We were forced to jump from testing to production (our previous firewall bit the dust) with pfSense v0.62.5 (alpha). Remarkably, it was the most stable platform I had tested to date out of numerous open source and commercial offerings. I had it in-place and operational within a couple of hours and it ran for almost 6 months (continuously - no reboots) when I upgraded to a later version for more features. We're currently running ~75 PCs, 50 IP Phones, 16 Servers, 4 VLANs, 5 Subnets and 16 VPNs served up across 6 interfaces on the same hardware as 2 years ago. I've got 48d 18h of uptime right now since I took the firewall down to reroute power to that rack. We've had only one crash: a few days after upgrading to 1.0.1 from BETA2, the hard drive went loopy. New hard drive, fresh install and config restore: back up in 15 minutes. Ted Crow MCP/W2K Information Technology Manager Tuttle Services, Inc.
________________________________ From: Paolo Gentili [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:05 PM To: discussion@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ? Hi all, i'm planning to use pfsense as a multiwan and firewall solution for an enterprise network of about 40 desktop pc and 15 internet servers (with various HTTP/POP3/SMTP/DNS/DHCP services) I'm currently installed it on a desktop for learning purposes and i'm testing it with no more than 3 or 4 pc with no problems but i'm not sure about its stability when passing to a real case of use with all my network operators. Before "do the critical step" of making it my main enterprise internet gateway i'd like to hear from you, your thoughts or experiences about how much trust can i have on pfsense and about passing from testing phase to the "production" regardless to the power of hardware used for running pfsense (which of course have as strong impact on throuhput). Bye Paolo Gentili
