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pfSense 1.0 Firewall Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the protected-by-daemons dept.

Chris Daniel writes, "pfSense, a FreeBSD-based firewall LiveCD distribution, has reached its official 1.0 release. Based on m0n0wall, pfSense offers firewalling, traffic shaping, VPNs, load balancing, and a nice package-management system for adding extra functionality, among many other useful built-in features. The project has been ongoing for two years, and pfSense has already been in production use in a number of locations well before the 1.0 release." Find a download mirror here.

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  1. Re:Based on mOnOwall? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    monowall is just a firewall, this does traffic shaping/QoS, lots more services.

  2. SmoothWall by mahesh_gharat · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have a look at SmoothWall at http://www.smoothwall.org/
    It's based on GNU/Linux and provides at par or better features and it is there for almost 4-5 years now.

    1. Re:SmoothWall by MattBurke · · Score: 4, Informative

      Only if you discount firewalling as a feature.

      The code behind iptables is disgusting. It doesn't even do a proper job of stateful tracking. Read and compare the source code if you don't believe me - There are many things which linux does in about 10 lines of code but run into hundreds or thousands of lines in the pf source because pf does the job properly

  3. SmoothWall?? IPCop! by PurPaBOO · · Score: 5, Informative

    You only get the better features in Smoothwall if you pay for the corporate version.

    You could try IPCop instead, a fork of smoothwall.

    I use IPCop instead of pfsense for some installations as it has support for the Bewan PCI ADSL modem.

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  4. PPTP pass-through? by pmsr · · Score: 3, Informative

    pfSense is an amazing product that does without hiccups what firewalls costing hundreds or even thousands of dollars do. But it has a limitation: it can't handle more than one simultaneous PPTP pass-through session to the same server. Plenty of cheap routers (based in Linux) do this. But granted, that Linux PPTP masquerading kernel module is a little beauty.

  5. minor p2p glitch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    After months of regular use I can say pfSense is a great firewall. One minor problem (and the only one) I encountered is the inability to work with the Kademlia p2p network: the client appears as always firewalled even after days though all other ports are correctly routed and the mule client gets a high id. The problem disappears as soon as I route the same ports through a different firewall.

  6. Re:CURRENT? by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 3, Informative

    pfSense Rocks hard.

    I have been on the RC1, and replaced all my Linux/IPfilter machines with this.

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