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Authored by pfSense co-founder Chris Buechler and pfSense developer Jim Pingle, The Definitive Guide to pfSense covers installation and basic configuration through advanced networking and firewalling of the popular open source firewall and router distribution. This book is designed to be a friendly step-by-step guide to common networking and security tasks, plus a thorough reference of pfSense’s [...]
Continue reading...Traffic Shaper in pfSense Firewall
25. August 2009
Tutorial video on configuring Traffic Shaping to provide priority for VoIP for Asterisk on a pfSense Firewall.
Continue reading...Basic pfsense to pfsense IPSEC tunnel config
8. July 2009
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 our offices over an Internet connection. I was able to get the IPSEC tunnel up and [...]
Continue reading...ANNOUNCEMENT: BSD Router Project (bsdrp)
6. July 2009
Olivier Cochard-Labbé, an IP routing expert and founder of FreeNAS (a FreeBSD based Network-Attached-Storage system), has released the first alpha (0.1) image of his new project: BSD Router Project - http://bsdrp.net bsdrp is an open source customised distribution of FreeBSD dedicated to offering IP routing services for small ISP’s. The release 0.1 of BSDRP is a fully working prototype, to be used on real [...]
Continue reading...Comparison between pfSense and Check Point
10. June 2009
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 have pros and cons. For me the pros of the pfSense made it for me. The biggest [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD link roundup – 28/04/09
29. April 2009
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 Windows Server 2008 R2 beta on the three currently most prominent virtualisation platforms: VMWare ESX 3.5 U3, Citrix XenServer 5.0 U2, Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 [...]
Continue reading...Cisco meets its match (pfSense)
27. March 2009
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 related to the m0n0wall project. Having used several host-based firewalls like Smoothwall and m0n0wall over the years, [...]
Continue reading...pfSense 2.0 dashboard sneak peek
27. March 2009
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.
Continue reading...pfSense 2009 hackaton – Live
10. March 2009
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 related events, check my FreeBSD Events & Conferences calendar.
Continue reading...USB Device Tracking and PFsense (video)
6. February 2009
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 download the video on hak5.org.
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11. November 2009
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