> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Vieri > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 2:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [pfSense] pfSense features > > 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
The pf firewall is already part of the freebsd base and can be configured thru the basic configuration file for it. That was actually the method I homemade a firewall before I found out about pfSense back in the 1.x days VPNs can be configured in similar manner with manual config file edits. Technically you could build a system from scratch on top of Base FreeBSD (obviously since that what pfSense originally was), but you are not going to get the same level of service. I would recommend you take a step back and come up with what exactly you are looking at doing? Are you trying to add the features into an existing server? Or are you wanting to run pfSense like services on FreeBSD-9.0? answer to that question might really point you in a completely different direction. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
