pfSense Firewall

pfSense is a FreeBSD system designed specifically for firewalls and VPN gateways.

Specials

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  1. Mars OpenBrick-E pfSense Appliance  $100 Instant Rebate!
    Mars pfSense Appliance. 1Ghz Celeron-M OpenBrick-E. Four (4) x 10/100M Ethernet (optional Intel 82541 Gigabit Ethernet). Optional Soekris VPN1411 VPN Hardware Accelerator. Stateful inspection firewall. 10-100 users. Up to 500,000 concurrent connections. 25-65 Mbps IPSec VPN throughputs.
  2. Mars 1U Server pfSense Appliance  $50 Instant Rebate!
    Mars pfSense Appliance. 1Ghz Celeron-M (optional 1.5Ghz Pentium-M) 1U server. Four (4) x 10/100 Ethernet (optional Intel Gigabit Ethernet). Soekris VPN1411 VPN Hardware Accelerator. Stateful inspection firewall. 50-500 users. Up to 500,000 concurrent connections. 25-100 Mbps IPSec VPN throughputs.

New Products

  1. Mars Twitter Intel Atom N270 pfSense Appliance
    Mars Twitter N270 pfSense Appliance. 1.6Ghz Fanless Intel Atom N270. Four (4) x Gigabit Ethernet: Realtek RTL8111C (or optional Intel 82574L). 1GB built-in DDR2 Memory. Stateful inspection firewall. 20-250 users. Up to 500,000 concurrent connections. 18-27 Mbps IPSec VPN throughputs.

New Knowledge-Based Articles

  1. IPSec Performance of Cisco ASA 5510 as Measured by IPerf.
    Using iperf, the IPSec site-to-site throughputs of the Cisco ASA 5510 were measured at 66 Mbps for both 3DES and AES-256 encryption. In comparison, the Mercury pfSense appliance's performance was measured at 77 Mbps, and the Mars pfSense appliance's performance at 100 Mbps.

Advantages of Hacom Commercial pfSense Products:

  1. True Embedded System Design:
  2. Performance ranges from 500Mhz VIA C7 to 2Ghz Intel Core2Duo T7200
  3. Multiple Ethernet ports
  4. Reliability and Stability. We have shipped pfSense products for the last 3 years, from version 1.0.1 to 1.2.3. All of the hardware incompatibility has been resolved.
  5. Support

Hacom offers four groups of commercially packaged pfSense systems with choices of support services: Phoenix, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter. The following comparison table can be used to select appropriate equipments depending on a network environment.

Performance1

Phoenix

Mercury

Mars

Jupiter

Suggested Users 5-25 10-50 10-250 50-1000
Throughput 90Mbps3 90Mbps3/
630Mbps4
90Mbps3/
630Mbps4
90Mbps3/
630Mbps4
Concurrent Connections2 80,000 200,000 200,000-400,000 400,000-1,000,000
3DES IPSec Throughput 8-10Mbps 20Mbps 25-40Mbps 40-80Mbps
AES IPSec Throughput 10-40Mbps 50-60Mbps 40-80Mbps 70-120Mbps

1Performance depends on network environment and configuration of the firewall.

2The number of concurrent connections in a stateful firewall depends on the available memory. For pfSense, each connection uses 1K of memory.

3Cleartext (raw) throughput of 10/100 Ethernet systems.

4Cleartext (raw) throughput of Gigabit Ethernet systems.

Note:

  1. Hacom pfSense systems are designed to run on a compactflash. However, it is recommended to use a hard drive if proxy or any disk intensive services are desired.
  2. The compact flash images are available for download from here.

Product Price Model Description
pfSense - The Definite Guide by Buechler and Pingle $25.00 Book PF-0979034280

"Written by pfSense co-founder Chris Buechler and pfSense consultant Jim Pingle, this Definitive...

Mars OpenBrick-E 600Mhz Celeron-M pfSense Appliance $399.99 OpenBrick-E PFCI852A4RN60

Mars pfSense Appliance. 600Mhz Celeron-M OpenBrick-E. Four (4) x 10/100 Ethernet. Optional...

Phoenix Uno pfSense Appliance $499.99 Uno PF3V700D-VR50e

Phoenix Uno VIA C7 pfSense Appliance. 500Mhz VIA C7. 3 x Ethernet Nics. 5-25 users. 10Mbps 3DES...

Mercury Brik pfSense Appliance $499.99 Brik PF3V700D-VR15U

Mercury Brik pfSense Appliance. 1.5Ghz VIA C7. 3 x Ethernet. 50-200 users. 21Mbps 3DES IPSec....

Mars OpenBrick-E pfSense Appliance $499.99 OpenBrick-E PFCI852A4RN10

Mars pfSense Appliance. 1Ghz Celeron-M OpenBrick-E. Four (4) x 10/100M Ethernet (optional Intel...

Mercury 1U Server pfSense Appliance $499.99 RM1U PFCV700A3R10

Mercury pfSense Appliance. 1Ghz VIA C7 1U Server. Three (3) x Ethernet (optional Intel Gigabit...

Mercury Neo pfSense Appliance $499.99 Neo PFCV700A3R10

Mercury pfSense Appliance. 1Ghz VIA C7 Lex Neo. Three (3) x Ethernet (optional Intel Gigabit...

Mars Uno Intel Atom N270 pfSense Appliance $499.99 Uno PF3I270D-V4X

Mars Uno N270 pfSense Appliance. 1.6Ghz Fanless Intel Atom N270. Four (4) x Gigabit Ethernet:...

Mars Twitter Intel Atom N270 pfSense Appliance $549.99 Twitter PF3I270D-V4X

Mars Twitter N270 pfSense Appliance. 1.6Ghz Fanless Intel Atom N270. Four (4) x Gigabit Ethernet...

Mars Neo pfSense Appliance $599.99 Neo PFCI852A4RN

Mars pfSense Appliance. 1Ghz Celeron-M (optional 1.5Ghz Pentium-M) Lex Neo. Four (4) x 10/100...