Definitely a different target audience. I consider pfSense to be appropriate in many circumstances where something like a Cisco ASA (especially the 5505, 5510, and 5520 levels) would be a more traditional appliance solution--basically, a more corporate or enterprise requirement set. That explains the truly spectacular rules engine/interface, CARP (patent-free alternative to VRRP) stateful failover, WAN proxy ARP addresses, etc. The interface actually reminds me a great deal of a CheckPoint device--which I find appealing. That's clearly not the target for ClearOS, or even dd-wrt, as was previously mentioned.
> -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Seitz > Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 6:58 PM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] 1000 Mbps vs 100 Mpbs -ClearOS > > ClearOS does look pretty cool, definitely more features and more hand > holding than pfsense but still neat if you need it. > (I use PfSense and it suits me fine, but no kids to censor! :) )
