Other packages

There are also a number of other packages that, while not likely to be utilized by most pfSense users, are nonetheless useful and deserve mention. For the most part, these packages are more likely to be useful in corporate-type deployments, so if you are installing pfSense in such an environment and the stock pfSense installation does not provide the functionality you require, you may want to review this section to see if any of the packages discussed meet your needs.

Snort

Snort is an open source network intrusion prevention system and intrusion detection system. Among its features, it can do real-time traffic analysis and packet logging. It can be run in three different modes:

• Packet sniffing mode: In this...