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Netgate pfSense Plus Firewall/VPN/Router

Netgate | 24.11.0

Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 14 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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10 AWS reviews

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317 reviews
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    Business Supplies and Equipment

El servicio de soporte es excelente

  • October 06, 2022
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
La consola deadministración es amigable con el usuario
What do you dislike about the product?
la incompatibilidad con los navegadores, al momento de realizar actualizaciones o instalación de paquetería
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
la comunicación de paquetería


    Prajwol S.

No hassle security

  • May 19, 2022
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Wide range of features with different extra packages that can be installed to increase functionality.
There is a bit of a learning curve but a great tool to secure, manage & administer the network.
Most of all it is completely free.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features like logging seem to be buggy at times and all sections of those logs need to be cleared out for logging to work again.
pfblocker working unexpectedly has crashed the network few times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easily managing quality of service, segregating the network, and various customization features have made life easier as a network/system administrator.
It not only separates & secures our network but provides capabilities like reverse proxying, proxying & filtering, IPS/IDS & many more.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Perfect fit for open source & home router alternatives.


    Al Joe

no direct HA support

  • February 13, 2022
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

If you are happy to run a single appliance in a single AZ and don't care about high availability, you can take risk of running this appliance. But I don't understand why businesses will do this.

This appliance does not support HA, or atleast does not seem to on AWS cloud. Without an HA solution this becomes only working for non-enterprise users for testing on AWS.
Businesses trying to deploy this on AWS will not have out of the box HA solution and hence will not have the ability to failover connections/VPN which does not make it useful.

Pfsense company should publish an article on how to provide HA solution for multi-AZ deployment.

Very disappointed.


    Stephen G.

pfSense: Fast, BSD-based routing with a great community

  • February 11, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
pfSense is a fast, very stable routing and security platform that has a large community behind it and is very customizable. It's easy to run on low-power hardware and a great alternative to openwrt.
What do you dislike about the product?
Changes in the Negate licensing structure have made pfSense more expensive/difficult to run on cloud platforms for free. These changes don't seem necessary for me, but I understand the need to earn for usage in clouds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
pfSense helped to create an open-source and very performant routing & security platform for both hardware and cloud deployments. pfSense has allowed us more configuration options with minimal overhead.


    Dylan S.

Why buy a router when you can build your own open source

  • January 06, 2022
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It's open-source, heavily supported by the community, and has any feature you could need. I've been using it for years and have not had any issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be a bit of a learning curve to use. There are so many options that it can be challenging to find what you are looking for at first.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to build highly capable routers that don't cost our business an arm and a leg


    Nikhil K.

Pfsense a open source firewall

  • November 28, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It's open source tool.easy to conigure and use.It can be use also for unified threats modeling or management to protect the network infrastructure from external and internal threats.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike specifically but it's shall be also available for every flavour of OS or as an application.As of now it is only available or install in physical computer or virtual machine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
By filtering the ports communications, services, protocol between the source ip and destination, we try to secure communications between the network along with whitelist the required ip address.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes, users shall go with this product.


    Carlos Vinicius L.

The best actual Firewall in the world

  • October 21, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
pfSense it's the best open-source firewall globally; I can't manage a network without pfSense.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hardware prices in Brazil it's so expensive.
the Reports need be more polish
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Multiples, from most simple like VPN's to Extreme redundancies, whit ipSEC
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Only use you Never make a Rollback again.


    SonuJaiswal

L2TP vpn stop flowing traffic after http request

  • August 03, 2021
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Hi there,

I am trying to configure L2tp with Linux fedora as client, I am able to ping any remote host however once I hit any Http destin from client, l2tp vpn stop working vpn stayed connected however no traffic flow even ping stop working


    Jayesh P.

Open source firewall and content filter UTM.

  • April 11, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Its open-source and give the same functionality as other paid UTM can provide. IT can be installed at a virtual machine and required minimum resources to operate.
What do you dislike about the product?
When there is any bug identified, users need to wait till the next update to get a solution for that bug. Sometimes proxy services stop themselves i need to do restart manually.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can restrict my user from surfing websites, download software, create VPN for remote users, get logs of internet surfing. It can be installed as a virtual and physical PC also.


    Jordan W.

The Must Have Home Router Solution

  • February 03, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
This is the best user interface I've ever used for the complex task of network management. The defaults are excellent, and optimizing settings is easy thanks to great documentation.
What do you dislike about the product?
I've had quite a bit of trouble using the built in upgrading feature. It always breaks the router and you *must* install pfSense fresh and recover your previous configuration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm taking control of my own network. I'm controlling bandwidth access, external access, and optimizing my own traffic.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take the time to learn what pfSense can do and how to do it and your life will be so much better. Controlling your own network gives you a lot of peace of mind since network connectivity is so important in today's world.