pfSense - A great middle of the road solution
May 28, 2019
pfSense - A great middle of the road solution
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with pfSense
pfSense is currently the backbone of our company's network. We have five of them deployed handling VPN and routing. One is on a Dell R210II in the office handling the inter-vlan 10Gbps routing and 3 WAN failover. The second is a Hyper-V VM in our colo facility handling the NATing and forwarding there. The third is a Lenovo SFF PC in an office far away that we can selectively route through for geo purposes. The forth is a VM in a datacenter, again, just to selectively route out. The fifth is acting as a VPN server for the other four to connect to and route between each other as well as for clients outside the office to connect to.
- OpenVPN
- Inter-Vlan Routing
- Firewalling
- CLI Commands
- Hardware Support
- Don't need to buy as much hardware
- Don't need to pay licencing fees
pfSense itself is free and can be installed on just about any hardware so from a hardware cost perspective it can beat out anybody. In terms of features it's above many pro-sumer/small business solutions like Ubiquiti. It can't really stand against high-end gear like Cisco but It can easily handle up to medium-sized businesses.