pfSense Essentials book published
FORT WORTH, Texas: Reed Media Services published pfSense Essentials, a detailed reference to the pfSense Internet gateway, a featureful software suite for VPN, captive portal, and shared network management. The book covers the installation and basic configuration through advanced networking and firewalling.
pfSense is a do-it-yourself, featureful, network utility appliance for deploying a firewall and router. It is commonly used in small offices and homes, as well as by many large organizations and in corporate environments. Powered by FreeBSD and open source software, it is known for its stability, solid performance, and its fast startup and operations.
The pfSense Essentials book is the complete reference to the pfSense Internet gateway and firewall. This book covers the entire web and console interface in detail and includes instructions on implementing network time service, VPN connections, load balancers, VLANs, traffic shaping, schedule-based packet filtering, and much more. The book also emphasizes the several diagnostic interfaces for troubleshooting and understanding network and system behavior, including graphs, log monitoring, and network probes and traces. Every pfSense submenu feature is described.
This book covers pfSense version 2.4.4 and includes features from older and newer versions. Since the publisher's 2009 book, pfSense has introduced many new features which are explained in this new book, such as IPv6 configurations, Unbound for DNS caching service, hybrid outbound NAT, and multiple captive portals.
The book is authored by Jeremy C. Reed, a long-time BSD Unix developer and professional. He helped develop the BSD Certification and served on The NetBSD Foundation board for a decade. Reed has taught over 85 lectures and workshops covering open source packaging, Unix security, network administration, and related topics.
For more information about the 478-page pfSense Essentials book, visit http://reedmedia.net/books/pfsense/ . The book is available at various book stores including Amazon and Barnes and Noble. (ISBN 978-1-937516-04-8).
