Published Compact Distribution Release To create firewalls and network gateways PfSense 2.6.0 . The distribution is based on the FreeBSD code base with the development of the M0N0WALL project and the active use of PF and ALTQ. To download Prepared ISO-image for AMD64 architecture, size of 430 MB.
Distribution management is made via the Web interface. To organize user output in a wired and wireless network, Captive Portal, Nat, VPN (IPsec, OpenVPN) and PPPoE can be used. A wide range of capacity limiting capacity limiting, limiting the number of simultaneous connections, traffic filtering and creating fault tolerant CARP-based configurations is supported. Work statistics are displayed as graphics or table form. Supported authorization on a local user base, as well as via RADIUS and LDAP.
Key Changes :
- Defaults When installing, the ZFS file system is now applied.
- Added a new widget to estimate the free disk space that came to shift the list with the System Information Widget.
- work to improve stability and performance IPsec. The name of the IPsec VTI network interfaces is changed (the available settings will be updated automatically). Expanded and optimized widgets for displaying IPSec status.
- in AutoconfigBackup solved problems with the delay of the page opening during backup.
- For hashing passwords by default, the SHA-512 algorithm is involved instead of BCRYPT.
- Improved Disconnecting Page from Wireless Network in Captive Portal.
- For the operation of the RAM disks, the FS TMPFS is involved.