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What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to pfSense, helps you gain an understanding of what pfSense is, what its key features are, and its advantages.

Chapter 2, pfSense as a Firewall, explains how to configure pfSense as a firewall, and create and manage firewall rules.

Chapter 3, pfSense as a Failover and Load Balancer, covers how to configure and test pfSense for failover and load balancing across multiple WAN connections.

Chapter 4, Remote Connectivity with pfSense and IPSec, explains how you can implement IPsec tunnels with pfSense. You will learn about its features, and how it is configured and used.

Chapter 5, Using pfSense as a Squid Proxy Server, covers how to configure and integrate pfSense as a Squid proxy server.

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