Prerequisites for installation

For some of the topics in this book, you may need to take some more initial steps, such as signing up for services and launching a virtual machine.

In this book, we have used the latest stable version of pfSense, which is 2.4.3. pfSense is an open source software and occasionally releases new versions or patches. So, in order to review the latest requirements, you should always refer to the latest documentation. So, let's review it now.

Navigate to the pfSense site's requirements page at https://www.pfsense.org/products/. This page lists some ready-made appliances, which are tried and tested by the pfSense community. If you want to avoid the hassle of building your server and trying out all the components, then ...

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