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Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router

Netgate | 24.03.0

Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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313 reviews
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5-star reviews ( Show all reviews )

    Trevor Green .

Solid enterprise solution

  • August 14, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

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)


    François D.

Support

  • August 14, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

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).
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Routing and network management


    Information Technology and Services

Good support and good performances

  • August 14, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

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


    Primary/Secondary Education

Ótima

  • August 14, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

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.


    Computer & Network Security

Excellent Firewall

  • August 14, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

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.


    Ernest G.

pfSense has been the best option I could have chosen.

  • August 11, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

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.


    Information Technology and Services

Best firewall at low cost.

  • August 10, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

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.


    James W.

Powerful front-end security device

  • August 10, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

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.


    Research

An important equipment for providing/protecting access for our research work

  • August 10, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

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


    Richard P.

Switching Clients from SonicWall to Netgate

  • August 10, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

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