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Firewall command-line access
From the course: Firewall Administration Essential Training
Firewall command-line access
- [Instructor] There is so much exciting stuff to tell you about command-line administration inside of pfSense. I want to get started right away with the diagnostics menu right over here. We're going to go to diagnostics and then come down to command prompt, and I'll use this as an opportunity to talk about what this is. So execute shell command basically says if you know the command structure that you want to issue that you would issue if you were in a terminal window, and I'll show you what a terminal window looks like. This, right, so if you were in a thing like this logged into your pfSense router and you wanted to issue a command, you can do that right here. Just enter the command right here, No problem at all, and in fact, we can do that right now. I can show you ... This just shows you your net tables. Right, so these are your ... Not net tables, but your net rule. This is exactly what you would see if you had logged in via SSH to the pfSense router but sometimes you need more…
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