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      sumant1974
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      How to connect to pfsense box from Internet?

      I have an pfsense box acting as my border firewall. I want to access it from my home running internet through ssh port. And also ping to the pfsense wan ip to monitor that it is on.

      Please post if u can help me out.

      sumant

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        cmb
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        Add firewall rules as desired on WAN.

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          Rampage
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          for security reasons i suggest to use a vpn tunnel.

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            XIII
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            No matter the method, make sure you are using HTTPS to manage the FW, and not HTTP, if using a self signed cert, for better security, install the certificate on each computer that you will manage it from, that way you will get an alert only if the cert has changed

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              sumant1974
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              @sumant1974:

              How to connect to pfsense box from Internet?

              I have an pfsense box acting as my border firewall. I want to access it from my home running internet through ssh port. And also ping to the pfsense wan ip to monitor that it is on.

              Please post if u can help me out.

              sumant

              Thanks all

              I have got the way to do it

              Sumant

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