Re: [pfSense] pfSense features

2012-09-15 Thread Vieri
Thanks everyone for your feedback on such a general question. I must say that pfSense is truely impressive and has almost everything you need for an advanced firewall/gateway. It can also be extended and used to serve non-firewall apps such as VoIP and more. In any case and despite what

Re: [pfSense] pfSense features

2012-09-15 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
-Original Message- From: list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org [mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org] On Behalf Of Vieri Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 6:59 PM To: pfSense support and discussion Subject: Re: [pfSense] pfSense features Thanks everyone for your feedback on such a general

[pfSense] pfSense features

2012-09-14 Thread Vieri
Hi, I'm new to pfSense and FreeBSD. I'm coming from Gentoo Linux and find FreeBSD to be very attractive and somewhat similar to the Gentoo way. I have a noob question though. Very general. Before digging into the how to build my own pfsense iso tutorials, I'd like to know if there's a way to

Re: [pfSense] pfSense features

2012-09-14 Thread j...@millican.us
On 9/14/2012 2:50 PM, Vieri wrote: Hi, I'm new to pfSense and FreeBSD. I'm coming from Gentoo Linux and find FreeBSD to be very attractive and somewhat similar to the Gentoo way. I have a noob question though. Very general. Before digging into the how to build my own pfsense iso tutorials,

Re: [pfSense] pfSense features

2012-09-14 Thread Jim Pingle
The short version is: It can't be done. Slightly less short version: You can't install on top of an existing FreeBSD box - there are too many kernel/userland customizations for that to be practical. You can target another version of FreeBSD but then you'd have to fix all of our patches for the

Re: [pfSense] pfSense features

2012-09-14 Thread Michael Schuh
2012/9/14 Vieri rentor...@yahoo.com Hi, I'm new to pfSense and FreeBSD. I'm coming from Gentoo Linux and find FreeBSD to be very attractive and somewhat similar to the Gentoo way. I have a noob question though. Very general. Before digging into the how to build my own pfsense iso

Re: [pfSense] pfSense features

2012-09-14 Thread Michael Schuh
2012/9/14 Michael Schuh michael.sc...@gmail.com 2012/9/14 Vieri rentor...@yahoo.com Hi, I'm new to pfSense and FreeBSD. I'm coming from Gentoo Linux and find FreeBSD to be very attractive and somewhat similar to the Gentoo way. I have a noob question though. Very general. Before