Category Archives: pfSense

Comparison between pfSense and Check Point

Jake describes his experiences with router systems pfSense and Check Point After been using the CheckPoint safe@office in a live environment for almost two month I have now decided to go back to using my homebuilt pfSense firewall. Both firewalls … Continue reading

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FreeBSD link roundup – 28/04/09

FreeBSD 1) Martin Wilke is looking for people to test QT 4.5.1. He also reports he managed to get Firefox 3.1 Beta4 working on FreeBSD. Please test. 2) Ivan Voras has done some virtualised benchmarking of Ubuntu 8.10, FreeBSD 7.1 and … Continue reading

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Cisco meets its match (pfSense)

Cisco products are generally good and reliable, but often expensive. RickC had some issues with a Cisco firewall and takes the free pfSense for a spin, and he loves it… Is that surprising? …  Enter PFSense - the BSD-based firewall distro closely … Continue reading

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pfSense 2.0 dashboard sneak peek

The pfSense Team had their ’09 hackaton recently with 7 developers working hard on v2.0. Judging from feedback, changelog and the 2.0 dashboard sneak peek, this was a successful get-together.

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pfSense 2009 hackaton – Live

The pfSense 2009 hackaton, which started on Saturday, can be followed live on http://hackaton.pfsens.org.  You can also join the chat by using the Java viewer embedded on the page or head over to irc.freenode.net and join #pfsense-hackathon. For other FreeBSD … Continue reading

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USB Device Tracking and PFsense (video)

In this episode Peter Giannoulis joins from TheAcademyPro.com. Chris Gerling is back in studio talking about USB Device Tracking, and Matt is building the new HakHouse firewall/router with PFsense. To check the pfSense section, skip to minute 16:53 Watch of … Continue reading

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pfSense 1.2.3 testing snapshots

Scott Ullrich of the pfSense project announced the switch of the builder system over to FreeBSD 7.1. Currently version is 1.2.3-PRERELEASE-TESTING.   Daily builds can be downloaded here.

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Released: pfSense 1.2.2

Chris Buechler has announced the availability of pfSense 1.2.2, a security and bug-fix release of the FreeBSD-based firewall system: pfSense 1.2.2 released! Only five changes from 1.2.1, but we did want to get these issues fixed and an updated version … Continue reading

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