The official blog of the pfSense project, a FreeBSD-based firewall and router, with release announcements and development updates.
HN commenters link it for release news and development details, such as the pf SMP work, the pfSense 2.3 changes and a hiring post.
BSD Perimeter (the company behind pfSense) has an immediate full-time, permanent position for a web developer and designer in our north central Austin office.
Successful candidate will work on our public-facing websites, the open source front-end of pfSense, and a variety of proprietary customer and internal projects. This position will be responsible for both the design and implementation of these projects.
BSD Perimeter is the leading provider of BSD-based network security appliances, and the company behind pfSense, one of the most widely used firewalls. We’re a small, growing company, with the opportunity for one person to have a significant impact. Our websites as a whole see millions of page views every month.
Location: Austin, TX. Remote candidates will not be considered. We will consider those who can relocate quickly at their own expense.
http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=657
Oct 2014 thread on FreeBSD-based pfSense fork of OpenBSD pf, https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=83075.0
"2.2 should prove to be significantly more scalable than OpenBSD, since we have SMP-capable pf now, which isn't doable in OpenBSD (and will likely be a number of years until it is). Plus AES-NI, more coming soon. https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1473
Bug fixes are brought over into FreeBSD from OpenBSD as needed (sometimes by us, sometimes by others), though FreeBSD pf is essentially a fork at this point since making it SMP-capable changed things significantly. It's mostly separately-maintained at this point."
I can't see where any trace of MIPS products by Netgate. Are you sure? http://store.netgate.com/
It looks like ARM and MIPS support was on their radar almost 5 years ago https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=472 so I guess we should not get our hopes high yet.
pfSense-tools is no longer used in pfSense 2.3 (which is in beta).
https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1842
We're closer than one might think: https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1866