Hey guys, welcome back to a new video
In today's video I am going to show you how to install PRStance 2.4.5 on a physical appliance
with a USB drive. I'm just in the process of recording my PRStance Bootcamp meeting course that will go over
installing PRStance on VirtualBox, installing PRStance on a physical appliance and going
over all the basics that you need to run your PRStance firewall in your small business or
in your home network. If you are interested in this PRStance Udemy course, follow me on Twitter, I'm at Udemy
and I will drop the Udemy course once it's released. As I said, I'm still in the process of recording it
I am certainly sure it will be released in a couple of weeks from now if you want to
stay up to date with that. Just follow me on Twitter. I will also put the link to the course in the video description once it's released
And because I was already shooting this how to install PRStance on a physical appliance
video for the Udemy course, I thought it's a great idea to also update the YouTube video
because we haven't done that in a while. The last video was a couple of working steps
So we are going to do that now to have everything up to date. And I know you guys always like this PRStance installation video
It's a bit scary if you haven't done it before and I will just tell you through it step by step
The only stuff that you need is a USB drive so that leads to that office space
Of course, the PRStance appliance itself, whatever appliance you choose. And you need a serial cable and I have two different cables here
I have a serial RS232 to USB adapter and a serial to LAN port cable
And I go over that in the video which exact cables I'm using. So if you want to check that out, it's coming up in the video
Let's get right started. Let's head over to the computer and get started with the installation
Okay guys, to get started, make sure your USB drive is plugged into your computer
and also be aware that by following this procedure everything on your USB drive will be deleted
If there are any important files on there at all, make sure to save them somewhere else before proceeding with this tutorial
Now, go to prstance.org, forward press download and download the appropriate PRStance image
Now, it's AMD64 for the most cases. Then, the installer depends, actually it does not depend
I click on USB NAND Stick Installer. Now the console part depends on your physical appliance
Now, if you use an old computer to install this, you probably want to use VGA because it has a VGA output
That's an output where you can plug your monitor in to get some input or to see something
If you have an appliance like me that does not have a VGA output, you need to choose Serial
Then, you need to choose a mirror where is what is convenient for you and click on Download
Then, it's downloading in the background. I already have downloaded that, so I'm not going to do that again
Open another tab, type in Win32DigImager, click on the first link from SourceForge.net
and click on the tab here or the other tab and download this as well
This is the tool that you use to create a debootable USB drive
Now, once you have everything downloaded, open up your Downloads folder and I'm going to clean that mess up a little bit here
Assuming you have Win32DigImager installed and you have DTFSense image downloaded, you need to unzip DTFSense image
Right-click it. I have that unzipped here. I'll just unzip that. I think the default extract thing from Windows was disabled here
I just extract it here. In case you don't have that unzipped, just click on..
I think there must be something extract here or extract to or something that comes with Windows
In case you don't have that, just download that unzipped or unzip
Then, you have the extracted IMG file right here. Okay, now we are ready to go
Hit your Windows key, type Win32DigImager, click on Open. I could notice a black screen there because of the USB
Make sure the correct USB drive is selected here. I have J as my USB drive. I know that
Then, navigate to your Downloads folder and select DTFSense IMG file. Click on Open and then click on Write
Now, once again, all your data on your USB drive will be delivered. Click on Write. Click on Yes
And DTFSense IMG is writing onto our USB drive. While the IMG is writing onto our USB drive, we are quickly going to talk about how I have configured the firewall for this particular tutorial
The black cable that you see here is the cable that is connected to my switch
You have two options here. The first option is you connect DTFSense to an already existing network
If you already have a router, you could plug in DTFSense to any of the ports where the DHCP server is active or in your switch or whatever
If you want to configure DTFSense to run as your main router, that means you would need to connect this black cable in your modem
Now I have it connected to my external network because I'm using DHCP for this tutorial
It's the easiest way on how to show you guys how to install that
We'll talk a little bit about that later more. How to configure the LAN interface for PCPoE and DHCP
What are the differences, etc. The yellow cable that you see here, that is the cable that runs into my computer
This is the LAN interface and the LAN cable that is our network
The blue cable that you see here, that is the console cable
