pfSense CE vs. pfSense Plus - question about license
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Hi community.
I have to replace a Fortigate firewall on one of our company's site.
Given that the branch doesn't need big firewall functionalities (should be enough to have Firewall, Content Filtering and Web Filtering in place) I found a product which seems to be interesting, and which comes with pfSense+ installed.
I ask if - after initial registration - the product will ask for license renewal every year and, in case, which services will not be running if license is not renewed.
Does anyone have an answer on this?
I was also thinking to erase the preinstalled pfSense+ distribution and then install the Community Edition, with some addons like pfBlockerNG or similar, to satisfy branch's needings.
Thank you all!
Giuseppe -
If it's not a Netgate device and it has pfSense Plus preinstalled, then I'm pretty sure that it's not legally installed.
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@mvikman said in pfSense CE vs. pfSense Plus - question about license:
I'm pretty sure that it's not legally installed.
It's completely legal, even on custom hardware, by using Netgate installer.
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You can install it yourself but you should not be able to purchase 3rd party hardware with it pre-installed.
It you do I would strongly recommend you reinstall it to be sure what you have is actually unmodified pfSense.
If the license expires you will lose access to the pkg repos which means you can no longer see updates or install new packages. It does not prevent existing services running.
If this is used Netgate hardware it will always have access to Plus, that does not expire.
Steve
