![]() ![]() For a long time, pfSense was a unique open source firewall solution, with a big active community and constant improvements. The fork's name? pfSense, and, as the name suggests, it used Packet Filter ( PF) as a firewall-based system instead of the ipfilter (another FreeBSD packet filter)of its predecessor. ![]() So, in 2004 a new project began, a m0n0wall fork, with its first public released in 2006. Still, picky network and security admins were claiming for other features such as web proxying, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and some other features that commercial firewalls were delivering as a default Unified Threat Management Solution ( UTM). The main goal of this project was to have FreeBSD-based firewall software with an easy-to-use web interface (based on PHP) that worked on embedded PCs and old hardware with a good performance but that was just focused on Layer 3 and Layer 4 firewalling. To tell the OPNsense story, we need to go back to 2003, when the initial release of m0n0wall was released. To introduce you to the OPNsense project, I'll first need to tell a bit of my story and how I fell in love with it. ![]()
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