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Pfsense a open source firewall
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.
PfSense: a great firewall and VPN system
What do you like best about the product?
PfSense lets us to set network rules up simply using the internet browser, so VPN configurations can be easily installed and clients can be easily connected while using the VPN. Traffic visuals are beautiful too. A large number of add-ons enable the manager to increase the functionality to satisfy the organization's needs and requirements. PfSense is a such a superb firewall system that all traffic is recorded and packages can be installed to snort heavy traffic.
What do you dislike about the product?
The modem's features can not be integrated into a pFSense box. This may limit the auto-deployment of something in conditions where firewall rules are required or HAProxy settings modified. So, I have to reach for other measures, such as SSDs, so that any technical failures should be prevented.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We mainly use PfSense as a firewall and VPN system throughout the business. The software helps us to get a routing protocol conversion and to protect our subnetwork, so intruders can not access our databases on an attack. Before PfSense, we wanted anything easy to develop and maintain that did not involve excessive payments or ongoing expenses to limit our financial risks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think PfSense would be a great tool for any IT department that needs a decent high-end firewall alternative but doesn't want to purchase a lot of equipment or licenses, although hardware could also be bought to make pfSense an all-in-one alternative for even the highest applications, but it is not mandatory.
Connect to the internet as a central edge firewall
What do you like best about the product?
PfSense offers solid security because it is centered on FreeBSD. The database server enables me to provide the capacity to IP that I want at the user's request with more energy and lower power to clients with less demand. It makes configuring the firewall and NAT very easy and usable. pfSense is a strong traffic-balancer as the clustering performs quite well. Any improvement made to the database is also provided with an interactive product.
What do you dislike about the product?
When an interruption of the Web happens, pfSense starts to work very slowly, I guess because it creates loads to all users allowed to access the network. Also, if the disk mirror adds an extra to a channel faders, it would prevent unforeseen downtime due to hard drive shortcomings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In the IT department, we use PfSense for connecting to the internet as a central edge firewall. We also use pfSense to handle loads or fail to comply with incoming applications or network hosting specifications. The VPN interface is also accessible to enable us to link and test whether our products are on the platform, from almost anywhere. In terms of usability, pfSense has outperformed expectations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
PfSense is an ideal tool to be used as a main firewall or VPN server with many settings, as it helps you to monitor traffic efficiently with less commitment VPN transfers and reduced licensing prices. I would recommend pfSense for small or medium companies that require load handling.
Best Freeware Firewall software for mid size organizations
What do you like best about the product?
The best part of pfsense is its free :) with lots of features. like firewall multiple supported packages, VPN, radius support,etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
There should be multiple approaches for wan link failover.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using as a security appliance so all the security risk is control through pfsense. Also using it as a proxy which gives me a strong control on giving limited internet access.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Highly recommended.
pfSense
What do you like best about the product?
Fully complete Firewall system, integrates functions of traffic analysis, load balancing, wan link failover, monitoring through zabbix. It is based on free software. Allows you to create routing rules, NAT, vpn ipsec tunnels and much more
What do you dislike about the product?
Knowledge in Linux is required to understand the logs and internal processes of the system
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Increase information security, redundancy of WAN links, load balancing, blocking of malicious traffic, proactive monitoring
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it
pfSense
What do you like best about the product?
It is based on free software, very easy to install, it can be installed on a computer, hardware requirements are low, it allows communication protocols such as tunnels vpn ip sec, vlan, content filtering
What do you dislike about the product?
There are times when the network interface is inhibited or the operating system may be stuck and services must be restarted
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Increase in network security, load balancing, redundancy with multiple wan, creation and segmentation through vlans, integrated dhcp server
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Test it
Great open source firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Open source professional level firewall. Particularly features like multi-wan and how that is implemented into standard features like NAT etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Many of the services I would like to run are add on packages not truly part of the system. Those have non-standard configs and interfaces because of it. They can be broken or unstable because of it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Multi-wan internet supplied by multiple ISP's and used directly without most staff even knowing it. Provides various switching and failover methods for bandwidth or times when an ISP is unreliable.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
While I really like this product, I have moved on to a fork of it called OPNSense that I would recommend over pfSense. pfSense a is good product but much has changed with the project and the company behind it. I put them in second place because that is where there software falls based on most usage. Hope their next release release with all the drastic changes announced a couple of years ago will change my mind.
So powerful
What do you like best about the product?
With this product being open source it amazing how powerful the features you get with it and the ability to configure to your needs is great!
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be hard to get the configuration you want at the start but you get there in the end!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Free open source protection for your network what more could you want!
pfSense is a capable and configurable software firewall solution
What do you like best about the product?
pfSense is relatively simple to configure and very powerful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features are only available with paid pfSense Gold.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Many smaller clients need a firewall but don't necessarily need a full hardware firewall solution. pfSense on a VM is the perfect solution for this situation. pfSense has all the necessary features such as iptables filters, vpn tunnels, etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
pfSense may not be as featureful as a SonicWALL but if the advanced features aren't necessary then pfSense can save a lot of time and money. Keep it on its own VM or machine, however.
The one and only firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Many options for configure a free and open source firewall to protect and manage your private cloud
What do you dislike about the product?
Too many options and old style interface (a newer version with new UI is coming)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Full mange of our private cloud
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