Mastering pfSense

Chapter 1 – Revisiting pfSense Basics

1. Demilitarized zone (DMZ).
2. CPU: 500 MHz or greater; RAM: 512 MB; disk space: 1 GB.
3. 1 KB.
4. Checksums ensure the integrity of a download; running a checksum on a binary guarantees that the download has completed and that the binaries have not been tampered with by a third party.
5. (a) ZFS. (b) UFS (DOS is also an acceptable answer).
6. At the console/shell and in the web GUI.
7. The following are all valid answers: Static; DHCP; PPTP; PPPoE; PPP; L2TP.
8. (a) Enabled. (b) Disabled. (c) The reason Block Private Networks is blocked on the WAN interface is that private addresses by definition are nonroutable and therefore should never pass through the WAN interface. On the LAN interface and other local interfaces, however, ...