Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.03.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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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.
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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.
Fully-featured and reliable firewall suitable for business use
What do you like best about the product?
Features, ease of use, open source, reliability, reputation, available on dedicated Netgate appliances
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing I dislike about Netgate or pfSense
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Port and firewall management for remote access by IP whitelist; easily customized dhcp for my lan including local dns; network monitoring
Does everything I need it to do
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to install and use. Reliable. I have 4 sites set up for NAT, DHCP, and Site-to-Site IPSec tunnels, and they work great!
What do you dislike about the product?
Needs Wireguard support integrated as a first-party feature, not an add-on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use my pfsense appliances for persistent, always-on Site-to-Site IPSec tunnels. These allow WFH and off-site backup.
Great firewall for small to medium sized businesses
What do you like best about the product?
Hardened out of the box. Easy to configure. Based on open source instead of a proprietary OS.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have had software updates brick the firewall to the point I had to completely reload and restore from backup. A lot of the more robust features have to be installed through additional packages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows me to provide a robust firewall option to my clients without breaking the bank.
Fantastic when deployed in a virtualized environment
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense is easy and fast to deploy on a variety of platforms, depending on the use case. As an enterprise service provider, we assist our customers with the deployment and hosting of systems in our cloud environment as well as on-prem datacenters. These are typically customers who for reasons of their own are not willing to trust a public cloud with their data. Having the ability to choose a hardware solution or virtualized installation of the pfSense software grants lots of freedom in design and deployment.
The web-based interface is intuitive and responsive. It's certainly competitive with other offerings.
We have engaged with support on a one-off as well as TAC subscription basis and find Netgate / pfSense support to be first rate. We appreciate having a trusted partner.
The web-based interface is intuitive and responsive. It's certainly competitive with other offerings.
We have engaged with support on a one-off as well as TAC subscription basis and find Netgate / pfSense support to be first rate. We appreciate having a trusted partner.
What do you dislike about the product?
pfSense update management can sometimes be a bit ungainly. We'd really appreciate the ability to enable automated updates, especially to patch security threats. Or perhaps even a notification that would be sent to the pfSense admin when a new update is available.
Oftentimes the only time a user realizes there is an update is when they log into the web interface, and many of our users can go weeks or months between log-ins. A push or email notification would be helpful in this regard.
Lower-end pfSense appliances from Netgate have shown themselves to be a bit flaky. They will lock up on updates, or sometimes lock up for no reason at all. When this happens, we've noted that even a reboot of the system doesn't bring it back online and it must be accessed via emulated serial console (over USB) in order to manually walk it through a startup sequence. This is extremely problematic at remote / unstaffed locations.
Oftentimes the only time a user realizes there is an update is when they log into the web interface, and many of our users can go weeks or months between log-ins. A push or email notification would be helpful in this regard.
Lower-end pfSense appliances from Netgate have shown themselves to be a bit flaky. They will lock up on updates, or sometimes lock up for no reason at all. When this happens, we've noted that even a reboot of the system doesn't bring it back online and it must be accessed via emulated serial console (over USB) in order to manually walk it through a startup sequence. This is extremely problematic at remote / unstaffed locations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
pfSense is great at the customer edge. IPSEC tunnels are quick and easy and perform especially well in our virtualized environments. In addition, the built-in OpenVPN with the client config builder is a great timesaver.
We're also experimenting with multi-tenancy options that allow a single installation to reach across multiple VLAN'd networks, providing unique internal subnets and routing for each.
We're also experimenting with multi-tenancy options that allow a single installation to reach across multiple VLAN'd networks, providing unique internal subnets and routing for each.
Enterprise Firewall/router/VPN server, and so much more.
What do you like best about the product?
1) The software is open-source, so I could learn/play with how it works first. I could then decide if I wanted to move forward in using it.
2) It was easy to use.
3) There was tons of good documentation and even youtube videos on every feature I was interested in.
4) The support is awesome, I got a reply in 30 mins, on a Sunday on a long weekend to a ticket I submitted. The reply was from someone who actually read the ticket! (so rare on a ticket system's first response). The back and forth was precise and knowledgeable, I understood my problem and the solution straight away.
2) It was easy to use.
3) There was tons of good documentation and even youtube videos on every feature I was interested in.
4) The support is awesome, I got a reply in 30 mins, on a Sunday on a long weekend to a ticket I submitted. The reply was from someone who actually read the ticket! (so rare on a ticket system's first response). The back and forth was precise and knowledgeable, I understood my problem and the solution straight away.
What do you dislike about the product?
I've had a version upgrade that remotely fails, so kept working, just didn't upgrade, and needs an onsite visit to manually backup the configs, connected a USB stick with the latest firmware, and a console cable to wipe and install the new version. Not ideal as I have a fair number of remote customers. However, I'm hoping this is a one-off situation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A dedicated firewall at an affordable price for very small businesses.
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