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Upgrading my home network for Gigabit
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility around VLANS and allowing me to separate my IOT devices, Security Cameras, Docker Containers, Servers and End User Devices.
I had come from other solutions, including more expensive ones and PFSense was the first that really clicked for me.
I had come from other solutions, including more expensive ones and PFSense was the first that really clicked for me.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the logging mechanisms are pretty powerful, but maybe some of the flash & wow of other systems would be nice. It's hard to complain though. Every problem I have encountered has been solved by the community or me skilling up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I wanted to be sure that IOT devices could not be used to compromise other parts of my network. I needed to ensure uptime compared to my previous environment (lots of patches) and I also needed a system that could do OpenVPN faster than my standalone router.
PfSence fun
What do you like best about the product?
FreeBSD based and open source and GUI control panel
What do you dislike about the product?
missed some documentation regarding VPN configuration
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Firewall and IDS/IPS
Runs on (almost) everything.
What do you like best about the product?
Solid and performant firewall
Extremely configurable
Installed on VM, generic X86 desktop, ebay firewall appliance (Watchguard XTM)
Extremely configurable
Installed on VM, generic X86 desktop, ebay firewall appliance (Watchguard XTM)
What do you dislike about the product?
Menu tree could be a bit better organized
Logs could be better accessible and searchable (e.g. "Want to know why IP 1.2.3.4 isn't getting through")
Logs could be better accessible and searchable (e.g. "Want to know why IP 1.2.3.4 isn't getting through")
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Much, much better than a over-the-counter "WiFi Router". Open-Source, with many available plugins meaning endless customizations
Easy to use and quite effective if tuned the right way.
What do you like best about the product?
Firewall Rule creation
OpenVPN setup
Squip Proxy Filters and Blacklist addition.
Traffic Graphs
OpenVPN setup
Squip Proxy Filters and Blacklist addition.
Traffic Graphs
What do you dislike about the product?
Blocklists are not always up to date; I currently do manual updates to an alias list for suspect Bruteforce attempting IPs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LAN Filters - can limit bandwidth allocation for clients.
IP Blocklist - specifying what IP to block or unblock both on LAN and WAN based on Rules created.
Easy bandwidth monitoring.
Easy client activity monitoring.
Simple daily reports on usage.
Easy setup of OpenVPN and very effective.
IP Blocklist - specifying what IP to block or unblock both on LAN and WAN based on Rules created.
Easy bandwidth monitoring.
Easy client activity monitoring.
Simple daily reports on usage.
Easy setup of OpenVPN and very effective.
Great OS and flexibility, hardware not as reliable
What do you like best about the product?
Control and visibility of traffic rules and data. Easy to configure rules and settings. Not bound to hardware and configuration can be easily ported to different hardware.
What do you dislike about the product?
The negate hardware has been unreliable. Would not use in remote distant areas due to failures and difficulty for an average user/remote hands restoring the appliance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Geoblocking countries we are not in business with, DNS control and visibility, granular firewall rules, aliases, Snort, pfblocker, DNS, and VPN with relative ease.
Netgate pfSense appliance
What do you like best about the product?
The appliance seems very secure and allows me to configure my home office easily with plenty of video walkthroughs on YouTube.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI could be easier in some places and workflows would be great to set a VPN up from scratch. The base OS is not the latest but that is already being worked on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The two things that the pfSense resolves is security of my network connection and handling VPN's for multiple devices.
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.
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