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pfSense on Linode

Being an open source trustworthy firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD, many all over the internet trust pfSense. Installing pfSense is a good idea as it provides firewall, VPN, and routing functionality in the cloud-based infrastructure with features including intrusion detection and prevention, load balancing, traffic shaping, etc. In this article, we can see some of the simple steps to install pfSense on Linode.

Installing pfSense

The following steps help with the installation:

1. 1. Firstly create the Linode in the preferred data center.
   2. Then create two disk images in the RAW format. One should be a 1024 MB image labeled installer and the other will be Linode’s remaining space. We can label it as pfSense.
   3. Now create two configuration profiles with the following settings while continuing with installing pfSense on Linode. In each profile, we also need to disable all the options under Filesystem/Boot Helpers.

      • Installer Profile Label: Installer

        Kernel: Direct Disk
        
        /dev/sda: pfSense disk image
        
        /dev/sdb: Installer disk image
        
        root/boot device: Standard /dev/sdb
        

      • Boot Profile Label: pfSense
        
        Kernel: Direct Disk
        
        /dev/sda: pfSense disk image
        
        root/boot device: standard /dev/sda
   4. Boot into Rescue Mode, mount the installed disc to /dev/sda, then use the terminal to access the Linode.
   5. Now run the below code.

      # Download and Format Install Media
      curl http://edmi.vanmassenhoven.com/index.php/s/qoqoFKEEjPHya76/download/pfSense-CE-memstick-serial-2.6.0-RELEASE-amd64.img | dd of=/dev/sda
   6. After the command completes, restart the Installer Profile.
   7. Now open the Console.
   8. Then follow the onscreen prompts to install pfSense.
   9. Finally, reboot into pfSense Profile once the installation is complete.

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Conclusion

A firewall/router software distribution based on FreeBSD is called pfSense. Also to create a dedicated firewall/router for a network, we can install the pfSense on a physical computer or a virtual machine. To sum up, our Support team went over the details of the pfSense installation on Linode.