установка pfsense на ubuntu

Once it has finished downloading, start up vboxwebsrv again and go to your browser. Other than the network adapters this process is fairly simple but I’ll walk you through it anyway with these images. Just follow along.

wget http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/pfsense/downloads/pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz

Now before we create the VM we should first download pfSense. You can close vboxwebsrv by pressing Ctrl+C and you can download pfSense by going to their downloads page, finding a mirror near you and selecting the link ending in RELEASE-i386.iso.gz then using these commands.

Setting up the Virtual Machine

After all that, provided that your web server is configured properly you should able to go to http://serverip/phpvirtualbox (default login is admin/admin). Now go to the next page and I’ll talk about installing pfSense now that we have VirtualBox all setup.

Now start the VirtualBox web service by typing,

sudo rm phpvirtualbox-latest.zip

sudo mv phpvirtualbox-4.1-7 phpvirtualbox

sudo unzip phpvirtualbox-latest.zip

sudo wget `wget -q -O - http://phpvirtualbox.googlecode.com/files/LATEST.txt` -O phpvirtualbox-latest.zip

Since this is Ubuntu Server and we are not using a GUI we are going to use a browser based interface instead so we don’t have to tediously enter all the commands. phpVirtualBox uses Javascript and HTML to mimic the look and functionality of the desktop VirtualBox application. Assuming you have the Apache web server installed, all you have to do is download and extract the latest zip into the web server’s root directory using these commands.

VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.6-74713.vbox-extpack

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.6/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.6-74713.vbox-extpack

Now we need to install the VirtualBox extension pack, this is necessary for when we want to view the screen of the VM we are installing. Go over to the VirtualBox downloads page and get the link to the latest version . Then run the commands, of course replacing the link with the most recent one from the website.

sudo apt-get install virtualbox

The first thing we are going to do is install VirtualBox which is available in the Ubuntu repositories, so run:

Being a home user like myself, with less than a dozen LAN clients and a modest internet connection you probably do not need hardware too powerful to manage your network. By using virtualization we eliminate the need to run 2 separate machines for our router and home server. There are many paid and free solutions available for Linux and including KVM, VM Ware, Xen, and Virtuzzo. I chose to use VirtualBox because I found it was supported by a large community, and easy to manage without a GUI. Also for older hardware without support for hardware virtualization it falls back to software emulation.

In this tutorial IРІР‚в„ўm going to assume that you have already installed Ubuntu Server 12.04 and are connected to the internet via a DHCP interface. If you are reading this you probably already know that pfSense is a powerful, open source, FreeBSD based router distribution which can be installed on x86 hardware.

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