July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
152 pages
3h 15m
English
Content preview from Network Security with pfSense
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Configuring IPsec tunnel
Now that you're familiar with the IPsec concepts, let's go ahead and implement a new IPsec tunnel in the pfSense server:
- Login to pfSense by inputting credentials and go to the pfSense dashboard.
- Now, let's go ahead and configure a new IPsec tunnel. Let's click VPN on the top toolbar, and click IPsec.
As you will see, right now there are no IPsec VPN tunnels configured here:
For this example, let's assume that this particular instance of pfSense is installed in Site A.
- Under the Tunnels tab, click the Add P1 button. P1 here refers to Phase 1. Ensure that the Disabled checkbox is not checked, otherwise the IPsec ...