Comments on: pfSense exceeds 100,000 known live installs

By: Goliator

Goliator — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:48:42 +0000

Congratulations Team !!!!!

And go for OpenSource !!!!

The best firewall no comercial by difference.

Also think that you’re doing great FreeBSD.

Thanks

By: Will M.

Will M. — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:38:46 +0000

I’ve used pfSense 3 years now easily. I have been extremely happy as the config files for openBSD’s PF were just getting to wild to manage across many devices because I just didn’t have the time to build a platform to manage them myself.

Thank you guys @ pfSense. It’s a great solution and community.

By the way, I don’t care that you monitor bogons. I am super paranoid on these things, but you’ve given me a stable, open source product that I can’t find anywhere else. I could probably stop that from happening, but I don’t care.

YOU CAN HAVE THE BOGON DATA. .

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Wed, 01 May 2013 09:14:17 +0000

Update for April 2013 – now 167,697 known live installs.

By: Richard Martin

Richard Martin — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:41:36 +0000

I have 4 installs too… to start with – wouldn’t use anything else and the support is 110%

I’m telling everyone in the Ireland government – use it – why would you use anything else?

Used many, many different firewalls and this is the best…

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:31:52 +0000

We’re up to 120,000 in March.

Most vendors don’t put out numbers so it’s hard to say how that compares. That’s over double Astaro’s install base. Cisco put out a number in recent years that they have a bit in excess of 1 million PIX/ASA boxes out there, and they’re the most widely deployed comparable firewall. To have maybe 10% of Cisco’s install base is very significant.

I’m sure it doesn’t compare to what Linksys has out there in home grade routers, but that’s not the market we play in, just like Cisco isn’t focusing on selling ASAs to the home market.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:00:30 +0000

Rolled out 4 PFsense boxes at different locations and have it running at home as well. Many techs I know have deployed it at home. 100k is surprisingly low seeing as I can think of a dozen installs in my immediate area.

By: Paul Edwards

Paul Edwards — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:47:19 +0000

Hi there,
Have been looking around for a solid opensource firewall for our test beds and have found pfsense has ticked all the boxes. Very tempted to put this on our production network as it seems solid!
One request would be the possible integration of some form of web proxy filtering like DansGuardian would be excellent.
Forgive me if this is something it can already do but I’ve been too blind to spot it!

Keep up the excellent work guys – awesome stuff.

By: Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:26:26 +0000

I have just found pfsense as an option in our virtual datacenter. I created an instance and faster then I ever was able to get a test WAN gateway up routing to the LAN and a VPN to my remote clients. It was most impressive and as I discover more packages and what they add to pfsense I get all excited as this is more then a firewall or router project this is a insanely rich application framework for deploying any type of network appliance or service with the right package installed. Awesome, I have been converted and cannot wait to dive in to more pfsense.

By: Ross

Ross — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:11:11 +0000

I have two business, one is systems consultant firm and the other is a photography studio. I have been a long user of pfsense and I have 1 edge device and 4 on vSphere 4.1 doing internal tasks that do not see the internet.

For my system consulting I always ask my clients when their routers give them headaches do you have an old laptop laying around. Surprisingly most do and I tell them about pfsense. I have only had a few say no, that they would want to stick with a retail based router. Most on their own figure out how awesome it is to have an enterprise firewall that has its own UPS system for power outages.

I really like pfsense and with the Atom servers from Supermicro I am installing more and more of them into larger companies because they are in a 1U configuration and sit int he racks. You get 2 Intel NICs to start with and a PCIe slot for upto 4 more Intel NICs if you need to divide the network up for wireless clients, DMZ’s, wired connections that can not see your internal network for customers and client presentations, the list goes on.

You guys are awesome! Thanks

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:26:42 +0000

We’ve running pfSense now for a few years and can only say one thing:
I LOVE IT!
We’ve running within my company currently total 3 pfSense boxes; 1 as ‘router only’ and one HA-config running with 2 WAN’s, 11 VLAN’s and OpenVPN etc.
Keep up the good work!