This is probably the most confusing and the hardest part to wrap your head around if you haven't done that yet
I'll just pull this cable off here. I'm trying to show you a little bit better
It depends if you buy an appliance from NETGATE. I believe they deliver a console cable that fits for you
If that's not the case, you can buy a cable. What I'm using here, and I'll show you in a second on the screen what kind of cable you should buy
I'm using a default Cisco Serial R232 cable. Which looks exactly like this
And then I'm having an adapter cable which is from Ugreen and I'm showing you exactly which cable I'm using
It looks like this. And on the other hand it has a USB port
It looks something like this. And what I do is, I connect those two cables together and I CP3 it
Awkward mic setup here. And then I plug the USB part of this cable into my computer
Now the reason for this is that most modern computers, they don't have a serial port anymore
That's why I need this USB adapter. And if you use a desktop to follow this tutorial, I recommend you to plug the USB cable into your mainboard directly
So in the back of your computer. Not in any USB port that is on your PC case
So that could be a problem. That's why I rather put it directly into the back of the computer
Doing that right now. There we go. The sound that we want to hear
And then we can continue with the actual installation. Alright. Let's quickly have a look at the cable
So this is the exact cable that I'm using. This is the Ugreen cable
I'm sure you can find it on ebay or on Amazon. Just look for this particular model
And what you also need then is a RS-222 to LAN cable
If you do the exact same setup like me. And this is not showing up
Let's look at that on Amazon. RS-222 to LAN cable. And it would be a cable like this
Now you could also go and buy something like this. But I have no experience with it
I have very mixed experiences with those cables. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't
So I rather run this setup because I know it works with this Ugreen thing. Okay
In case you use the Ugreen, I have it plugged into my computer. And it will not recognize it per default
So you have to make sure that you have it plugged into your PC case. Now I have it plugged into my computer
And it will not recognize it per default. So you go to press the Windows key
Then you type device manager. And probably now it still has it there
So I'm quickly. Don't mind what I'm doing now. I'm installing that for a second
And then I'm re-plugging it. And there we go. Now if you use this cable, it will show up like this
It will say USB serial controller. That's very easy to fix. Right-click it, click on update driver
You can search automatically. And Windows update will pull that down for us
Okay, it already did it automatically now. Because I did it previously
But that's all you need to do. And then you find the cable under Torch, COM and LTP
And what is important here to note is that first the name is solicited with B2Serial COM port cable
And the COM port itself, which is COM3 in this situation. So this will be important in a second
And you can see that I have already unplugged the USB drive that I wrote the image on
And I plugged it into the PLUS10 firewall USB port. That's what you should also do now
Next up we are going to download a tool called Puppy. So open Google
Search for Puppy. There we go. Download Puppy. Click here to download Puppy
If you don't know Puppy, then download the 64-bit or 32-bit version depending on your system
If you don't know that, most likely if you have a newer computer it's 64-bit
So download this and start it up once it's downloaded and installed
And I think we need a tool. Just run Puppy. And now if you have everything connected
If you have your USB serial adapter in place. Then we are going to open up PS10
This is Google PS10 Serial. Open the first link. Now there is additional information about how to use a serial port to install PLUS10
Lots of information there. What kind of cables you should use. Lots of different information on how to connect to it
We are using the easiest way, which is Puppy. And that should be fine
So the important information that you need here is the bulk speed
Once you have Puppy open. Then select Serial. And remember the COM port that I told you about a few seconds ago
This you need to now set in my case to COM3. Which is also the adapter
And then we need to set this to 115200 for the speed
And we should be good to go. Now click on Open. And you will see that nothing is going to happen
And this is simply because I have unplugged my firewall. And now I'm going to switch my firewall on
And it will start booting up. And if we are lucky everything went well
We should see start showing up here in a couple of seconds
Maybe instead of a few seconds. And then it should. That was the sound
The promising sound that it's driving. And in my case it's automatically booting from the USB drive
Now if you have a different appliance that might be different. Then you would need to look up how to access the boot menu on your particular device
That's probably very easy to find out. Just by googling your device name and boot menu or boot order
And you will find that information there. Now the Puppy installer is firing up
This is why we created the bootable USB drive obviously. And it might feel a bit scary in the beginning when you do that for the first time
