World’s leading price-performance, commercial-grade
Edge Firewall, Router, and VPN solution
Full secure networking software functionality for a fraction of the cost of proprietary alternatives.
What can pfSense® Plus do?
pfSense Plus software addresses virtually every firewall, router and VPN use case, including:
- Ad blocker (pfBlockerNG)
- Captive Portal
- CARP / HA
- DNS Server
- DHCP Server
- HTTP Transparent / Web / Reverse Proxy (Squid)
- IP / Country block list (pfBlockerNG)
- IDS / IPS
- Packet Capture / Inspection
- Port Forwarding
- QoS / Rate Limiting
- Software Load Balancer (HA Proxy)
- Traffic Monitoring
- Traffic Logging, Statistics, and Graphs
- Traffic Shaping
- VLAN
- Wake-on-LAN (WOL)
- Website Blocker (pfBlockerNG)
Why pfSense® Plus Software?
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 Plus software is the perfect answer.
And, where business assurance is required, Netgate provides professional and enterprise-class technical support arrangements that give you access to guidance and problem solving expertise from a seasoned and skilled support organization.
OPEN SOURCE VALUE
3x-5x lower total cost of ownership than traditional solutions
Eliminates vendor lock-in
Increases flexibility and efficiency
deployment flexibility
Cloud Ready - AWS or Azure
Remote office, Multi-WAN headquarters, data centers
Easy and intuitive administration
Proven Success
125,000+ organizations across every continent
Business, Government, Higher Education
Wide variety of 3rd party add-ons
Business Ready
24/7 support coverage
Tiered subscriptions for any budget
Professional service consultations
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
VPN
- IPsec
- OpenVPN
- WireGuard (kernel-resident)
- 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
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
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
User Authentication
- Local user and group database
- User and group-based privileges
- Optional automatic account expiration
- External RADIUS authentication
- Automatic lockout after repeated attempts
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
Get pfSense Plus Now
Choose the right deployment for your needs
Netgate Appliance
Get pfSense Plus software on a desktop, rack mount, or high availability pair of Netgate appliances for your on-premises needs.
AWS Cloud
Activate an hourly or annual subscription instance of pfSense Plus software on the AWS Cloud for commercial applications.
Microsoft Azure Cloud
Activate an hourly or annual subscription instance of pfSense Plus software on the Azure Cloud for your commercial applications.