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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. 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

  2. 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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