Yeah freeBSD seems to be one of those love or hate distros for folks. To be honest though, I really don't do anything that requires me to look at the underlying OS except purging squid files or looking at some logs. There is a custom CLI for pfsense which is useful if you are setting up lots of firewalls or maybe rules that are more clicks than their text counterpart but I really only need the admin webpage for single setups. As a warning, this may be a web quirk, but I have run into scenarios along with some friends were options get set and don't seem to work until a reboot. This has been really rare, like once or twice, and only in big config changes, so if you think it should work but it doesn't seem to try a restart before second guessing your settings or before stuffing the keyboard down the cd-rom bay :-P Once it is setup though I have never had to restart any of my boxes.
Matthias
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