The pfSense Thread

anything I don't mind · 22 Jan 2010 at 12:55

hey

i have been running pfsense for about 6 months now had to reboot it once. After installing it, the firewall logs just kept blocking connection attempts, i was shocked. the connection attempts were on the ms windows file and print sharing port which is i think 445 if i remember correctly, they were connection attempts from india, russia, brazil etc. Before i had it installed i had my windows xp connected directly to my virgin cable modem so i was very vunerable.

i have it running on an old p4 1.6ghz with 256mb ram and it is stable as hell.

managed to find two networks cards took me like 1 hour to setup perfectly. i have freebsd experience but you don't realy need any to install pfsense.

i realy recommend it!

anyone else run pfsense ?

i wanted to setup so that i could vnc into my pc from work through ssh tunnel, but difficult as hell. firstly at work they have a ISA http firewall. so i had to put my ssh on my box in france on port 443 to even get a ssh connection working from work. but i was unable to tunnel any traffic through it

any ideas how i could get a vnc connection from a corporate network to my home pc which is behind pfsense ?

paradigm · 22 Jan 2010 at 13:17

I've tried it, but I just prefer my Cisco 2651XM.

If I didn't have enterprise kit I'd certainly go back to pfsense however.

anything I don't mind · 22 Jan 2010 at 13:45

what you doing with cisco enterprise firewalls at home ? o.O

we have those new IPS 4255 at work, the £11000 ones

LizardKing · 22 Jan 2010 at 14:46

Got 2 pfsense box's on our test networks, one load balances 3 adsl lines, the other handles the nat for various tomcat servers. both stable as a rock. we also use a smooth-wall box that had a stupidly long uptime.
i definitely recommend pfsense, its so easy and simple to use.

lixxus · 22 Jan 2010 at 14:56

im running latest snapshot on nanobsd 2.0 on my alix system

best firewall i have used. only downside is the wireless drivers in freebsd are really flimsy and still no support for 802.11n

besides that its great. i love the packages available and simplicity of GUI

JaffaJedi · 22 Jan 2010 at 15:08

I am running pfsense on two boxes here, ADSL and SDSL. Both been up for over 400 days now and stable as anything

bigredshark · 22 Jan 2010 at 15:11

I prefer smoothwall as a PC based firewall myself but haven't used any of them in a while now, Juniper SSG at home is easily superior (then again it cost a fair bit more too) but if I didn't have easy access to such hardware I'd probably use smoothwall at all home on a atom board or similar.

DRZ · 22 Jan 2010 at 18:32

I ran pfSense for a while here too, then swapped it for a Cisco hardware firewall in the end. Depending on the hardware that you have it running on, pfSense is pretty good and certainly one of the better BSD-based firewall offerings

MarkW7 · 22 Jan 2010 at 22:49

I'm shocked at the attempted attacks, are they still continuing?

As for getting back into your network i highly suggest SSLexplorer, all you need to connect is a web browser or do some DNS tunneling.