Full-featured Firewall which includes the basics like NAT, port forwarding, and DMZ addresses, UPnP, and NAT-PMP.Caching DNS forwarder powered by Dnsmasq, includes advanced features not typically found in home routers like with tight integration with DHCP server to give Dynamic DNS entries based on DHCP leases & reservations.

DHCP service powered by ISC DHCPD (more feature rich than a typical home router).Typical features you’d expect from any router (even a home router).Ships with all the features you’d expect from an enterprise-level router out of the box: Can run on just about any hardware - small embedded devices (regular home router hardware), micro-PCs based off things like the Intel NUC, regular PCs/Macs (including very old ones), or hardware sold by netgate, the company that maintains the PFSense codebase/project.A free and open-source router OS based on BSD Unix - /….I told you about PFSense back in 2012 in NosillaCast #357, but six years later it’s time to revisit the topic.

Pfsense home router