Category Archives: pfSense

pfSense FAQs

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Gerard

pfSense is an open source distribution of FreeBSD-based firewall which provides a platform for flexible and powerful routing and firewalling. The versatility of pfSense presents us with a wide array of configuration options. Matt Williamson takes a look at some … Continue reading →

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Configure advanced features with pfSense 2.0 (Packt Pub’s new book)

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Gerard

Packt Publishing, the publishers of Learning FreeNAS, are now in the process of publishing pfSense 2 Cookbook. This book helps users discover the power of pfSense‘s core functionality. It is written by Matt Williamson and is filled with examples of interfaces, … Continue reading →

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pfSense: Build an UTM, and 2.0-RC1 available

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Gerard

smallnetbuilder.com has an article (Build your own UTM with pfSense) showing what you can do with pfSense as Unified Threat Management appliance, esp. with regards to Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Anti-Virus, Content Filtering, Anti-Spam and Traffic Control. The concept of Unified … Continue reading →

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Miscelaneous (Free)BSD news and links (Week 2)

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Gerard

I End of Life Announcement for PC-BSD 7.x With the release of version 8.2 just around the corner, and PC-BSD 9.0 slated for later this year, we will be stopping the production of new packages / PBIs for the PC-BSD 7.x … Continue reading →

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pfSense development in 2011

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Gerard

Recently I contacted lead developers of different FreeBSD based projects and asked them about their development plans and ideas for 2011. Yesterday we looked at PC-BSD, let’s now see what the pfSense developers have in store. As most of you … Continue reading →

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Series on 2011 development of FreeBSD based O/S

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Gerard

Next week I’ll be posting a number of posts on what project founders and developers are planning this year for some FreeBSD based operating systems. I’ll be posting on PC-BSD, pfSense, m0n0wall, HeX, MaheshaBSD, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and maybe a few … Continue reading →

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Quick news and links: ghostbsd, pfsense, doing business with BSD

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Gerard

Some links to recent project updates and howtos. pfSense Unofficial blog: http://pfsenses.blogspot.com/ pfSense 2.0 RC1 almost here: Coming soon…2.0-RC1 GhostBSD GhostBSD’s future in doubt. PC-BSD 9.0 will be available as Gnome (and other window managers as well), so Gnome lovers, don’t fear. Setting … Continue reading →

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kFreeBSD with ZFS, Bordeaux on PC-BSD, benchmarks and pfSense

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Gerard

Debian’s GNU/kFreeBSD Installer will support ZFS “While Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has supported the ZFS file-system with its FreeBSD-8 kernel, support for installing the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD distribution to a root ZFS file-system will now be possible with the Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” release. … Continue reading →

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