Will Netgate keep developing pfSense on FreeBSD or is the switch to Linux going to be for all Netgate platforms?

jwt · Sep 19, 2024, 2:47 AM

@jwt said in Will Netgate keep developing pfSense on FreeBSD or is the switch to Linux going to be for all Netgate platforms?:

https://reviews.freebsd.org/p/kp/

Coincidentally, we're also a big contributor to VPP

https://www.stackalytics.io/unaffiliated?module=github.com/fdio/vpp

JonathanLee · Sep 19, 2024, 1:00 AM

April fools joke

Patch · Sep 19, 2024, 2:48 AM

@jwt said in Will Netgate keep developing pfSense on FreeBSD or is the switch to Linux going to be for all Netgate platforms?:

we're also a big contributor to VPP

For those (like me) not familiar with VPP https://github.com/FDio/vpp

Vector Packet Processing
The VPP platform is an extensible framework that provides out-of-the-box production quality switch/router functionality. It is the open source version of Cisco's Vector Packet Processing (VPP) technology

Which runs on Linux https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/What_is_VPP%3F

The VPP platform supports package installation on the following operating systems:
Debian
Ubuntu 16.04
Centos 7.3

So likely the underlying engine for TNSR

SteveITS · Sep 19, 2024, 4:11 AM

@Patch said in Will Netgate keep developing pfSense on FreeBSD or is the switch to Linux going to be for all Netgate platforms?:

So likely the underlying engine for TNSR

Bit more than likely:)
https://www.netgate.com/tnsr

jwt · Sep 19, 2024, 4:22 AM

@johnpoz said in Will Netgate keep developing pfSense on FreeBSD or is the switch to Linux going to be for all Netgate platforms?:

@nimrod said in Will Netgate keep developing pfSense on FreeBSD or is the switch to Linux going to be for all Netgate platforms?:

Just say that CE version is getting canceled

Hahah - that would be good one, but we already get so many people thinking that is true anyway..

... so what we announce is that the CE version is not being canceled, on April 1, 2025.

jwt · Sep 19, 2024, 5:14 AM

@SteveITS said in Will Netgate keep developing pfSense on FreeBSD or is the switch to Linux going to be for all Netgate platforms?:

@Patch said in Will Netgate keep developing pfSense on FreeBSD or is the switch to Linux going to be for all Netgate platforms?:

So likely the underlying engine for TNSR

Bit more than likely:)
https://www.netgate.com/tnsr

Quite.

We've been working with, advancing and fixing VPP since April / May 2016. We know a lot about it.

Most recently we've ported NetBSD's 'npf' to VPP, enabled (and fixed) the Snort plugin (so we have IDS/IPS via Snort) and written a (OpenVPN) DCO driver for VPP.

These all show up in TNSR 24.10.

So maybe we're putting VPP in as a very high-performance dataplane for this joke-that-might-not-be-a-joke pfSense on linux?

"Wait!", I hear you say, "VPP runs on FreeBSD now!"

Dude(s), have you looked at the performance? There are issues beyond that, too.

If we wanted VPP on FreeBSD it would have occurred years ago.

Anyway, that is is today's secret decoder ring. (Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!)