Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.03.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Very flexible and easy to setup
What do you like best about the product?
Not being restricted in what you can setup. Easy to find help online.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be a little confusing at first. But using eg. videos from Lawrence Systems helps a lot
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I need to be able to use policy based vpn routing. This makes it very easy to use the appropriate vpn for my different devices and/or use cases
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All features in one place
What do you like best about the product?
So far I have not found a feature that is missing. Jan helped me realize many new functions.
It is very intuitively managed.
It is very intuitively managed.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have antivirus features.
It is a pity that there are no new versions for 32 bit machines.
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I can't send a dashboard screenshot.
This feature does not work.
It is a pity that there are no new versions for 32 bit machines.
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I can't send a dashboard screenshot.
This feature does not work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
He provided us with stable work and VPN tunnels for remote work during the pandemic.
Swiss army knife
What do you like best about the product?
Wide range of packages allow for providing all network services from a single device. This avoids having to set up multiple systems
What do you dislike about the product?
The database files easily get corrupted during a power outage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows us to run a wide range of network services in areas where we keep the hardware footprint limited
Pfsense is the method if you would like to go crazy on networking
What do you like best about the product?
Customization: being able to implement almost anything imaginable in any kinds of computer networking environment without a ton of costs.
Community: there's plenty of resources in the official forums and documentation that'll help you build your project, diagnose problems, and debug the system.
Community: there's plenty of resources in the official forums and documentation that'll help you build your project, diagnose problems, and debug the system.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Netgate system isn't stable. When operating with a few essential packages such as pfblockerng, snort, wireguard and etc. The unbound package has tons of issues, and it's very unstable and will often crash when pfblockerng is undergoing a cron job. Even though the Service Watch dog could potentially restart services, unbound still wouldn't fix itself after a crash without a time-consuming human intervention.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Pfsense allows me to profile my home and office networks, interact with interfaces remotely through VPNs, filter advertisements and a wide variety of web contents of my choice, and mitigate attacks targeted to servers that are sitting behind the firewalls.
Reliable, secure, well documented, and open source
What do you like best about the product?
- A large community of open-source developers.
- It's incredibly reliable.
- Default deployment has a small attack surface.
- Has plenty of online documentation from various sources.
- Most configuration is done in the GUI, making learning more accessible.
- A private company sponsors development.
- It's incredibly reliable.
- Default deployment has a small attack surface.
- Has plenty of online documentation from various sources.
- Most configuration is done in the GUI, making learning more accessible.
- A private company sponsors development.
What do you dislike about the product?
- Various minor bugs limit the PPPoE settings and connections over VLANs.
- A private company pushes forward development. This has a questionable future for open-source updates.
- No easy central management of multiple deployments.
- A private company pushes forward development. This has a questionable future for open-source updates.
- No easy central management of multiple deployments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Reliability of software makes it easy to diagnose faults elsewhere.
- Long-term development.
- Security is the highest priority in software updates.
- The configuration is exceptionally flexible.
- Long-term development.
- Security is the highest priority in software updates.
- The configuration is exceptionally flexible.
excellent software based router
What do you like best about the product?
completely configurable. excellent for home lab
What do you dislike about the product?
some firewall configurations are hard to finetune -- may block non nefarious sites (spotify)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
security is second to none. allows for separation from routing and switch to hardwire and waps
Powerful protection that is easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
A very active community and excellent documentation
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a lot of options that might overwhelm some people and some obscure features do not work as well as they should
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Protect my network and filter unwanted content
Trouble free over the last 10+ years of using pfSense
What do you like best about the product?
Wide community support, easy to use interface and a variety of supported hardware.
If ever i get stuck theres a massive support base due to its popularity out world wide
If ever i get stuck theres a massive support base due to its popularity out world wide
What do you dislike about the product?
Very little. I guess the price of the hardware is a little bit much but ither than that im super happy with pfSense overall.
Maybe more package support perhaps ?
Currently zabbix 6.2 isn't supported.
Lack of sync options across multiple firewalls. For wxample would be nice if i could sync a firewall alias across mutilple internal pfsense machines, but again this is super edge case stuff
Maybe more package support perhaps ?
Currently zabbix 6.2 isn't supported.
Lack of sync options across multiple firewalls. For wxample would be nice if i could sync a firewall alias across mutilple internal pfsense machines, but again this is super edge case stuff
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its been the backbone of all my networks for 10 or more years. I use it both at home and on the corporate network that i administer. It aolves a lot of our issues internally by adding a layer of seperation between our separtments and its super easy to configure
Greatest, Most Reliable, Open Source Network Tool
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense, and its packages are incredibly reliable. It's quick backup/restore of the config file (for package data also) is incredibly useful and helpful. The BSD base also allows for great integration and customization. I work in the IT industry and have never come across a better piece of software.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's honestly nothing bad about this software, maybe the occasional bug, but all software have them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It offers feature-rich enterprise-level solutions for home and lab setups. It allows me to utilize, and tinker, with features I wouldn't normally have access to in a straightforward and simple-enough manner that doesn't require hours of config time.
PfSense es mi primera opción de solución a implementar
What do you like best about the product?
Es una solucion facil de implementar y que casi nunuca presenta problemas, casi nunca, y eso es muy bueno, como solucion accesible que es practicamente gratis.
What do you dislike about the product?
Tiene una dificultad con la configuracion basica del NAT para publicar paginas web, aunque es sencillo, requiere necesariamente una IP publica exclusiva por cada subdominio cuando es un sistema separado al prinicipal domino, aunque una alternativa es con puertos... y no cuenta con un medidor de ancho de banda como el speedtest
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Soluciona problemas de repartir el servicio de internet entre los usuarios (invitados, empleados, jefes y administradores de sistemas) con un muy buen control de ancho de banda, rangos de IP y DHCP; la publicación mediante NAT para paginas web de manera simple; y se puede monitorear en tiempo real el uso de ancho de banda
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