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		nailer on Feb 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution Is this 'pf' like the BSD firewall? Anyone more familiar with the space want to provide some detail? Edit: yeah it is: > The pfSense project is a free network firewall distribution, based on the FreeBSD operating system with a custom kernel and including third party free software packages for additional functionality. From https://pfsense.org/getting-started/ see also https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Installing_pfSense

hueving on Feb 10, 2017 [–]

Yep, basically a really nice web interface and management system for configuring a pf-driven firewall.

You can click your way to high availability with sub 5-second failovers (even including NAT state synchronization) in a morning starting from no pfsense or bsd knowledge.

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