Ask HN: Best firewall software?
Is there a decent free firewall solution that doesn't contain ads? Perhaps an open source solution? It seems all of the consumer grade firewalls are mainly focused on upselling you to their paid plans.
Text config easily source-controlled and diffed. In the long-run, also easier to deal with the config files directly--rather than having to de-cipher how the pfsense web interface currently translates to the underlying services.