Network Security with pfSense

Configuring VM and completing the installation

The VM is now created, but you still have some network configuration to do. pfSense is all about networking and security. And, so far, you have not allocated any network interface cards to this virtual machine. So, let's go ahead and proceed with the network configuration. After that, you need to finish the installation for pfSense.

Typically, pfSense isolates the network traffic for internal and external networks using different network interface cards. Consider a scenario where you have one network device that is connected directly to the internet, and the second network device is connected to the internal network. That is precisely how most pfSense installations are configured.

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