Firewall, VPN, and routing

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pfSense Key Features

pfSense is ideal for users who require comprehensive firewall, routing and VPN capabilities; be it for home, office, corporate, or cloud locations. Additionally, because of its time-tested resilience and reliability, it is incredibly easy to manage.

Router

◆ Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
◆ Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
◆ Configurable static routing
◆ Static ARP
◆ IPv4/IPv6
◆ Multiple IP addresses per interface

Firewall

◆ Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI)
◆ GeoIP blocking
◆ Anti-Spoofing
◆ Captive portal guest network
◆ Connection limits

User Management

◆ Local user and group database
◆ User and group-based privileges
◆ Optional automatic account expiration
◆ External RADIUS authentication
◆ Automatic lockout after repeated attempts

VPN and Tunneling

◆ IPsec and OpenVPN
◆ VLAN support (802.1q)
◆ 802.1ad VLAN (Q-in-Q)
◆ Bridging
◆ Generic Routing Encapsulation(GRE)

IDS/IPS

◆ Snort-based packet analyzer
◆ Layer 7 application detection
◆ Multiple rules sources and categories
◆ Emerging threats database
◆ IP blacklist database
◆ Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
◆ Optional open-source packages for application blocking

Proxy and Content Filtering

◆ HTTP and HTTPS proxy
◆ Non Transparent or Transparent caching proxy
◆ Domain/URL filtering
◆ Anti-virus filtering
◆ SafeSearch for search engines
◆ Website access reporting
◆ Domain Name blacklisting (DNSBL)
◆ Usage reporting