Extremely flexible with a vast range of configurations and features for very little cost. Highly reliable.
May 13, 2021

Extremely flexible with a vast range of configurations and features for very little cost. Highly reliable.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Software Version

pfSense Community Edition (open source)

Modules Used

  • APU2

Overall Satisfaction with pfSense

We use pfSense to protect and route network traffic for ourselves as well as our business clients. It provides a highly reliable network solution with a huge range of enterprise grade features. It has complex firewall rules to allow us to complete PCIDSS compliance for card payment terminals. It also allows for seamless failover of multiple WAN internet connections to ensure that our staff and customers are never without internet access.
  • Firewall rules
  • Multiple WAN failover & balancing
  • Statistics and reporting of internet connection use
  • Automated configuration backup
  • More support for PPOE connection drops/errors
  • Central management console for multiple devices
  • Low cost to implement with higher performance than expensive enterprise solutions.
  • Very customizable - have not found anything it can't do for our small business clients.
pfSense offers more options and scales very easily.

Do you think pfSense delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with pfSense's feature set?

Yes

Did pfSense live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of pfSense go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy pfSense again?

Yes

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It is well suited where you need to create complex firewall rules either between WAN connections or between internal VLANs. It also is very scalable to allow you to have multiple WAN connections of different types and either prioritize or load balance the connections to different pools of users.

It is less appropriate for a home network environment.

pfSense Feature Ratings

Identification Technologies
10
Visualization Tools
7
Content Inspection
8
Policy-based Controls
9
Active Directory and LDAP
6
Firewall Management Console
10
Reporting and Logging
7
VPN
10
High Availability
7
Stateful Inspection
8
Proxy Server
6