pfSense

It's been another journey navigating the pandemic and continued supply chain upheaval, but we've powered through! Today, we are excited to announce our newest secure networking appliance, the Netgate 4100. We expect it will be a very ... [More] popular edge gateway solution for professional home, small / medium business, and branch office locations who need two 1 Gbps WAN ports, and as many as four high-throughput 2.5 Gbps LAN ports. With a fanless design, the product is suitable for desktop, wall mount, or rack mount deployments - with pricing starting at $599 USD. Factory-provisioned with pfSense® Plus software makes it ideal for a broad range of edge firewall, VPN, and router use cases. [Less]

Our latest version of TNSR® software, Release 22.02, is now available.

In 2012, Netgate® forked the pfSense® project to make it easier for us to focus on delivering software tuned specifically for our hardware. Netgate not only sells appliances, but employs several dozen software architects, developers and ... [More] test engineers - who develop or port software, test, benchmark, contribute to FreeBSD and other open source projects - that ultimately benefit everyone in the ecosystem and community. [Less]

This is a regularly scheduled release of pfSense® Plus and pfSense CE software including new features, additional hardware support, and bug fixes. pfSense Plus software version 22.01-RELEASE is now available. See our upgrade guide to get ... [More] started with best practices information. As well, pfSense Community Edition (CE) software version 2.6.0 is available on pfSense.org. [Less]

Global supply chain difficulties have forced us to revise our appliance and several card option pricing. We held off as long we could. But the dual impact of rising component and subsystem prices (if they are available at all), in addition to skyrocketing transit costs, have forced our hand.

Here at Netgate®, we talk a lot about Vector Packet Processing (VPP), and for good reason. It is the ‘engine’ of the TNSR® data plane that scales packet processing up to two orders of magnitude beyond what is possible with traditional ... [More] kernel-space product designs. In a separate blog, we addressed this in some detail. There is a second component in the TNSR data plane, Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). This blog describes the role DPDK plays within TNSR - but also why it alone is not the vRouter end game. [Less]

Back in the late '90s, when internet data was trickling into your system at around 56 Kbps, it was relatively easy for the computer to process the network packets it was receiving. But like football oversized shoulder pads, new episodes ... [More] of Friends and, unfortunately, Stargate SG1, the days of 56 Kbps internet speeds are long gone. Most of the world enjoys internet connection speeds of a few hundred Mbps to a Gbps, if not more. In fact, 10 Gbps connections are becoming more prevalent and affordable by the day. [Less]

This version is a maintenance release of pfSense Plus software. pfSense Plus software version 21.05.2 corrects an issue with the pre-installed Netgate Firmware Upgrade package on Netgate 6100 hardware devices.

Today marks 15 years since the release of pfSense® software 1.0. Fifteen years is an amazing milestone when you stop to consider the impact and achievements of pfSense software:

As more businesses embrace the opportunities that come with digital transformation, network function virtualization (NFV) is on the rise. By decoupling network software from vendor-proprietary hardware, businesses can leverage ... [More] commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), more colloquially referred to as “white box” hardware to deliver common network functions - dramatically reducing network infrastructure costs. [Less]