My Preferred Package Picks for Peak pfSense Performance [YouTube Release]

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Looking to for the best pfSense packages in 2024? In this video Tom dives into the best packages to enhance your network security and performance. Discover essential tools for blocking bad IP addresses, network discovery, and optimizing your overall pfsense experience.

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Chapters
00:00 Best Packages for pfsense
00:36 How To Install Packages
01:34 Patching
02:33 Arpwatch
03:12 Snort or Suricata
03:56 pfblocker
04:49 Traffic Totals
05:34 NMAP
06:12 NTOPng
06:44 HAProxy
07:05 Wireguard Tailscale and OpenVPN
07:28 Don’t Use Squid

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Thanks Tom. Just curious how you would compare Crowdsec to PFblocker. I know Jay at LearnLinux just recommended Crowdsec and you guys discussed on Homelab.

Should we use both or is one better?

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I you have ports open CrowdSec has good threat feeds to block malicious IP’s. If you don’t have any ports open it’s not really helpful.

The pfblocker system can do inbound and outbound blocking via feeds.

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crowdsec/haproxy/pfsense together seems quite a self contained easy to backup and support self contained solution (thanks to toms HA videos!)

and at $31 a month seems a bargain for peace of mind for say a SME self hosting a mission critical web app, be a bit “seat of the pants” without it :slight_smile:

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I have been using pfSense since about 2020 and I had no idea this package existed. I agree with what Tom mentioned in his video - Netgate should certainly include this package by default.

I would almost suggest it is a bug that this isn’t included by default - why would someone not want to apply patches?

Just installed on my pfSense system- thank you for the recommendation Tom.

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