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Pfsense 2.0 is released

Posted on Wed 12 October 2011 in FreeBSD • Tagged with Firewall, pfSense, security

pfSense 2.0 is finally released now. This is quite a nice peace of software.

A lot of functionality like:

VPN Gateways: OpenVPN, IPsec, PPTP
IP and Portfiltering
Webmanagement
FreeBSD based
Memory stick version available

pfSense a FreeBSD based firewall

Posted on Thu 21 April 2011 in Security • Tagged with Firewall, pfSense

Some time ago I came over pfSense in a project and did some review of it. pfSense is a FreeBSD based firewall with many features and an easy to use web based interface. It works nicely in virtual environments like VMware and it's installation is quite easy.

Within a few …

Problem with Mac Client and NFS Server

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Mac • Tagged with Firewall, Mac, NFS

I ran into a problem using my Mac with my CentOS NFS Share.

I was able to connect but everytime I tried to upload the connection was lost and the device was unmounted. After some research I found that you must have firewall turned off on your mac to have …