26. Open the given link using http protocol and enter the usernamd as ‘admin‘ and password ‘pfsense‘.
27. Once you logged in, a setup wizard window appears that will guide you through the initial configuration of pfSense.
28. On the next screen, enter the hostname, and domain for pfsense, by following provide a Primary DNS server and secondary DNS and click Next.
29. Choose the timezone and click next.
Configuring WAN
30. On this screen, configure WAN interface, if you have a PPOE connection or if you need to use this pfsense machine as a router, you need to choose PPOE from the drop menu or else simply select ‘static‘ and set the static IP address, gateway and click ‘Next‘ to continue…
Configuring LAN
31. We’ve already configured LAN network in terminal mode, just move forward by choosing NEXT.
32. Next, change the admin password, which is used to access the WebGUI and SSH.
33. After setting admin password, click on reload to make changes.
34. Click on the link, will take you to pfsense webconfigurator GUI Dashboard as shown in below picture.
Conclusion
pfsense can be used as router or firewall with many advanced features such as traffic shapper, Load Balancer and much more. It can be used in small scale to large scale environment. Hope this setup help you to build your own router and firewall for your environment. Give your valuable feedback in comment section for future help regarding this topic.
Thanks for the tutorial. Now I have the following problem – when I select the disk with Windows 10 on which I would like to install pfSense, there is the following message: “This partition does not have a valid mountpoint (for the partition from which you intend to boot the operating system, the mountpoint should be “/”.
This message is shown even if I have formatted the partition with free space for pfSense as EXT4. So I don’t know how to prepare a disk with Windows for the right pfSense installation, ao that I could during boot choose Windows or pfSense. Please could You help me via my e-mail? thank You very much in advance. Regards Fanda Waldorf
Hello i’m a bit of a noob in this do you need to use the ip of the place you are at or use the ones in the tutorial?
Dear Sir,
My company need pfsense firewall install on my server..
@Shaikh,
You can check our Linux services here: https://www.fosswork.com
you can consult any third party solution provider to manage your firewall, i have worked with HEX64 InfoSolutions my experience was good with the HEX64.
After this what shall we do to make bridge mode.
Yes it is very helpful but a little bit of confusion when assigning IP address wan and LAN in pfsense.
How can you put Lan and Wan on same subnet? Lan and wan ip are the network Why is that?
I agree. I am a little confused by this as well. Shouldn’t you change you lan ip scheme to 192.128.1.x? I ask because I really think this is a good article and I am about to set this up in my lab, only it is being install on a Check Point UTM, and through console port. Thanks again!
I have a typo:
pfsense1(LAN: 192.168.1.3 WAN:221.132.18.251) and pfsense2 (LAN: 192.168.1.2 WAN: 221.132.18.253). I’m config sync with LAN ok but with wan can’t sync, please help me. Thank.
Thank you…..very much!