Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.03.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Great Firewall, Great Price
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and understand, full training materials provided online to help even the newest of user setup the system and maintain. Regularly updated with the newest and best features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to note so far, does everything it should do. GUI could do with a little "glitter" to make it look like a 2023 product but that's not really important.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowing us to replace our aged fleet of UTM threat management and filtering solutions. Coming in at a price that is obtainable for Schools and Educational establishments. Latest VPN technology to replace our old IPSEC connections.
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Excellent hardware, excellent support and service
What do you like best about the product?
Certified hardware that I KNOW is going to run pfSense well. Sure, I could build my own, but I'd rather spend my time configuring security and moving on to the next client, rather than tweak hardware and continually adjust settings for uptime and performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
Only downside that most would say would be the cost...but when I consider the hourly rate I charge clients and what my time is worth, I'm saving a ton!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Edge firewall and routing.
A fantastic, streamlined, no-nonsense experience, without any sacrifice at all.
What do you like best about the product?
PFSense provides an extremely feature-rich platform without any of the annoying licensing structures that you find with other firewall vendors. If you're willing to invest the small amount of time it takes to learn the PFSense platform, you can build an enterprise-grade next-generation firewall that matches the features of any of the major firewall vendors' offerings for nothing more than the cost of the hardware itself. Now that I am comfortable with PFSense, I can't see myself ever using another type of firewall in my environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main downside for me is that it does take a little bit of time to become familiar and comfortable with the tool, but even this is a minor quibble, since this is true of any technology. Since documentation is robust and freely available, the only cost is the time it takes to read and understand it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a limited budget for implementing edge devices in our organization. Being open-source, PFSense is an essentially free way to meet ALL of our firewall needs.
Very pleased with the firewall
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to install and setup, running in about 30 mimutes
What do you dislike about the product?
VPN setup not got working yet and seems different to others but then every firewall has different setup.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Used this to bond to FTTC connections so as to double the speed for the client
Superb firewall software
What do you like best about the product?
I really like pfSense especially the integration with other modules
What do you dislike about the product?
having found any yet. So far all the features are fine with me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it as our main firewall software. Also, we have internal applications that are hosted on our local area network and so the vpn allows users to access these applications whiles outside the organisation.
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.
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.
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