OPNsense is a fork of pfSense, which in turn is a fork of the FreeBSD firewall software m0n0wall. pfSense took what made m0n0wall so good and dialed it up further to create an excellent, robust ...

pfSense and OPNsense are open-source firewall and router operating systems that share a common lineage but have diverged in philosophy and development over the years. pfSense originated as a fork of ...

I currently run pfSense for the past couple years or so and was planning to migrate to a Linux distro for my home network (I've seen the Ars guide to build ...

Through the years, I've used all sorts of router and firewall solutions at home and at work. For home networks, I usually recommend something like DD-WRT, OpenWRT or Tomato on an off-the-shelf router.

Whereas if one of our firewalls dies, which are standard HP DL380 boxes running Linux with a proprietary (commercial) firewall grafted onto it, i can at least replace the dead box in less than 60 ...

Over-the-counter routers are fine and work as they should, but they simply aren’t enough for some of us. Quite a few of the standard routers located around the homes of the world allow for an open ...

The Internet is a big, scary place, and so we must protect our small business networks with strong, reliable firewalls. Firewalls can range from a simple gadget that keeps bad data packets out of ...