pfSense Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 2.3.4Linux/Unix, Other FreeBSD pfSense 2.3.4/FreeBSD 10.12 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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License cost increased by 476% from July 2017 without notice!!!
We decided to use pfSense with 100,80$ of licence per month.
Then I realized that from July, the license cost is 476,16$ per month.
No advice received in advance.
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POSTROUTING and PREROUTING not possible
It seems to be a nice appliance for VPN NAT-T IPSEC tunnels, but there is not any possibility to use POSTROUTING and PREROUTING rules from iptables, and for me they are essential.
It just a simple firewall, I will keep my Openswan
2 hours in and I've made no progress
The "quick start guide" (that's anything but) isn't up to date, isn't easy to read and I think makes assumptions that aren't clear to me (new to VPCs and networking on AWS, but I have 15 years in planning and building networks).
I wanted to like this despite the $50/mo premium, but I can't get it running for lack of clear documentation so for now, it's useless.
It's technically a great product, but pricey for its business value
Working everyday with products from the large telecom vendors, I tend to get the rationale of the 0.07$/h price-point, which represents a 613.20$ annual total-cost (0.07 x 24hours x 365days).
However, what's disappointing is that when I look around at the medium-class vendors (the non top-5 brands), all their base support/software maintenance plans average 40-50% of what pfSense AMI is listing.
To add to that disappointment; no clear support number, or even a registration process to recognize that I am indeed operating a commercial license of pfSense.
I hope Netgate plans to introduce some form of added value in the near-future; I'd hate to have to move to another platform because I can't come-up with any decent business arguments to justify the costs.