Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.03.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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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.
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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.
pfsense seems powerful and configurable though the docs are not the best
What do you like best about the product?
lots of options and plugin apps, lots of guides online, runs on cheap-ish hardware
What do you dislike about the product?
my netgate hardware died after a poweroutage. the webui is slow and a bit unreliable. had to go cli for fw upgrade which did not wokr out of the box
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
pfsense lets me seperate network functions from my servers and from my appliances - a DIY network applaince
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.
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.
Brilliant product, great form factor, easy to use.
What do you like best about the product?
As a firewall engineer, I find it easy to understand. Best open source solution as far as I am concerned.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing I dislike, maybe its because I have been using it for so long and understand it so well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use it for my home firewall and it allows me to have some of the more advanced features I work with every day, but at home.
Deploying pfSense in a network allows any level of granular security an administrator might choose.
What do you like best about the product?
The user-base of pfSense is so large that a new user has vast resources available for any level of desired network integration; pfSense is scalable. I have not found a competitor that can offer this level of customization.
What do you dislike about the product?
With videos, newsgroups, and online tutorials, it is difficult to imagine oneʻs self in a situation that cannot be resolved. Open-source solutions are a dynamic way to keep a network current with ever-evolving security issues. I have not yet found a weakness in pfSense protection.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am a retired (10+ years) IT professional from higher education. With a need to keep myself somewhat current with network security, I decided it was time to set up a home network as a redundant data location for all my data now "in the cloud." With the proliferation of international bad-actors successfully injecting ransomware into ever more serious locations, I wanted a safe haven that I have under my control. pfSense allows me to build as much security into my system as I want.
Firewalls and UTM's are modeled after the PF in PFSense
What do you like best about the product?
The first firewall I had built was on FreeBSD in 1991, PFSense extends the 5th generation packet filter by allowing additional modules as needed to create a UTM.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not as easy to use as Checkpoint or Cisco, however it's far more modular and that modularity comes at a cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's my UTM (Snort, PfblockerNG, VLAN, DHCP, Encrypted DNS all in one apliance)
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