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Initial setup

Initial setup

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Initial setup

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- [Instructor] If you have just set up and you're trying to connect to it from a web browser, you'll be connecting to 192.168.1.1, because that's the default, and when you do so, you're browser will likely tell you the connection is not private, it's attempting an SSL connection, but the PF sense router has a self science certificate Click show details in safari and in other browsers, whatever you need to click in order to say that you do want to visit the website. as an administrator because connecting to an unsigned or a self signed certificate is a security hole, and it wants to be sure that you know what you're doing. Now the default username and password for PF sense out of the box is admin and pfsense, go to sign in and point not update the password, and you'll immediately be hit with this red warning box that says the admin account password is to the default value. This is just encouraging a best practice which is to always change the admin name and password on any device that…

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