pfSense rocks

pfSense rocks. There are no other words to describe it. My connection speed is faster with it compared to IPCop and SmoothWall. Traffic shaping (QoS) wasn’t as easy to setup, compared to the others, at first but it only took a little time to get it down. Snort, Squid and OpenVPN were easy to install and run flawlessly.

The only thing that is missing from pfSense QoS is Layer 7 traffic shaping. That would allow me to do QoS based on applications instead of just IP/port. The good news is that Layer 7 shaping is planned in the next major release. The bad news is there isn’t a set release date for the next major release.

Updates come out fairly often to correct minor bugs or to add functions for testing. The updates are released as snapshots and can be installed via the webconfigurator Firmware page.

I still have the Linksys BEFSX41 just in case of some kind of failure (hardware or software). It’s good to have a backup.

If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change. – John A. Simone, Sr.

03.Feb.07 BSD, Networking, Security