She couldn’t afford a $1,000 corporate firewall. She also couldn’t afford to lose another customer to “your Wi-Fi is worse than the gas station.”
: A new kernel-based PPPoE backend ( if_pppoe ) significantly reduces CPU usage and increases speeds for fiber connections.
The file extension .iso.gz offers insight into the deployment philosophy of pfSense. The .iso portion indicates a disc image, standard for booting into the installer. However, the .gz suffix denotes that this image is compressed using the Gzip utility. This compression reduces the file size, minimizing download times and bandwidth usage for the thousands of mirrors that host the software.