'In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router'. ^ 'How to Install pfSense Firewall on Ubuntu and CentOS?'.Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. 'Interview with Jeff Starkweather, Chris Buechler and Scott Ullrich'. 'Happy 10th Anniversary to pfSense Open Source Software'. Archived from the original on 3 October 2011. 'Configure a professional firewall using pfSense'. ^ 'You should be running a pfSense firewall'.'6 Reasons Why You Should Be Using pfsense Firewall'. ^ 'pfSense adopts Apache 2.0 License'.^ 'Releases - Versions of pfSense and FreeBSD'.List of router and firewall distributions.The July 2021 release of pfSense CE 2.5.2 version re-included WireGuard. Support for WireGuard was temporarily removed in March 2021 after implementation issues were discovered by WireGuard founder Jason Donenfeld. In February 2021, pfSense CE 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 added support for a kernel WireGuard implementation.

It can also be installed on embedded hardware using Compact Flash or SD cards, or as a virtual machine.

pfSense can be installed on hardware with an x86-64 processor architecture. Notable functions of pfSense include traffic shaping, VPNs using IPsec or PPTP, captive portal, stateful firewall, network address translation, 802.1q support for VLANs, and dynamic DNS. The name derives from the fact that the software uses the packet-filtering tool, PF. The pfSense project began in 2004 as a fork of the m0n0wall project by Chris Buechler and Scott Ullrich. It can be configured and upgraded through a web-based interface, and requires no knowledge of the underlying FreeBSD system to manage. The open source pfSense Community Edition (CE) and pfSense Plus is installed on a physical computer or a virtual machine to make a dedicated firewall/router for a network. PfSense is a firewall/ router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD.

Installing pfsense