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On Oct 20, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

> I run a very small home office network and domain off of my DSL.   
> Currently, I have a FreeBSD 5.4p8 firewall (pf) running.  I am  
> really not having any issues, but sometimes the machines gets a bit  
> stodgy

the pfSense firewall is based on freebsd 6.  works extremely well.

i have 6.0RC1 on about 4 machines, one dual proc Xeon. all seem to  
run well.  nothing with high load other than the pfSense firewall,  
though.  and that is 100% stable.