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Pfsense: Netgate Firewall SG3100 Appliance

 Today I am going to talk about the Netgate Firewall appliance. The naming convention for Netgate Firewall is SG-3100. The SG-3100 pfSense is a Security Gateway Appliance and mainly configured as a firewall. 


Bit Netgate SG-3100 Firewall can be configured as LAN or WAN router, VPN appliance, DHCP Server, DNS Server, and IDS/IPS with high performance to deliver, high throughput front-line security appliance at a brilliant price in a compacted footprint.

With already configured pfSense software, the SG-3100 is a steadfast networking security clarification imaginative by traditional annual contracts, licensing fees, or artificial limitations. Flexibility is built in to the SG-3100 with upgrade options such as a m.2 SATA SSD, LTE cellular, or mPCIe Wi-Fi.

Fig 1.1- Netgate Firewall Appliance

Netgate SG-3100 is come up with the preloaded pfSense software and is ready to use.
  • Informal GUI management. Achieve pfSense settings through web-based GUI.
  • Adaptable configuration and backing for VPN, load balancing, reporting and monitoring.
  • No added usage or feature based cost. No fixed limits on users, firewall rules, or IPsec tunnels.
  • Connect through encrypted Virtual Private Networks (VPN) among offices, permit mobile workers join securely, or connect to the Cloud.
  • Use the integrated Amazon VPC Wizard to simply create VPN connections with Amazon EC2 cloud instances.

Support in Software Features
  • Stateful packet filtering firewall or pure router
  • Routing policy per gateway and per-rule for failover and load balancing
  • Transparent layer 2 firewall
  • Support for IPV6, NAT, BGP
  • Captive portal with MAC filtering, RADIUS support,
  • VPN: IPsec, OpenVPN, L2TP and Dynamic DNS client
  • Reporting and monitoring features with real time information