Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.11.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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For a professional work at home user with complex "work lab" requirements.
What do you like best about the product?
I do a mix of work and personal tasks, keeping my network organized, connected where it should and not where it shouldn't be, as well as secure overall is a must. It couldn't be easier with pfSense. The firewall is so easy to manipulate. The built-in WireGuard VPN support is fantastic. Any questions I ever have are always answered in the user communities (before I even ask them). Seamless support for HAProxy, pfBlockerNG, and Acme make complex configurations a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, I can't think of anything. I swear!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network segmentation and just the right amount of interoperation.
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Best Enterprise grade Home/SMB firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Packages that allow filtering ads and protection from external attacks
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the apps like pfBlockerng are as add-on packages, it would be nice to have them integrated into the OS
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Replacing the router with a firewall
2. Wider option to isolate/setup different networks/setups
3. WOL
4.Statistics
5. Gateway monitoring
& the list goes on
2. Wider option to isolate/setup different networks/setups
3. WOL
4.Statistics
5. Gateway monitoring
& the list goes on
Reviewing my experience with PFSense and Netgate
What do you like best about the product?
The features of the product, the ability to use add-on packages.
The flexibility that PFSense offers compared to other products.
Netgate appliances
The flexibility that PFSense offers compared to other products.
Netgate appliances
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation for some features is not really the best.
Slow updates on some packages.
Slow updates on some packages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Not having the need to run separate boxes (e.g. reverse proxy + router)
Super-clear network monitoring tools
Super-clear network monitoring tools
Very flexible and easy to setup
What do you like best about the product?
Not being restricted in what you can setup. Easy to find help online.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be a little confusing at first. But using eg. videos from Lawrence Systems helps a lot
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I need to be able to use policy based vpn routing. This makes it very easy to use the appropriate vpn for my different devices and/or use cases
All features in one place
What do you like best about the product?
So far I have not found a feature that is missing. Jan helped me realize many new functions.
It is very intuitively managed.
It is very intuitively managed.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have antivirus features.
It is a pity that there are no new versions for 32 bit machines.
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I can't send a dashboard screenshot.
This feature does not work.
It is a pity that there are no new versions for 32 bit machines.
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I can't send a dashboard screenshot.
This feature does not work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
He provided us with stable work and VPN tunnels for remote work during the pandemic.
Swiss army knife
What do you like best about the product?
Wide range of packages allow for providing all network services from a single device. This avoids having to set up multiple systems
What do you dislike about the product?
The database files easily get corrupted during a power outage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows us to run a wide range of network services in areas where we keep the hardware footprint limited
Pfsense is the method if you would like to go crazy on networking
What do you like best about the product?
Customization: being able to implement almost anything imaginable in any kinds of computer networking environment without a ton of costs.
Community: there's plenty of resources in the official forums and documentation that'll help you build your project, diagnose problems, and debug the system.
Community: there's plenty of resources in the official forums and documentation that'll help you build your project, diagnose problems, and debug the system.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Netgate system isn't stable. When operating with a few essential packages such as pfblockerng, snort, wireguard and etc. The unbound package has tons of issues, and it's very unstable and will often crash when pfblockerng is undergoing a cron job. Even though the Service Watch dog could potentially restart services, unbound still wouldn't fix itself after a crash without a time-consuming human intervention.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Pfsense allows me to profile my home and office networks, interact with interfaces remotely through VPNs, filter advertisements and a wide variety of web contents of my choice, and mitigate attacks targeted to servers that are sitting behind the firewalls.
Reliable, secure, well documented, and open source
What do you like best about the product?
- A large community of open-source developers.
- It's incredibly reliable.
- Default deployment has a small attack surface.
- Has plenty of online documentation from various sources.
- Most configuration is done in the GUI, making learning more accessible.
- A private company sponsors development.
- It's incredibly reliable.
- Default deployment has a small attack surface.
- Has plenty of online documentation from various sources.
- Most configuration is done in the GUI, making learning more accessible.
- A private company sponsors development.
What do you dislike about the product?
- Various minor bugs limit the PPPoE settings and connections over VLANs.
- A private company pushes forward development. This has a questionable future for open-source updates.
- No easy central management of multiple deployments.
- A private company pushes forward development. This has a questionable future for open-source updates.
- No easy central management of multiple deployments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Reliability of software makes it easy to diagnose faults elsewhere.
- Long-term development.
- Security is the highest priority in software updates.
- The configuration is exceptionally flexible.
- Long-term development.
- Security is the highest priority in software updates.
- The configuration is exceptionally flexible.
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
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
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