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Section | pfSense

Basic pfsense to pfsense IPSEC tunnel config

July 8, 2009 by Gerard   Leave a comment

pfsense logo 100x100Rolfsa is another user who’s replacing Cisco PIX boxes with pfSense.

Part of my security redesign this year is to replace our aging Cisco PIX boxes with pfsense. Yesterday I spent the day setting up a simulated environment for 3 of our offices over an Internet connection. I was able to get the IPSEC tunnel up and running between two pfsense boxes pretty quick. Here’s a quick and dirty process for getting it all to work:


Related posts:

  1. Released: pfSense 1.2.3
  2. Cisco meets its match (pfSense)
  3. pfSense 1.2 RC 2 released
  4. Released: pfSense 1.2.2
  5. pfSense 1.2 RC4 released


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