Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.03.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Long time user
What do you like best about the product?
Flexability of running on any hardware. This has allowed me to recover from disaster recovery situations provided there was a backup of the configuration.
pfSense is certainly among one the best value products enabling extremely high firewall speeds in simplistic use case scenarios.
pfSense is certainly among one the best value products enabling extremely high firewall speeds in simplistic use case scenarios.
What do you dislike about the product?
Seperating the community and enterprise edition.
Tendency for software updates to go wrong.
Lack of well intergrated NGFW features.
Tendency for software updates to go wrong.
Lack of well intergrated NGFW features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
pfSense has been used by some of our customers as a cheap no frills firewall where NGFW features are not needed.
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Awesome software and good support
What do you like best about the product?
I have been using pfSense firewalls for years, previously in a HA setup in a production environment, and now as an office firewall for a tech enterprise. pfSense comes with a large feature set, a nice UI and, many hardware options. The documentation is extensive and the support has always been quite responsive.
What do you dislike about the product?
No problem really. Comparing config backup files can be a pain, but it's something you rarely have to do. A nice additional feature would be to enable admins to export settings in different formats, for example export firewall rules to Excel or PDF format.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It basically runs our whole office network : firewalling, dual internet access, DHCP server, internal DNS and NTP server. It also runs an OpenVPN tunnel to our datacenter environment.
Prompt, friendly and knowledgeable
What do you like best about the product?
Supportive user community, updated product, competitive pricing
What do you dislike about the product?
Not really dislike but would be good if package manager can be more stable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Securing the network and providing access to remote users. Time saving, low cost
Simple, powerful, greeat customer service
What do you like best about the product?
How easy it is to setup and use. The quality of the documentation and the broader ecosystem of help available. And Netgate's customer service is exceptional.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only UX issue I would suggest fixing is to keep the menu structure at the top pinned, like a frozen row in Excel, so longer pages can easily see the menu.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Robust small to enterprise router, vpn, and other automations we need.
professional support, super fast
What do you like best about the product?
the product just works and has excellent support when you need it.
What do you dislike about the product?
The status led's could be a bit friendlier and strategically placed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
i can grant my staff remote access via VPN knowing my public-facing ip's are relatively protected by a firewall that works.
Great support and hardware
What do you like best about the product?
The support they have provided has been far superior to that we received from Cisco.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there was a dashboard to control all of my PFSense firewalls from.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a solid firewall that could also support our user VPNs and provide a IPS solution.
Easy for the beginners and full feature for the professionals
What do you like best about the product?
Low requirement on on the hardware. You can run it on just about anything.
What do you dislike about the product?
pfSense CE is a bit outdated on the new hardware, pfSense plus lacks a direct installation image. Install the CE version then upgrade to the Plus version is a bit painful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
What problem solved, not just one! The cost compared to Cisco was peanuts. The ability to install OpenVPN was a God send for the remote users. Stable is another primary reason.
Customizable Firewall and Router with Great Performance
What do you like best about the product?
It is a highly customizable firewall and router that will fit most of our clients' use cases. BGP IP announcement along with L3 firewall and basic routing with no vendor lock-in. We can buy direct from Netgate or put on a VM and deploy in minutes.
What do you dislike about the product?
No REST API Support in 2023 is making us slow down our installation of new pfSense deployments. The fractured features between pfSense+ and pfSense CE are a concern as we cannot review and audit source code for our stricter clients regarding upgrading and change notes between versions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Core Router and Firewall for our business customers (at their office/core and edge locations). pfSense also allows us to to setup site-to-site setup via IPsec in spoke and hub for unified networking and routing between all locations.
Using Pfsense from last two Decades
What do you like best about the product?
Easily Configurations, Opensource and load balancing are very effective.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it sticks on startups if intentionally rebooted.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All good just add some security features like IPS/IDS.
Best Firewall for Small and Intermediate businesses
What do you like best about the product?
Pfsense plus is worth the cost. Most options come with all security rules and protocols to expand upon including vlans segmentation and as well DHCP server.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can't think of any issues relating to the configuration and utilization of router control. Load balancing maybe, if it's a compatibility issue but everything with pfsense is sound with me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Their solving cost productivity and options for thr general public
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