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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Top tier enterprise hardware and support
What do you like best about the product?
Pfsense allows us to use standard deployment and automation tools to quickly configure firewalls. We also love that it's based on FreeBSD so we can leverage the vast package repositories available there for monitoring and security enhancements.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the corporate nonsense where they aired their dirty laundry publicly wasn't very becoming of an enterprise hardware and software vendor.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We deploy hundreds of routers to offices and branch-offices and want to track traffic statistics as well as IDS/IPS statistics. The Pfsense doesn't limit us to whatever single tool they decide to provide... we leverage FreeBSD packages for custom solutions.
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Network security
What do you like best about the product?
Netgate router with small footprint but fully customizable firewall solution available for home security.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pfsense is advanced firewall and requires network knowledge. There should be additional utility provided for default configuration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network security, deployment of virtual lans.
El servicio de soporte es excelente
What do you like best about the product?
La consola deadministración es amigable con el usuario
What do you dislike about the product?
la incompatibilidad con los navegadores, al momento de realizar actualizaciones o instalación de paquetería
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
la comunicación de paquetería
Why buy a router when you can build your own open source
What do you like best about the product?
It's open-source, heavily supported by the community, and has any feature you could need. I've been using it for years and have not had any issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be a bit of a learning curve to use. There are so many options that it can be challenging to find what you are looking for at first.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to build highly capable routers that don't cost our business an arm and a leg
The best actual Firewall in the world
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense it's the best open-source firewall globally; I can't manage a network without pfSense.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hardware prices in Brazil it's so expensive.
the Reports need be more polish
the Reports need be more polish
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Multiples, from most simple like VPN's to Extreme redundancies, whit ipSEC
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Only use you Never make a Rollback again.
Open source firewall and content filter UTM.
What do you like best about the product?
Its open-source and give the same functionality as other paid UTM can provide. IT can be installed at a virtual machine and required minimum resources to operate.
What do you dislike about the product?
When there is any bug identified, users need to wait till the next update to get a solution for that bug. Sometimes proxy services stop themselves i need to do restart manually.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can restrict my user from surfing websites, download software, create VPN for remote users, get logs of internet surfing. It can be installed as a virtual and physical PC also.
The Must Have Home Router Solution
What do you like best about the product?
This is the best user interface I've ever used for the complex task of network management. The defaults are excellent, and optimizing settings is easy thanks to great documentation.
What do you dislike about the product?
I've had quite a bit of trouble using the built in upgrading feature. It always breaks the router and you *must* install pfSense fresh and recover your previous configuration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm taking control of my own network. I'm controlling bandwidth access, external access, and optimizing my own traffic.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take the time to learn what pfSense can do and how to do it and your life will be so much better. Controlling your own network gives you a lot of peace of mind since network connectivity is so important in today's world.
Fully featured smart router firewall
What do you like best about the product?
pfsense converts your old PC into a fully-featured smart router firewall with the addition of a few network cards. The best thing is you can do this by yourself and plenty of support is freely available over the internet.
What do you dislike about the product?
Being an open-source product the possibility of bugs and errors may be higher than closed source products. In order to tolerate this, updates and new versions are frequently released.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
pfsense gives its users very good reporting capabilities. Real-time reporting such as network bandwidth can be found very useful when it comes to keeping a lid on network resource usage. Various reporting packages are also available to be added to the pfsense installation as per your requirement.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Pfsense can be proposed as a total solution that satisfies routing and firewall requirements in network administration.
Best software based network firewall
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense is a software based networking firewall, where the source code is freely available. Hence they given the freedom to modify the source code and customize it according to our requirements.
What do you dislike about the product?
pfSense only provides the software for the firewall and only specifies the required hardware. So this may raise a question whether they would be able provide comprehensive support in case of hardware problem results an software error.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lot of network based service can be found bundled together in pfsense. This is the main reason for its popularity in network community. Even if you do not find some service on the default version, it can download and installed later.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This highly recommended for Network Administrators for efficient network resource management.
pfSense
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it is based on free software, it has built-in features of switches, routers, firewall, dhcp server, proxy, it is easy to install, easy to configure, it supports protocols such as tunnels vpn ip sec, and it can be installed on site and in the cloud .
It allows load balancing and redundancy in WAN links.
It allows load balancing and redundancy in WAN links.
What do you dislike about the product?
Linux at the hardware level is manual, in many cases if the installation is done on a computer, the network cards will probably have to be installed manually
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network infrastructure management on a single computer, everything is centralized, dhcp server, vpn tunnels with clients, built-in diagnostic tools, proxy, content filtering, it is also free of licensing, I really recommend it fully
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is the best option, quality and low cost, all the tools integrated in the same system
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