Does anyone use Pfsense at their core ? or anywhere of the network for that matter!

Is it good for enterprise level routing / firewalling / VPN ?

What are peoples views on it ?

We have it here on an old Dell 2500 Server, and it's on a small LAN of 10 PC's and 2 servers, we are however going to be rapidly expanding in the next couple of months and wondered if it's upto the job if it's on newer hardware!


Thanks in Advance!

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I read an article about it in a magazine recently that talked highly of it. I've never used it though. I would imagine if it would work though I know nothing about it aside from the article.

We took over another institutions network last year and they used pfsense.

I had bit of a play with one and it wasn't bad for their size network (circa 80 desktops and 10 servers).

They'd apparently been using it for 3 years with no issues on what was effectively a high powered desktop machine.

I use it for a home firewall/nat/vpn device, and I have seen it used in the SMB space, but it's a tough sell to management for enterprise use. That said, I am a supporter of the project. If all the stars aligned (beefy servers, support in place, IT buy-in, and management support), it could work.

We don't use pfSense, but OpenBSD in part of the network, which is pfSense without GUI. Although I had to learn some Unix skills, it's reasonable to maintain and troubleshoot (tcpdump on any interface). I actually like it: I trust it, it performs well, it can handle quite some throughput depending on the hardware, and it's fully IPv6 stateful firewall capable, which to this day can't be said from every vendor.

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