You've got a point with pfSense being ready to use, although I have to admit, I never expected to be needing a null-modem cable to get the embedded/nanoBSD version going. But other than that, it's practically ready to use indeed. Just have to set everything, takes what, 15min tops in my case and it's very easy. Everything is easy to find. I have been looking for a Linux equivalent hoping I would not have to brush up my command line skills (I have nothing against doing that though), but so far I haven't found anything (incl the ones you mentioned) that come even close to the look and feel of pfSense.
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens David Brown Verzonden: woensdag 21 september 2011 22:07 Aan: pfSense support and discussion Onderwerp: Re: [pfSense] Replacing a Linux router with pfSense On 21/09/11 16:34, Bart Grefte wrote: > Hmm, why switch to pfSense from Linux? I am considering the other way > round, from pfSense to Linux. > Mainly because the lack of wireless drivers with support for N and a > buggy Atheros FreeBSD driver. > I don't need wireless drivers - this is handled by wireless routers around the company. It doesn't surprise me that Linux has better support than FreeBSD for wireless drivers - they were notoriously poor in Linux until recently, and wireless card manufacturers who barely acknowledged the existence of Linux will not have heard of FreeBSD. > Right know I'm thinking a base install of Debian, followed by only the > packages I need and do the configuring by console. I know about > Webmin, but don't know if I can change every setting with that. > The router I have at the moment is Debian, and I've configured by hand (i.e., from the console). I'm not looking to move away from Linux as such, but looking towards using pfSense. I doubt if there is anything significant that can be done with FreeBSD and pfSense that cannot be done with Linux. But the point is that with pfSense, there is so much that comes ready-to-use. With Linux, I could certainly use iptraf, rrd, php, etc., and show nice graphs of network traffic. With pfSense it is already there as a page on the web interface. And while /I/ can write the firewalling and routing rules I want in an iptables script, others at my company cannot - but they could, if necessary, use the web interface (such as if I'm on holiday). If you want to use Linux, you might also consider some of the dedicated distributions such as Smoothwall or OpenWRT (I use OpenWRT on small routers). There are also firewall tools such as vuurmuur and shorewall. I found that none of them had all the features I needed, so I worked manually. (I also found that pfSense didn't have those features either, when I first looked at it many years ago.) In the end it depends on what you need. Both Linux and FreeBSD are solid bases for a firewall/router. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
