portsnap

Hi all,

I am exploring pfsense. I wan to install Bro IDS instead of Snort.

Tried to execute portsnap update in pfsense.

But ,First of all, the following folder "ports" is not there in pfsense.

<code>
cd /usr/ports
</code>

Apart from, portsnap command is not there in /usr/sbin folder also.

I am asking here to know one thing that .

1. if Feebsd is bundled like this without portsnap command, is it possible to install any packages.

2. From net i got this suggestion of execution of following command". But this is also saying error of timed out.
<code>
"fetch -o - "ftp://ftp1.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz" | tar zxf - -C /usr "
</code>

what to do.


thank you.
 
Well before SirDice comes and gives you smackdown I will give you some advice.
Do not compile ports on your firewall. When you compile software it dramatically slows down your computer.
The last thing I want is my firewall being overloaded compiling stuff.

You need to install packages from the pfSense package repository.
 
Looks like pfSebnse got rid of packages with version 2.2
Now they use ports:

To me this is troublesome because you don't want compilers on a firewall.
I don't know how they handle that.
 
One last point.
Do you really want to add python and perl to your firewall?
 
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