pfSense

Great news for many pfSense users today, as OpenVPN Technologies in collaboration with Apple have released an OpenVPN client for iOS. Within hours of its release, Jim Pingle updated our OpenVPN Client Export package’s inline export option to be ... [More] compatible with iOS (and retaining its Android compatibility). The inline export is available for 2.0.x and [...] [Less]

pfSense 2.0.2 is a maintenance release with some bug and security fixes since 2.0.1 release. You can upgrade from any previous release to 2.0.2. Heads up for those upgrading Auto Update URL – For those upgrading from a prior release, first please make sure you’re on the correct auto-update URL. Tens of thousands of installs [...]

The FreeBSD Foundation has put out their year-end fundraising campaign. The FreeBSD Foundation sponsors development of the underlying OS that pfSense is based on. We made a donation as we do every year, and we encourage our users to do the same. They are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, so US contributors may be able to [...]

We have an immediate full-time, permanent position for a web developer and designer in our north central Austin office. Successful candidate will work on our public-facing websites, the open source front-end of pfSense, and a variety of proprietary ... [More] customer and internal projects. This position will be responsible for both the design and implementation of these [...] [Less]

Ermal and I will be doing a full day pfSense 2.1 tutorial at EuroBSDCon 2012, October 18 in Warsaw, Poland. Registration has just opened. This will be a training-focused session, going through many of the features common to every version, covering changes in 2.1, with focus on IPv6 in each portion of the system.

I will be presenting on pfSense 2.1 and IPv6 at Texas Linux Fest, August 3-4 in San Antonio. We’ll also have a table in the exhibition area where I’ll be camped out most of both days talking to users, so if you’re in the area, stop by! Our friends at Netgate are providing an ALIX [...]

Today is World IPv6 Launch day, when many major websites have permanently added AAAA records to make their sites accessible via IPv6. All our sites have been IPv6-enabled (on native connectivity thanks to bluegrass.net) since last year, running ... [More] behind pfSense 2.1. Many others are using the current snapshots in production networks. We’d hoped to have [...] [Less]

pfSense 2.0.1 release is now available. About half the mirrors are synced at the time of posting this, and the remainder will be synced in the next few hours. This is a maintenance release with some bug and security fixes since 2.0 release. This is the recommended release for all installations. As always, you can [...]

7 years ago today, the name pfSense was settled on, and pfsense.org/com/net domains were registered. It’s grown from the volunteer efforts of a handful of people, to one of the most widely used platforms in the world, with a whole team of people making a living working on the project thanks to our support and [...]

One of the common questions we get is how many installs are out there. While we don’t have any means of definitively knowing, we do have one metric that can be counted. Each month every system updates its IPv4 bogons list once, pulling from one of our servers. By counting the number of unique public [...]