I rarely comment on videos but this has a lot of content and really helps a lot of people who would like to know what pfSense does. Good job man and thank you.
Thanks. I have been watching pfsense related videos since yesterday. They all about procedures or features. Your video is really comprehensive and now I can grab some of the concept that is really needed over other 100 videos. Thanks man.
I've been running pfsense for about 5 months now. I love it. No more drops, hdd caching, firewall and domain blocking. Set all my old wireless routers as access points with no DHCP and just wpa2. All tied together with a 24 port unmanaged gigabit switch. Best network experience ever. I really believe that this is the only way to go if you want a reliable service. And if you can find atom based 1u servers and switches on Craigslist for less than $100 total, there is no reason not to do this.
@1:35 What is pfSense? @4:25 Why Not Buy a "Wireless Router"? @10:05 Example @17:35 Some of the Things You can do with pfSense @21:20 Other Reasons @23:35 What is pfSense? (Conclusion) @24:35 What's Next
thanks man. 19 minutes later i still have no idea what the F pfsense is. is it an OS ? is it just an application you install on windows ? does it require the hardware that comes with it ? you helped me save some time.
I really hope you'll continue on these series after the holidays, would be really interesting to see more. I am thinking myself to swtich to pfsense and this video has is really informative. Looking forward to see more.
I went from a consumer grade TP-Link router to pfSense + 2 ubiquiti unifi accesspoints. Big Big BIG upgrade!!! I now run VLAN's and QoS etc. Wasn't able to do that with my TP-Link router.
Mark I want to thank you VERY much for your INCREDIBLE ipSense series. Believe it or not, I watched the entire thing (at 1.5 speed ;-) For e newcomer to ipSense, your series was invaluable and far and above the best on the web!!! Thanks!
Thank you for the primer Mark. I am really looking forward to the rest of the videos in the series. There aren't too many quality pfSense video tutorials out there.
Thank you so much for this whole series! Perfect speed to follow along and informative enough to just apply what you teach to the whole platform. One stop for all your pfSense setup needs! Looking forward to the Firewall videos!
Very well described and fundamentally motivating video! I can most definitely see the points and limitations you mention even in most mid range firewall/router devices today!
At first, it seemed slow, but Mark does an amazing job of putting information out in a clear, easy to understand format. My Parents could have watched that, and understood all the information at the end. (And I would never have said that my parents understood computers).
Thank you for making these videos. I'm a die hard pfSense user and I deploy them from home to businesses. You should definitely put these in a podcast channel too so I can listen then while driving. Thanks for your effort! Update: I did manage to add the channel using Podcast Addict for Android
i must say i am excited to see the rest i am looing forward to and hoping for a more detailed explanation to all the part of pfsense to learn the best setup i would use for my network.
Thank you for the great series been scouring youtube for something like this I have been contemplating using pfsense for a few months now. I'm in the process of trying to figure out what hardware configuration makes sense for me so I'm definitely looking forward to the rest of the series.
Just subscribed to your channel, very informative video I have been using Pfsense now for 3 years.. There are some things I still don't know how to or how they work (like memory usage on routing best explanation so far..) I'm thinking to start a video series as well but in my native language (spanish) so others can start using it and help to Support Pfsense is a great thing to have in your network. Whish you the best, keep it up.. and happy new year.
Currently using PFSENSE in the company i work with we have a core gateway in a remote dc and we have set up a site to site vpn using pfsense and we link in our remote offices and also some remote servers that we have and its amazing once you get to learn it.
Are you planning to do more videos? Looking for one video to show how to make it secure. if i just have the modem connected to pfsense, will it protect me like a normal firewall does or do we need to add the rules? Maybe after that, if you show how to setup ids/ips, squid proxy, that will be awesome...
great video i'm running pfsense myself for while now, i wished there were videos like this when i started using it!! keep up the good work. Will you be doing a video about squid because i have it running but the service keeps crashing after a few hours.
Great vid. Really thinking about building my own stuff when it's time to chagne router again. Bought a top of the line consumer grade router recently though :(
Hi Great set of tutorials. I'm particularly interested in the "Fair use" and ad/content blocking features. Which of the video covers that or did I miss something? Or is that in an upcoming tutorial?
My isp's router sometimes stops providing Internet on the wired connections. My wifi is 'perfectly fine" (for wifi). I have a ubuntu server running with qbittorrent plex and sickrage. When it happens I unplug my server and my Internet is back. Am I killing my router with my server or is it something else? My nat tables are disabled by the way... Just trying to switch the isp router with pfsense and you're helpful with your info so far. little long but the info is important. so keep it coming.
