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A great firewall with a thriving community and good documentation
What do you like best about the product?
+ Good plugin base
+ Good free documentation
+ Free and quality forum support
+ Broad community
+ Stable software
Advantage to competition is customizability in my opinion, you have many features to choose from and on top of that, you can test out beta features which puts pfSense ahead of its competition.
One example is DCO.
+ Good free documentation
+ Free and quality forum support
+ Broad community
+ Stable software
Advantage to competition is customizability in my opinion, you have many features to choose from and on top of that, you can test out beta features which puts pfSense ahead of its competition.
One example is DCO.
What do you dislike about the product?
The entrance/skill level is rather high, many features are there but need to be explored. I, for one, had difficulty understanding the switch module of my specific device.
To clarify: There is another section called "switches" where additional switch modules are displayed. Getting the right config for it to work, especially with different VLANs, is very tricky. I made the mistake to fiddle with Port VID 4090 and 4091 and essentially locked myself out, good thing there was a documentation for that.
To clarify: There is another section called "switches" where additional switch modules are displayed. Getting the right config for it to work, especially with different VLANs, is very tricky. I made the mistake to fiddle with Port VID 4090 and 4091 and essentially locked myself out, good thing there was a documentation for that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use pfSense for our whole neighbourhood (4 companies connected), VPN connections, our Active Directory Federation Services but needed the overall higher throughput. We switched from UniFi dream machine to two XG-7100s in failover and our overall network responsiveness as well as VPN thoughput. We also needed a more refined firewall ruling for our ADFS and DNS resolving/redirecting on different VLANs, which the pfSense fulfilled flawlessly.
Perhaps the most capable router software that is still manageable by a non-IT expert
What do you like best about the product?
It can do anything that you might ask a router to do. And due to Open Source, you could even make it do things that no router has done before.
What do you dislike about the product?
You might learn some things while using this device. It requires some basic understanding of networking. I personally don't dislike that, but some people might.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I bought the Netgate SG-3100 on the recommendation by Steve Gibson from the SecurityNow podcast. The question that Steve answered with this recommendation was how to have a hassle-free deployment of the pfSense router software.
I use it at home as our internet-facing router and it connects internally to our wireless router, printer, NAS and Smart TV. It runs an ssh server in order to allow for port forwarding and also allows access to our NAS from specified IP addresses. For example, I connect via the pfSense from my workplace to our NAS, since I use our NAS as a backup server for my bioinformatics work (my university offers only a limited amount of storage space). I love that this small device is able to do virtually anything you ever might ask from a router. In the beginning, I used it to run an OpenVPN server for the connectivity from work to home and vice versa, but recently I have started to use WireGuard. My university will perhaps switch from OpenVPN to WireGuard in a few years. So much for the agility of big organizations...
I use it at home as our internet-facing router and it connects internally to our wireless router, printer, NAS and Smart TV. It runs an ssh server in order to allow for port forwarding and also allows access to our NAS from specified IP addresses. For example, I connect via the pfSense from my workplace to our NAS, since I use our NAS as a backup server for my bioinformatics work (my university offers only a limited amount of storage space). I love that this small device is able to do virtually anything you ever might ask from a router. In the beginning, I used it to run an OpenVPN server for the connectivity from work to home and vice versa, but recently I have started to use WireGuard. My university will perhaps switch from OpenVPN to WireGuard in a few years. So much for the agility of big organizations...
Pfsense has been solid and reliable
What do you like best about the product?
The pf firewall rules are easier that ip tables (for me) also built in wiregauard vpn is very useful
What do you dislike about the product?
I would prefer some gui changes to make monitoring easier ex graph generation and have been worried about some decisions of company management
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing high reliability for gateway between multiple sites.
pfSense makes it quite simple to setup your own firewall device.
What do you like best about the product?
It's simple, fast, and has most of the features I'm looking for.
What do you dislike about the product?
pfBlocker and squidGuard are not as simple to use. It advertises that it can block IPs and URLs and keyword matching for websites on a Vlan or individual IP/Mac addresses basis, but I could not get it working well. It ended up blocking legitimate traffic instead of doing what it needed to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's a lot faster than appliances like netgear, asus as routers. I'm able to get almost all of my 1 gigabit of bandwidth via ethernet. I have multiple LANs. It provides DNS/DHCP and static reservations. It provides a nice firewall as well and VPN tunnel as well.
a very confort platform and have many gudie to configure
What do you like best about the product?
the network control and the proxy service, also that can make my own VPN for the company, the service of check all th traffic and capture package is ver usefull and check ip
What do you dislike about the product?
It not easy to configure a proxy squid for the service to check what site is my partner work use, or the certificate for my own DNS in the server, I need to know more because there so many guide, but all is in a different way to configure and kinda confusing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
block websites, block traffic, control traffic network, prevent spam and virus for the internet, also create vlan for external use o for guess with low speed for then
It works smoothly
What do you like best about the product?
Gives me the tools to admin IT at a low cost but efficiently.
What do you dislike about the product?
In the beginning, the difficulty to find the right info to config the first machine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Got a simple and free solution to manage part of my network.
A fierce firewal doing its job pfSensitively
What do you like best about the product?
Simple and intutive user interface, ease of use and the help for each menu option.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ambiguous terms used on menu options and some deep-buried menu options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have two internet connections from different ISPs. I needed a device which not only offered the fail over but load aggregation as well. pFSense does it quite well.
Happy with Netgate pfSense
What do you like best about the product?
Solid, easy-to-use firewall with good documentation and features.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have any real downsides. It works well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use it for remote-office firewall and tied VPN to the solution so that I can gain access remotely as well as have a site-to-site VPN
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What do you like best about the product?
Its stable and support is huge on forums. Manuals are very informative also.
What do you dislike about the product?
New versions take times to come out. But team is working and cleaning all bugs before release a version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making my internet quicker and secure. And alot of settings to tweak if you want to do some customization.
Excellent experience
What do you like best about the product?
The enhanced security features and native OpenVPN access and user managing.
What do you dislike about the product?
We did not find any dislikes in pfSense.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A good management of OpenVPN connections and an easy-to-use but strong firewall
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