pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution

Re:pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution by ChefDenominator on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:10AM (#13616351)

My understanding is that vm is still in development. I don't see a download option from the main page.

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Re:pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution by mirimir on Friday February 10, 2017 @02:08PM (#13617969)

I've used pfSense in VirtualBox for years, as VPN-gateway VMs. I'm posting from a VM that hits the Internet through three VPNs in a nested chain. Each pfSense VM uses just ~70MB.

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Re:pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution by bluedino on Friday February 10, 2017 @01:46PM (#13617798)

There's not an appliance per se but you can just install it to a virtual machine. I was running a 1 CPU, 256MB instance with a 100mbs line and noticed no issues - ESX running on Core i7-920

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Re:pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution by ChefDenominator on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:35AM (#13622524)

I really thought they had a blog post somewhere or maybe a tweet or something stating they were planning to support a vm, but I'm failing to find the link. Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly. In any case, they do have a forum section dedicated to virtualization:

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?board=37.0

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Re:pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution by walterbell on Friday February 10, 2017 @02:24PM (#13618084)

pfSense works as a Xen guest.

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Re:pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution by snuxoll on Friday February 10, 2017 @03:11PM (#13618462)

I had the opposite experience, I had to disable all hardware offload to get it to work correctly on XenServer.

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Re:pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution by cperciva on Friday February 10, 2017 @04:16PM (#13618973)

There was a bug in pf which made it break with TSO, but it was fixed a couple years ago.

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