Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.03.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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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!
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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
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...
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 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
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