How to Install and Configure pfSense Firewall on Virtualbox

How to Install and Configure pfSense Firewall on Virtualbox

👉 Download pfSense: https://www.pfsense.org/download/
To download, select as follows:
✅ Architecture: AMD64 (64-bit)
✅ Installer: DVD Image (ISO) Installer
✅ Mirror: Select the server closest to you.

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📌 Firewall tutorials

✳️ pfSense Firewall

👉 pfSense - Allow Internet Access for Specific IP Addresses on pfSense Firewall:    • pfSense - Allow Internet Access for S...  

👉 pfSense - Configure VPN Site-to-Site IPsec with Certificate Authentication in pfSense Firewall:    • pfSense -  Configure VPN Site-to-Site...  

👉 Configure VPN Client-to-Site with OpenVPN on pfSense Firewall:    • pfSense - Configure VPN Client-to-Sit...  

👉 Configure Failover (Multiple WAN) on pfSense Firewall:    • pfSense - Configure Failover (Multipl...  

👉 Configure Multiple WAN Load Balancing on pfSense:    • pfSense - Configure Multiple WAN Load...  

👉 Configure Limit Bandwidth Access Internet on pfSense Firewall:    • pfSense - Configure Limit Bandwidth A...  

👉 Configure VPN Site to Site IPSec in pfSense Firewall:    • pfSense - Configure VPN Site to Site ...  

👉 Configure High Availability and CARP Virtual IP LAN on pfSense:    • pfSense - Configure High Availability...  

👉 Allow ICMP (PING) Protocol in pfSense Firewall:    • pfSense - Allow ICMP (PING) Protocol ...  

👉 Allowing Only LAN to Access the Internet Web Services:    • pfSense - Allowing Only LAN to Access...  

👉 Block Access to All Service on LAN in pfSense Firewall:    • pfSense - How to Block Access to All ...  

👉 Access pfSense Firewall Web GUI through WAN Interface:    • pfSense - Access pfSense Firewall Web...  

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👉 How to Install and Configure pfSense Firewall on Hyper-V:    • How to Install and Configure pfSense ...  

👉 Access pfSense Firewall Web GUI through WAN Interface:    • pfSense - Access pfSense Firewall Web...  

👉 How to Install and Configure pfSense Firewall on GNS3: updating

✳️ OPNSense Firewall

👉 How to Install and Configure OPNSense Firewall on VMware Workstation:    • How to Install and Configure OPNsense...  

👉 How to Install and Configure OPNSense Firewall on Virtualbox:    • How to Install and Configure OPNsense...  

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👉 How to Install and Configure OPNSense Firewall on GNS3: updating

✳️ FortiGate Firewall

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👉 How to Install and Configure FortiGate Firewall on Virtualbox: updating

👉 How to Install and Configure FortiGate Firewall on Hyper-V: updating

👉 How to Install and Configure FortiGate Firewall on GNS3: updating

📌 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