This blog will guide you on how to block bittorrent download in Pfsense. If you are planning to restrict or block bittorent downloads in your network using pfsense, then this could be a solution. We all know that bittorent software are used in downloading files through internet with the use of peer-to-peer connection sharing. Files like music or videos are the common types of files shared on the internet. This type of files consume large amount of bandwidth. You need to minimize the download bandwidth or block downloads for this kind of file to speed-up your internet connection. Bellow are the steps on how to block bittorent downloads in pfsense.
This blog will guide you on how to setup OpenVPN in Pfsense. OpenVPN is a free utility for setting up VPN connections between two networks using internet. Pfsense has already support for setting up OpenVPN. If you have older version of Pfsense, better to update it. To setup OpenVPN in Pfsense, follow the steps bellow.
This blog will guide you on how to setup the download and upload bandwidth limit on a specific computer in a network controlled by pfsense router. As a network administrator, it is your responsibility to track down bandwidth usage in your network. And this is really a tough job if you don't have a network management tool like pfsense. You never know who are those users in your network consumes large amount of bandwidth. In effect, this will cause a bottle neck in the network. With pfsense this job is a very easy to implement. It has many features with regards to network management like setting bandwidth usable on each network computer. With this feature in pfsense, you can have the confidence that your network will not run-out of usable bandwidth. Try following my example steps bellow on how to make a bandwidth limiter and applying this rule to a specific user or computer in your network.
This blog will give you an idea on how to setup or create your own router by using your computer for free. I will introduce to you my newest discovery on networking, specially on routing techniques called pfsense. Before, I was searching on the net on how to make use of a computer as a router. And I came across finding this free software to do the routing stuff like all commercially available routers today. First, I wonder how could this could be possible. But when I tested this software, I realize how important this is for use in the company I worked. We applied this to our routed network and it really worked like a charm.
This article will talks about on how you can manage to restrict a specific or group of network computers in accessing a specific websites on the internet. Pfsense has a great tool for site restrictions or web filtering through the use of proxy filter packages like Squid and SquidGuard. Squid and SquidGuard are responsible for the restrictions or blocking of websites accessed by network users or computers. You must install this two packages to have this pfsense capability on website access restrictions. Bellow is a step-by-step guide on how you can implement Squid and SquidGuard in your pfsense network to restrict users from accessing prohibited websites.
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