How to Install PFSense in VMWare Workstation

all right well thanks for joining me today uh in this video you're going to be seeing the download and setup of pf sense uh pss is a great tool for if you really need a firewall quickly or honestly if you need to have like a smaller uh solution for a small business psense would be a great tool it's got a lot of different add-ons that we can have and in general it's just a great tool for learning security and learning the defensive side which is an area that we really need to focus on so basically go to google and uh type in download pf sense you're gonna go to the the main website and then we're going to select the correct one whichever one suits your needs honestly so for me i'm going to do this one installer i like to have the iso and then i'm going to download it all right and then in your your virtualization host of choice you're going to be putting this iso file into there so in this video i'm going to be setting up pfsense in vmware workstation all right let's head on over there okay so we've downloaded the iso and we have it stored on our machine uh what we need to do now is go ahead and make the machine in our virtual uh our virtual hosting solution and in this video we're doing vmware workstation so let's go ahead and double check a couple things so uh i'm building a router so i want to be using uh network address translation and i'm going to use a a nat that i've already set up so what we do to do that to get that set up is we go to file uh edit sorry we go to virtual network editor it loads and we get a screen like this and so uh i'm using i'm gonna be using this one today so make sure that you've got it set as nat uh connect uh we're gonna be using local dhcp you can give it a a subnet which is totally fine uh but for this video i'm gonna be using uh this virtual network here for nap that would be my external facing network adapter okay that's where my external ip is going to be from uh let's go and make a new one so we go up here file new virtual machine and if any point this video you want to pause and that's just fine whatever it whatever you need to do to make this process easier so custom workstation 16 yep i i always put the iso in after the fact freebsd is totally fine one core it's totally fine to go with the default uh memory size uh if you're planning on using this machine to do more heftier analytics or wire captures you might want to use some uh add more memory and if you have more users you should you should consider using having more memory as well but this is just a lab environment so 256 is fine uh yeah that's fine default default create new virtual disk stores a single file and we can customize the hardware here so we have a we have one adapter but this is a router so we have some internal machines that are going to want to access the internet so let's go ahead and add another network adapter okay we have two we have one on the outside facing the internet and we have one on the inside where my users are going to be able to connect to let's go in here and add a network adapter we don't need two nuts because that would be silly what we are going to have is the second adapter is going to be a lan segment and i have chosen to have a lan one these are all just arbitrary names that i've created in previous um installations uh it can be any kind of name and you can make your own lan as well by just adding it it's just a name sort of a shell or a container that's holding holding something so what we got here we got that we're gonna go ahead and add our iso file i paused and added my file and we're gonna go and everything looks good to me so we're going to close that and finish machine is being created now nat lan iso file perfect let's go ahead and power this machine on we can do bios we can do uefi uh it's up to you right now i'm just going to use bios um and there you have it so we've done a very basic pf sense installation here i've got my nat set up i've got a lan setup there's a class c network local area network here that i can just put any machine onto this to that uh local network and it will be given an ip address via dhcp and we also have a dhcp being our ipad has been given to this uh nat this external ip address here and uh this this this whole uh router here is going to be doing net network address translation allowing the internal users to go through the router and gain get out to the internet so the next steps for you would be to take another a different virtual machine and then change its network and have it attached to whatever the network is that this second interface is attached to all right if you enjoyed the video and enjoy enjoying my content please go ahead and like and subscribe and we've got lots more video ideas coming up and alright well thanks everybody have a great day you

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Length: 8min 42sec (522 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 12 2021