Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.03.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Pfsense is my main lan management
What do you like best about the product?
it is powerful and can work with low hardware like watchguard xtm 5 sereis
What do you dislike about the product?
has no API. some features hard to find documentation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
can i separate my public ip address and configure my LAN to work with rules in my environment.
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Design networks for small to medium business.
What do you like best about the product?
Since PfSense is open source, software bugs are more likely to be found and corrected. There is no extra licensing cost for updates and VPN's.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unable to think of anything at the moment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Filtering out malicious network traffic and providing secure VPN access.
Reliable Multi-gateway Firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Multi-gateway with Auto-Failover Support
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of Filtering and Real-time Reporting
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
24/7 Internet Provision
Great firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Dual WAN capability, integration with snort and many other packages.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some often used services are hard to reach.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Real DUAL Wan. My Linksys dual wan router was using second WAN as a backup only. Pfsense load balancing works fine. Took a little time to configure "sticky connection" for banking and other security-critical apps.
pfsense SOHO review
What do you like best about the product?
For the most part it is easy to install and maintain.
What do you dislike about the product?
Recent split between the open source and paid versions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is a reasonably priced business class firewall + appliance that can also do VPN, SNORT/Suricata, region and other blocking and a number of other features.
Just great, simple and friendly
What do you like best about the product?
Easy-to-understand, well-organized and well-built interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no way to manage multiple pfSenses centrally.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Robust, easy-to-configure site-to-site VPNs. Client-to-site VPNs capable of authenticating with Active Directory.
PFSense has worked very well for our needs.
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use as well as being very economical as compared to using Juniper, Cisco and others.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support could be better. You need to purchase a TAC Enterprise subscription which at the end of the day cost almost twice what you spent on the appliance in some cases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are replacing higher cost devices from other manufacturers while getting the same type of results.
Support is Fast and very informative
What do you like best about the product?
The support !
even tought my support contract was expired ( the Pfsense was a gift ) , i couldn't upgrade it trought normal mean , contacted support within 15 min i had a reply and a link to the firmware needed to restore to default and all the procedure needed to complete the steps .
asked follow up question and was anwsered correcly within a very short time frame
even tought my support contract was expired ( the Pfsense was a gift ) , i couldn't upgrade it trought normal mean , contacted support within 15 min i had a reply and a link to the firmware needed to restore to default and all the procedure needed to complete the steps .
asked follow up question and was anwsered correcly within a very short time frame
What do you dislike about the product?
Because of major update realease and the hardware that wasn't upgraded for a while couldn't upgrade to normal means and required support assistance ( which once contacted all was Easy to go arround )
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Affordable soilution for homelab that support VLAN , well known technoilogies support and supported harware overtimes
Great Features and well supported
What do you like best about the product?
OpenSource and has a good support network and community. its featrue rich alongside many paid for experiences with out the expiration or subscritpion stonghold many others makes
What do you dislike about the product?
Somet times can be a little confused on where to locate features or they require a 3rd party app, admin accounts do not support MFA without the need of a 3rd party app which can cause some issues reguarding smaller users or less tech focused user who require this as part of the UK gov Cyber essentials certification, many paid ooptions have this as a native option. Having this built in with the ability to use Authenticator app out of the box would be ideal
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VPN access to our network when required and an extra layers protection for office based users, our set up is all SAAS cloud based however there are items on our netwrok used for product testing that remote users need to access
High level of security due to open source architecture, outstanding performance and scalability
What do you like best about the product?
Pfsense has been our choice for 10+ years. It is highly scalable and fits all scenarios, from home users wanting control over their internet connection to critical applications in the datacenter where hi-availability is paramount.
You want to export OpenVPN configs for clients from the dashboard? Sure! You want to automate configuration with Ansible? No problem either!
We've never encountered a situation where Pfsense lacked a feature, and new features can be easily added through additional packages without licence fees.
The most crucial aspect, however, is that security products like firewalls shall always be open source so that independent researchers may assess and verify the code. All closed-source solutions from the "big players" competitors fail at this critical point by design.
Pfsense. Works. Period.
You want to export OpenVPN configs for clients from the dashboard? Sure! You want to automate configuration with Ansible? No problem either!
We've never encountered a situation where Pfsense lacked a feature, and new features can be easily added through additional packages without licence fees.
The most crucial aspect, however, is that security products like firewalls shall always be open source so that independent researchers may assess and verify the code. All closed-source solutions from the "big players" competitors fail at this critical point by design.
Pfsense. Works. Period.
What do you dislike about the product?
A centralised management solution with a GUI would be a very nice add-on. On the other hand, this might be really unfair to the competitors who may have to file for bankrupcy as it is among the only feature that PFsense does not (yet) cover...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Protecting security parameters and enabling tricky policy-based routing over several WAN links. Some features were simply not possible with other products.
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