We performed a comparison between Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall and Netgate pfSense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It is very flexible to use."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"It is a safe product."
"Phish Blocker is a valuable feature."
"The intrusion detection feature is the most valuable. It is an open-source firewall, so there is a lot of material on it. I also find the open VPN capability very nice. It is pretty customizable. The clustering and the high availability are the two biggest things to be able to get out of a firewall."
"I can manage it easily by myself."
"Its features rival many of the high cost solutions out there."
"I have found pfSense to be stable."
"The GUI is easy to understand."
"The initial setup was straightforward, therefore I wanted to continue using the product."
"Improved service performance and availability through redundancy."
"I like the connectivity to the open VPN. It's very smooth."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"The documentation is not clear."
"We have not had any problems with it, and we also do not have a need for any new features. If anything, its reporting can be better. Sophos has better reporting than pfSense. Sophos has more detailed information. pfSense is not as detailed. It is summarized."
"My only observation is about the quality of the IPSec logs, which are difficult to interpret and are poor in filters."
"The main problem with pfSense is that we have to use proxy solutions."
"I tried pfSense, and it has a big issue with file system consistency, and this is what drove me to OPNsense. The file system stability is quite a big issue for us. We have a lot of outages related to power issues, and OPNsense is much more stable on this side."
"It would be great to add more to security."
"Web interface could be enhanced and more user friendly."
"The GUI. There are TONS of plugins for pfSense, as such, if a user wants to add quite a bit of functionality, the GUI will feel a little congested."
"The stability could be improved."
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Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall is ranked 37th in Firewalls with 1 review while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall is rated 7.0, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall writes "The solution is stable and affordable, but the documentation is not clear, and it takes a lot of research to implement it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall is most compared with , whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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