PFSENSE after Firewall

[scoobs1981]

Hi all

Just want to check would i be able to run a PFSENSE box after the firewall ? would only like to use it for the squid
service as my UTM does not do that

Thanks

 

[Alkine]

I'm no expert, but I cannot see why not. However, I have a sneaky suspicion there may be a better way to achieve what you want to achieve with a simpler setup. Care to elaborate on how things are currently setup and how you plan to have it setup?

 

[DMNknight]

The advantage of pfsense is it comes with all the bells and whistles of a full blown firewall.

Using pfsense for squid is the equivalent of buying a Swiss army knife because it comes with a great toothpick.

Have you even googled for dedicated/prebuilt squid proxy builds? I got a few result that may be worth it.

 

[OCP]

Double NAT would be your only issue (not a problem but extra layer of complexity)

Why would you want to do that though? pfSense is an awesome firewall; have had numerous servers up for years with full mesh VPN's for comms with only hardware being at fault.

Even virtualised it runs perfectly.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Depending on what you using for firewall I would rather replace it with PFsense.

 

[PolarBearSA]

Agreed on the comments saying running pfSense alone. It is rock solid as a firewall and adding the other service like squid and snort make monitoring traffic easy and blocking unwanted packets.

 

[scoobs1981]

yeah problem is i we just purchased the cisco so am at a dead end

Ok will google or dedicated/prebuilt squid proxy builds

can you tell me any you know of ?

 

[gfmalan]

yeah problem is i we just purchased the cisco so am at a dead end

Ok will google or dedicated/prebuilt squid proxy builds

can you tell me any you know of ?

Just get pfSense, there are 2 ticks you need to make under advanced section, then only enable / install the service you like.

Easier doing it this way than finding loose standing product.