Stuart MacIntosh (NewsMaster) -

I have never been majorly impressed by embedded/appliance firewalls (not even Makos) until recently, when I discovered pfsense, a totally free FreeBSD distribution specifically designed for said purpose.

It's forte is a web-based administration interface which will let you manage port forwarding, firewall rules, traffic shaping, logging, graphs, DHCP, VLANs, multi-homing, multiple IPs per interface and etc with stupefying ease. This free firewall is surely better than many a commercial firewall.

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• Easy to use FreeBSD Firewall

Comment #1 sams from Linworld -

Though I have not used FreeBSD's pfsense firewall but I have already read about it. I feel that any administration interface which lets user manage port forwarding and traffic shaping gives user a good control over traffic.

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