Hi, I'm new to pfSense and FreeBSD. I'm coming from Gentoo Linux and find FreeBSD to be very attractive and somewhat similar to the Gentoo way.
I have a noob question though. Very general. Before digging into the "how to build my own pfsense iso" tutorials, I'd like to know if there's a way to install some pfSense software components directly into a vanilla FreeBSD system. What I mean is, if pfSense is a "refactored" FreeBSD distribution, can one install, say, just the pfSense firewall features or just the pfSense VPN management features into the official FreeBSD system? I wouldn't even need the web configurator. I'd settle for command-line config file editing. So are there "pfSense modules" I could use within a standard FreeBSD distribution? I'm asking because I would prefer (if possible) to use pfSense as a package (or package modules) within a standard FreeBSD distribution instead of a whole tailored distribution. Currently, pfSense 2.0.1 is based on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p6. If I were to build my own pfSense iso, could I build it so it uses FreeBSD 8.3? I believe pfSense 2.0 can't use FreeBSD 9 (2.1 will). However, will pfsense.org release 2.0.x updates that use the latest FreeBSD 8.x releases? Not that I really need to use 8.3 instead of 8.1 - it's just that I'd like to understand how pfSense is built and released (and if it's flexible). I've read the following at: http://devwiki.pfsense.org/DevelopersBootStrapAndDevIso "These instructions are unsupported unless you have a BSDPerimeter support contract" So, if I have any problems or doubts regarding building my own iso and I don't have a BSDPerimeter support contract then I suppose I won't get any help from the pfSense mailing lists or forums? Alternatively, can one disable pfSense feature sets at least from the web configurator? (eg. disable everything except interfaces and VPN-related features) I know one can define web UI users and group privileges but the top menu items are not removed. They keep showing up and if the user clicks on them, the dashboard page is loaded. Thanks and sorry for the novice questions. Vieri _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