When you install PS4 for the first time. It was scary for me when I did it the first time
I never thought I would manage to do that with using those weird serial cases and stuff
But once you did it then you will see that it's really not that hard at all
Okay our first interaction with the PS4 installer will be choosing the terminal we want to use
I like XTerm with a little bit more beautiful than the default VT100
So press XTerm, hit the enter key. Then hit accept for the copyright notice
And hit the enter button again to install PS4. I'm not good with talking today at all
Okay next up we can select a keymap. And I'm going to choose the German one because I have a German keyboard
So navigate down to whatever you want. Hit not space but enter to select it
And then put the up arrow key. Hit on the up arrow key to select continue with DE or whatever keymap you have chosen
And next is the partition type or the file system that we want to choose
I'll stick with UFS because it's what I know. I know that UFS is the newer file system and is a little bit faster
So if you have experience with ZFS, glad me having to use that
I'm going to stick with UFS because that's what I always use. Then choose entire disk
Choose confirmation that everything on the disk will be erased. Yes. And leave it on MDR
That's perfectly fine. Double check if everything looks right. For me it does
And then hit enter again to finish. And hit enter again to commit
And be sure that everything will be erased from the disk. Now I'm going to show you how fast the PS4 installer is in the meanwhile
It's very cool. It's so fast. It's very nice to watch that
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If you want to do some manual configuration, I definitely don't want to do that right now
So I'm hitting no. Then I'm hitting enter again to reboot. And now it's very important that you unplug your USB drive
There we go. And if we did everything correctly, your phone now should boot up
Let's see. Okay. I'm just going to show you the whole boot up process here
And you can actually see it doing the same like on your end. Booting up all the interfaces
And I have re-recorded this video just now because I did a mistake while doing it
But there is the cat photos there. What I want to show you with that is I actually plug the level cable into my computer now
which is connected to the PSN LAN interface. And as you can see now, we don't have an internet connection yet
But we will in a second once that is filed up. And the reason why that is already working is because I have plugged in the black cable, if you remember
into my switch where my actual network is residing. So this new firewall, this new PSN firewall is getting an IP address from the DHCP server for my live PSN firewall
That means we will have internet access in a second. There we go. There
I'll do it again. Cat photos. There we go. We have a working internet connection
You can click on the cat photo. It will load up and you can see that we have a connection there
Next up, the LAN interface. Here is indicated by the IP address 10.129
This is the IP address this PSN firewall got from my actual PSN firewall, as I just said
And we also see that the LAN IP address is 192.168.1.1. That is the IP address of your new PSN firewall
Now, most likely you won't ever need to connect the serial control cable again
except you messed up your firewall very badly and you want to restore your configuration
Or what sometimes can happen is that the web interface kind of crashes or doesn't work anymore
so you would not be able to access your PSN over the web view anymore
which would mean you could plug in your control cable and you could select Restart Web Configurator
So you would put 11, you would hit Enter, and it would restart, and that mostly fixes the issue
Or you could also go ahead and reboot the firewall from here. You could also do that via SSH if you enable that later on in PSN
then you don't need to plug the serial cable in. This is the only thing that's probably the only reason you would see this menu ever again
Okay, now that we have PSN successfully installed and we know that the IP address of our firewall is 192.168.1.1
we can open up a web browser and navigate to this. If you use Chrome, click on Advanced here on this warning, click on Proceed
and then log in with the default credentials of admin and password PSN
Hit Enter, and the Initial Configuration Wizard starts. Now we are going to actually use this Initial Configuration Wizard, because I really like it
It's going over all of the important steps that you need to take to secure and initially set up your firewall
Click on Next, read through the NetGate global support thing if you want to
If not, click Next. You could change the hostname of your firewall to something else if you want to give it another name
I'll just leave it on PSN. You could also change your local domain or your domain name if you have a domain in place
If you don't know what that means, just leave it on local domain
If you're not worrying about DNS servers now, we leave this also checked for the default setup
That's perfectly fine. Click on Next. Then we want to select the correct time zone for our location
In my case it's Europe and Berlin. Click on Next. Now this is probably the most important step of the whole installation
