Editorial desk
pfSense Router Guide Editorial
The editorial desk that publishes pfSense Router Guide. It is a byline for the site's editorial process, not a person, and this page carries no author biography because there is no individual author to describe.
How this desk works
- 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 publication.
- Nothing published here claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or someone else's test, the article names the source.
- Corrections go to [email protected] and are made on the affected page. Funding is set out on the disclosure page.
Posts (5)
- networking
pfSense VLAN Configuration Explained: Tags, Rules, DHCP
How pfSense VLANs work end to end: parent interface, 802.1Q tags, interface assignment, DHCP, default-deny rules and the switch trunk config.
- security
Snort vs Suricata on pfSense: Which IPS to Run in 2026
Pick Suricata for most pfSense firewalls: a multithreaded engine and Suricata-native ET Open rules. Snort 2.9.20 still suits OpenAppID users.
- workload-sizing
Workload Sizing for pfSense: VPN, IDS and State Tables
Size pfSense for VPN, IDS and peak state counts, and find whether routing, encryption or inspection sets the throughput bottleneck before you buy.
- editions
pfSense CE vs pfSense Plus: What Actually Differs
Compare pfSense CE and Plus: the $129 yearly TAC Lite price, Plus-only features like OpenVPN DCO and ZFS boot environments, and release cadence.
- troubleshooting
pfSense Slow Speeds and Bufferbloat: Find the Bottleneck
A diagnostic order for slow pfSense throughput, from where to measure first to the network buffer, PPPoE and inspection settings that actually cap it.