Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router
Netgate | 24.11.0Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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A great resource
What do you like best about the product?
Easy setup.
Easy to use.
Great resources.
Easy to use.
Great resources.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be a bit tricky to get the firewall configured correctly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is replacing 2 units, routers and firewall.
Space saving and easier to manage in only one interface.
Space saving and easier to manage in only one interface.
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Full featured and rock solid
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense includes a ton of functionality and extensibility that work great for enterprises and home users alike. pfBlocker is great for minimizing the number of ads I'm subjected to.
What do you dislike about the product?
pfSense has a bit of a learning curve. As with all things, with options comes complexity. Sometimes digging into deep system tuning settings is challenging. For most use cases with adequate system specs this may not be much of an issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
pfSense provides rock solid routing and network services. My internal customers have performant, dependable internet connectivity. And happy users mean my life is happy.
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.
Good software which just works. Very reliable.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use. Helpful and easy-to-understand documentation. Huge community. Many "recipes" are available on user forums. Nice web interface. CLI is also available.
What do you dislike about the product?
The support package covers only issues with software. It does not cover questions like "how can I do this and that with pfSense". It's developing much slower that a competition. Some critical features are not available out of the box, and you have to install them as an add-on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
You can have a router with HA features for a relatively low price.
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
Execlente
What do you like best about the product?
La modularidad de sus funciones y opciones de seguridad que se adaptan a una gran variedad de entornos ya sea enpresariales o domesticos, permitiendo su implementacion
What do you dislike about the product?
Que no cuenta con un soporte actualizado para cuando utilizar el modulos de filtrado de contenido, los cuales osn muy necesarios en la actualidad, creo que es una area de oportunidad.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Seguridad a nivel de firewall, filtrado de contenido, enrutamiento de redes con VLANS, control de acceso a internet y regulacion de ancho de banda, asi como gesntiosn de servicios wireless
great interface and many features available
What do you like best about the product?
Easy interface, easy to configure. I'm using the firewall and HA proxy.stability. no crashes sofar with 2.6 version. Certificate management is easy to handle. there should be an SSL vpn portal.
What do you dislike about the product?
No OTP on different reverse proxy pages. No SSL portal for ssl applications to serve. An ssl portal i installed it from sophos with pfsense as front page , just to offer ssl vpn ( clientless).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At first a firewall to which filters good to my expectation. I configured HA proxy with Outlook and web sites with this tool. To get an secure connection i use Let's encrypt and the cert's can be managed by pfsense.
A firewall that does what we need with a great knowledgebase behind it
What do you like best about the product?
The WebGui makes it possible to config almost everything without using a terminal
What do you dislike about the product?
The initially high purchase price. But is it actually big deal? I think not.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
If you have a Netgate without an internal switch the vlan configuration is easy to understand.
Complex firewall rules without GUI, DNS resolving, IDS, nTop and VPN configurations are quickly done. And there are actual people with knowledge out there you can hire.
Complex firewall rules without GUI, DNS resolving, IDS, nTop and VPN configurations are quickly done. And there are actual people with knowledge out there you can hire.
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
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