Comments on: 09: Building a Router With pfSense

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:51:00 +0000

It’s pronounced “rooter”. Blinking Yanks ruining our language :-) What happened to the song “Route (root) 66″?

Otherwise, great vid.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:36:58 +0000

Fun tutorial but for your wifi part you forgot to mention the Firewall -> rules part. If you do not add rules for your OPT1 it will not be able to get out to the internet; default in pfsense’s firewall setup is to block everything without altering the settings.

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By: Shell

Shell — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:18:18 +0000

Awesome episode! The new graphics were clever and you did a great job of defining and explaining everything for networking laity such as myself. Now I know what to do with my husband’s old computers >:] Loved the outtakes, too!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:50:11 +0000

I am such a fan of the intro–SWEET stuff! And while the computer stuff was over my head, it all sounded good–plus, I liked the little animations and such. You guys rock!

By: Información de Tecnologías»Archivo del blog » Construyendo un router con pfsense (Video)

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:59:11 +0000

[...] una forma bastante sencilla. Está basado en FreeBSD (¿Qué mejor?) y utiliza pf como firewall. El siguiente enlace es una video bastante explicativo de como instalar nuestro propio reuter casero si mucho esfuerzo. [...]

By: George E.

George E. — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:51:25 +0000

Hey guys, great little show. I’ve used pfSense before and I think it’s great. I’m glad to see people out there not only promoting it and FreeBSD, but also teaching others about it. Keep up the good work! You’ve got a new fan.

By: Steve Z

Steve Z — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:29:40 +0000

John, in order to plug in multiple computers to go through the router, you would plug the internal LAN card into a switch. Most consumer routers typically have a 4 or 5 port switch built-in, but switches can also be purchased as separate devices. You can get an 8-port Gigabit switch nowadays for less than $50 (for example, the LINKSYS EG008W at newegg) or 5-port switches for even less than that. Building your own router might cost a little more than a consumer router (unless you have all of the parts already lying around), but it will give you many more options for routing your internet traffic (and possibly better performance as well).

By: john

john — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:48:11 +0000

Hi,

I really like your tutorial, but what would I need to do plugin multiple computers on 1 network card (internal LAN)?

Or do I need to connect a router on one of the ports? But doing that, what’s the point of having a pfSense router/firewall PC?

Thanks

John

By: Jessi

Jessi — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:53:43 +0000

SWEET animation Leigh! I love the big-brained little guy – complete with legs and feet. Music overlay was good too (props to Anthony). Very informative and useful info. Except that you spelled “provider” wrong in the definition for router.

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FreeBSD quick links and howtos | FreeBSD - the unknown Giant — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:23:51 +0000

[...] Building a router with pfSense (video) Do you have extra computers lying around the house? In this episode, Matt shows us how to convert an old computer into a home network router. [...]

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:27:33 +0000

I like how this one turned out, especially how you have me going in high speed when putting the cards in. I wish I could always move that fast when working on computers.

By: Steve Z

Steve Z — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:07:32 +0000

Hey Chris…thanks for the tip on the VLANs and for the promotion on the pfSense website. I think the alert was caused by a bad network card in the computer we were using, so your software was doing the right thing!

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:51:21 +0000

Nicely done!

I linked here on our blog.
http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=213

one comment from me there on the alert you were seeing.

Brief comment on VLANs for the newbs watching this – this requires interaction with your switch using 802.1q trunking. Any decent managed switch will support this, but the most common cheap unmanaged home switches do not. This is typically only used in larger networks with hundreds or thousands of devices, or by crazy geeks such as myself that run all corporate-grade managed switches and VLANs at home. :)

By: pfSense Digest » Blog Archive » pfSense Intro Video from Wide Open Mind

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:44:23 +0000

[...] Wide Open Mind episode 9, Building a router with pfSense, contains a nicely done very basic overview of pfSense that offers a good introduction for the typical home user. [...]

By: ANTRONICUS PRIME

ANTRONICUS PRIME — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:18:56 +0000

Great episode! Animation was flippin’ tight. Good job with splicing the theme. Need to generate more music (more variety). Thanks Matt, I now understand all the jargon that was in the manual for my Airport router. Perhaps I will merge with ANTON someday and become the ultimate cyborg, and kick SKYNET’s rear.