Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.11.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Solid enterprise solution
What do you like best about the product?
Simple use for basic needs as well as vast depths to fine tune and secure infastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reliance on 3rd party utilities (pfBlockerNG for example)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solutined as a replacement/upgrade for older Sonicwall appliances.
Various remote user connections (OpenVPN)
Site to site connections (IPSec)
Exposing some web services to external (HAProxy)
Various remote user connections (OpenVPN)
Site to site connections (IPSec)
Exposing some web services to external (HAProxy)
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Support
What do you like best about the product?
The support is absolutely very good in many ways.
1- The community is fantastic.
2- The pfSense documentation is extensive and thorough
3- The business support model is fantastic by its availability and openness
(We bought a TAC enterprise contract and find, it is of really very good value).
1- The community is fantastic.
2- The pfSense documentation is extensive and thorough
3- The business support model is fantastic by its availability and openness
(We bought a TAC enterprise contract and find, it is of really very good value).
What do you dislike about the product?
Even though the WebGUI is well organized and very descriptive it falls short of describing the full aspects of parameters and their incidences.
It would be great if it could be linked to the documentation or a wiki or even specific forum posts.
It would be great if it could be linked to the documentation or a wiki or even specific forum posts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Routing and network management
Good support and good performances
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of Use and number of packages available.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hardware requirements may be restrictive sometimes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network security for remote access and management
Ótima
What do you like best about the product?
Fácil de administrar com segurança, aplicando regras de acesso e bloqueio, fazendo o papel ideal de Firewall e conexões entre unidades, monitorando links e acessos, erros e falhas.
What do you dislike about the product?
Interface não é agradável, poderíamos melhorar com mais facilidade de acesso as opções do mesmo, como um software livre, poderia liberar personalizações específicas para empresas
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Diminuir custos com servidores e conexões com dispositivoa, facilitando o acesso a rede.
Acessar dispositivos por interface web sem precisar deslocar até a unidade, economizando tempo e dinheiro.
Acessar dispositivos por interface web sem precisar deslocar até a unidade, economizando tempo e dinheiro.
Excellent Firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Can use own hardware with such a good firewall platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pfsense is not for novice web users. Please make sure you have a good understanding of network protocals and firewall technology.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Heavily rely on haproxy for access to my internal resources. Also use openvpn for vlan routing through tunnel for geo network considerations.
Working with PfSense for 7 years
What do you like best about the product?
PfSense has helped me and the companies I've worked with in many ways as general firewall solution as specific requirements. From complex datacenter applications to simple on-premises firewalls at branch offices. It always works and is simply the best bang for the buck. Ready to use PfSense+ appliances have gotten better and better over the years and are my preferred choice over de community edition. Community edition is still a good choice for specific needs or low budget requirements.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are no specific functions I dislike, but there is always room for improvement :) I can't really point out anything specific at this point.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've used PfSense for many different cases. As virtual appliances and ready to use PfSense+ hardware appliances. Specific for a general firewall solution but also as a OpenVPN server with FreeRADIUS as MFA installed or virtual appliance for handling many site-to-site VPN's. It has always met the needs and requirements.
pfSense has been the best option I could have chosen.
What do you like best about the product?
It has been easy to use and setup. pfSense has easy tutorials to follow for creating firewall rules.
What do you dislike about the product?
The hardest thing is trying to get the "A" record working to use hostnames in looking up endpoints. I have not been able to figure this out and get it working.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been able to use the OpenVPN, and now are able to switch over to a ZTNA option: Tailscale. Remote work was/is a major consideration.
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.
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.
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