Category Archives: pfSense

Chris Buechler has announced the availability of the first beta release of pfSense 2.0, a FreeBSD-based firewall system. Our Christmas gift to the community is the 2.0 release reaching the beta milestone. The release is feature complete, with no new features … Continue reading →

Kris Moore announced on New Year’s day the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-BETA (Hubble Edition). Version 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are: … Continue reading →

Chris Buechler has announced pfSense 1.2.3 1.2.3 release is now available! This is a maintenance release in the 1.2.x series, bringing an updated FreeBSD base, some minor enhancements, some bug fixes, and a couple security updates. We’ve been waiting a … Continue reading →

Vincent Danen lists the benefits of using the do-it-yourself pfSense firewall system over some of the readily available firewall appliances from Linksys and D-Link. For features, security, reliability, and availability, pfSense beats the competition. Download (login: 9naomi9@mailinator.com, pwd: bugmenot)

Tutorial video on configuring Traffic Shaping to provide priority for VoIP for Asterisk on a pfSense Firewall.

Rolfsa is another user who’s replacing Cisco PIX boxes with pfSense. Part of my security redesign this year is to replace our aging Cisco PIX boxes with pfsense. Yesterday I spent the day setting up a simulated environment for 3 of … Continue reading →