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pfSense
January 17, 2024

pfSense

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

pfSense Community Edition (open source)

Overall Satisfaction with pfSense

pfSense is used to route internal development networks, either tagged or untagged, manage the ACLs between those networks, and forward specific protocols and ports from the outside to a DMZ. pfSense has been deployed in a HA configuration and IDS/IPS has also been set up by using snort. Snort is also used to prioritize some traffic over others.
  • Filtering and NAT forwarding.
  • Routing
  • IDS/IPS
  • IDS/IPS requires tuning and is sometimes too aggressive.
  • Filtering acts only by specifying ips. Even if less performing and secure, allowing the user also to insert DNS names would be a nice option.
IPS/IDS, sniffer appliance, router/firewall, and VPN appliance are all well suited. I would not use it as a caching proxy (squid) and rely on different products.