CHAPTER
ONE
OUT OF THE BOX
1.1 Getting Started
The basic firewall configuration begins with connecting the Netgate® appliance to the Internet. The Netgate appliance
should be unplugged at this time.
Connect one end of an Ethernet cable to the WAN port (shown in the Input and Output Ports section) of the Netgate
appliance. The other end of the same cable should be inserted into a LAN port on the ISP Customer Premise Equipment
(CPE) device, such as a cable or fiber router. If the CPE device provided by the ISP has multiple LAN ports, any LAN
port should work in most circumstances.
Next, connect one end of a second Ethernet cable to the LAN port (shown in the Input and Output Ports section) of the
Netgate appliance. Connect the other end to the computer.
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