Chris Buechler has announced the availability of the first release candidate for pfSense 2.0, a FreeBSD-based operating system for firewalls:
For those who don't know about pfsense.. Some description for you..
pfSense is a firewall/router distribution based on a fork of the m0n0wall (m0n0wall is an embedded firewall distribution of FreeBSD) project.
pfSense includes most all the features in expensive commercial firewalls, and more in many cases. All of these things are possible in the web interface, without touching anything at the command line.
The official Announcement is :
Years and many thousands of hours in the making, pfSense 2.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available! Most of the mirrors are synced up and have it available now, with the remaining couple syncing within the next few hours.
This is considered a stable release suitable for production use, as we’ve already widely deployed it over the past several months in beta and upgraded numerous systems to RC1 over the weekend. This is the preferred version for new installations at this point.
For existing 1.2.x users, upgrading will be a smooth process for most if not all scenarios. Some portions of the configuration are considerably different now than in 1.2.x releases, and we suspect there may be some configuration upgrade problems remaining, though we aren’t aware of any specific issues at this time and have tested a wide variety of configurations. If you encounter any upgrade issues, please post to the 2.0 board on the forum with information.
Please report any problems, questions or comments to the 2.0 board on the forum.
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For those who don't know about pfsense.. Some description for you..
pfSense is a firewall/router distribution based on a fork of the m0n0wall (m0n0wall is an embedded firewall distribution of FreeBSD) project.
pfSense includes most all the features in expensive commercial firewalls, and more in many cases. All of these things are possible in the web interface, without touching anything at the command line.
The official Announcement is :
Years and many thousands of hours in the making, pfSense 2.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available! Most of the mirrors are synced up and have it available now, with the remaining couple syncing within the next few hours.
This is considered a stable release suitable for production use, as we’ve already widely deployed it over the past several months in beta and upgraded numerous systems to RC1 over the weekend. This is the preferred version for new installations at this point.
For existing 1.2.x users, upgrading will be a smooth process for most if not all scenarios. Some portions of the configuration are considerably different now than in 1.2.x releases, and we suspect there may be some configuration upgrade problems remaining, though we aren’t aware of any specific issues at this time and have tested a wide variety of configurations. If you encounter any upgrade issues, please post to the 2.0 board on the forum with information.
Please report any problems, questions or comments to the 2.0 board on the forum.
Here is the Download Link..
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