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Powerful & affordable/free firewall and network management system
What do you like best about the product?
PfSense offers an advanced, intuitive firewall with highly sophisticated and customisable network tools to effectively manage and protect one or more network properly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The system could be complicated for beginners and intermediate users, but good videos are available online to help beginners and novice users. Additional add-ons would have been nice, especially for home and small business users who cannot afford separate systems or hardware-based systems. Tools to assess issues and challenges, e.g. throughput & latency, up or downstream.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
pfSense is a comprehensive firewall- and network management system at an affordable price. pfSense competes well against costly hardware firewall systems with even less functionality. pfSense is one of a few advanced firewall and network management systems that home users can use for free. pfSense integrates all the functionality of a firewall, network management and other tools into one system. It enables a small to medium enterprise's user- or network administrator to guard against cyber attacks. End device management is also part of pfSense. pfSense can manage access to certain features and (or) websites and services that could expose a business to security issues.
Good software which just works. Very reliable.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use. Helpful and easy-to-understand documentation. Huge community. Many "recipes" are available on user forums. Nice web interface. CLI is also available.
What do you dislike about the product?
The support package covers only issues with software. It does not cover questions like "how can I do this and that with pfSense". It's developing much slower that a competition. Some critical features are not available out of the box, and you have to install them as an add-on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
You can have a router with HA features for a relatively low price.
Excellent
What do you like best about the product?
The modularity of its functions and security options that adapt to a wide variety of environments, whether business or domestic, allowing for its implementation.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does not have updated support for when using content filtering modules, which are very necessary nowadays, I think it is an area of opportunity.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security at the firewall level, content filtering, network routing with VLANs, internet access control and bandwidth regulation, as well as wireless service management.
great interface and many features available
What do you like best about the product?
Easy interface, easy to configure. I'm using the firewall and HA proxy.stability. no crashes sofar with 2.6 version. Certificate management is easy to handle. there should be an SSL vpn portal.
What do you dislike about the product?
No OTP on different reverse proxy pages. No SSL portal for ssl applications to serve. An ssl portal i installed it from sophos with pfsense as front page , just to offer ssl vpn ( clientless).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At first a firewall to which filters good to my expectation. I configured HA proxy with Outlook and web sites with this tool. To get an secure connection i use Let's encrypt and the cert's can be managed by pfsense.
A firewall that does what we need with a great knowledgebase behind it
What do you like best about the product?
The WebGui makes it possible to config almost everything without using a terminal
What do you dislike about the product?
The initially high purchase price. But is it actually big deal? I think not.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
If you have a Netgate without an internal switch the vlan configuration is easy to understand.
Complex firewall rules without GUI, DNS resolving, IDS, nTop and VPN configurations are quickly done. And there are actual people with knowledge out there you can hire.
Complex firewall rules without GUI, DNS resolving, IDS, nTop and VPN configurations are quickly done. And there are actual people with knowledge out there you can hire.
pfSense for SME office
What do you like best about the product?
The VPN feature, able to use it without the restriction numbers of user like normal OpenVPN server.
What do you dislike about the product?
For me, the firewall rules part is a bit confusing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure remote access to office environment, I am able to manage in house infra without the need to open a lot of ports on the firewall level.
Stable, secure, simple
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense is a product I've been using for literally years to secure my home internet connection and, more recently that of my small business. It boasts an amazing community where most issues will already have an answer on the various forums. During COVID lockdowns, the simplicity of setting up VPN connectivity allowed everyone to continue working remotely with next to no issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Since the push toward a more commercially focused product, the regularity of the updates has diminished; however - it's a firewall, and stability SHOULD be celebrated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provides a simple interface through which to provision new VPN connections (and users) along with making it intuitive to create DHCP leases for fixed network assets and allowing specific traffic to transit various VLANs
Involved process, but worth the experience.
What do you like best about the product?
The level of control I have over my firewall. I can isolate all of the network traffic as needed with minimal issues in the process. I like that I could potentially extend pfSense, given that I have a backgroun d in php.
What do you dislike about the product?
The lack of some templated functionality for setting up monitoring and not restricting someone from potentially installing plugins out-of-sync with the version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Isolating network traffic where certain devices have a tendency to "phone home" with telemetry being gathered on my network(s). I can now explicitly stop behavior and have more insight into what's going on.
A very powerfull free Linux-based Firewall with all the needed features
What do you like best about the product?
Well, first, the very intuitive front end. Also Youtube is full of videos showing how to configure almost all available features and different scenarios. Available documentation, foruns for troubleshooting some of the more common issues, and on top of that you may chose to pay for support (recommended in case of professional use). Another strong point here is that you may go for a hardware based firewall, or install PFsense on a computer with 2 ethernet adapters, and it doesn't require much resources.
What do you dislike about the product?
To be honest, so far I haven't found anything that I dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In my case, I use it only on my home lab. I have a Virtualization Server where I test software and Windows based domain configurations, etc. I have a VM with PFsense isolating that Virtual infrastructure from my home infrastructure, filtering traffic (since I also use the lab for sandboxing some software), creating several NAT for remote administration, blocking ports, redirecting ports, etc. I can explore all the settings and learn a lot about firewall use cases and configurations.
PFsense a versatil, powerfull, and easy router.
What do you like best about the product?
One of the most essential characteristics of PFsense is that it can run on x86 archutecture machines without losing their lightness, enabling the deployment on virtualizalized enviroment and the usage of bare metal servers. Also, the GUI is very intuitive and the concepts are easy to learn.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes handy packages lost maintainers, and this becomes a very disappointing situation. Also, I have to suffer 2 packages that manage configuration wrong. So maybe more control on the repos may improve the quality of the packages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
PFsense fall in a perfect position for the IT department that does not have skills on the managing of router appliances like cisco, huawei and others, Allowing to take advantage of the IT experience to WAN networking on enterprise and even Homes.
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