pfSense on Proxmox installation and configuration - Step-by-step

Published: 12 September 2022
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What is better than one open-source tool? How about two?! Proxmox and pfSense are two great open-source tools. The pfSense firewall is a well-known enterprise-grade firewall that has many features and capabilities. Proxmox is a great open-source hypervisor. In this video, we take a look at pfsense on Proxmox installation and configuration and see how we can easily get pfSense installed on Proxmox in the home lab environment.

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Introduction - 0:00
Looking at the network configuration on our Proxmox host - 0:37
Looking at the default bridge with the Proxmox server - 1:24
Creating another network bridge in Proxmox to use for the LAN network - 1:42
Uploading the pfSense installation media to Proxmox - 2:00
Uploading the pfSense CE ISO to Proxmox - 2:36
Creating the pfSense virtual machine in Proxmox - 3:03
Adding the network adapters to the pfSense Promox virtual machine - 4:16
Adding the WAN side connection for pfSense - 4:47
Adding another network adapter to pfSense for the LAN side - 5:22
Powering on the pfSense virtual machine in Proxmox and connecting to the console - 6:00
Running through the initial installation options - 6:10
Installation is finished manual modifications and reboot - 6:41
Text-based configuration allows verifying the network configuration - 7:00
Configuring a new LAN IP address for pfSense - 7:38
Reviewing the configuration changes - 8:13
Describing the high-level configuration most will have from an ISP for pfSense - 8:21
Using a computer on the same LAN segment to finish the web-based configuration wizard - 8:53
Signing into the web-based wizard - 9:15
Stepping through the configuration wizard process - 9:22
Another option to configure WAN and other DHCP configuration - 9:50
LAN configuration if you want - 10:12
Setting the admin password and reloading the configuration changes - 10:17
Looking at the main dashboard of pfSense after finishing the web-based configuration - 10:35
Concluding thoughts and wrapping up pfSense installation on Proxmox - 11:05

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