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            <h1>Running pfSense Firewall and Router in a Proxmox VM</h1>
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          <h2>What is pfSense?</h2>

<blockquote><em>pfSense is a firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD. The open source pfSense Community Edition (CE) and pfSense Plus is installed on a physical computer or a virtual machine to make a dedicated firewall/router for a network. It can be configured and upgraded through a web-based interface, and requires no knowledge of the underlying FreeBSD system to manage. -<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense</a></em></blockquote>

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	<li>Download the pfSense AMD64 .iso <a href="https://www.pfsense.org/download/" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Extract the downloaded pfSense .gz</li>
	<li>Log into the ProxMox web UI</li>
	<li>Select a storage from the left navigation pane to upload the .iso to</li>
	<li>Select ISO Images in the left sub-navigation pane</li>
	<li>Upload the pfSense .iso file to the ProxMox ISO image library</li>
	<li>Right click the ProxMox node name &gt; Create VM</li>
	<li>Type pfSense in the name field and set a unique VM ID &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the OS tab, set the Type field to Linux, Version to 5.x - 2.6 Kernel and select the pfSense .iso in the ISO Image field &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the System tab, leave the defaults &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the Hard Disk tab, set the Disk size field to 8 &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the CPU tab, set Cores field to 2, Type field to Host &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the Memory tab, set the Memory to 1024 and Uncheck Ballooning Device &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the Network tab, set the Model field to VirtIO (paravirtualized), Uncheck the Firewall box &gt; Next</li>
	<li>Verify the summary and click Finish</li>
	<li>Click the pfSense VM in the left navigation menu &gt; Select Hardware from the left sub-navigation menu</li>
	<li>Click Add &gt; Network Device</li>
	<li>Set the Model field to VirtIO (paravirtualized), Uncheck the Firewall box &gt; Click Add</li>
	<li>Select Options from the left sub-navigation menu &gt; Double click Use tablet pointer &gt; Uncheck the Enabled box &gt; Click OK</li>
	<li>Right click the pfSense VM in the left navigation pane &gt; Start</li>
	<li>Click console in the left sub-navigation menu</li>
	<li>Press Enter to Boot Multi- user</li>
	<li>Select Install pfSense &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select the keyboard mapping to use &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select Auto (UFS) BIOS Guided Disk Setup &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Wait for pfSense to copy files and install</li>
	<li>At the Manual Configuration prompt select No &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Select Reboot &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Navigate back to the Hardware options</li>
	<li>Double click the CD/DVD Drive &gt; Select Do not use any media &gt; Click OK</li>
	<li>Select Shutdown &gt; Reset &gt; Yes to restart the VM</li>
	<li>Click console in the left sub-navigation menu</li>
	<li>Welcome to the pfSense terminal</li>
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<h2>Configuring Network Interfaces and Web UI</h2>

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	<li>At the prompt to setup VLANs type n &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Enter a WAN interface name &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Enter a LAN interface name &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>When asked Do you want to proceed? type y &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>At the pfSense menu, select Set interface(s) IP address by typing 2 and pressing Enter</li>
	<li>If asked to configure DHCP on the WAN interface type n &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Enter a LAN IP address on the same subnet as your LAN</li>
	<li>At the bit count prompt type 24 &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Enter an IPv4 upstream gateway &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>At the IPv6 DHCP prompt type n &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Leave the IPv6 address blank and press Enter</li>
	<li>At the DHCP server prompt type n &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>At the revert to HTTP prompt type y &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>The http address of the pfSense Web UI will be displayed</li>
	<li>Press Enter to return to the main menu</li>
	<li>Open a new browser tab and navigate to the web UI http address</li>
	<li>Log into the web UI with the username admin and password pfsense</li>
	<li>Select System &gt; User Manager from the top navigation</li>
	<li>Click the edit icon across from the admin user</li>
	<li>At the pfSense Welcome screen click Next and Next again</li>
	<li>Enter a hostname, domain and DNS servers for the VM &gt; Click Next</li>
	<li>Set the server timezone &gt; Click Next</li>
	<li>Leave the defaults on the WAN Interface setup &gt; Click Next</li>
	<li>Set and confirm a new password for the admin user</li>
	<li>Click the Reload button</li>
	<li>Enjoy exploring pfSense</li>
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