For some testing in my lab environment I needed PXE boot to work. This is how I configured PfSense to support PXE boot. In this scenario I wanted some Windows and Linux devices to boot to an imaging environment. For the Windows devices I needed option 66 en 67 but somehow when I specified those settings in PfSense I didn’t got it to work. The solution was very simple :

Log on to the Webinterface of PfSense, go to services/dhcp server.

Specify the following options :

• IP Address of TFTP server
• Enable network booting yes
• Next Server (= IP Address of TFTP server)
• Default Bios file name (= filename of legacy of UEFI bootfile name, in my case undionly.kpxe)

Save these settings and you’re all set! You don’t have to specify the 66 and 67 settings!

In this scenario I would like to allow SMTP traffic to my internet provider so that an application in my test environment is able to send notification messages. In this environment I use pfSense.

For this to work, you have to create a port forwarding rule on the LAN interface forwarding traffic to any IP with port 587.

Open the pfSense interace and go to Firewall rules:

Then create a new rule as follows:

Make sure you use the right (internal) IP address of the server which is sending the emails.