PfSense
Firewall/Router software distribution From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
pfSense is a firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD. The open source pfSense Community Edition (CE) and pfSense Plus is installed on a physical computer or a virtual machine to make a dedicated firewall/router for a network.[3] It can be configured and upgraded through a web-based interface, and requires no knowledge of the underlying FreeBSD system to manage.[4][5]
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The main dashboard of pfSense 2.7.0-DEVELOPMENT | |
| Developer | Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate) |
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| OS family | FreeBSD |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Closed source and open source |
| Released to manufacturing | Oct 2006 |
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| Platforms | 32-bit (discontinued in 2.4.x); 64-bit Intel / AMD |
| Default user interface | Web |
| License | Apache License 2.0[2] (Applies to pfSense CE) |
| Preceded by | m0n0wall |
| Official website | pfsense |
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Overview
The pfSense project began in 2004 as a fork of the m0n0wall project by Chris Buechler and Scott Ullrich. Its first release was in October 2006.[6] The name derives from the fact that the software uses the packet-filtering tool, PF.[7]
Notable functions of pfSense include traffic shaping, VPNs using IPsec or PPTP, captive portal, stateful firewall, network address translation, 802.1q support for VLANs, and dynamic DNS.[8] pfSense can be installed on hardware with an x86-64 processor architecture. It can also be installed on embedded hardware using Compact Flash or SD cards, or as a virtual machine.[9]
OPNsense
In January 2015, the OPNsense project was started by forking the version of pfSense at that time.[10]
In November 2017, a World Intellectual Property Organization panel found Netgate, the copyright holder of pfSense, utilized OPNsense' trademarks in bad faith to discredit OPNsense, and obligated Netgate to transfer ownership of a domain name to Deciso.[11]
WireGuard protocol support
In February 2021, pfSense CE 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 added support for a kernel WireGuard implementation. Support for WireGuard was temporarily removed in March 2021 after implementation issues were discovered by WireGuard founder Jason Donenfeld.[12][13][14] The July 2021 release of pfSense CE 2.5.2 version re-included WireGuard.[15]
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