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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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.
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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: a great firewall and VPN system
What do you like best about the product?
PfSense lets us to set network rules up simply using the internet browser, so VPN configurations can be easily installed and clients can be easily connected while using the VPN. Traffic visuals are beautiful too. A large number of add-ons enable the manager to increase the functionality to satisfy the organization's needs and requirements. PfSense is a such a superb firewall system that all traffic is recorded and packages can be installed to snort heavy traffic.
What do you dislike about the product?
The modem's features can not be integrated into a pFSense box. This may limit the auto-deployment of something in conditions where firewall rules are required or HAProxy settings modified. So, I have to reach for other measures, such as SSDs, so that any technical failures should be prevented.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We mainly use PfSense as a firewall and VPN system throughout the business. The software helps us to get a routing protocol conversion and to protect our subnetwork, so intruders can not access our databases on an attack. Before PfSense, we wanted anything easy to develop and maintain that did not involve excessive payments or ongoing expenses to limit our financial risks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think PfSense would be a great tool for any IT department that needs a decent high-end firewall alternative but doesn't want to purchase a lot of equipment or licenses, although hardware could also be bought to make pfSense an all-in-one alternative for even the highest applications, but it is not mandatory.
Connect to the internet as a central edge firewall
What do you like best about the product?
PfSense offers solid security because it is centered on FreeBSD. The database server enables me to provide the capacity to IP that I want at the user's request with more energy and lower power to clients with less demand. It makes configuring the firewall and NAT very easy and usable. pfSense is a strong traffic-balancer as the clustering performs quite well. Any improvement made to the database is also provided with an interactive product.
What do you dislike about the product?
When an interruption of the Web happens, pfSense starts to work very slowly, I guess because it creates loads to all users allowed to access the network. Also, if the disk mirror adds an extra to a channel faders, it would prevent unforeseen downtime due to hard drive shortcomings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In the IT department, we use PfSense for connecting to the internet as a central edge firewall. We also use pfSense to handle loads or fail to comply with incoming applications or network hosting specifications. The VPN interface is also accessible to enable us to link and test whether our products are on the platform, from almost anywhere. In terms of usability, pfSense has outperformed expectations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
PfSense is an ideal tool to be used as a main firewall or VPN server with many settings, as it helps you to monitor traffic efficiently with less commitment VPN transfers and reduced licensing prices. I would recommend pfSense for small or medium companies that require load handling.
Best Freeware Firewall software for mid size organizations
What do you like best about the product?
The best part of pfsense is its free :) with lots of features. like firewall multiple supported packages, VPN, radius support,etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
There should be multiple approaches for wan link failover.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using as a security appliance so all the security risk is control through pfsense. Also using it as a proxy which gives me a strong control on giving limited internet access.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Highly recommended.
pfSense
What do you like best about the product?
Fully complete Firewall system, integrates functions of traffic analysis, load balancing, wan link failover, monitoring through zabbix. It is based on free software. Allows you to create routing rules, NAT, vpn ipsec tunnels and much more
What do you dislike about the product?
Knowledge in Linux is required to understand the logs and internal processes of the system
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Increase information security, redundancy of WAN links, load balancing, blocking of malicious traffic, proactive monitoring
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it
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
pfSense
What do you like best about the product?
It is based on free software, very easy to install, it can be installed on a computer, hardware requirements are low, it allows communication protocols such as tunnels vpn ip sec, vlan, content filtering
What do you dislike about the product?
There are times when the network interface is inhibited or the operating system may be stuck and services must be restarted
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Increase in network security, load balancing, redundancy with multiple wan, creation and segmentation through vlans, integrated dhcp server
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Test it
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