That's depending on the setup you want to run. This is to configure the WAN interface up to here
Now that I have set this up, I set it to DHCP because I have a working network in place
I want my firewall not to be the only firewall in the system
I don't have it connected to a modem. Now, if you want to use another router or you also have an existing network already
then DHCP is the right option. You would just go ahead and plug in the black cable here into your existing switch, network, router, whatever
that you want to use QFStand on. If not, if you want to use QFStand actually as your main router
that means you need to connect the black cable to your modem
If you do that, you need to change this configuration type here to PPPoE
Now, you can scroll down a bit and you see that the PPPoE configuration option was enabled
I am not sure if this is the same in the United States or somewhere else on the planet
It might be that it's PPP, PPP for your location, but usually that's very easy to find out
I'll just use the example for the German market or for the German location here, which is PPPoE
So, the letter that you got from the internet service provider, there will be a username on it
In my case, it would be username at telecom.de or something like that
then the password and the server name would be, I would just put telecom
It doesn't matter what you put here, you can put anything there. That would be all you need to set up
Then, it would work with a modem. There is also a few more variations to it, like if it doesn't work, for example
if you have VDSL or super vectoring, you would need to set up a VLAN
A little bit more complicated topic for an additional video. I have information on that app on eosvac.com, so if you need a particular configuration on how to connect to a modem
please look that up there. For the default configuration that we go over here, the default PSTN installation, we are not going to cover that
So, I'm going to set this back to DHCP, because that's what I want
Scroll down to the bottom, leave all those things checked for default, also security measures
measures that you cannot lock yourself out, and some other stuff. Click on next
You could change the LAN IP address if you wanted. This is the IP address of your PSTN firewall
There is no reason to do that. If you want, you probably know what we do anyway, but if you don't know what that means, just leave it as it is
Click on next. Then you change the admin password, very important. Change the admin password to something more secure than I do
I would recommend to have this at least set to 12 letters mixed with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters
Write it down somewhere that you don't lose it, and make sure that's a complex password
because if somebody gets access to the firewall, especially if you open up ports to the outside
he has compromised your whole network and can move laterally through your network
Very big security problem. Make sure this is a very secure password
Once that is done, click on next. Click on reload to apply all the settings
Now the settings get applied to PSTN. And boom, there we go
Congratulations, PSTN is now considered. Click on check for updates, just for good weather
but because we just have downloaded the image, I don't think there will be any updates available
And as expected, it's already up to date. So we can go ahead and click on this link here to get to our dashboard
Accept the copyright warning again and take the user service of NetGet if you want to
Then you can retrieve all of this information, the NetGet services and support disclaimer thing here
If you don't want to have that there, just click on the X to get rid of it. So this is your dashboard
Now I will just give you a very quick overview because this is just a PSTN installation video
And if you want to check out the full course that I am creating
that will go more in depth over all the basic configuration stuff, then I will put the link to it into the description once the course is released
which will be in a couple of weeks most likely. If you want to stay updated on the PSTN course, just follow me on Twitter, I'm at Fiosek
Then I will definitely put the info out there once the course is released
Okay, let's go through that real quick. You can see there's our LAN interface
It's up and it's connected. Also our LAN is connected. Then we have some system information here
In case there is a new update available for PSTN, it will show up here and it will tell you to update
You can see your CPU. You can see the uptime of the firewall
You can see the DNS servers in use. And last, config change, also important because more people are using the firewall
Jesus Christ, I cannot concentrate. Next one is the CPU usage you can see here
You see the memory usage, swap usage, and the disk usage. In case you want to change your internet connection or the, like I said
the type of connection that you use, DHCP or PPPoE later, click on interfaces, click on RAM
and you can always change that to whatever else you want here
and then scroll down and click on save if you change that in the future
I guess that concludes the how to install 2.4.5 video at this point
If you have any further questions, leave them in the comments below. The community and myself are happy to answer your questions to the best of my ability
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