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Last modified: March 19, 2022
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pfSense - World's Most Trusted Open Source Firewall. Negate is the company behind maintaing the pfSense software, they also sell applicance (hardware/router) but you can download it free and install in most of the computer/server as long as Network Attached Card (NIC card) is supported.

Today, we are going to download it, setup, configure it for a home/Small Home Office usage. However this can apply to your company too. We are going to setup VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network), thinks as a completely separate network (different router, switch, WIFI) but VLAN is down in software level so that we need extra hardware. We are going to install PfSense

1. Download

Go to https://www.pfsense.org/download/

Select your option and download the iso file pfsense download

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