anyone use pfsense?

[Goosemaster]

thanks

 

[Zim Hosein]

Topic Title: anyone use pfsense?

What is that? And no, I'm not using a search engine, I demand all relevant info here Goosemaster!

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Topic Title: anyone use pfsense?

What is that? And no, I'm not using a search engine, I demand all relevant info here Goosemaster!

It is a mod of the FreeBSD m0n0wall project

http://m0n0.ch/wall/
http://pfsense.org/index.php?id=1


Last time I was running pfsense and it ran like crap on my soekris 4801
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when I enabled a few QoS and NAT rules

They just rewrote it for freebsd 2 and I am stil lreluctant to go with them since I haven't messed with m0n0wall yet


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<---which is exactly why he just came back from the store with a compact flash card

 

[Goosemaster]

lol...this will make the third router I have in use in the house...LOL...

I have much more that are not being used....a dlink vpn, two netgear wirelesses, and a sonicwall...LOL...


oh, and my cisco 2610 ...which is currently awaiting a WIC...doens't mean it's not up and running

 

[Goosemaster]

nevermind...back deep in the bowels of their site they say that it will run slow on a wrap or equivalent...they are basically porting m0n0wall to faster systems, whereas m0n0 concentrates on embedded system...

thsi made my day though...

n a net4501, m0n0wall provides a WAN <-> LAN TCP throughput of about 17 Mbps, including NAT, when run with the default configuration. On faster platforms (like net4801 or WRAP), throughput in excess of 50 Mbps is possible (and > 100 Mbps with newer standard PCs).

<---net4801 owner

 

[Goosemaster]

basically, don't install pfsense on an embedded pc like i did

Just for info, it was slowly to a CRAWL on my box. I was getting like 20kb/s(~2.5KB/s) if I set a bunch of rules. now I know. It was very cool, but not the right application of its strengths.