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When will we see pfsense on Freebsd 9 ?

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    rt_rex
    last edited by May 9, 2013, 11:45 AM

    Hi ,

    i saw a prediction somewhere on the wiki or the forum about pfsense upgrades .
    I am asking for freebsd 9 especially because of wireless drivers (just the support to more chipsets ) and i believe 802.11n is suported(correct me if i am wrong).
    There is  also Freebds 8.4 coming out. (legacy production).
    Any chance in a near future to see a better support for the wireless network (there is still very much to do in the wireless interface config)

    Don´t Try this @home go outside!
    WIFI Link @ 76 km
    Pfsense with 3G USB

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      stan-qaz
      last edited by May 9, 2013, 3:45 PM

      I looked around and saw a post saying 2.1 is based on BSD 8.3 and some mention of v9 issues with the possibility of seeing it in 2.2.

      http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=50677.0

      http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=48245.0

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        NOYB
        last edited by May 9, 2013, 5:32 PM

        When it earns legacy status. ;) ::)

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          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by May 9, 2013, 6:43 PM

          Never :-)

          Current plan is to target FreeBSD 10.x for pfSense 2.2.

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            msi
            last edited by May 10, 2013, 5:24 AM

            I should add that driver-wise 8.3 is more up-to-date than a 9.0 (not 9.1 though) so hardware-wise only 8.4 would improve things - but as of writing it's not out yet.
            And within reason, there have been made backports of relevant drivers like igb, ixgbe, mfi etc. from 9/8-stable

            The firewall-related patches are what needs to be ported to a newer version and this requires quite some work.
            So far 8.3/2.1 have been a very stable combo, it justs needs some bugs ironed out. :-)

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              rt_rex
              last edited by May 10, 2013, 7:43 PM May 10, 2013, 7:39 PM

              @jimp:

              Never :-)

              Current plan is to target FreeBSD 10.x for pfSense 2.2.

              Thats good news :)

              I use pfsense as a main router/access point in a small wireless community.(Alix2d2, 2 radios)
              I did replace a Mikrotik with pfsense just because it makes more sense the way you configure it, but i really miss the extra wireless features(beacon, basic rates,rts frag ,basic rates,etc) i had to do some hand tuning to get some feature working.
              I believe the wireless part of Pfsense is underpowered there is so much more it can give ,when we get 802.11n , Mesh, WDS, etc  in the WebIf i believe there will be a boost on the number of Pfsense Boxes running just because of the new Wifi features. ;D

              I hope it doesn 't take long to have 2.2 release out.

              Edit: just found this great news about freebsd 10

              https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD10#Wireless_Improvements

              Don´t Try this @home go outside!
              WIFI Link @ 76 km
              Pfsense with 3G USB

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                dhatz
                last edited by May 11, 2013, 1:00 AM

                @rt_rex:

                I did replace a Mikrotik with pfsense just because it makes more sense the way you configure it, but i really miss the extra wireless features(beacon, basic rates,rts frag ,basic rates,etc) i had to do some hand tuning to get some feature working.

                Mikrotik is strong in wireless, because most of their product line is geared towards affordable wireless solutions, WISPs etc and they have been doing it for the past 10+ years.

                @rt_rex:

                I hope it doesn 't take long to have 2.2 release out.

                It'd be great, but based on the time it has taken to get to 2.1-BETA I wouldn't hold my breath …

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                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by May 11, 2013, 1:17 PM

                  2.1 development has been significantly longer than some because of the introduction of IPv6. A massive task! Although 1.2.3 - 2.0 was not quick.  ;)

                  Steve

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