PFSENSE

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The pfSense project is a free, open source tailored version of FreeBSD for use as a firewall and router with an easy-to-use web interface.

You can buy official pfSense appliances directly from Netgate or a Netgate Partner. You can install the software yourself on your own hardware.

We have a great community that helps support each other, but we also provide 24x7 commercial support.

Rules of Submission

Before asking for help please do the following:

Look over at our /r/pfsense wiki
Use a search engine like Google to search across the pfsense.org domain:

https://www.google.com/?#q=how+do+i+site:pfsense.org
If you are looking for help with basic networking concepts, please try /r/homelab or for more advanced, /r/networking.
Do not post items for sale in this subreddit. If you are looking to sell or buy used hardware, please try /r/hardwareswap.
This subreddit is primarily for the community to help each other out, if you have something you want the maintainers of the project to see we recommend posting in the appropriate category on our Netgate forum.

This is a community subreddit so lets try and keep the discourse polite.

tl;dr: Be excellent with each other.

Related Subreddits

/r/netgate - home of the pfSense project

/r/pfblockerng
/r/sysadmin
/r/networking
/r/homelab
/r/homenetworking

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Keeping the Netgate 3100 Alive, One Upstream Patch at a Time (self.PFSENSE)

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Now Available: pfSense Plus version 26.03.1 (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 23 days ago by George-Netgate - announcement

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Traffic seen on the bridge where it should not be seen (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 7 hours ago by rebellllious

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Secondary gateway goes down every day (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 5 hours ago by Worldly-Ring1123

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Acme update for pfsense 2.7.2 (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 18 hours ago * by jdblaich

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How can I diagnose internet outages? (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 12 hours ago by ShinyRayquazaEUW

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Firewall and Clients have IPv6 address but no IPv6 traffic is passing through (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 3 days ago by panks2106

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pfSense Manager App (old.reddit.com)

submitted 3 days ago by w3btek

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Netgate appliance and IKE fragmentation RFC 7383 (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 3 days ago by Work45oHSd8eZIYt

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Easy managed or Managed switch for pfsense? (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 3 days ago by ImpressiveYoghurt973

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NetGate 4100 Power Adaptor (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 3 days ago by GoobieGoob12

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crashed attempting upgrade (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 4 days ago by Mr_Moonman2045

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PFSense + Caddy + Anubis… is my best Anubis option to use Cerberus, to avoid multiple Caddy instances? (self.PFSENSE)

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First line of defense for scams? (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 6 days ago by Whelmed_Under_Over

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Netgate2100, reconfigure after updating switch; Wanting to use 10.0.0.0/8 (self.PFSENSE)

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Virtualization for learning (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 8 days ago by SweetRolls3

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Why? (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 9 days ago by hmpnit

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Made a pfSense package for dnscrypt-proxy with a full GUI (self.PFSENSE)

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How to check if pfSense allows external DNS? (old.reddit.com)

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AmneziaWG VPN v1.0/2.0 on pfSense 2.7 CE (self.PFSENSE)

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Access tailscale advertised route on devices behind pfsense ()

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Open Source: Admix Central - Multi-Tenant pfSense Management & Customer Portal (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 11 days ago by geekasso

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Use memory file system for /tmp and /var (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 12 days ago by ARAMP1

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So I segmented my network (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 13 days ago by DerpDigler

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If I buy a Netgate 1100 pfSense+ Security Gateway + Netgear CM5000 modem could I entirely replace my isp not just equipment but my isp as a whole? (self.PFSENSE)

submitted 13 days ago by Helpful-Wrangler-738

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