pfSense

Unless you’ve been completely out of the loop, you know that the official release of pfSense 2.3 is on the horizon. In anticipation of that event, Netgate, host of the pfSense® open-source software community and technical leader of the pfSense project, has put together a video that highlights many of the new and exciting changes […]

We’re having the community choose the topic for March’s hang out. You can vote here, and add additional suggestions not on the list as replies on that thread.

I’ll be manning our table at SCALE this weekend in the exhibition space. Stop by and chat if you’ll be there. Look forward to meeting some of you there!

Our February Hang Out for Support and Gold subscribers will be this Friday, February 21, at 13:00 US Central time. You’ll find the link and other information under “February 2014 Hang Out” after logging in to the members area. We’re going to discuss VPN options and where each is most appropriate, then continue on to […]

I’ll be at NYC*BSDcon next weekend (February 8, 2014). Be sure to say, “Hi” if you see me.

The video and audio recording and slides from January’s hang out are available for Gold and Support subscribers after logging in to the members section. You’ll see the “Hang Outs Archive” link there after logging in. If you’re not yet a subscriber and want a taste of what these are like, December’s video and audio […]

January’s hang out/webcast is this Friday, January 24, at 1:00 PM US Central time. We’ll start out going over all the latest happenings with the project. Then we’ll have a tutorial on firewall and NAT fundamentals. I’ll go through how things work, best practices, and some guidance for troubleshooting. There will also be time for […]

Isaac (.ike) Levy, Senior Unix System Administrator at National Hockey League (http://www.linkedin.com/in/dotike) will be presenting “pfSense Practical Experiences: from home routers, to High-Availability Datacenter Deployments” at the Tokyo FreeBSD ... [More] Benkyokai (FreeBSD Study Session) Group on February 17, 2014. http://atnd.org/events/47084 Ike states that his main objective in Tokyo is to get some real help with the […] [Less]

Hide your wallet, the pfSense store is alive. First mentioned in 2008, we’ve finally got it done. (And you thought 2.1 took a long time.) Shirts, stickers, pre-loaded USB sticks, and yes, even hardware are now available directly from the same team that brings you pfSense. Along with pfSense Gold, this is one of the […]

We’re doing an online hang out on Friday, December 13. We’ll get started at 1:00 PM US Central time, and go for roughly an hour. I have a presentation for the first portion, going over the new features and changes in 2.1 release, and what we’re currently doing on the coming 2.2 release. Then I’ll […]