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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 Homology · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > So why do they release a new distro, instead of contribing to mWall?

    Because they have "radically different goals" than monowall. This is in the second sentence in http://www.pfsense.com/

  2. Re:CURRENT? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There are other issues at play here which still exist in -STABLE. The lead developer has a good sense of what is right, that and he is a FreeBSD committer himself.

    In short, -CURRENT works better for us.

  3. Re:Based on mOnOwall? by M1FCJ · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So does firewall, it has even have a traffic shape wizard... I'm a big fan of Monowall bt I'm going to give this a go, if it has more support for hardware compared to Monowall, I might consider switching to it and use my useless wireless PCI card.

  4. VM? by kafka47 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Would love to see this on a downloadable VM. Any takers?

    /K