Chapter 7. Services and Maintenance
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Enabling OLSR
- Enabling PPPoE
- Enabling RIP
- Enabling SNMP
- Enabling UPnP and NAT-PMP
- Enabling OpenNTPD
- Enabling Wake On LAN (WOL)
- Enabling SIPROXD
- Enabling external logging (syslog server)
- Using ping
- Using traceroute
- Backing up the configuration file
- Restoring the configuration file
- Configuring automatic configuration file backup
- Updating pfSense firmware
Introduction
pfSense offers a myriad of modern networking services and features. This chapter lays out the most commonly used services and maintenance features by describing what they do and how to use them.
The recipes in the first half of the chapter describe how to enable the most popular networking services in pfSense—everything from SNMP to ...
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