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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 ]
FreeBSD derivative, fork of pfSense: x86-64: FreeBSD License: Free or paid: Forward caching proxy, traffic shaping, intrusion detection, two-factor authentication, IPsec and OpenVPN [1] pfSense: Active: FreeBSD derivative, fork of m0n0wall: x86-64, ARM: Closed & Open source licenses: Free as PfSense CE or paid on Netgate Devices as PfSense Plus
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008. 32bit and 64bit. OPNsense: Yes Yes, with Snort and Suricata (modules) Yes Yes Both FreeBSD/NanoBSD-based appliance pfSense: Yes Yes, with Snort and Suricata (modules) Yes Yes Both FreeBSD/NanoBSD-based appliance IPFire: Yes Yes, with Suricata Yes Yes (manual setup needed) Both
pfsense: FreeBSD 14.0 CURRENT ALv2: 2023-11-16 [24] 26,342 [25] See also. Debian; FreeBSD; Kali Linux; Linux kernel; List of free and open-source software packages;
Junos 7.3 and higher is based on FreeBSD 4.10; Junos 8.5 is based on FreeBSD 6.1; Junos 15.1 is based on FreeBSD 10 [19] Junos 18.1 is based on FreeBSD 11 [20] KACE Networks's KBOX 1000 & 2000 Series Appliances and the Virtual KBOX Appliance [citation needed] Lynx Software Technologies LynxOS, uses FreeBSD's networking stack [21] [22]
Launched in 2015, [2] it is a fork of pfSense, which in turn was forked from m0n0wall built on FreeBSD. [3] When m0n0wall closed down in February 2015 its creator, Manuel Kasper, referred its developer community to OPNsense.
PF was originally designed as replacement for Darren Reed's IPFilter, from which it derives much of its rule syntax.IPFilter was removed from OpenBSD's CVS tree on 30 May 2001 due to OpenBSD developers' concerns with its license.
Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not controlled by the entity aiming to implement the VPN) or need to be isolated (thus making the lower network invisible or not directly usable).