pfSense
Sign in to savepfSense 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. It can be configured and upgraded through a web-based interface, and requires no knowledge of the underlying FreeBSD system to manage.
Key facts
- OS.name
- pfSense
- OS.logo
- PfSense logo.svg
- OS.screenshot
- Dashboard der pfSense 2.6.0.jpg
- OS.developer
- Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate)
- OS.family
- FreeBSD
- OS.working state
- Current
- OS.source model
- Closed source and open source
- OS.license
- Apache License 2.0 (Applies to pfSense CE)
- OS.screenshot_alt
- Dashboard of pfSense 2.7.0-DEVELOPMENT
- OS.caption
- The main dashboard of pfSense 2.7.0-DEVELOPMENT
- OS.version of
- FreeBSD
- OS.first release date
- Oct 2006
- OS.ui
- Web
- OS.supported platforms
- 32-bit (discontinued in 2.4.x); 64-bit Intel / AMD
- OS.preceded by
- m0n0wall
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Source code
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. pfSense software, with the help of the package system, is able to provide the same functionality or more of common commercial firewalls, without any of the artificial limitations. It has successfully replaced every big name commercial firewall you can imagine in numerous installations around the world, including Check Point, Cisco PIX, Cisco ASA, Juniper, Sonicwall, Netgear, Watchguard, Astaro, and more. pfSense software includes a web interface for the configuration of all included components. There is no need for any UNIX knowledge, no need to use the command line for anything, and no need to ever manually edit any rule sets. Users familiar with commercial firewalls catch on to the web interface quickly, though there can be a learning curve for users not familiar with commercial-grade firewalls. pfSense started in 2004 as a fork of the m0n0wall Project (which ended 2015/02/15), though has diverged significantly since. For information on how to contribute to the pfSense project, see CONTRIBUTING.
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.pfsense.org
- Image
- Pfsense main.png
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/pfsense
- source code repository URL
- github.com/pfsense/pfsense
- public key fingerprint
- E345 EF8C 4539 E974 943C 831D 13B9 87FD 9214 F8DA
- software version identifier
- 25.11.1
- Commons category
- PfSense
- social media followers
- 28390
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Release cadence and support
- OPNsense
- WireGuard protocol support
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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. It can be configured and upgraded through a web-based interface, and requires no knowledge of the underlying FreeBSD system to manage.
==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. The name derives from the fact that the software uses the packet-filtering tool, PF.