Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.03.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Best firewall at low cost.
What do you like best about the product?
Well used packages with input from my peers about how to operate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support can be slow. But always gives correct answers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure vpn using industry standards.
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Powerful front-end security device
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense is rock solid, it is one of the few appliances that I never question. It is highly configurable for VLAN, DHCP, Routing and much more.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am unaware that pfSense has any down side.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
pfSense provides a rock solid front-end security gateway with DHCP for all of our VLANs.
A solid performing firewall platform, ideal for budget conscious applications
What do you like best about the product?
Low cost (in many cases free) firewall solution which can be run on no-brand hardware.
Very stable.
Advanced features such as load balancing, traffic shaping, multi-WAN support, hardware encryption support for VPN, etc. The capabilities of pfSense is comparible to very expensive enterprise grade systems that most SME's would be unable to afford.
Incredibly flexible configuration allow policy based routing and incredibly granular control over how traffic is handled.
Paid support available if required, making it ideal for budget commercial applications.
Dedicated hardware is available if a turn-key solution is desired. However, the branded hardware is expensive for what it is, but comes with suppport, etc.
Very stable.
Advanced features such as load balancing, traffic shaping, multi-WAN support, hardware encryption support for VPN, etc. The capabilities of pfSense is comparible to very expensive enterprise grade systems that most SME's would be unable to afford.
Incredibly flexible configuration allow policy based routing and incredibly granular control over how traffic is handled.
Paid support available if required, making it ideal for budget commercial applications.
Dedicated hardware is available if a turn-key solution is desired. However, the branded hardware is expensive for what it is, but comes with suppport, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
The move from pfSense CE to Plus has made the platform feel a little less "open" (although still based on open source software).
Now, the only install images available are old and need to be upgraded to from CE to Plus,to get the latest release.
Some of the advanced features, if customised, can produce unexpected behavior. For example, I'm using traffic shaping and multi-WAN and have unresolved issues with incorrect shaping being applied during WAN fail-over scenarios.
Branded appliances are a little expensive for their technical specs.
Now, the only install images available are old and need to be upgraded to from CE to Plus,to get the latest release.
Some of the advanced features, if customised, can produce unexpected behavior. For example, I'm using traffic shaping and multi-WAN and have unresolved issues with incorrect shaping being applied during WAN fail-over scenarios.
Branded appliances are a little expensive for their technical specs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing a secure, multi-WAN firewall for my SME. I have 3 x WAN connections (2 high speed land-lines plus a 4G backup) and pfSense has the capabilities to dynamically load balance across on connections, or fail-over. Which LAN devices use which WAN connections can be fully customised via policy-based routing, allowing me to offload certain traffic to certain WAN connections to maximise the benefit of multi-WAN.
Great products and support
What do you like best about the product?
Full featured appliances and software with great support at a fraction of the cost of some other similar products
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of native centralised management can make large deployments more time consuming to manage or require developing own management tools/processes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Highly available networks with complex and diverse routing, multi WAN, VPN and many filtering options are easily solved
Easy to managment
What do you like best about the product?
Many of the opensourse tools e.g. surica, opevnpn etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its interface should be more user-friendly. And there should be no application control.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In our company it helps us to network with our partners as well as our branches.
Rock solid network firewall platform
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense Plus has truly transformed my network experience. Its intuitive interface simplifies setup, making it accessible to all levels of users, even my coworker, which usually does not have much experience with firewalls can manage it.
What do you dislike about the product?
In a virtualized environment the performance is not the best unfortunately.
Although we use high performance network cards on our hypervisor, it usually achieves about 2.5 Gigabits per seconds. Our regular setups do not reach those speeds, so this issue is not really important to us.
Although we use high performance network cards on our hypervisor, it usually achieves about 2.5 Gigabits per seconds. Our regular setups do not reach those speeds, so this issue is not really important to us.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use pfSense to access our internal services through a wireguard vpn.
Also we filter our dns requests using pfBlocker which has the benefit of blocking ads and unwanted hostnames.
Also we filter our dns requests using pfBlocker which has the benefit of blocking ads and unwanted hostnames.
An important equipment for providing/protecting access for our research work
What do you like best about the product?
We are able to have very important features such as network segmentation, openvpn+2fa, suricarta, zeek, logging at a very reasonable and affordable pricing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Steep learning curve in the beginning, but there is alot of videos and documents available.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allow us to implment most of our infrastructure planning with great ease and affordabilities
Switching Clients from SonicWall to Netgate
What do you like best about the product?
With pfSense available as a community sourced application and available on a dedicated solution from Netgate it makes a IT Consultants job easy. Also coming from SonicWall to pfSense setting up and creating the rules is much easier
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve for basic firewall rule programming is easy, but when it come time to install other packages you really need to focus.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Basic firewall solution and ipsec Tunnel between business sites
Equipamiento con pfSense +
What do you like best about the product?
It ease of operation and its various and complete applications
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes there is a lack of information for the operation of all its functions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Denial of service problems and especially blocking of insecurities in the network
Great for Businesses of All Sizes
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense is a very scaleable solution. It is very easy for consultants like myself to install and train up the client's local IT contact to manage. HA is also a very nice touch.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really! I do wish there was a cloud portal to manage feild units :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Edge routing and firewalling. We have also used them as cloud based VPN consolodators.
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