Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.03.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Best network appliance you will ever need
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and big community of users to help you do anything you can think of
What do you dislike about the product?
You need to understand that it's not as any other router you know and there is a Linux operating system below that gui. It helps if you know a bit of Linux
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No problems now but the wireguard vpn issue before. I hope that it's fixed by now.
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A Great High-Performance Full-Feature Firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Great VPN support for connecting in a mixed vendor environment. High-performance throughput for a reasonable price. No subscription fees.
What do you dislike about the product?
The web interface looks dated, but it works. I was surprised when I discovered it was responsive and worked well from a phone.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We struggled with supporting VPN connectivity to multiple vendors' products. pfSense has options for connecting with all the different protocols without being buried with subscription or licensing fees.
feature complete and super reliable
What do you like best about the product?
It is rock solid and super reliable. That isn't enough though, you still need enough features to complete the task. pfSense is loaded with every feature I can wish for from a router.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike most is that they refuse to post download links for firmware. You literally have to open a support ticket and wait for them to send you a link, it is ridiculous.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Many commercial routers are ridiculously overpriced, but pfSense is free. Even if you decide to spend on a big commercial router, then you still have to pay annualy for updates. pfSense security updates are free.
Top tier enterprise hardware and support
What do you like best about the product?
Pfsense allows us to use standard deployment and automation tools to quickly configure firewalls. We also love that it's based on FreeBSD so we can leverage the vast package repositories available there for monitoring and security enhancements.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the corporate nonsense where they aired their dirty laundry publicly wasn't very becoming of an enterprise hardware and software vendor.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We deploy hundreds of routers to offices and branch-offices and want to track traffic statistics as well as IDS/IPS statistics. The Pfsense doesn't limit us to whatever single tool they decide to provide... we leverage FreeBSD packages for custom solutions.
Network security
What do you like best about the product?
Netgate router with small footprint but fully customizable firewall solution available for home security.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pfsense is advanced firewall and requires network knowledge. There should be additional utility provided for default configuration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network security, deployment of virtual lans.
El servicio de soporte es excelente
What do you like best about the product?
La consola deadministración es amigable con el usuario
What do you dislike about the product?
la incompatibilidad con los navegadores, al momento de realizar actualizaciones o instalación de paquetería
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
la comunicación de paquetería
No hassle security
What do you like best about the product?
Wide range of features with different extra packages that can be installed to increase functionality.
There is a bit of a learning curve but a great tool to secure, manage & administer the network.
Most of all it is completely free.
There is a bit of a learning curve but a great tool to secure, manage & administer the network.
Most of all it is completely free.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features like logging seem to be buggy at times and all sections of those logs need to be cleared out for logging to work again.
pfblocker working unexpectedly has crashed the network few times.
pfblocker working unexpectedly has crashed the network few times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easily managing quality of service, segregating the network, and various customization features have made life easier as a network/system administrator.
It not only separates & secures our network but provides capabilities like reverse proxying, proxying & filtering, IPS/IDS & many more.
It not only separates & secures our network but provides capabilities like reverse proxying, proxying & filtering, IPS/IDS & many more.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Perfect fit for open source & home router alternatives.
no direct HA support
If you are happy to run a single appliance in a single AZ and don't care about high availability, you can take risk of running this appliance. But I don't understand why businesses will do this.
This appliance does not support HA, or atleast does not seem to on AWS cloud. Without an HA solution this becomes only working for non-enterprise users for testing on AWS.
Businesses trying to deploy this on AWS will not have out of the box HA solution and hence will not have the ability to failover connections/VPN which does not make it useful.
Pfsense company should publish an article on how to provide HA solution for multi-AZ deployment.
Very disappointed.
pfSense: Fast, BSD-based routing with a great community
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense is a fast, very stable routing and security platform that has a large community behind it and is very customizable. It's easy to run on low-power hardware and a great alternative to openwrt.
What do you dislike about the product?
Changes in the Negate licensing structure have made pfSense more expensive/difficult to run on cloud platforms for free. These changes don't seem necessary for me, but I understand the need to earn for usage in clouds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
pfSense helped to create an open-source and very performant routing & security platform for both hardware and cloud deployments. pfSense has allowed us more configuration options with minimal overhead.
Why buy a router when you can build your own open source
What do you like best about the product?
It's open-source, heavily supported by the community, and has any feature you could need. I've been using it for years and have not had any issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be a bit of a learning curve to use. There are so many options that it can be challenging to find what you are looking for at first.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to build highly capable routers that don't cost our business an arm and a leg
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