Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.03.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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excellent software based router
What do you like best about the product?
completely configurable. excellent for home lab
What do you dislike about the product?
some firewall configurations are hard to finetune -- may block non nefarious sites (spotify)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
security is second to none. allows for separation from routing and switch to hardwire and waps
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Powerful protection that is easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
A very active community and excellent documentation
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a lot of options that might overwhelm some people and some obscure features do not work as well as they should
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Protect my network and filter unwanted content
Trouble free over the last 10+ years of using pfSense
What do you like best about the product?
Wide community support, easy to use interface and a variety of supported hardware.
If ever i get stuck theres a massive support base due to its popularity out world wide
If ever i get stuck theres a massive support base due to its popularity out world wide
What do you dislike about the product?
Very little. I guess the price of the hardware is a little bit much but ither than that im super happy with pfSense overall.
Maybe more package support perhaps ?
Currently zabbix 6.2 isn't supported.
Lack of sync options across multiple firewalls. For wxample would be nice if i could sync a firewall alias across mutilple internal pfsense machines, but again this is super edge case stuff
Maybe more package support perhaps ?
Currently zabbix 6.2 isn't supported.
Lack of sync options across multiple firewalls. For wxample would be nice if i could sync a firewall alias across mutilple internal pfsense machines, but again this is super edge case stuff
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its been the backbone of all my networks for 10 or more years. I use it both at home and on the corporate network that i administer. It aolves a lot of our issues internally by adding a layer of seperation between our separtments and its super easy to configure
Greatest, Most Reliable, Open Source Network Tool
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense, and its packages are incredibly reliable. It's quick backup/restore of the config file (for package data also) is incredibly useful and helpful. The BSD base also allows for great integration and customization. I work in the IT industry and have never come across a better piece of software.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's honestly nothing bad about this software, maybe the occasional bug, but all software have them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It offers feature-rich enterprise-level solutions for home and lab setups. It allows me to utilize, and tinker, with features I wouldn't normally have access to in a straightforward and simple-enough manner that doesn't require hours of config time.
Stable, secure, simple
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense is a product I've been using for literally years to secure my home internet connection and, more recently that of my small business. It boasts an amazing community where most issues will already have an answer on the various forums. During COVID lockdowns, the simplicity of setting up VPN connectivity allowed everyone to continue working remotely with next to no issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Since the push toward a more commercially focused product, the regularity of the updates has diminished; however - it's a firewall, and stability SHOULD be celebrated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provides a simple interface through which to provision new VPN connections (and users) along with making it intuitive to create DHCP leases for fixed network assets and allowing specific traffic to transit various VLANs
Involved process, but worth the experience.
What do you like best about the product?
The level of control I have over my firewall. I can isolate all of the network traffic as needed with minimal issues in the process. I like that I could potentially extend pfSense, given that I have a backgroun d in php.
What do you dislike about the product?
The lack of some templated functionality for setting up monitoring and not restricting someone from potentially installing plugins out-of-sync with the version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Isolating network traffic where certain devices have a tendency to "phone home" with telemetry being gathered on my network(s). I can now explicitly stop behavior and have more insight into what's going on.
A very powerfull free Linux-based Firewall with all the needed features
What do you like best about the product?
Well, first, the very intuitive front end. Also Youtube is full of videos showing how to configure almost all available features and different scenarios. Available documentation, foruns for troubleshooting some of the more common issues, and on top of that you may chose to pay for support (recommended in case of professional use). Another strong point here is that you may go for a hardware based firewall, or install PFsense on a computer with 2 ethernet adapters, and it doesn't require much resources.
What do you dislike about the product?
To be honest, so far I haven't found anything that I dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In my case, I use it only on my home lab. I have a Virtualization Server where I test software and Windows based domain configurations, etc. I have a VM with PFsense isolating that Virtual infrastructure from my home infrastructure, filtering traffic (since I also use the lab for sandboxing some software), creating several NAT for remote administration, blocking ports, redirecting ports, etc. I can explore all the settings and learn a lot about firewall use cases and configurations.
PfSense es mi primera opción de solución a implementar
What do you like best about the product?
Es una solucion facil de implementar y que casi nunuca presenta problemas, casi nunca, y eso es muy bueno, como solucion accesible que es practicamente gratis.
What do you dislike about the product?
Tiene una dificultad con la configuracion basica del NAT para publicar paginas web, aunque es sencillo, requiere necesariamente una IP publica exclusiva por cada subdominio cuando es un sistema separado al prinicipal domino, aunque una alternativa es con puertos... y no cuenta con un medidor de ancho de banda como el speedtest
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Soluciona problemas de repartir el servicio de internet entre los usuarios (invitados, empleados, jefes y administradores de sistemas) con un muy buen control de ancho de banda, rangos de IP y DHCP; la publicación mediante NAT para paginas web de manera simple; y se puede monitorear en tiempo real el uso de ancho de banda
PFsense a versatil, powerfull, and easy router.
What do you like best about the product?
One of the most essential characteristics of PFsense is that it can run on x86 archutecture machines without losing their lightness, enabling the deployment on virtualizalized enviroment and the usage of bare metal servers. Also, the GUI is very intuitive and the concepts are easy to learn.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes handy packages lost maintainers, and this becomes a very disappointing situation. Also, I have to suffer 2 packages that manage configuration wrong. So maybe more control on the repos may improve the quality of the packages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
PFsense fall in a perfect position for the IT department that does not have skills on the managing of router appliances like cisco, huawei and others, Allowing to take advantage of the IT experience to WAN networking on enterprise and even Homes.
Super reliable, super simple, super capable. Really just super.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to configure. Updates do not break features or reliability. Easy to create limited-access users. Certificate management is very easy. Tons of functionality.
What do you dislike about the product?
No API. High availability setup after a unit is already set up and running for a while is not smooth. Certificate management could use a bulk action interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The rich feature set and easy setup makes it ideal for QA labs. The reliability and speed make it great for production. Having one affordable product that can do both means much easier management.
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