsense 2.03, the upload rate is really slow like 30 Kbps.Is there a configuration in pfsense to increase the upload speed? Please note that we are not using any traffic…
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How to add a new range of IPs to a server on a private VLAN & one NIC?

I'd like to add some more IPs to my single ESXi server that I have through a hosting provider. When the server was set it up, I was given a /29 and was left with five IPs to use. But, there's something baffling me on how I would add more IPs. My…
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Virtual pfSense Appliance on VMWare Host

I am having some issues setting up the WAN side of pfSense. I have ordered a dedicated box through a hosting service with ESXi loaded on it. Along with that I have 3 public IP addresses that will ultimately be going to the box. Currently one of the…
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Strange issue accessing a single site behind pfsense firewalls

One of our users is having trouble accessing a single website from behind our pfSense firewall. The site is SSL-only and when she attempts to connect, she gets a CONNECTION_REFUSED in Chrome. We have tested this using multiple WAN, getting the same…
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Getting DNS replies for non-existing hostnames (DNSMasq)

I noticed some 'weird' DNSMasq behavior when I set up my LAN for dual stack IPv4 & IPv6 networking. It seems that my DNS server (DNSMasq) which acts as a forwarder and also has all the host names for the static leases for the local network, replies…
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Pfsense 2.02 unstable ipsec vpn.Tunnels will come up upon restarting raccon

Pfsense 2.02 Ispec VPN tunnels drops randomly,but when the raccon service is restarted all tunnels are back up.Here is my ipsec vpn configuration.Any fix on this issue? I have tried enabling and disabling "Prefer older IPsec SAs" and also tried…
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Configuring UPnP on pfSense

I need a little help configuring UPnP on pfSense. I have installed pfSense between ADSL connection and connecting internal router. There are two video servers behind the router that need port 80, 81, 34567, and 34568 opened. I have NAT rules…
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How to install a component on pfSense read-only file system?

I need to install a component to pfSense. But I can't create any files/folders as I get the message "Read-Only file system". Normally they are not supposed to be read-only, I'm running on a FreeBSD system. pfSense runs a UFS file system.
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Routing from one router to another?

I'm trying to route from one basic router to a pfsense box. It's basically so that I can have VPN users on both router aswell as VPN tunnels to test which router performs best. I am also trying to segregate the network with VLANS and the existing…
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Mara systems border firewall with pfSense

I just bought a used Mara systems Border firewall with pfSense installed on it. I want to reset it or reinstall pfSense because I cant reach the WebGUI or anything. Does anyone know how to go about doing this?
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Outbound VPN issue with Mac OSX Viscosity Client for OpenVPN and pfSense

I'm having an issue using the Viscosity OpenVPN client on a network behind a pfSense firewall. I'm unable to connect to my office vpn from this particular network, however the connection works just fine from other networks. Below is a log from…
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How to Zone Forward to a List of Alternative Name Servers in pfSense 2.0.1

I'm not sure if dnsmasq is involved in this process on pfSense or not. Before pfsense, we'd do this in BIND thusly: zone "firstpartner.com" { type forward; forwarders { 1.2.3.4; 5.6.7.8; w.x.y.z; }; I'm intentionally over-explaining this in…
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Migrate from Linux network configuration

I need to migrate a linux machine to some kind of router distribution, I've chosen pfSense for this. The problem is that the WAN configuration used on the linux machine is really crappy, however this can't be changed right now. Current…
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