Howdy Mark, in this video you announced that you will also talk about "squid" and this cool steam-game-downlod-stuff related to it (also works for updates) ... did I miss this part?
Your videos are the answer to the maiden's prayer, You've done a great job and i've been learning a lot from your videos. could you please upload video on OpenVpn please client to server ?
Boss mark nice vid, I learn a lot from this 2 vid u have made, I learn a lot from you, thank you for me you are expert i know nothing about pfsense, i will bring back to life of my old pc, do pfsense need large storage? Got amd althon 2gig ram ddr2, ill buy NiC 2 slots soon or order 2nd hand just like u said
You can run pfSense of off a USB thumb drive. I've got mine installed on an 8 GB. If you want to do caching or a lot of logging, you'll need need a hard drive or an SSD just to have enough space, but otherwise a thumb drive will do. If you're concerned about durability, you could mirror a pair of thumb drives.
pfsense does indeed look awesome. The only fly in the ointment that I can see is needing to run it on a power-hungry pc. That could make a noticeable difference on your electricity bill.
I love pfsense, opensense, and clearos. They are opensource right?, its free!!. But the major problem with these are the hardware. Being a student I cannot afford a new mini itx build with 4 gbe ports. Older hardware are just too inefficient ( I don't even have older hardware). x86-64 is power intensive platform. Most of pfsense hardware only advertise idle power consumption, while they should also be including full load values. I bet it will be over 70W.
You have a good point, 100W == 150EUR/year where I'm from, which is also the cost of a fully kitted out brand new atom box. I guess the assumption that pfsense is making is that you can get a working pc for free and that over the course of a year, you'll figure out where to go.
Mark Furneaux Thanks for the reply. Some quick online searches say normal wifi routers consume around the same power. I will be looking into details of official pfsense hardware. The only thing that I care about right now is efficiency (power consumption).
Mark Furneaux tried pfsense on virtualbox. The problem is I can only access the webconfig if I have one virtual nic (over the WAN). I just can't seem to access over the lan. Can you pls help me? I didn't have this problem with clearos.
Hello, can you help me, I currently have a transparent proxy and HTTPS / SSL interception installed. Yahoo worked very well, but now I do not load the page correctly, I have to disable HTTPS / SSL interception, so that I load well. What may be causing this problem?
can using pfsense and running a web proxy block users from connecting to the internet using a vpn plugin in Chrome? I've been doing a lot of research and many are having trouble blocking vpns with proxys.
Can you tell me if I have a dual dhcp possible issue going on here. I have a physical router with dhcp enabled and virtual lab with pfsense acting as the router and windows server 2012 as a dhcp host. Do I need to place the pfsense in the dmz zone in the router settings? The virtual network is on another subnet btw.
I know there is some chatter about running pfSense as a VM (virtual) or in a separate PC-Box. As for a small home network with maybe 6 devices in total, I find it difficult to justifying have a 2nd PC-Box running 24/7 when I can have this running as a VM. In your humble opinion (and for the masses) would you run pfSense as a VM or in a PC-Box? Pros and Cons of each if possible. Thanks.
Fred Flintstone get something like a g4400 pentium they run at 15 watt idle and 50 under full low very good chips overall I'm hoing to be building a box with one of these for pfsense I have about 10 devices constantly on my network can't handle the traffic of it all
Fred Flintstone for a low power box for pfSense, check out pcengines.com or look at using an HP T620 Plus thin client with an add in Ethernet card. Both would be about 20 watts or under when running under load.
I'm curious as to what ur opinion is on prosumer products, I have experienced these things on cheap consumer products but things like ubiquitis usg router, I never have to restart mine and I have zero issues
thedarkshadow Ubiquiti is good but has far fewer features available in the GUI than pfSense does. I switched to pfSense for my router but still use Ubiquiti switches and access points.
Excellent video. I'll be watching the whole series and I plan to build a pfSense router/firewall for my own use very soon. Keep up the great job! Subscribed!
A Karim Siddiqui Raspberry Pi is ARM based and at the current time pfSense is only for X86 hardware. Take a look at pcengines.ch or look for an HP T620 Plus off eBay. The pcengines boxes can have up to 4 Ethernet ports and you can add a four port Ethernet card to the HP. I’m using the HP and it works great and uses under 20 watts at full load.
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The 30 mins flew by, very easy to listen to, great presentation. Thanks!
I rarely comment on videos but this has a lot of content and really helps a lot of people who would like to know what pfSense does. Good job man and thank you.
just setup pfsense on a Dell PowerEdge 710 and I'm like a kid again, just discovered this playlist and subbed, thank you for this
Thanks. I have been watching pfsense related videos since yesterday. They all about procedures or features. Your video is really comprehensive and now I can grab some of the concept that is really needed over other 100 videos. Thanks man.
