PFSense 2.0

Submitted by stompro on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 1:28pm.

I have been playing around with pfSense 2.0 Alpha for a couple months now and so far so good. pfSense is a firewall distribution based on freebsd.  The biggest improvement for me is the fact that traffic shaping works much better now, and handles multiple LAN/WAN interfaces.  There wasn't a guide for any of the new traffic shaping features, so I started one on the Wiki to add notes to as I figured things out.  I have also started using the pfsense forums much more.  I have been anti web form in the past, but it does seem to work better than the mailing list since everything is broken down by topic.  I have also had my first experience with the Git revision control system, since that is what the pfsense project uses.  I think I understand why it is superior to CVS/SVN now, but I'm still learning.