I just found pfSense online. I just tried it out on a home lab and found it worked well enough for us. So, just started out, like, searching online and responded and tried it.

I looked at low-end Cisco/Linksys devices for physical hardware, and I played around with a variety of free *nix based installations including customized IPTables, IPCop, SmoothWall, and Enodian.

I've heard that Fortinet is slightly more expensive than Sangfor. Then again, if Sangfor comes into the picture, maybe you would consider Sangfor.

I used to be a Cisco network expert. I used to train people and I've done some Cisco projects myself. I know Cisco by heart but I was less excited about Microsoft, so I went researching for open source solutions and I came across pfSense.

I was able to compare pfSense with Cisco. I used it for a client of mine as well, and it was interesting. After that, I started my own company and I came across pfSense again. 

I looked into pfSense. You have OPNsense from the Dutch and then you have pfSense. I've tried both and I like pfSense more.

We're reading up on other solutions every day. We likely won't stay with this solution. It's good for now, however, we'd like something more robust further down the line. 

We looked at Fortinet and CheckPoint in relation to how they work with Linux.

In the case of Fortinet, the content filter is a URL content filter. It's very different and it's complex to use.

Fortinet, SourceFire.

Cisco, WatchGuard, Sophos, Fortinet, Untangle, Juniper.

We looked at some other solutions, but pricing and licensing was the problem. I looked at Palo Alto and SonicWall.

We also looked at -

• Smoothwall
• Moonwall
• SonicWall
• Netgear
• IPCop

I did use Sophos-XG free but I stick to pfsense as it is free and open source...

From Sonic Wall, their price is much higher, because for every feature that you want to add, you have to pay. I can do the same things with pfSense, but everything is included in one price.

We originally evaluated Cisco, WatchGuard, and Barracuda. We chose pfSense because of the price and it was open source software. At the time, our team was called OpenERP (now called Odoo), so open source software was an advantage.

We evaluated IPCop and m0n0wall. We took a vote on our team and pfSense won the deal.

Palo Alto, Fortinet, Sophos, Cisco

We also evaluated Fortigate.

We originally looked at SonicWall, but we chose pfSense because of pricing (since it is free) and it has issues that pfSense does not have. 

We are currently migrating over to Meraki and are having a lot of issue with it. Also, with Meraki, you pay through your neck for it.

I would not have made the decision to move away from pfSense. pfSense has been giving us better options than what Meraki is giving us at the moment. I have got login problems with Meraki which takes about two days for them to sort out. If I was on pfSense, I would sort it out myself.

We evaluated Cisco, Fortinet, and Sophos.

We tested IPCop, Smoothwall, IPTables and others. When we have an OS project, we want to test so we can compare it to our technology, and if it's better, we build it!

We evaluated Cisco .

Monowall, Tomato, DD-WRT.

Of course, the tools he knew and those that are offered in the local market including FORTINET and SONICWALL

I have evaluated Untangle.

I didn't evaluate the solution against other more expensive commercial tools.

As I already had experience with pfSense and I knew how it would help me and my company, I didn't evaluate other options.

I did, I evaluated Untangle, IPCop and MikroTik.

We evaluated FortiGate, Cisco ASA and Palo Alto.

I was checking some other alternatives (right now I don't remember which) but pfSense had the best documentation, so the choice was simple.

No, as I asked a friend they told me to get pfSense without doing other research.

I like Fortinet and Sophos as they have more tools to prevent ransomware attacks. Sophos has a client-server, and pfSense doesn't have that. Fortinet and Sophos are under a paid license, and pfSense is open-source and free. This is the main difference.

We didn't look at any other options.

When we compare to SonicWall, we feel that we are getting the best with pfSense.

No evaluation took place, we just looked at the initial cost to implement a solution using the hardware we have, and how fast it could be rolled out

I have evaluated Fortinet, their pricing is reasonable for the SME market, but they are not enterprise players. The strongest solutions in this field are certainly SentinelOne and Carbon Black, they outperform everything else.

Yes, OPNsense. It is very similar and better than PfSense.

I did evaluate another solution but felt that the cost was too high for what it was. Based on the consumer market, I didn't feel that it was at the enterprise level.

I looked at many hardware solutions.

No other options were evaluated.

No other options were evaluated.

We also evaluated Zeroshell.