Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.03.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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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.
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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
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
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.
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
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