How to transform your old PC a firewall

There are many things that you can do with an old PC, could use it as a coffee table, a doorstop, or turn it into a powerful firewall to protect of your current home or corporate network. Router the firewall are included in mainly small, slow running PC. So if you are around an old PC did, why not try this security PC hack increase.

To make your old PC into a firewall you will need the following items ready:

• an old PC Tower
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• to monitor an additional network card
• CD burner (although not required)
• ADSL router

How your old PC into a firewall to turn : update your hardware

To your PC to a unit able to make the connection to the Internet and running a firewall, you can add an additional network card or multiple.

Ideally, should one that offers a pair of Ethernet cables and a Wi-Fi card.

How to transform your old PC into a firewall: download PfSense

It is an open-source firewall PfSense distribute software based on FreeBSD. To download the software visit pfsense.org and visit the download section.  PfSense offer several servers to choose, so choose the one nearest your location on the ISO. Opt for the 32-bit version because this is running with less than 4 GB of RAM.

How to transform your old PC into a firewall: ISO burn to a disk

This step is easy to burn the downloaded ISO to a CD, if you a CD-burner, here what it have to do: download Rufus.

Rufus is a specialized software that essentially "Burns data onto a USB drive".

How to transform your old PC into a firewall: when booting the CD

Insert the CD into the CD drive and select to boot "Standard" from the list of options. to install on the hard disk as next PfSense. To do this, you select this option, with the keyboard and the number must, should say something like "install PfSense on hard drive, etc."

This should start, pre installation PfSense and the front end Installation Wizard will open. from there should you decide to keep everything standard and accept the settings and choose easy install. Your PC will restart this. might want to install a processor, things speed up.

How to transform your old PC into a firewall: open the browser IP address

Once the PfSense installed, you will receive a default address, this can be entered in the browser and this will bring you to the PfSense interface.

From there you will be login unable to PfSense, but if you have no account prompted a host name, domain, and server information, follow the PfSense Wizard from here through your network information and provides a secure password.  or log the user name Admin and password pfSense in depending on what version you have downloaded.

Once you have provided all the relevant information, the PfSense are configuration is completed, you need to a dashboard. you will notice that most of the fields are not mandatory to fill in.

How to transform your old PC into a firewall: connect your router

You need to place a network cable into the modem and the other end into the "WAN" port of the router. If you have an ADSL router, you need another router, because this requires a modem to an Internet connection.

To make your router with your new recycling PC and PfSense software work, you need a switch to create, this is an access point and is necessary if your PC not on Wi-Fi capabilities. You may disable the DHCP server and the PC address change before you connect the PfSense server one of the LAN ports to the LAN.