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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.

4 of 104 comments (clear)

  1. Relies on a full-size computer by wesmills · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sorry, I'll take my Linksys WRT54GS (v3) running OpenWRT or dd-wrt. Small, quiet, and wireless!

  2. Netcraft Report by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    BSD is still dead!

  3. Re:SmoothWall by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: -1, Troll

    True. Trying to do live CD's on FreeBSD is like trying to put a transmission on a horse: with the effort of adding all the necessary bits and wedging them into the out of date bits of FreeBSD, you could have worn out the transmission twice on another, better supported OS.

  4. Re:Born dead: *BSD is dying by WindowsIsForArseWipe · · Score: 0, Troll
    if bsd kernels had a strong drive behind them like ltorvalds then perhaps they would have better device support.

    But they don't so BSD is dying.