비교: UniFi와 pfSense 방화벽 기능 비교

UniFi와 pfSense는 다양한 요구와 선호도에 맞춰 서로 다른 방화벽 기능을 제공합니다.

### UniFi와 pfSense 방화벽 기능 비교
* 🔥   이 동영상에서는 UniFi와 pfSense의 방화벽 기능을 비교하여 두 제품의 **차이점과 뉘앙스**를 강조합니다.
* 🛡️   UniFi와 pfSense는 모두 **전반적인 보안 및 업데이트** 측면에서 뛰어난 실적을 보유한 견고하고 안전한 플랫폼입니다.
* 🌐   UniFi는 스위치, 액세스 포인트, Wi-Fi를 **제어**할 수 있는 더 큰 에코시스템 및 플랫폼의 일부이며, pfSense는 **독립형 방화벽**입니다.
* 💻   비교 대상은 **중앙 집중식 관리**, **라이센스 비용**, 운영 체제, **자동 업데이트**, 롤백, VPN 지원, DNS 필터링, 트래픽 쉐이핑, **고가용성**, VLAN 지원, BGP 등과 같은 다양한 기능입니다.
* 🔒   pfSense는 방화벽 규칙 및 기능에 대해 보다 **고급스럽고 세분화된 제어**를 제공하는 반면, UniFi는 **기기별 수준**에서 DPI, 콘텐츠 필터링 및 트래픽 제어에 탁월합니다.
* 📊   이 동영상은 UniFi와 pfSense 중 선택은 특정 요구사항과 사용 사례에 따라 달라지며, 두 플랫폼 모두 **다양한 요구사항에 적합**하다는 점을 강조합니다.

Welcome to the May 2024 edition of UniFi features versus pfSense features in terms of firewall. Now, this is not an easy comparison to make because there's so many things that go into a firewall, and I want to cover this a little bit differently than I did in my July of 2023 video by actually showing some of the fundamental differences to kind of give you some overall views of these. UniFi just in the last year has made some leaps and bounds of making a much more full-featured firewall, but I will not tell you which one to use. That is ultimately your decision. As I tell people, use what makes you happy, use what makes sense for your use case. What I do want to show is those nuance details about how these services function differently in each of these firewalls. And what makes them even more challenging is pfSense is just that, a firewall, versus UniFi has a firewall feature, but it's actually part of a larger ecosystem and platform that can control your switches and your access.

points and Wi-Fi, etc., all in one place. So there's no fair comparison to there, especially when you start talking about Dream Machines and some of the NVR features that get thrown on top of that, along with all the other cool things you can do with UniFi. But I am keeping this narrowed in scope to just firewall features so I can talk about those differences. What I will tell you right here up front so you can save the time of watching the video: there's no gotchas here. I'm not going to tell you that one or the other is a terrible insecure platform because they're both solid and secure platforms that have great track histories in terms of their overall security. As far as updates, Ubiquiti has been on top of updates for quite a while, so has the folks at pfSense. So in terms of using it just for routing, yeah, these are going to be fine. So if that was your concern, hopefully I've just alleviated that and you can just say, Okay, I was just worried that I couldn't use it for.

routing, but yes, of course, it does all your basic routing and VLAN functionality. That's not what we're here to talk about, 'cause that does work perfectly fine in both platforms. Let's dive into those Nuance details where I show you some of those things that are advantages on the UniFi side and advantages on the pfSense side, and it comes down to which is the need you have and which one fulfills that need the best. So let's get [Music] started. Are you an individual or Forward-Thinking company looking for expert assistance with network engineering, storage, or virtualization projects? Perhaps you're an internal IT team seeking help to proactively manage, monitor, or secure your systems. We offer comprehensive Consulting Services tailored to meet your specific project needs. Whether you require fully managed or co-managed IT services, our experienced team is ready to step in and help. We specialize in supporting businesses that need IT Administration or IT team seeking an extra layer of support to enhance their operations. To learn more about any of our services.

head over to our website and fill out the hire us form at Lauren systems.com. Let us start crafting the perfect it solution for you. If you want to show some extra love for our Channel, check out our swag store and affiliate links down below. That will lead you to discounts and deals for products and services we discuss on this channel. With the ad read out of the way, let's get you back to the content that you really came here for. We're going to start here with my Forum post, which you'll find Linked In the description below. With pfSense, we're going to cover the cem plus Edition. So, there's a couple little changes between them, and that'll be noted on this column here. Then we have the uxg pro and the udm pro Max and SE versions. I'm not covering all of them because once you get down to a couple of the smaller ones, there'll be features that they don't have, such as the Dual Wan and Wan failovers not going to be an option because they physically don't

have the ports, but they do have most of the same functionality that we'll be covering. But I know a lot of people are looking at the UDM Pro Max and SE versions or UXG Pro, so let's get started. Can you run it on your own hardware? Well, of course, with pfSense you can, or you can buy Netgate hardware, and with virtualization, you can virtualize pfSense Plus. But the UDM is a hardware platform, and it comes with their software installed, and there's not really any separating the two officially. Centralized management. There is not an option currently for pfSense for centralized management that's official from Netgate. There has been talks about this coming out in the future, but as of right now, that does not exist. And they do have either via the self-hosted UniFi Network server or via the UniFi site manager, which you can actually also take your self-hosted instance of the network server and tie it to the site manager so you can have both technically. The web interface on pfSense is directly

