Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.03.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Super reliable, super simple, super capable. Really just super.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to configure. Updates do not break features or reliability. Easy to create limited-access users. Certificate management is very easy. Tons of functionality.
What do you dislike about the product?
No API. High availability setup after a unit is already set up and running for a while is not smooth. Certificate management could use a bulk action interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The rich feature set and easy setup makes it ideal for QA labs. The reliability and speed make it great for production. Having one affordable product that can do both means much easier management.
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Simply amazing, is the best open source and community driven firewall
What do you like best about the product?
To be able to use OpenVPN with other VPN providers without restrictions or constraints.
What do you dislike about the product?
If I had to point a thing, I would say that it needs more Packages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It replaced completely a fortinet appliance! And has the benefits of cost reduction for my company!
Amazing routing and security even for noobs
What do you like best about the product?
I am not an IT professional and my needs were mostly about making my home network secure, but also ensuring that my business access was not impacted as a work from home professional.
What do you dislike about the product?
It took a bit of time to get up to speed as this is significantly more technical than a router setup. However, that said, documentation, wiki and forum support were amazing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
-isolating my guest network
-vlans for my kids controlling web access and time of use
-blocking ads and explicit sites
-more administrator control
-network logging
-vlans for my kids controlling web access and time of use
-blocking ads and explicit sites
-more administrator control
-network logging
Excellent Firewall Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Open source and secure. It is also very easy to use and maintain. Added packages make it that much more robust as far as services it can provide.
What do you dislike about the product?
I really can't think of any downsides to this product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was looking for a stable firewall that could provide ISP failover as well as remote vpn. Rule base was very easy to create as well
pfSense is safety and productivity
What do you like best about the product?
Using pfSense we took control of what come in and go out to/from our net, controlling the access and monitoring malicious connection trial and attacks.
Firewalling, multiples WAN combined, Captive Portal are great resources, as is OpenVPN too. The Negate user forum is very helpful.
Firewalling, multiples WAN combined, Captive Portal are great resources, as is OpenVPN too. The Negate user forum is very helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not exactly about what I dislike, is about a frustration: pfSense requires a high knowledge to setup it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Considering the high increase of home office work, we were able to easily connect our workers and, in a safe manner, share information among us, using OpenVPN. Also, for security, we adopt multiples WAN connections, and pfSense makes possible to share and balance them. Firewall rules, using aliases, turn easy to control what comes and goes from/to the Internet.
pfSense - Reliable, fast, KISS, swiss army knife firewall
What do you like best about the product?
One of the issues I like about pfSense is that Netgate keeps supporting all the hardware regardless of age. We live in a regulated environment where, if the hardware or software goes into End-of-Life, we are forced to upgrade to newer hardware/software. With pfSense, we can rest assured that as long as the solution meets our needs, we can keep using the same platform for years to come.
What do you dislike about the product?
non-Netgate hardware is not updated as frequently as pfSense running on Netgate hardware.
pfSense is NOT available on the Google Cloud Platform, as it is on Azure and AWS.
pfSense is NOT available on the Google Cloud Platform, as it is on Azure and AWS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Many problems.
1. VPN Wireguard and OpenVPN implementation is easy to set up and so reliable.
2. Very flexible DNS options that support every imaginable environment.
3. Geo-blocking
4. Super easy upgrade process
5. Just restore the configuration backup and voila everything is reconfigured as before, including all the software packages.
6. Simple easy-to-use interfaces for Suricata and Snort.
7. Handles high-capacity bandwidth with ease.
8. Hardware requirements are minimal.
9. Zabbix monitoring support.
10. Support for Lets Encrypt
11. Available at AWS and Azure.
1. VPN Wireguard and OpenVPN implementation is easy to set up and so reliable.
2. Very flexible DNS options that support every imaginable environment.
3. Geo-blocking
4. Super easy upgrade process
5. Just restore the configuration backup and voila everything is reconfigured as before, including all the software packages.
6. Simple easy-to-use interfaces for Suricata and Snort.
7. Handles high-capacity bandwidth with ease.
8. Hardware requirements are minimal.
9. Zabbix monitoring support.
10. Support for Lets Encrypt
11. Available at AWS and Azure.
pfSense is THE solution for SMB and Small SaaS Providers
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense is a free solution by the packet masters at Netgate. It has more features than any single system is likely to use and has professional Netgate support available. It is regularly updated and (after RTFM :) easy to us, assuming you have some understanding of network layers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation does not always keep up with upgrades.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
pfSense allows us unlimited VPC (Virtual Private Clouds) environments in our data center. This allows us to offer complete infrastructure and disaster recovery to our clients.
Functionality matches exactly my needs.
What do you like best about the product?
Crafted to fit lower level of hardware as base for appliance. Stability of work. Community of helpful users. Ease of configuration and wide scope of useful plugins.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much. Configuration of very specific modules might be tricky. Personally, I had minor issues with LTE devices on the serial interface while running pfSense as VM on proxmox.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows me to manage a few segments of small networks and DMZ/lab environments with a redundant Internet connection and VPN access without a huge investment. With expected stability and transparency.
An excellent all in one firewall, router, and network security device.
What do you like best about the product?
I love that it is an open source all in one solution to help keep your network safe. It handles routing, DHCP, DNS, intrusion detection, VPN, firewall, and so much more. I put my ISP's router and my wifi router in bridge mode and let my NetGate pfsense box handle all my traffic. I like how you can ssh into it or use the web GUI. The wizards on the GUI are easy to follow to set up how you want your network to be. The hardware is small and doesn't take up a lot of room. The VPN wizards are awesome. It even has a package that will export a profile you can install on your iPhone or Android that will connect you to your VPN.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some configurations are a little hard to understand, but that's if you're going for the genuinely complicated setups. Other than that, I have no other complaints.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has reduced the hardware and different setups I must do to secure my network. It is very inexpensive to buy and operate. Configurations are easy to save in case of disaster recovery.
A a matter of fact I had recommened many times, We use netgate pfsense as our default solution
What do you like best about the product?
First of all it's very secure, and then it has all the features that Fortigate or Juniper have. Also, love how good performance it has in virtualized environments.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think that if deep pack inspection, whether using surica or snort, would have a wizard and per-rule basis configuration would be great, and it would replace FortiGate for instance,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we sell Managed Services and also sell turn-key virtualizations solution. Pfsense amazingly fits there. We can also run it on ovh cloud vmware solutions , and trying in Azure.
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