I've been running pfsense for about 5 months now. I love it. No more drops, hdd caching, firewall and domain blocking. Set all my old wireless routers as access points with no DHCP and just wpa2. All tied together with a 24 port unmanaged gigabit switch. Best network experience ever. I really believe that this is the only way to go if you want a reliable service. And if you can find atom based 1u servers and switches on Craigslist for less than $100 total, there is no reason not to do this.
I watched all of your pfSense videos! Really nice and clear when your starting with pfSense. Big thanks!
@1:35 What is pfSense?
@4:25 Why Not Buy a "Wireless Router"?
@10:05 Example
@17:35 Some of the Things You can do with pfSense
@21:20 Other Reasons
@23:35 What is pfSense? (Conclusion)
@24:35 What's Next
thx
thanks man. 19 minutes later i still have no idea what the F pfsense is. is it an OS ? is it just an application you install on windows ? does it require the hardware that comes with it ? you helped me save some time.
Sold! I've been on the fence about running my own pfSense box, but now I'm on it.
I really hope you'll continue on these series after the holidays, would be really interesting to see more. I am thinking myself to swtich to pfsense and this video has is really informative. Looking forward to see more.
I went from a consumer grade TP-Link router to pfSense + 2 ubiquiti unifi accesspoints. Big Big BIG upgrade!!! I now run VLAN's and QoS etc. Wasn't able to do that with my TP-Link router.
I have been Using PFsense for my network since a year, it has been working Great for me, Best Firewall ever i have used!
I just wanted to say thank you. I've watched most of the videos. I wish it was possible for the full series to be finished.
Mark
I want to thank you VERY much for your INCREDIBLE ipSense series. Believe it or not, I watched the entire thing (at 1.5 speed ;-) For e newcomer to ipSense, your series was invaluable and far and above the best on the web!!!
Thanks!
Thank you for the primer Mark. I am really looking forward to the rest of the videos in the series. There aren't too many quality pfSense video tutorials out there.
Thank you so much for this whole series! Perfect speed to follow along and informative enough to just apply what you teach to the whole platform. One stop for all your pfSense setup needs! Looking forward to the Firewall videos!
Thank you so much for producing this series. Learned so much. Excited to build my own pfsense firewall soon.
Audio - Excellent, Video - Excellent, Presentation and Content - Excellent. Outstanding, please make more videos.
Very well described and fundamentally motivating video! I can most definitely see the points and limitations you mention even in most mid range firewall/router devices today!
Hey Mark thank you for taking the time to post your great guides to pfSense. I have learned so much.
Great video! thanks for your time on making it!
Thanks for creating one mark. Been really looking for an english based comprehensive explanation.
At first, it seemed slow, but Mark does an amazing job of putting information out in a clear, easy to understand format. My Parents could have watched that, and understood all the information at the end. (And I would never have said that my parents understood computers).
Thank you for making these videos. I'm a die hard pfSense user and I deploy them from home to businesses. You should definitely put these in a podcast channel too so I can listen then while driving. Thanks for your effort!
Update: I did manage to add the channel using Podcast Addict for Android
i must say i am excited to see the rest i am looing forward to and hoping for a more detailed explanation to all the part of pfsense to learn the best setup i would use for my network.
Fantastic introduction, I like to use this video starting at 3:31 as a means for showing people why most consumer-grade routers are crap.
Great stuff man... Makes me feel better that I had it running before seeing this video.
This is a great intro to pfsense and networking! Many thanks, and hope you keep up the good work!
Thank you for the great series been scouring youtube for something like this I have been contemplating using pfsense for a few months now. I'm in the process of trying to figure out what hardware configuration makes sense for me so I'm definitely looking forward to the rest of the series.
+MrBroncoTango - Ditto!!
Excellent, very nice video, been contemplating re-purposing an older PC and this just convinced me. Now to binge watch the rest of yer vid series :)
pfsence is just great and well explained in this great tutorial,keep up and educate the world,knowledge is totally free.
Just subscribed to your channel, very informative video I have been using Pfsense now for 3 years.. There are some things I still don't know how to or how they work (like memory usage on routing best explanation so far..) I'm thinking to start a video series as well but in my native language (spanish) so others can start using it and help to Support Pfsense is a great thing to have in your network.
Whish you the best, keep it up.. and happy new year.
Thank you for making such a professional and informative video. I'm looking forward to watching the rest!
Great start to a video series. Cant wait for more.
