I'm running 1.2.3-RELEASE which has been stable with no problems or unexpected behaviors since it came out in December. I have it installed at work on an old 400MHz Celeron - WAN, LAN and DMZ plus the Squid package at work. We're only on a 1.5Mbps cable connection with a mail, ftp and web server DMZ, plus a few users on the LAN so it's not very busy - the PfSense graphs suggest the CPU is about 4-5% busy during the day.
I have another copy running on an ALIX board with Wifi support at home via PPPoE/DSL - I'd played with several different firewalls early last year and PfSense has definitely been the easiest to work with so far. There's a book about it too so the documentation is better than average. We don't use IPSEC or VPNs but their forum is pretty active and what I've seen suggests that your performance levels ought to be no problem with more modern hardware. Regards, Edmund Cramp - e...@motion-labs.com Motion Lab Systems, Inc. - http://www.motion-labs.com 15045 Old Hammond Highway, Baton Rouge, LA 70816 USA Tel: 1.225.272.7364 (Central Time Zone, GMT-6) Fax: 1.225.272.7336 | -----Original Message----- | From: general-boun...@brlug.net | [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] On Behalf Of Keith Stokes | Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 11:57 AM | To: general@brlug.net | Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Ping - Search for intelligent life | | I've used PfSense for years in several locations. I haven't | loaded up the newest version 2 yet but a friend has. | | Any idea of your performance level? Capable of keeping up | with 1 GB throughput, or even close? Any idea about | throughput on IPSEC VPNs? | | On Jan 4, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Edmund Cramp wrote: | | > It's been quiet here recently - much quieter since Dustin played | > whack-a-mole with some discussion a while back ... Maybe we're all | > busy trying to make a living in the current economic climate? | > | > Update - I've been plying with the latest PfSense firewall | build (OK | > so it's more BSDish than Linuxish) and it's quite a nice | snappy little | > firewall that makes building rules almost fun ... Can that | be so bad? | > http://www.pfsense.org | > | > Regards | > Edmund Cramp | > -- | > There are only two industries that refer to their customers as | > ‘users’. | > - Edward Tufte _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
