Layer 7 DPI? Feature request, I guess.

[KimmoJ]

It's hard to really control traffic through the firewall without the most crucial bit, layer 7 DPI.

Any chance of seeing something like that in pfSense?

http://www.ntop.org/products/deep-packet-inspection/ndpi/ for instance, never really used it but it seems like it would make a great addition to the product.

Apparently there has been a feature request for it a while, also, I found while doing some searches.

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/5813

I'm not personally capable of doing it but it would certainly improve my life a lot to have it.

[doktornotor]

ndpi is part of ntopng package. You can turn it on under Preferences > On-Disk Timeseries.