Currently using PFSENSE in the company i work with we have a core gateway in a remote dc and we have set up a site to site vpn using pfsense and we link in our remote offices and also some remote servers that we have and its amazing once you get to learn it.
Was looking for a video about what PFsense and was glad I found this vid! keep it up bro!
tim here from the Philippines!
Are you planning to do more videos? Looking for one video to show how to make it secure. if i just have the modem connected to pfsense, will it protect me like a normal firewall does or do we need to add the rules? Maybe after that, if you show how to setup ids/ips, squid proxy, that will be awesome...
Dude the fan bit had me laughing. So true. I usually flip over those types of devices and put a fan on them.
Awesome video, keep them coming, I just finished setting up Snort on pfSense.
Great video about pfSense. Thank you !!!
great video i'm running pfsense myself for while now, i wished there were videos like this when i started using it!! keep up the good work. Will you be doing a video about squid because i have it running but the service keeps crashing after a few hours.
Do you have a plan to update this whole guide with the pfSense 2.5?
This stuff is very very interesting! Keep vids like these (about networking and servers) coming ;)
Great vid. Really thinking about building my own stuff when it's time to chagne router again. Bought a top of the line consumer grade router recently though :(
Probably best presenter on whole TH-cam!
Great video. Looking forward to the next videos.
Excellent videos! Thanks for making them.
Hi Great set of tutorials. I'm particularly interested in the "Fair use" and ad/content blocking features. Which of the video covers that or did I miss something? Or is that in an upcoming tutorial?
running pfsense and i'm watching just to learn a bit :) btw nice video keep up the good work
My isp's router sometimes stops providing Internet on the wired connections.
My wifi is 'perfectly fine" (for wifi).
I have a ubuntu server running with qbittorrent plex and sickrage.
When it happens I unplug my server and my Internet is back.
Am I killing my router with my server or is it something else?
My nat tables are disabled by the way...
Just trying to switch the isp router with pfsense and you're helpful with your info so far. little long but the info is important. so keep it coming.
Howdy Mark, in this video you announced that you will also talk about "squid" and this cool steam-game-downlod-stuff related to it (also works for updates) ... did I miss this part?
Thanks for these videos! can't wait for more
IPv6 guide would be awesome!
you are awesome! thank you so much for your time and for making these videos!
Awesome series! When are u uploading part 8? :)
looking forward to part 2 can't wait :)
any chance of a series playlist?
You could make your own and publish it. Just so you know. ;)
Thank you for posting these videos
Thanks for this Mark! Great Video!
Your videos are the answer to the maiden's prayer, You've done a great job and i've been learning a lot from your videos. could you please upload video on OpenVpn please client to server ?
Upvoted. Thanks for making this video.
Good stuff. Great set of vids. Thanks!
Boss mark nice vid, I learn a lot from this 2 vid u have made, I learn a lot from you, thank you for me you are expert i know nothing about pfsense, i will bring back to life of my old pc, do pfsense need large storage? Got amd althon 2gig ram ddr2, ill buy NiC 2 slots soon or order 2nd hand just like u said
You can run pfSense of off a USB thumb drive. I've got mine installed on an 8 GB. If you want to do caching or a lot of logging, you'll need need a hard drive or an SSD just to have enough space, but otherwise a thumb drive will do. If you're concerned about durability, you could mirror a pair of thumb drives.
Nice intro to PF Sense chap!
Nice video.
Subbed.
Best regards from Sweden
pfsense does indeed look awesome.
The only fly in the ointment that I can see is needing to run it on a power-hungry pc.
That could make a noticeable difference on your electricity bill.
ThePenultimateNinja there are low power boxes suitable. Check out pcengines.com
Looking forward to when you get to vlans, squid, load balancing.
whoa. 19:54 how'd you do that with squid?
I'm watching this even though I run pfSense on a Dell Poweredge R230, Intel E3-1270V5 32Gb. Just interested in your opinions! :)
gonace I don't want it how do I boot back to window
thanks for sharing the Knowledge
Somewhere in this series, is there a discussion of bitorrent? I sometimes torrent linux ISOs, and they download fine, but there is no seeding.
Great explanation thank you :)
Have you thought about making a tutorial about Squid?
Thanks for this great video serie
I love pfsense, opensense, and clearos. They are opensource right?, its free!!. But the major problem with these are the hardware. Being a student I cannot afford a new mini itx build with 4 gbe ports. Older hardware are just too inefficient ( I don't even have older hardware). x86-64 is power intensive platform. Most of pfsense hardware only advertise idle power consumption, while they should also be including full load values. I bet it will be over 70W.
