r/PFSENSE

48K archived posts · Jul 2010 – Sep 2026

pfSense for redditors - Open Source Firewall and Router Distribution

r/PFSENSE

The pfSense® project is a powerful open source firewall and routing platform based on FreeBSD. Developed and maintained by Netgate®.

Created Jun 18, 2010

125KMembers (last snapshot)

48KArchived posts

The pfSense project is a free, open source tailored version of FreeBSD for use as a firewall and router with an easy-to-use web interface.

You can buy official pfSense appliances directly from Netgate or a Netgate Partner. You can install the software yourself on your own hardware.

We have a great community that helps support each other, but we also provide 24x7 commercial support.

Rules of Submission

Before asking for help please do the following:

Look over at our /r/pfsense wiki
Use a search engine like Google to search across the pfsense.org domain:

https://www.google.com/?#q=how+do+i+site:pfsense.org
If you are looking for help with basic networking concepts, please try r/homelab or for more advanced, r/networking.
Do not post items for sale in this subreddit. If you are looking to sell or buy used hardware, please try r/hardwareswap.
This subreddit is primarily for the community to help each other out, if you have something you want the maintainers of the project to see we recommend posting in the appropriate category on our Netgate forum.

This is a community subreddit so lets try and keep the discourse polite.

tl;dr: Be excellent with each other.

Related Subreddits

r/netgate - home of the pfSense project

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