We performed a comparison between Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] and Netgate pfSense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"The performance is good."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The interface is very good."
"This solution is user-friendly."
"The gain in performance and security from configuring the VPN connections was significant."
"The performance and functionality are good."
"I like the connectivity to the open VPN. It's very smooth."
"An incomparable stability is achieved with other firewall systems."
"My technicians find the pfSense's web interface very useful. It is very easy to use. pfSense is very reliable and stable. We like the OpenVPN clients that can be deployed using pfSense very much."
"The classic features such as content inspection, content protection, and the application-level firewall, are the most important."
"It has a good web cache. I used to use a DHCP server and DNS server. For my company, I use pfSense as a load balancing application."
"Technical support is perfect, excellent."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"I haven't seen any feature that will allow me direct authentication for a VPN solution."
"In an upcoming release, the reporting could be more user-friendly. For example, the reporting in graphs and charts for the host can be cumbersome."
"We are at the moment looking to use it as a proxy service so that we can limit what websites people go and view and that sort of thing. That's an area I've struggled with a little bit at the moment and it could be a bit easier to set up."
"The GUI could use more “bells and whistles”. It's got plenty of info for a Sysadmin but some people like shiny things."
"Improve analysis of logs and dashboards (control panel) with improved alert functionality."
"If a user doesn't have a large amount of experience in Linux systems, they will have problems using this solution. Users need to be highly skilled in troubleshooting competency. Users who do not have such skills will find the product difficult to use."
"Ultimately, we'd like something stronger, and something that can handle threats better in real-time."
"It needs to be more secure."
"pfSense could improve by having a sandboxing feature that I have seen in SonicWall. However, maybe it is available I am not aware of it."
Earn 20 points
Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] writes "User-Friendly, improves security, and gives me more control over my VoIP". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, KerioControl and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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