<![CDATA[What do you want to see in the pfSense package system?]]>Exactly what it says on the tin. Reworking the package system is giving me a chance to add features that didn't make it into 1.0, and I would like to get suggestions from our userbase as to what would be some nice features to have for both users and developers alike.

Please remember that very few (if any) of these changes will actually be making it into our 1.0 release.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/40/what-do-you-want-to-see-in-the-pfsense-package-systemRSS for NodeTue, 17 Mar 2026 06:52:35 GMTSun, 06 Nov 2005 03:13:15 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:51:53 GMT]]>Hardware monitoring. System temps via RRD and SMART status. Email notifications would be great too. Specially for smart status but for all of the above if possible.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/248247https://forum.netgate.com/post/248247Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:51:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:13:51 GMT]]>XenTools

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/244027https://forum.netgate.com/post/244027Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:13:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:13:19 GMT]]>UNBOUND DNS !!!

it's BSD license

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/243096https://forum.netgate.com/post/243096Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:13:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:56:09 GMT]]>http://udpxy.sourceforge.net/

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/239829https://forum.netgate.com/post/239829Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:56:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:10:18 GMT]]>A better accounting and reporting solution than Ntop.

Untangle's reporting is quite intuitive:
http://www.untangle.com/Reports/Screenshots
http://www.untangle.com/Video/reports

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/238587https://forum.netgate.com/post/238587Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:10:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Thu, 13 May 2010 06:32:25 GMT]]>Unbound DNS!

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/232542https://forum.netgate.com/post/232542Thu, 13 May 2010 06:32:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Mon, 03 May 2010 08:22:44 GMT]]>OTP - One Time Password
TFA - Two Factor Authentication

Now that the whole user and certificate management is in 2.0, some nice OTP and TFA would not harm.
Yubikey is only a few dollars. http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey/
I wonder how difficult it would be to integrate its radius server.
http://code.google.com/p/yms/source/browse/branches/RADIUS_on_Premise/readme.txt
-respectively now new only these two:
http://code.google.com/p/yubikey-val-server-php/ - which should be easy to implement.
http://code.google.com/p/yubikey-ksm/ - a bit harder. a data base is needed (mysql or postgres)

http://code.google.com/p/yubikey-ksm/wiki/Installation will tell more

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/231381https://forum.netgate.com/post/231381Mon, 03 May 2010 08:22:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:11:53 GMT]]>A better traffic accounting system. For example bandwidthD does not give any options to look at certain times, or to go back 3 days to check an IPs usage on that day.
eg. I would like to be able to check down to the hour over any IP over all the logs. Possibly use drop down boxes to pick if you want to check its total usage since logs started, or monthly, weekly, daily, hourly. And have drop down boxes that react to these options to give you a way to input which month/week/day/hour/IP you want to check.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/230959https://forum.netgate.com/post/230959Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:11:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:33:00 GMT]]>I would like to see network storage in Pfsense to store music and movies is that possible it would solve problems .

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/229866https://forum.netgate.com/post/229866Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:33:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:17:22 GMT]]>web Server  ;D

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/227463https://forum.netgate.com/post/227463Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:17:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:45:05 GMT]]>Is already in 2.0
(and at least partially working from what i read)

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/227414https://forum.netgate.com/post/227414Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:45:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:24:35 GMT]]>Support for 3g modems as secondary wan (HSDPA/UMTS/EDGE/GPRS/GSM)
(If anyone knows how please tell me :))

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/227406https://forum.netgate.com/post/227406Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:24:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:27:05 GMT]]>@mgc6288:

I would love to see a spam filtering option…

Or just return SpamD back to repository…

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/223938https://forum.netgate.com/post/223938Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:27:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:29:43 GMT]]>I would love to see a spam filtering option…

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/223336https://forum.netgate.com/post/223336Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:29:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:29:11 GMT]]>inline snort would be the only thing I want

adding a l7 filter if possible, would also be good

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/217547https://forum.netgate.com/post/217547Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:29:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:37:19 GMT]]>New version of IMSpector.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/216910https://forum.netgate.com/post/216910Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:37:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:43:05 GMT]]>EMail Inspector (IMSpector for email) would be great!

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/216432https://forum.netgate.com/post/216432Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:43:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:04:13 GMT]]>Squid 3.1 would be nice.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/216315https://forum.netgate.com/post/216315Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:04:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:11:40 GMT]]>Its on 2.0 right?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/208224https://forum.netgate.com/post/208224Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:11:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:07:42 GMT]]>LAYER 7 INSPECTION!!!

Thereby you can block traffic at packet level, based on packet content instead of header content… :)

Then you do not need port blocking, based on the fact that you do not need source, destination or anything other than content.....:)

Furthermore, you can route specific content to specific hosts on thye internal network. One of the good things with ISA 2006.

You can then have multible webservers among other things on the same inbound port...

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/207671https://forum.netgate.com/post/207671Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:07:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:20:02 GMT]]>What about email attack notification?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/207668https://forum.netgate.com/post/207668Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:20:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:26:45 GMT]]>I'd love to see a package for ospfd. here I get a firewall running with ospfd, manually set up via the command line.

If interested, I can easily contribute the list of packages from the bsd distribution I had to add, and work on the php page for setting the parameters.

there is only a thing that can be a problem for the ospf routing daemon as well as the bgpd routing daemon: when one of these two packages is installed, we must disable the fact that entering the default gateway on the general setup screen is mandatory: in some installations, the default route MUST be provided via ospf or bgp

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/205972https://forum.netgate.com/post/205972Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:26:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:26:14 GMT]]>I suppose this is in the wrong forum but here goes:

I'm running pfSense on a stand-alone PC with Snort IDS. Every once in a blue moon, Snort will fail to start after an Emerging Threats or Snort rules update is completed. Because of that, I check the pfSense dashboard frequently to insure Snort (or other packages, for that matter) are running. My question is this: Is there a way to create a helper program that sends package status information to computers on the LAN side of things? For example, I have both Windows 7 RC1 and Mac OS X running on my LAN. It'd be nice to have a small icon in the taskbar (in Windows) or the menu bar (Mac OS X) which graphically shows Snort (or whatever package) is up and running. Can this be done?

A second somewhat related "feature" I'd like to see is a program that passes hardware information (i.e., CPU temps, fan speeds, etc.) to LAN computers.

Forgive me for asking if this has been addressed before. I did do a cursory search and found no reference to the friendly requests above.

Thanks for your time.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/203442https://forum.netgate.com/post/203442Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:26:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What do you want to see in the pfSense package system? on Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:20:32 GMT]]>-would love to see a stat system that tracks daily and monthly totals indefinatly for a specified interface (wan).  it should also have and option for the user to specify first day of the month and ideally alarm out via email or other option.  there are a couple widgets that do it, but the best app ive seen is for windows called bitmeter2

-as others have mentioned samba support (as simple as being able to mount and share a single directory with no password/user requirements) and a blacklist for ips/domains would be great too!

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/202462https://forum.netgate.com/post/202462Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:20:32 GMT