Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.03.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Pfsense a open source firewall
What do you like best about the product?
It's open source tool.easy to conigure and use.It can be use also for unified threats modeling or management to protect the network infrastructure from external and internal threats.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike specifically but it's shall be also available for every flavour of OS or as an application.As of now it is only available or install in physical computer or virtual machine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
By filtering the ports communications, services, protocol between the source ip and destination, we try to secure communications between the network along with whitelist the required ip address.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes, users shall go with this product.
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The best actual Firewall in the world
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense it's the best open-source firewall globally; I can't manage a network without pfSense.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hardware prices in Brazil it's so expensive.
the Reports need be more polish
the Reports need be more polish
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Multiples, from most simple like VPN's to Extreme redundancies, whit ipSEC
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Only use you Never make a Rollback again.
L2TP vpn stop flowing traffic after http request
Hi there,
I am trying to configure L2tp with Linux fedora as client, I am able to ping any remote host however once I hit any Http destin from client, l2tp vpn stop working vpn stayed connected however no traffic flow even ping stop working
Open source firewall and content filter UTM.
What do you like best about the product?
Its open-source and give the same functionality as other paid UTM can provide. IT can be installed at a virtual machine and required minimum resources to operate.
What do you dislike about the product?
When there is any bug identified, users need to wait till the next update to get a solution for that bug. Sometimes proxy services stop themselves i need to do restart manually.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can restrict my user from surfing websites, download software, create VPN for remote users, get logs of internet surfing. It can be installed as a virtual and physical PC also.
The Must Have Home Router Solution
What do you like best about the product?
This is the best user interface I've ever used for the complex task of network management. The defaults are excellent, and optimizing settings is easy thanks to great documentation.
What do you dislike about the product?
I've had quite a bit of trouble using the built in upgrading feature. It always breaks the router and you *must* install pfSense fresh and recover your previous configuration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm taking control of my own network. I'm controlling bandwidth access, external access, and optimizing my own traffic.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take the time to learn what pfSense can do and how to do it and your life will be so much better. Controlling your own network gives you a lot of peace of mind since network connectivity is so important in today's world.
Great Openvpn Fireewall Router
As usual pfsense is one of the top freebsd based router/firewall/ids systems available,ahrd to fault and the interface doesnt lack anything.
This AMI image provided by netgate and amazon ec2 is up and running for multiple users within an hour if you are familiar with openvpn and pfsense,with the amazon ec2 interface making ease of the process.
Throughput , lack of loss and scalability even on the t2nano ec2 is superb and certainly exceeded our expectations considering other testing on bare metal configurations with more ids and other applications.When looking at the this machine vs the required bare metal to to normally achieve this hypervisors performance its great value.
Looking forward to the arm version of this and other additions.
Filter you ssh channel in the ec2 console for your address or dont enable the ssh console on pfsense until or when needed.
One of the best Firewall Appliances in the Market
Best value for money. pfsense has never failed me to date. It's powerful and in par with industry leaders. Matter of fact, there are many instances where industry leaders are behind in some technologies that pfsense support. Keep up the good work guys
Fully featured smart router firewall
What do you like best about the product?
pfsense converts your old PC into a fully-featured smart router firewall with the addition of a few network cards. The best thing is you can do this by yourself and plenty of support is freely available over the internet.
What do you dislike about the product?
Being an open-source product the possibility of bugs and errors may be higher than closed source products. In order to tolerate this, updates and new versions are frequently released.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
pfsense gives its users very good reporting capabilities. Real-time reporting such as network bandwidth can be found very useful when it comes to keeping a lid on network resource usage. Various reporting packages are also available to be added to the pfsense installation as per your requirement.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Pfsense can be proposed as a total solution that satisfies routing and firewall requirements in network administration.
Best software based network firewall
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense is a software based networking firewall, where the source code is freely available. Hence they given the freedom to modify the source code and customize it according to our requirements.
What do you dislike about the product?
pfSense only provides the software for the firewall and only specifies the required hardware. So this may raise a question whether they would be able provide comprehensive support in case of hardware problem results an software error.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lot of network based service can be found bundled together in pfsense. This is the main reason for its popularity in network community. Even if you do not find some service on the default version, it can download and installed later.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This highly recommended for Network Administrators for efficient network resource management.
PfSense: a great firewall and VPN system
What do you like best about the product?
PfSense lets us to set network rules up simply using the internet browser, so VPN configurations can be easily installed and clients can be easily connected while using the VPN. Traffic visuals are beautiful too. A large number of add-ons enable the manager to increase the functionality to satisfy the organization's needs and requirements. PfSense is a such a superb firewall system that all traffic is recorded and packages can be installed to snort heavy traffic.
What do you dislike about the product?
The modem's features can not be integrated into a pFSense box. This may limit the auto-deployment of something in conditions where firewall rules are required or HAProxy settings modified. So, I have to reach for other measures, such as SSDs, so that any technical failures should be prevented.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We mainly use PfSense as a firewall and VPN system throughout the business. The software helps us to get a routing protocol conversion and to protect our subnetwork, so intruders can not access our databases on an attack. Before PfSense, we wanted anything easy to develop and maintain that did not involve excessive payments or ongoing expenses to limit our financial risks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think PfSense would be a great tool for any IT department that needs a decent high-end firewall alternative but doesn't want to purchase a lot of equipment or licenses, although hardware could also be bought to make pfSense an all-in-one alternative for even the highest applications, but it is not mandatory.
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