Installing pfsense

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For installing pfsense use following steps:

1. Change boot menu options and select USB device or CD device to boot from.
2. Press enter to boot
3. Enter 'i' to installer
4. In Configure console wizard - Select "Accept these settings"
5. In Select Task - Select Quick/Easy install
6. In Install kernel - Select standard kernel
7. Reboot the server after install
8. Change the menu option to boot from Hard disk in case settings were changed in bios permanently instead of using one-time boot menu
9. For "Do you want to setup VLANs first ?" say no, if not sure
10. For "Enter the WAN interface name 'a' for auto-detection : ", enter interface name from list of interfaces listed. eg re0
11. For "Enter the LAN interface name 'a' for auto-detection : ", enter interface name from list of interfaces listed, eg vr0
12. From welcome pfsense 2.2.4 screen, select option 2 for ip assigning. It shows the list of interfaces as below:

    1. WAN
    2. LAN
    
    Enter the number of interfaces you want to configure : 1
    Configure IPv4 address WAN interface via (DHCP) [y/n] : y
    
    
    Enter the number of interfaces you want to configure : 2
    Enter the new LAN IPv4 address : 192.168.10.1
    
    Enter the new LAN IPv4 subnet bit count : 24
    
    Do you want to enable the DHCP server on LAN ? [Y/N] : y
    
    Enter the start address of the IPv4 client address range : 192.168.10.11
    Enter the end address of the IPv4 client address range : 192.168.10.100
    
    Press enter to continue

13. Connect a client to LAN network and see if client gets LAN IP
14. Type pfsene LAN IP and try to login using admin:pfsense

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