About pfSenseLab
pfSenseLab covers pfSense CE and pfSense Plus for homelabs: installation on bare metal or as a Proxmox VM, VLANs, pfBlockerNG, Snort and Suricata, OpenVPN against WireGuard, multi-WAN failover and load balancing, CARP high availability, and hardware sizing from Netgate appliances to Protectli boxes and mini PCs.
It is written for people whose home network depends on the box they are configuring. Coverage follows Netgate documentation, the FreeBSD handbook and package project documentation.
What is covered here
- Advanced
- Firewall
- Getting Started
- Guides
- Hardware
- Networking
- Security
- Troubleshooting
- VPN
19 articles are published so far. New articles are announced on the RSS feed; there is no fixed publishing schedule and this site does not promise one.
How these articles are produced
Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those same sources before anything is published. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or a third-party measurement, the article names the source and links to it so you can check the original rather than take this site's summary of it.
Everything here is published under the pfSenseLab Editorial byline. That is an editorial desk, not a person, and no article on this site claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Nothing here should be read as a report of something this site physically tested.
Corrections
Getting it right matters more than getting it first. If something on this site is wrong, out of date, or missing the source it should cite, email hello@pfsenselab.com with the page and the specific claim. Substantive corrections are made on the page itself rather than quietly dropped.
How this site is funded
Some articles link to products on Amazon. As an Amazon Associate this site earns from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Those links are the only revenue this site carries: there is no sponsored content, no paid placement, and no display advertising. Product picks are made by reading specifications and published measurements, not by testing the products.
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pfSenseLab is run alongside a small number of other single-topic sites:
- Firewall Compare - OPNsense vs pfSense vs UniFi — side-by-side firewall comparisons for homelabs
- OPNsenseLab - OPNsense guides, configs, and hardware for serious homelabs.
- UniFiGuide - UniFi without the guesswork.
- SelfhostRealm - Your data, your infrastructure.
Contact
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