Netgate pfSense Reviews & Product Details

Ease of Use and implementation on any virtualized platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Need to reset whole routing daemon when ospf or bgp has peer issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

pfSense is a free solution by the packet masters at Netgate. It has more features than any single system is likely to use and has professional Netgate support available. It is regularly updated and (after RTFM :) easy to us, assuming you have some understanding of network layers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation does not always keep up with upgrades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like its flexibility and, for me at least, logical layout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be a little complex, but that's the nature of networking. I moved away from using a Unifi USG because of its lack of flexibility, so a little complexity is the price one must pay. I prefer that over the more cookbook approach that Unifi takes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fast, reliable hardware with always up-to-date feature rich software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

not widely promoted or available in my region (to be specific in Malaysia/South East Asia). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We start with community products (pfSense virtual machine) and now with hardware products.

With two products, even with free version, we have lot a features, easy support and great fiablilty.

We has some issues but support come back quickly to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some issues with update (hardware don't restart after update) or update was not detected by products... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

pfSense is very light weight and simple to deploy. It meets the needs for nearly all firewall needs. Community support is very deep and if there has been a question previously asked the Community usually has already answered it. If you are concerned about its open source roots in a production environment you can rest assured that you always have TAC support. TAC support is very knowledgeable and they have the answers. They don't guess or use trial and error methods to solve your problems. The integrations with pfBlocker, OpenVPN and HAProxy make the firewall much more useful without additional costs. Our company install pfSense nearly everywhere because it’s easy to use and it works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't found a significant dislike to pfSense. I suppose the biggest hurdle when deploying pfSense firewalls is dispelling the myth that all open source software is somehow inferior to commercial alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stable routing and firewall solution, supporting HA, IPv4+6, boot environments, multiple routing alternatives, DoH and DoT, Wireguard and other VPN solutions. Firewall supports interface-based rules in addition to address-based ones, which is essential when WAN addresses or GUAs are dynamic. Freedom in selecting hardware platform, either Netgate's or third-party. Boot environment support makes it simple to switch between releases and configurations. Well-documented with a helpful community in addition to paid support. Integrates easily with Layer 2 switching and AP solutions from other vendors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing. Even the smallest pfSense+ deployments require a yearly fee. pfSense CE is available for those who want a fee-free solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For us the pfsense makes the maintenance work of our external enpoints very easy to comprehend. We sadly had a crashing pfsens hardware but luckely we had a recent backup, we restored the backup to the new hardware and just like that we where up and running again. We where in contact with support to get a new firmware for another one and the support is fast and very informative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can sometimes be hard to fine tune settings for very specific needs, but that most likely lack of competence on our side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have deployed 6100's in secure facilities and small businesses a like and im constantly impressed with the robustness not only of the software, but also the support model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A few lacking "features" to make administration on mass is a niggle, nothing major Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that the product is in the prodiction for long time and its origins are in the opensource. I use in the infant stage when the name was m0n0wall. Then the product grew and convert to pfsense and now witht he appliances that are the best option for the enterprises. The fact that you can add packages and all those is being maintined and you see the improvement version by version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I only see one issue with pfsense. This is the lack of MFA to administer the GUI. We have the radius that works well in the user validation for VPN and WiFi; but still not MFA for the admin. You can have your admin network and limit where the administrators log in, but still is missing that. The big issue is that some Cyber insurance companies are requesting that like a must in any appliance and the fact that there is nothing makes the system not in compliance. This is not complex to deploy on PFSense. Every day I see more and more companies asking for it and basically there is not a good reponse on this matter. I really would like this to be coming in the product in the next release. Right now over EU and North America we have a lot of companies pushing for this on their devices. This is something that I belive should be addressed with a level of High Importance. I have customer close to change platforms because somethign that is so basic for them is not there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.