Welcome to the home page of the pfSense project!
pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution. pfSense is a popular project with more than 1 million downloads since its inception, and proven in countless installations ranging from small home networks protecting a PC and an Xbox to large corporations, universities and other organizations protecting thousands of network devices.
This project started in 2004 as a fork of the m0n0wall project, but focused towards full PC installations rather than the embedded hardware focus of m0n0wall. pfSense also offers an embedded image for Compact Flash based installations, however it is not our primary focus.
New to the project?
For those new to the project, we recommend reading the Common Deployments and Features page, and checking out the Screenshot Gallery.
from http://www.pfsense.org
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Downloads Choose a mirror geographically close to you for best performance. Some of the mirrors are exceptionally slow from overseas, but fast for users close to them.
New Installs
Both the Live CD and embedded images can be found here on the mirrors. If you aren't sure which version to choose, read the Versions page.Upgrades
The upgrade files are available here on the mirrors. Make sure you download the correct file for your platform - Full for full installs, Embedded for embedded installs.For more information, see the Upgrade Guide .VMware Appliance
A VMware Appliance is available.from http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58&Itemid=46
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http://bbs.m0n0china.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=16, pfsense 研究
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pfsense是基于FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE的，为了让各位更好的使用它，去看一些系统的安装帮助是没有用的pfsense是一个为了在X86平台上面建立一个高集成性的防火 墙项目，以便和其他的商业防火墙媲美。 为了达到这些目的，pfsense使用了一些在freebsd和openbsd下面的工具，并遵循BSD 或者 ISC的许可，还结合了一个简单的远程控制的图形界面。 这样，就使得pfsense可以同某些嵌入式的防火墙相比较了，但是就提高性能来说，一个好的包过滤器（要感谢openbsd和pf，pf是包过滤得意 思），一个快速的网络堆栈（由freebsd的内核提供），还有其他的一些性能，比如多路wan，Captive Portal support，集成的可配置的流量检测，如此的一个防火墙可能在一个几百万的公司来说会卖到几千美元以上 2.what pfsense is pfsense 不应该看作是freebsd，除非你知道你在做什么，开发组织是不会提供给你帮助的。 如果你想用某些pfsense的稳定版本不支持的防火墙作某些事情，你不需要去购买昂贵的设备，安装pfsense，（可能）你会发现你机器不能被设置， 然后在论坛或者是IRC上抱怨。 这听起来好像很苛刻，但是我们的开发者们的时间和耐心是有限的，他们都不是被这个项目雇佣的，所有的开发者都是利用的都是自己的业余时间。 很多新的功能在beta1.0的版本上被添加上去，Pfsense基于M0n0wall项目,虽然这是一个辉煌的工程,并指示以极高的编码标准,提出假设 类型防火墙/路由器平台将扩展. 正在编写的代码后，1.0将改掉许多假设. 现在,我建议没有太狂妄. 如果你正在规划一个防火墙有三个广域网络,5局域网连接负载平衡、dmz区的支持,缩小与其它复杂,你觉得你是最好是利用安装FreeBSD 人工和确定这件事你远比,pfsense目前的形式可能会限制你所能做的.
