Mastering pfSense

Amazing teacher! Very clear when speaking and shows each step slowly so you cant miss out on how it works!

I like the multi videos format I would have liked the possibility to bypass the installation of VirtualBox, Winrar, Windows10 I would have liked less time on Captive Portal (35 min) and more time on Firewall Rules (14 minutes): How to organise rules ? Best practices ? I would have liked a section on VLAN

nice course, although an short explanation on why are you using certain options would be nice, rather than just going through it and saying "click on this then that..."

It was a good experience for me. Wish i could have gotten my question answered when i needed help with the course.

The instructions are thorough and when we finally got to pfSense configuration, it seems pretty amazing

It would be nice if OpenVPN was shown. I understand that L2TP/IPSec is a broad standard and a good choice for that reason. However, OpenVPN is a preferred choice by many who use pfSense and so, perhaps more useful to the pfSense audience.

The Course highlights basics which are really important building blocks to go ahead with your journey, but I think it should cover more basics 2 hours is not enough for the basics for such a big important product (pfSense). And I should also mention that the Instructor really comprehend the product technology really well and I hope to see more in regard to pfSense. Thank you very much.

So far it was a good course, if it would have covered integration with Active Directory and User based web filtering it would be great.

Actually this is worthy series for beginners. This series include complete basic compulsory things that every beginners should learn. Thank you very much.

Overall the course was good, especially the SQUID and Captive Portal (Voucher) options. Would be better if it was more complex. There should be more on hardware aspects (AES-INI requirements in 2.4 < new version, advantages of ethernet Intel NICs over Realtek NICs), examples of hardware configs, how to change/clone MAC address on interface, enable static DHCP leases, more VPN configurations (ex. how to configure OpenVPN and firewall rules etc.).

I have 4 years of IT experience (web development, network management, IoT Applications [Arduino, Raspberry Pi], System Admin, Linux/Unix/Windows servers, PFsense) the course was a good revision for some details in PFsense and it breaks out some difficulties that I faced in the last period with the PFsense for me, it's totally perfect and nothing cryptic but I think there is a lot of third parts configurations which is important like p2p blocking, HAproxy, .. its good to be added or it could be nice if we find another course about these kinds of stuff also its good to add IPv6 to the course

So far very informative for a novice. Overall a good course and the only thing I wish it had information on VPN's.

very concise. straight to the point. whoever wanted to configure pfsense would love to have such a quick start

Awesome course for beginners. I never used pfSense or any other type of firewall. This course helped me understand the basics and advanced topics of pfSense. Captive portal, firewall rules, web filtering and IPsec VPN explained so well that a novice can understand these topics easily.

The course gives a mostly ok first look at the pfSense firewall, but more or less nothing that is not easily available in the documentation of the firewall. The presentation contains some minor errors (which should be obviuos enough to get cought by the listener) and contains at least some explanation on why certain options are choosen (which is one of the most important things when working in a security enviroment, not what to klick, but why...). BUT the course sadly lacks an explanation on a few features, floating rules are not even mentioned (even though it's a subject matter not well explainend in the docs of pfSense, which would make it even more important), the alias "tool" is not used (which could be concidered bad practice). There are a few "questionable" decisions in teaching, (instead of widening whitelists by adding single IPs / networks "any" is used, same goes for ports and protocols. Would have been better to show how to add multiple IPs / networks, ports and protocols.) The section on the CaptivePortal was fairly long (and also quite well done), compared to firewalling (which should be the main purpose of a firewall), also routing was not even touched.