Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.11.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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My first firewall
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense's defaults are very nice, and I only need to customize it for my given usecase. Also, it has a large package library, making this excellent software exponentially more powerful.
What do you dislike about the product?
It uses OpenSSL instead of LibreSSL. I'm not expert in security, but it seems the 'security' community has a consensus that LibreSSL is just better than OpenSSL. It seems like this decision was made out of personal sentimentality from the heads of development for pfSense. I don't appreciate that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I want my own network completely under my own control.
I've been stuck with XFinity routers in every house I live in.
If anything drives me to madness, it will be my hatred for XFi software!
I can't upgrade the entire house's network, but I can at least have my own private LAN in my bedroom, and pfSense does an excellent job for this.
Also, with the wireguard package I have easy access to my LAN from anywhere.
I've been stuck with XFinity routers in every house I live in.
If anything drives me to madness, it will be my hatred for XFi software!
I can't upgrade the entire house's network, but I can at least have my own private LAN in my bedroom, and pfSense does an excellent job for this.
Also, with the wireguard package I have easy access to my LAN from anywhere.
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Easy to use and quite effective if tuned the right way.
What do you like best about the product?
Firewall Rule creation
OpenVPN setup
Squip Proxy Filters and Blacklist addition.
Traffic Graphs
OpenVPN setup
Squip Proxy Filters and Blacklist addition.
Traffic Graphs
What do you dislike about the product?
Blocklists are not always up to date; I currently do manual updates to an alias list for suspect Bruteforce attempting IPs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LAN Filters - can limit bandwidth allocation for clients.
IP Blocklist - specifying what IP to block or unblock both on LAN and WAN based on Rules created.
Easy bandwidth monitoring.
Easy client activity monitoring.
Simple daily reports on usage.
Easy setup of OpenVPN and very effective.
IP Blocklist - specifying what IP to block or unblock both on LAN and WAN based on Rules created.
Easy bandwidth monitoring.
Easy client activity monitoring.
Simple daily reports on usage.
Easy setup of OpenVPN and very effective.
A powerful, stable, Opensource-based Firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Mostly, I love the simplicity and with a little of network knowledge, I can manage my network at home.
What do you dislike about the product?
Since I'm not a technical guy, I have to go through a lot of reading to make it up. but at the end, the documentation is available and there are a lot of forums contributions that are also very useful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use pfSense to control the network's access by doing isolation for the guest network. In addition, I create a policy for my children's devices to be able to manage access to the website "block and authorize" and when they may use the internet.
Great OS and flexibility, hardware not as reliable
What do you like best about the product?
Control and visibility of traffic rules and data. Easy to configure rules and settings. Not bound to hardware and configuration can be easily ported to different hardware.
What do you dislike about the product?
The negate hardware has been unreliable. Would not use in remote distant areas due to failures and difficulty for an average user/remote hands restoring the appliance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Geoblocking countries we are not in business with, DNS control and visibility, granular firewall rules, aliases, Snort, pfblocker, DNS, and VPN with relative ease.
Netgate pfSense appliance
What do you like best about the product?
The appliance seems very secure and allows me to configure my home office easily with plenty of video walkthroughs on YouTube.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI could be easier in some places and workflows would be great to set a VPN up from scratch. The base OS is not the latest but that is already being worked on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The two things that the pfSense resolves is security of my network connection and handling VPN's for multiple devices.
Great firewall security appliance
What do you like best about the product?
The cost of getting a pfsense firewall (with expert support) is considerably less that what it costs to adopt a cisco or palo alto device. The available addon software packages included with pfsense (suricata, snort, etc) make pfsense a complete security system fw+IDS for businesses of any size. My feeling is that pfsense will continue to become even better as it matures.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I would change about pfsense is that the hardware that it runs on. I think that it would be great if pfsense appliances whould ship with more robust CPU and RAM in the future, to make these appliances even more competitive in the enterprise markets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have used pfsense to build ipsec point to point tunnels between our offices and also as a VPN concentrator for mobile and home users. Pfsense has work great for how we use it.
I'm using it since 2015
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to operate and manage. Not expert knowledge is required. A lot of addons avaiable. High stability. easy to deployment and extend security. easy monitoring in cluded.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes when somethins is wrong deep troubleshooting is needed. There is lack of cleaning procedure, of failure services, to easiest reinstall services, and addons
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Trustfull gateway, remote access by vpn. anti-virus scan improve feeling that we did what we could to protect us. Last time, blocking Geo-IP from dangerous regions.
Great UTM! Highly recommended
What do you like best about the product?
Modular design. Not only is the software robust and secure in its stock configuration, with the use of packages you can do much much more.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you are unfamiliar with the UI it can take some time to get used to. I'm still discovering extra functions of the UI to this day. (i.e the anchor button)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This level of security, either for free or at a very reasonable price, is a major factor in being able to secure business assets.
An absolute nightmare to configure. Returned my Netgate 1100.
What do you like best about the product?
Support was amazing. My netgate bricked itself upon reboot and they re-flashed it through remote support.
What do you dislike about the product?
It bricked itself on a reboot.
It is impossible to configure. Devices intermittently had internet access even with only the most basic features enabled.
It is impossible to configure. Devices intermittently had internet access even with only the most basic features enabled.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
None. I returned it. I wanted a non-big brand solution for security and, ideally, traffic shaping.
Powerful & affordable/free firewall and network management system
What do you like best about the product?
PfSense offers an advanced, intuitive firewall with highly sophisticated and customisable network tools to effectively manage and protect one or more network properly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The system could be complicated for beginners and intermediate users, but good videos are available online to help beginners and novice users. Additional add-ons would have been nice, especially for home and small business users who cannot afford separate systems or hardware-based systems. Tools to assess issues and challenges, e.g. throughput & latency, up or downstream.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
pfSense is a comprehensive firewall- and network management system at an affordable price. pfSense competes well against costly hardware firewall systems with even less functionality. pfSense is one of a few advanced firewall and network management systems that home users can use for free. pfSense integrates all the functionality of a firewall, network management and other tools into one system. It enables a small to medium enterprise's user- or network administrator to guard against cyber attacks. End device management is also part of pfSense. pfSense can manage access to certain features and (or) websites and services that could expose a business to security issues.
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