Definitely not 70W! Give the specs, those boxes would max out at about 15W under full load, of which they are unlikely to get even close to.
I've ordered a J1900 mini-PC which I am hoping I can use to try pfSense. I have seen some reviews of it and it looks capable.
You have a good point, 100W == 150EUR/year where I'm from, which is also the cost of a fully kitted out brand new atom box.
I guess the assumption that pfsense is making is that you can get a working pc for free and that over the course of a year, you'll figure out where to go.
Mark Furneaux Thanks for the reply. Some quick online searches say normal wifi routers consume around the same power. I will be looking into details of official pfsense hardware. The only thing that I care about right now is efficiency (power consumption).
Mark Furneaux tried pfsense on virtualbox. The problem is I can only access the webconfig if I have one virtual nic (over the WAN). I just can't seem to access over the lan. Can you pls help me? I didn't have this problem with clearos.
Great video hope to see more :)
Hi there, can I run pfsense on a laptop given it's got only one NIC, If it's possible how do I about the configuration? Thanks
thankyou sir for these videos !
Thank you for your time.
Hello, can you help me, I currently have a transparent proxy and HTTPS / SSL interception installed.
Yahoo worked very well, but now I do not load the page correctly, I have to disable HTTPS / SSL interception, so that I load well.
What may be causing this problem?
can using pfsense and running a web proxy block users from connecting to the internet using a vpn plugin in Chrome?
I've been doing a lot of research and many are having trouble blocking vpns with proxys.
Excellent intro!
fuck now I have to add another cool project to my extended list of things to do in the future -_-
hi sir big fan of pfsense in the Philippines. can i ask why i cant update my squidguard to block URL filter?
Thanks.
Nice video! Thnx
Can you tell me if I have a dual dhcp possible issue going on here. I have a physical router with dhcp enabled and virtual lab with pfsense acting as the router and windows server 2012 as a dhcp host. Do I need to place the pfsense in the dmz zone in the router settings? The virtual network is on another subnet btw.
+Mark Furneaux about [block ads on all devices] how it works?
Need some package?
I know there is some chatter about running pfSense as a VM (virtual) or in a separate PC-Box. As for a small home network with maybe 6 devices in total, I find it difficult to justifying have a 2nd PC-Box running 24/7 when I can have this running as a VM.
In your humble opinion (and for the masses) would you run pfSense as a VM or in a PC-Box? Pros and Cons of each if possible. Thanks.
I went over this in part 2 th-cam.com/video/0spAIaWb7x0/w-d-xo.html
Thanks. Must have missed that part. Doh!
Fred Flintstone get something like a g4400 pentium they run at 15 watt idle and 50 under full low very good chips overall I'm hoing to be building a box with one of these for pfsense I have about 10 devices constantly on my network can't handle the traffic of it all
Fred Flintstone for a low power box for pfSense, check out pcengines.com or look at using an HP T620 Plus thin client with an add in Ethernet card. Both would be about 20 watts or under when running under load.
att uverse forces you to use their router, my guess is even if you put pfsense in from of it, their router will bottleneck?
very useful...........thanks
how better it is than VyOS for an overkill home solution ?
Great video
To give people an idea. While testing Pfsense, with 4GB of ram, it shows I have 406,000 state table size.
+troyBORG 789,000 state table size with 8GB ram (7892 MB usable)
I'm curious as to what ur opinion is on prosumer products, I have experienced these things on cheap consumer products but things like ubiquitis usg router, I never have to restart mine and I have zero issues
thedarkshadow Ubiquiti is good but has far fewer features available in the GUI than pfSense does. I switched to pfSense for my router but still use Ubiquiti switches and access points.
Sweet... Thank you
Thank you!
When is the next video expected? Been a couple weeks.
+Chad Bremer Probably not until mid January. I can't do it over the holidays, and I'm starting a new job in January, so please bear with me.
+Mark Furneaux fair enough. good luck with the new job.
squid setup i need help i have 150gb HDD on ym pfsense i need to know hwo to setup squid cache and how to cache videos
Excellent video. I'll be watching the whole series and I plan to build a pfSense router/firewall for my own use very soon. Keep up the great job! Subscribed!
The only problem? hardware selection because of BSD. I wonder if it supports raspberry pi?
A Karim Siddiqui Raspberry Pi is ARM based and at the current time pfSense is only for X86 hardware. Take a look at pcengines.ch or look for an HP T620 Plus off eBay. The pcengines boxes can have up to 4 Ethernet ports and you can add a four port Ethernet card to the HP. I’m using the HP and it works great and uses under 20 watts at full load.
How do I fix it when I turn on my dell computer it auto boot to of senses and I don't want it plz help