Slides for the December 2013 pfSense Hangout video

1. December 2014
pfSense Hang Out
December 13, 2013
Chris Buechler - Project Co-founder
Video and audio recording archived here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD-2e9u3tug

2. Brief Project Background
● Founded in 2004
● Ease deployment and management of BSD
firewalls
● Over 200,000 known live installs
● Multiple platforms available
○ Live CD
○ memstick VGA or serial
○ nanobsd embedded VGA or serial

3. 2.1 Changes Overview
● IPv6 Support
● PBI packages
● FreeBSD 8.3 base
● Multi-instance captive portal
● Expanded use of gateway groups
○ DynDNS
○ IPsec
○ OpenVPN
● NAT + IPsec
● High Availability changes

4. Complete Change List Available
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.1_New_Features_and_Changes

5. IPv6 WAN Types
● Static
● DHCPv6 - with Prefix Delegation
(PD)
● PPPoE - with PD
● SLAAC
● 6in4 (gif)
● 6to4 - with PD
● 6rd - with PD

6. Missing IPv6 Support in 2.1
● Captive portal
● Dynamic DNS
● PPPoE Server
● PPTP Server

7. pfSense 2.2 Plans
● FreeBSD 10.x base
○ SMP-scalable PF
○ Vastly improved wireless
○ Alternate architecture possibilities
● Other unknown
● Release date TBD

8. Tutorial - Troubleshooting Port
Forwarding

9. Port Forward Troubleshooting

10. Thanks!
Join us on the first Friday of every month
Gold and Support Subscribers only. Purchase
at https://portal.pfsense.org