Why Netgate pfSense?
Thousands of businesses, educational institutions, government agencies and non-profits – on all seven continents, and for years – have come to rely upon pfSense software for their secure networking needs. For organizations in search of sub-10 Gbps performance flexible 3rd-party application options, traditional management mechanisms, proven reliability, and access to business assurance support options, pfSense software is the perfect answer.
And, where business assurance is required, Netgate provides professional and enterprise-class support arrangements that give you access to guidance and problem solving expertise from a seasoned and skilled support organization.
Secure Networking Challenges addressed by pfSense
pfSense software is routinely used to address Firewall, Routing and VPN server needs. The platform is also widely deployed to address secure networking needs including:
Load Balancing
Traffic Shaping
Captive Portal
UTM Device
DNS / DHCP Server
IDS / IPS
Transparent Caching Proxy
Web Content Filter
Features
Firewall and Router
- Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI)
- GeoIP blocking
- Anti-Spoofing
- Time based rules
- Connection limits
- Dynamic DNS
- Reverse proxy
- Captive portal guest network
- Supports concurrent IPv4 and IPv6
- NAT mapping (inbound/outbound)
- VLAN support (802.1q)
- Configurable static routing
- IPv6 network prefix translation
- IPv6 router advertisements
- Multiple IP addresses per interface
- DHCP server
- DNS forwarding
- Wake-on-LAN
- PPPoE Server
User Authentication
- Local user and group database
- User and group-based privileges
- Optional automatic account expiration External RADIUS authentication
- Automatic lockout after repeated attempts
VPN
- IPsec and OpenVPN
- Site-to-site and remote access VPN support
- SSL encryption
- VPN client for multiple operating systems
- L2TP/IPsec for mobile devices
- Multi-WAN for failover
- IPv6 support
- Split tunneling
- Multiple tunnels
- VPN tunnel failover
- NAT support
- Automatic or custom routing
- Local user authentication or RADIUS/LDAP
Enterprise Reliability
- Optional multi-node High Availability Clustering
- Multi-WAN load balancing
- Automatic connection failover
- Bandwidth throttling
- Traffic shaping wizard
- Reserve or restrict bandwidth based on traffic priority
- Fair sharing bandwidth
- User data transfer quotas
Intrusion Prevention System
- Snort-based packet analyzer
- Layer 7 application detection
- Multiple rules sources and categories Emerging threats database
- IP blacklist database
- Pre-set rule profiles
- Per-interface configuration
- Suppressing false positive alerts
- Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
- Optional open-source packages for application blocking
Proxy and Content Filtering
- HTTP and HTTPS proxy
- Non Transparent or Transparent caching proxy
- Domain/URL filtering
- Anti-virus filtering
- SafeSearch for search engines
- HTTPS URL and content screening Website access reporting
- Domain Name blacklisting (DNSBL)
- Usage reporting for daily, monthly, etc.
Administration
Configuration
- Web-based configuration
- Setup wizard for initial configuration
- Remote web-based administration
- Customizable dashboard
- Easy configuration backup/restore
- Configuration export/import
- Encrypted automatic backup to
- Netgate server
- Variable level administrative rights
- Multi-language support
- Simple updates
- Forward-compatible configuration
- Serial console for shell access and recovery options
System Security
- Web interface security protection CSRF protection
- HTTP Referer enforcement
- DNS Rebinding protection
- HTTP Strict Transport Security
- Frame protection
- Optional key-based SSH access
Reporting & Monitoring
- Dashboard with configurable widgets
- Local logging
- Remote logging
- Local monitoring graphs
- Real-time interface traffic graphs
- SNMP monitoring
- Notifications via web interface,
- SMTP, or Growl
- Hardware monitoring
- Networking diagnostic tools
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