Netgate pfSense Reviews & Product Details

What I like most about Netgate pfSense is how much control it gives you without being overly complicated. It’s reliable, secure, and flexible enough to handle everything from basic setups to more advanced networking needs. I also appreciate that it’s not a closed system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If I had to point out a downside, it would be that the interface can feel a bit overwhelming at first, especially if you’re new to networking. Some advanced features take time to understand, and the learning curve can be steep. It’s powerful, but you do need some technical knowledge to get the most out of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the ability to configure your own router HOWEVER you want! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

a little bit unintuitive to manage system resources, sometimes eats up a lot of hardware memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Time to learn how to communicate the requirements to the product (having experience in firewall from other platforms) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no NGF and SDWAN does not have Spanish support from Netgate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Awesome product I have ever seen in free of cost.

Very powerfull opensource Firewall with full bundeled packed.

Its very easy to use software and hardware, I can customize many things as like I can add additional ports and SSD ect..

I took only 30 minutes to make this product live very smooth and easy to implimentation.

Yes, I have TAC Enterprice support so I get very good quick and premium support as I usually get from many other premium Firewall provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since this is opensource, If you know the concept then only this product is helpfull or else you will feel very dificylty to impliment itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface is easy to use, well organized, and easy for admins to setup. Their support documentation/forums are well documented and up to date. I think it's secure when integrated with the right platforms and packs cool useful features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The CE edition could have better support, although kept up to date, they can improve on security and some integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to install, Easy to understand, Easy to implement, rules creation and log check process use full and easy tounderstand and reporting pasrt also very stroing and use full bandwidth management and capping very easy.Very fast customer/tesc support. User it on daily basis. easy to integrated packages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Backup process may have auto process for tackn and installation. CLI past have some comlications. path and storage auto cleaning process issue and version dependancey. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

pfsense allow you to build your own router using your CPU that is no longer in use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a bit hard to configure for the first time. But netgate did provide the user guide for installation/configuration that you can use as reference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Is easy manage using the web interface. Comes with a good logic and help to solve the basics needs for standard connections Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dont have options to interact confortly using CLI or scripting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

pfSense is easy and fast to deploy on a variety of platforms, depending on the use case. As an enterprise service provider, we assist our customers with the deployment and hosting of systems in our cloud environment as well as on-prem datacenters. These are typically customers who for reasons of their own are not willing to trust a public cloud with their data. Having the ability to choose a hardware solution or virtualized installation of the pfSense software grants lots of freedom in design and deployment.

The web-based interface is intuitive and responsive. It's certainly competitive with other offerings.

We have engaged with support on a one-off as well as TAC subscription basis and find Netgate / pfSense support to be first rate. We appreciate having a trusted partner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

pfSense update management can sometimes be a bit ungainly. We'd really appreciate the ability to enable automated updates, especially to patch security threats. Or perhaps even a notification that would be sent to the pfSense admin when a new update is available.

Oftentimes the only time a user realizes there is an update is when they log into the web interface, and many of our users can go weeks or months between log-ins. A push or email notification would be helpful in this regard.

Lower-end pfSense appliances from Netgate have shown themselves to be a bit flaky. They will lock up on updates, or sometimes lock up for no reason at all. When this happens, we've noted that even a reboot of the system doesn't bring it back online and it must be accessed via emulated serial console (over USB) in order to manually walk it through a startup sequence. This is extremely problematic at remote / unstaffed locations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using pfSense for many years. First on my own hardware and later on netgates hardware. The System is easy enough to use but also gives you the ability to have fine tuned rules.

I think because the pfSense Firewall software is open source and has a very large community you have a higher chance to find solutions to edge cases than with other non-open source firewalls. Some solutions might feel a bit hacky but there's always a way to get the software to behave like you want Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have had a few clients which have the 1000+$ Netgate 7100 hardware firewall which have had heat related problems (total freeze if the temperature exeeds a value that it was easily reaching in normal use).

After opening the case I realized the heat sinks were mounted in the wrong orientation (not with, but against airflow) which seemed to be a production error because later versions of this firewall had the fans on the side and the rotated orientation would make sense there but not with the version my customers had.

After fixing the orientation of the heat sinks I had no more overheating problems though. Thanks to the standard hardware it was easy enough to fix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.