On 12/22/2009 07:22 PM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote: > Hi, > > I followed the "Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall" posting and as > some posters wrote pf is soo sooo ssooooo mutch faster, I was thinking > to give it a try. But I'm not familier to BSD so I was looking for some > tools and found "pfsense" > > http://www.pfsense.org/ > > "pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD > tailored for use as a firewall and router" > > Has any of the firewall guys on the list ever tested this distri? > > What do you think? pf is not a native FreeBSD thingie... you won't get the latest features, tweaks, and optimizations there. Timo > Right now we run a iptables Shorewall system and had no problems so far, > but having a "managed" firewall distri which rocks whould be an alternative. > > Cheers, > > Götz