Category Archives: pfSense

3rd pfSense hackaton this weekend

The third annual pfSense Hackathon starts this coming weekend through the following weekend, in Louisville, KY US. Two developers (Holger and Seth) will be coming in from Europe, as well as Bill from the Chicago area, Gary with Centipede Networks … Continue reading

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pfSense 1.2 RC 2 released

The second release candidate of pfSense, a FreeBSD-based firewall, is ready for testing: pfSense 1.2-RC2 has been released. Here are just a few of the new improvements and features that have made their way into this new version: automatically restarts … Continue reading

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Interview with Jeff Starkweather, Chris Buechler and Scott Ullrich

Centipede Networks has recently entered a partnership with BSD Perimeter to offer commercial support for two important free software projects, pfSense and m0n0wall. The Free Software Magazine talked to Jeff Starkweather (CEO of Centipede Networks), Chris Buechler (BSD Perimiter’s CTO) … Continue reading

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pfSense 2007 Hackathon scheduled for Oct

A number of pfSense developers will be flying in to Louisville from around the world to participate in the 2007 Hackthon! During this time a number of pfSense developers get together and spend most of their time hacking on pfSense, … Continue reading

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Internet access & time slots (pre)defined with pfSense

Have you ever wasted too much time online? Right, so posting this on my blog imparts some selection bias to the answers to that question. But have you really wasted time to the point of not getting work done, or … Continue reading

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pfSense 1.2-BETA-2 released

After a long bug hunting and regression testing period, Scott Ullrich has announced the second beta release of pfSense 1.2, a FreeBSD-based firewall on 04 July. 1.2-BETA-2 has many new features and stability improvements making it the leading Open Source … Continue reading

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pfSense 1.2 status update

I’ve been going through all the open bug tickets cleaning up things that have been fixed and reviewing everything else to help Scott and the other developers fix the remaining issues. We’re down to about a half dozen known issues … Continue reading

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pfSense versus m0n0wall

A very short comparison Compared to m0n0wall, it (i.e. pfSense) has many many more features. That proves problematic for very basic systems, like the soekris net4501 which only has 64mb of ram. m0n0wall runs great on that platform, but pfsense … Continue reading

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