Netgate pfSense Reviews & Product Details

They are very economical for being open source for companies that want to set up a firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does not have a central console to manage multiple PFSense, support only in English. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A very active community and excellent documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a lot of options that might overwhelm some people and some obscure features do not work as well as they should Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a very efficient firewall and network management platform. I much better protected with this than with my ISP's router. Give me a lot more flexibility on how I want to segment my network. The TAC Lite support that comes with the appliance is great, the team is very fast to respond and resolve issues almost always on the first email. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a bit complicated to setup but with some good research it's easy to find answers. There is a great community supporting it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The router and firewall software are absolutely top notch. I got a CCNA when it first came out and spent years with Cisco hardware and Microsoft software and thought I was dealing with the best, but a jerkoff tech kid I had to work with during a gig at IBM introduced me to pfSense Community Edition and I was instantly hooked. It's beyond comprehensive; it can do anything I'm called upon to do easily, and I'm confident it can do anything I can imagine doing. I'm not a network guy -- networking to me represents a 2-3 day chore at the beginning of a project where you slog and you Google and you tweak until sometime after 2 in the morning -- *ping* -- it starts working, you don't dare touch anything, and you get to start your job 3 days behind.

pfSense is the antithesis of that. Its documentation is fantastic, its support community unparalleled, and this time around when I replaced my hardware and just went with NetGate hardware it was even better. I had trouble getting it configured and their engineers quickly helped me isolate the problem (the ISP), very kindly helped me undo the hacked-together spoof-based solution I had come up with, and then helped me factory reset and configure the router correctly.

As I said, I'm no network guy -- but I know a lot of them, and I'm sure they'd agree. Go with pfSense. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing I can think of is the problem of "overchoice." The software is incredibly "plastic", which can be a good or bad thing -- if you're prone to address networking problems by just throwing switches and seeing what happens, well -- they give you one hell of a lot of switches.

But I for one appreciate it. They provide guides and wizards that work great, and if you go through the docs and read the community boards you never get the sense that their support group has lost interest in some aspect of their product and just hands you the rope to hang yourself with (my general experience with Microsoft, for example). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open-source backed with included updates. Enterprise features, regular community involvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Would like a (lower-level) command line interface for more rapid configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open source, stable, has everything you need or may need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not being used lot by business also no image for raspberry pi Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

pfSense has great documentation and even better support. Even TAC Lite users get to enjoy pretty much immediate professional support with staff based in Texas!

Setup is quite simple. Very sensible defaults out of the box. Uptime is pretty much determined by the frequenc of updates. It's rock stable and solid! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prices of their lower end appliances perhaps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Interconnect branches with VPN, with external service providers and employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Difficulty in routing OpenVPN through an IPsec connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Someone that can help support the product when time is of the essence. Once we received our product, it was of high quality with high quality support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Their support is a bit clunky, and the ordering process was opaque. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to configure & versatile community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of video tutorials on the various modules

No native CrowdSec module Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.