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PfSense is Copyright 2004-2023 Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate) and published under an open source license. PfSense started in 2004 as a fork of the m0n0wall Project (which ended 5), though has diverged significantly since. Users familiar with commercial firewalls catch on to the web interface quickly, though there can be a learning curve for users not familiar with commercial-grade firewalls. There is no need for any UNIX knowledge, no need to use the command line for anything, and no need to ever manually edit any rule sets. PfSense software includes a web interface for the configuration of all included components. It has successfully replaced every big name commercial firewall you can imagine in numerous installations around the world, including Check Point, Cisco PIX, Cisco ASA, Juniper, Sonicwall, Netgear, Watchguard, Astaro, and more. pfSense software, with the help of the package system, is able to provide the same functionality or more of common commercial firewalls, without any of the artificial limitations. Please refer to LICENSE for the full terms.The pfSense project is a free network firewall distribution, based on the FreeBSD operating system with a custom kernel and including third party free software packages for additional functionality. This project is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 open source license. Issues, feature requests, PRs, and documentation contributions are encouraged and welcomed! License Collectively we can enhance and improve this product. Please reference to the CONTRIBUTING file. See the roadmap » Comparison to similar solutions This is the experimental public roadmap for the pfelk project.

Ubuntu Server v18.04+ or Debian Server 9+ (stretch and buster tested).
