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How to take down your pfSense firewall with one checkbox

Posted by Admin • Saturday, January 1. 2011 • Category: Linux

Simple: create a Traffic Shaper queue but forget to choose a queue parent.

Your firewall will not pass any packets across, and you'll have no idea what hit you.

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