PfSense-CE-memstick-2.4.2-RELEASE-amd64.img Unzip that compressed file and inside will be a file named: It will download a compressed file with a. Also to do this you’ll need a USB keyboard and a VGA cable to a VGA monitor. I also trust my 401K to Hillary Clinton and Mexican tap water.īest to blast that OS to the moon and install a fresh copy. Uh……yeah……….I totally trust a preinstalled firewall from China. The nice Chinese company that ships it even sends it with pfSense installed! I bought a Minisys E3845 Quad Core device from here Got it for about $230. One way to keep costs down a bit is to buy a mini appliance. Just if you know me I have to have the latest and greatest is all. I previously had a pfSense Netgate SG-2220 (and by the way it is for sale now). So if you spend your money and your hardware does NOT support AES-NI you will not be able to update. One of the “gotchas” in using a computer or getting an appliance is that the next version of pfSense will require the CPU to support the AES-NI instruction set. The internet backbone that you use every day doesn’t run on Windows. FreeBSD is probably the most stable and secure operating system there is. They are a bit pricey though but you are also buying support which you may need as pfSense is a bit geeky. One way to do it is to buy an appliance from pfSense. What you really want to do is get a small hardware appliance that sips power. You can take an old desktop computer and put an extra ethernet port in it and you are ready to rock however the big old desktop will be on 24/7 and will probably jam your power bill up more than it is worth. You just need some hardware to install it on. Probably the BEST non-enterprise firewall out there is something called pfSense. And silly you thinks that long wifi password makes you secure. Every router out there has a default WAN password that is something stupid like password or actually no password. Guess what the password is for that direct physical connection? So then you plug your router into the cable modem which attaches it to the INTERNET via direct physical connection. Furthermore there is a sticker on the bottom of it with a WiFi password that looks like this:Ġ98798te6rfghjvhfydtHY(UYGIGUYTTUI^(*&)(&*(^*&T*&%TGYIKHLNLKL Your router that you bought on Amazon or at Walmart is NOT secure. I am always blathering on about network security.
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