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pfSense vs traditional pf
I was curious what you guys thought of pfSense as a replacement for pf.
What are the advantages disadvantages of using it for your firewall? |
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You're asking in the wrong subforum.
pfSense is a turnkey system based on FreeBSD, and is dependent upon one of the FreeBSD forks of PF. There were two: FreeBSD 8.2's PF syntax is equivalent to OpenBSD PF at release 4.1, and FreeBSD 9's syntax is equivalent to OpenBSD at release 4.5. I've never used pfSense and have no comment on it. |
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I have read alot of posts on FreeBSD forums reguarding pfSense but I wanted to get the REAL guys take on it vs editing pf.conf with vi.
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All software has flaws. While the bells & whistles pfSense provides may entice many, it does not provide anything more than (& perhaps less...) than a well-tuned pf.conf file itself. No, most here are not enamoured with pfSense. The benefits are not that great, & it introduces new complexity which needs to be managed. |
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It depends who you define as REAL.
One possible source for reality is the PF Mailing List. This is a low volume, somewhat OS independent discussion list. It is distinct from the freebsd-pf list for specific discussion of their forks. In 2006, there was a short thread about pfSense. In that thread was this comment: Quote:
Last edited by jggimi; 6th August 2014 at 05:27 PM. Reason: clarity, typo |
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