by Audian Paxson on January 21, 2021
pfSense® software is the world’s most trusted firewall. Now on its 46th release, the software has garnered the respect and adoration of users worldwide - installed over two million times, with at least half that many in active use today. A remarkably powerful, robust, and easy to use solution, pfSense software has delivered edge firewall, router, and VPN functionality to...
Read Full Postby Audian Paxson on January 19, 2021
WireGuard®, one of the leading requested features for pfSense® software, is now available for preview in pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 development snapshots. Sponsored by Netgate®, the development of a kernel-resident WireGuard implementation for FreeBSD and pfSense has been over a year of effort in the making. It was committed to FreeBSD on November 29, 2020 and can be previewed...
Read Full Postby Audian Paxson on October 30, 2020
Today, Netgate® announced the availability of TNSR® Release 20.10, the company’s eleventh TNSR release since inception in early 2018. Following 20.08 just two short months ago, the release is primarily focused on fixes, but also contains important adds, changes and updates. First, recall that on September 10, we announced an overhaul of TNSR pricing, and also introduced a free version,...
Read Full Postby Jim Pingle on September 23, 2020
To improve the documentation for pfSense® software and make it easier to use, we are merging the content from the book and the former wiki into a single unified set of documentation available now at https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/. Once upon a time, there was a documentation wiki for pfSense software. Then along came the official book with even higher quality information. At...
Read Full Postby Neal Hartsell, CMO on September 10, 2020
Introducing Free Home and Lab Use Product, and Flattening TNSR Business Subscription Pricing Many of our blog followers are well familiar with TNSR. For those who aren’t, TNSR is Netgate’s high-performance software router based on FD.io’s Vector Packet Processing (VPP). VPP takes the hard work of crunching packets at speed - which used to be the elite domain of expensive,...
Read Full Postby Audian Paxson on September 08, 2020
It’s here! The Netgate SG-2100. Netgate’s newest addition to our ever popular secure networking appliance family. We’re excited about it and we hope you will be too! First, the essentials - product specifications and packaging. The SG-2100 features a dual-core ARM64 Cortex A53 1.2 GHz CPU, dedicated 1 GbE WAN port (RJ45/SFP combo), (4) 1 GbE Marvell switch ports (with...
Read Full Postby Audian Paxson on September 01, 2020
Today, Netgate® announces the availability of TNSR® software release 20.08. Our last release was 20.02 in February. While we try to push a new release every four months, this one took a bit longer. Beyond the many feature adds and user experience improvements, a significant part of this release is “under the hood”, not directly visible to users per se....
Read Full Postby Dennis Smith on July 09, 2020
Many of today’s houses of worship run surprisingly sophisticated networks. All of the same attributes of an enterprise IT infrastructure are present: sophisticated informational websites, broadcast video, interactive classes, etc. With the societal impact of COVID-19, the demands on IT infrastructure have escalated, forcing many churches to seek outside help with designing, implementing and even managing the services required to...
Read Full Postby Audian Paxson on July 02, 2020
I’d like to share a customer story that got the networking nerds here at Netgate (and we are proud to be labeled as such) pretty excited. Our sales team received an email from someone interested in using TNSR software for a home lab. The email suggested he needed something that could handle up to 100 Gbps throughput across his internal...
Read Full Postby Chris MacMahon on June 18, 2020
Nestled down in the lower reaches of Maine sits Lisbon - a small town of 9,000 that serves as a bedroom community for the greater Portland area, including well-known companies like Bath Iron Works and L.L.Bean. With an eight-month wet season and seasonal temperatures ranging from 11℉ to 80℉, Lisbon is inhabited by the rugged individualists that define the New...
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