pfSense book now available for purchase!

Authored by pfSense co-founder Chris Buechler and pfSense developer Jim Pingle, The Definitive Guide to pfSense covers installation and basic configuration through advanced networking and firewalling of the popular open source firewall and router distribution.
This book is designed to be a friendly step-by-step guide to common networking and security tasks, plus a thorough reference of pfSense’s capabilities.

Book: Network Administration with FreeBSD

A new book has been added to the "FreeBSD library": "Network Administration with FreeBSD" by Babak Farrokhi.

This 280 page book is about the building, securing, and maintaining of networks with the FreeBSD operating system, and deals with the following topics

1. Set up and manage networking on FreeBSD
2. Virtualization with FreeBSD Jails, IPFW and PF
3. Configure interfaces, protocols, and routing

Network Administrators looking for skills beyond installation and configuration of FreeBSD may find this book useful.

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Building a server with FreeBSD 7

This modular guide to building a FreeBSD server is has been written to make it easy for (new) users to choose the packages that they need, with step-by-step directions for installation and configuration.

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