Configuring pfSense

This next phase of configuration will be done through a web-based administration portal provided by pfSense. You can use this rich web interface to configure all your network components, firewall rules, VPN settings, and so on. The LAN network interface's IP address exposes this web-based administration console. So, in this case, you will navigate to the IP address 192.168.1.1 in order to access the administration portal for pfSense. 

As the client machine, we have set up another virtual machine which is running Windows Server 2012 R2. Let's head over to the Windows Server. 

Before we attempt to navigate to the pfSense web-based configuration portal from this client machine, let's make sure that this Windows Server virtual ...

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