hey guys,
you are comparing a small linux box (200 MHz, 16 Mb RAM) to a computer with 256 or 512 Mb of RAM and a big processor.
so it is normal to have unstability problem with the small router when it handels a lot of connections, bittorent and P2P…. but DD-WRT have a X86 version that runs on PCs and it is really stable and faster than Pfsense.
I am using now many dd-wrt boxes as access points, and pfsense is doing the rest (DHCP, authentication...) pfsense never crash but it have a lot of bugs and missing futures.
it would be appreciated if pfsense have some of DD-WRT futures like
additionnal DHCP options / DNSmasq as DHCP server, windows networking is not working well in pfsense (from LAN to WAN, LAN clients cannot see PC connected on WAN domain for exemple in latest pfsense release). i think that this problem is related to a DNS / firewall bugs ?
I prefer SPI firewall than pfsense, but it is a personal choice
Access restrictions per IP or MAC address is also missed in actual Pfsense release. blocking P2P and other applications or website is easy with dd-wrt
QoS, priority per IP, MAC, subnet or application... in VLANs also
the hotspot options : DD-WRT can use chillispot, nocat, spuntik for authentications... it would be nice if chillispot can be add to pfsense via a package (it needs a package for chillispot, radius, webserver... MySQL is also preferable).
a monitoring package like Rflow is also missed in pfsense, it is not perfect in dd-wrt but the best is to have a package or a small software that list all connected users (users, mac, ip, time and trafic) with the possibility to disconnect users
-finally a nice future that could be easy implemented in pfsense I thnik, is the possibility to define a user groups and to add (in captive portal) its static DHCP mapping
anyway pfsense is a very good firewall and the support on the forum is very fast and appreciable.
Chady