Fresh out of the oven: http://www.pfsense.com/~sullrich/RELENG_1_SNAPSHOT_03-10-2006/
On 3/11/06, Randy B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've spent the last month making a grand tour of the firewall world - > tried everything from IPCop to Smoothwall, a fully-licensed PIX-515E > from work to m0n0wall, and I still come back to pfSense. Not only is > this my hobby, I oversee a flock of ~70 PIXen & FWSMs at work every > day. > > There's just nothing quite as feature-rich, easy to use, or quick to > set up. GNAP comes close, and I'm working on making some custom > extensions to it that may draw me away from pfSense again, but making > it do 95% of what I want takes _so long_. I just wish I was more > conversant with *BSD so I could really dig under the covers like I did > on the Linux-based ones, even though I was greatly disappointed when I > did. > > Granted, you're going to get more horsepower, support, and scalability > with a commercial appliance, but they leave out things that should be > simple - like setting up port-forwarding. Then there are the *really > nice* things, like 3rd-party extensions. > > Like I said, I may be drawn away again some day, but for the time > being I'm back to stay. In that light, is there anything newer than > Beta-2? > > RB >
