This book is written in a cookbook style. Each chapter consists of recipes, each of which is composed of step-by-step instructions to complete a particular task. Each recipe also includes tips, alternatives, and references to other recipes or appropriate external sources. The book can be explored chapter by chapter or in no particular order. This book is intended for all levels of network administrators. If you are an advanced user of pfSense, then you can flip to a particular recipe and quickly accomplish the task at hand, while if you are new to pfSense, you can read chapter by chapter and learn all of the features of the system from the ground up.
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Matt Williamson
Matt Williamson is the founder of Blue Key Consulting - a computer systems design and development firm located in the New York City area. Before forming his consulting business, Matt developed software for a number of companies in the insurance and financial research industries. A long-time user of pfSense, Matt has incorporated pfSense in a number of roles throughout a variety of his own systems and those of his clients.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Technical Cookbooks are usually books that are crammed full of examples from the most simple use to advanced and possibly unthought of use cases. I purchased this book because I use pfSense 2.0 and am trying to configure one of those advanced use cases. I was very disappointed to find that it was a simple walk through of each of the web interfaces and the most basic setup of each configuration. I'll admit that I didn't read the entire thing, just the parts that I was trying to figure out but in those sections there was no discussion of advanced configurations which was very disappointing. If anything this should have been called pfSense 2 for dummies.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This book was a complete waste for me. The use of the word "cookbook" should be removed from the title. The amount of cooking in this book can be compared to boiling water. I am disappointed with the lack of depth in this book.
If you don't have a computer and want to learn about pfSense 2, this may be the book for you. Each item covered contains a screen shot of the web configuration. Very rudimentary examples are given that just touch on what pfSense can do.
If you don't have a computer and want to learn about pfSense 2, this may be the book for you. Each item covered contains a screen shot of the web configuration. Very rudimentary examples are given that just touch on what pfSense can do.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was a complete waste. The author is in no way involved with the pfSense project, so how is he authoritative enough to write this book? The fact is that the book is poorly written, very poorly edited and has nothing but basic examples. There is another book, actually written by the authors of pfSense itself which is very well written. I'd highly recommend it instead of wasting your money on this tripe.
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Table of contents is wrong.
Just got the book and it looks good. First problem I notice though: the page numbers in the table of contents are wrong. Read more
Published 7 months ago by A. Johnston
Good reference for 2.0
This book was extremely helpful...I'm familiar with firewalls in general and have set them up in very basic ways. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Paul Hill
pfSense 2 Cookbook
Easy to use. In my shop it is always an adventure with our production upgrades. The way the material in this book is laid out almost anyone on my team can execute upgrades. Read more
Published 14 months ago by DLK
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