pfSense Firewall

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

Specials

The following products are currently on special promotions. Just add them to the shopping cart to see the instant rebates.

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:
   • Small and Compact
   • Low Power Consumption
   • Fanless Systems. Designed to run from Compact Flash
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
   • Customized pfSense to support our hardware platforms
   • Availability of pfSense manual: pfSense - The Definite Guide by Buechler and Pingle
   • One (1) year warranty and support. A single contact for both hardware and software issues.

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.

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.