function of the pfSense software versus the web interface is part of the UniFi Network server with the uxg pro, and via the built-in server with the udm series of them. That being said, it's also worth noting that you can't put your own self-hosted controller and then adopt one of the UniFi Dream Machines into it because they have their own built-in controller that comes with the device. So technically, the software is running on there, but it's running separate. It's an extracted layer from the firewall. It all ties into site manager, but that is a fundamental difference between how they do like the uxg pro and the previously and now deprecated USG Pro that was one of the original devices on there. Now that we got some of that out of the way, let's talk about license fees. If you buy ne8 Hardware, there are no license fees for the negate. But if you'd like to buy the negate pfSense plus and not just use the free Community Edition or C, yes, there's no license fees. So once again

I've just made that little asterisk there. Let you know if you buy the hardware, there's no fees. There are no fees for the UXG Pro or the UDM series. This is one of the things that UniFi supports. You can just have their controller software if you want to download and self-host it and manage a UXG Pro. No problem, no license fees. And there's no license fees with the built-in controller that comes with the hardware as well. Moving down to operating system FreeBSD versus Linux. Um, then the next thing on there though that's really a big deal, I think, is automatic updates. That's one thing I'm really happy that there's automatic updates as an option. You can turn it off. You can't override this. I don't know that this will be coming to pfSense. That's a maybe, but having the automated updates is huge for people who want to kind of set it and forget it, especially home users or technical people like myself, maybe providing something for family members to go, What's the best one?

to buy, use this. Just plug it in, it'll work. The setup is easy, and it will auto-update and maintain security. It is not the same way in the pfSense world where you can't just set it and forget it. It does take actual intervention for you to go in through and say yes to doing the updates. Now let's dive into GR interchanges and rollbacks. The rollbacks are only a pfSense Plus, but the GR interchanges are in both. And this is not a feature that you have over in UniFi. Here inside of pfSense, we have both the boot environments because this is the pfSense Plus system, and an entire list of each change as it was made, and an ability to roll back to that change, create differentials between those changes so we can look at how those changes were made. We know who made those changes and when, and we can quickly just hit this and revert back to that particular state or even just download a backup of the firewall as it was at that time when that change was made. This is

really nice for not only a change log of what happened, but being able to see who did it, and granular roll back to it, and even do differentials to see the file changes. And of course, the boot environments allow this as well, where you can take an entire snapshot of the OS if you have the plus Edition and bring it back to that particular snapshot using ZFS snapshots on the background. Now UniFi does have logging of what the users did so you can see when I open things or review changes to the VPN, but you can't roll back to these. I can only see what changes were made like for example the teleport subnet I did change the range on that, but you can't go back and reverse it. But at least you know what I changed so you could go back and reverse it manually. High availability, we have a yes with pfSense. I've got a pretty in-depth video on that. I'm not aware of that coming to the uxg pro. Yes, this is beta with certain models. It's actually really

cool feature unify call call it their Shadow mode Gateway. This has been out actually for a little while. This is the latest iteration that's in beta that I'm testing right now. It works really well. Several YouTubers have also demonstrated this, such as techno Tim and Chris from Cross Solutions and Cody. It is one of the easiest setups. Hats off for them for making this really easy. I will point out as well that the shadow mode does not require the same extra IPS as required in pfSense when you set up the ha there. This is simply using vrrp to hand off the IP between the devices. It works really well but it is in beta as of the recording of this video. Vlans support, yes, they support vlans. I'm all of the above here but with pfSense you don't just have VLAN support. You can go a little further with things like q and Q. You have a lot more advanced features including interface groupings that you can do and this goes a little beyond what you can do inside of UniFi platform.

BGP and OPNsense. This is a yes for pfSense. There's actually a lot of features around there. The OPNsense was recently added, and as of right now, still relatively simple, but this is a feature. Now supported in the UniFi platform captive portal. I'm not a big fan of captive portal, but yes, these all have captive portal options. OpenVPN, IPsec, WireGuard. I'm going to group all these together to kind of give a demonstration here that yes, but very basic. And what I mean by that, because even IPsec, I didn't put the words very basic, but technically compared to pfSense, it's basic, but it may be adequate if you're looking at OpenVPN inside of pfSense. You see a lot of options. This is so you can really fine-tune exactly which data encryption algorithms you'd want to use. You can choose all kinds of parameters in here, your certificates, your certificate client with OSP if you have that feature you want on there, the ability to choose these different shts here and have an entire CT management system in here.

fallback algorithms digest certificate depth client plus server uh three client plus two intermediary service four five etc. You can really go fine-grain through all these controls, and I've got videos on how to set this up in pfSense, but yeah, this gives you a lot of options. And then you can pass through extra parameters here, and the same goes for doing IPsec. You have a lot of options and a lot of granular control over IPsec. And if you go over even what they were considered the advanced settings, you have granular logging controls in here, configuration options, etc. So there's a lot you can do here. And if you have custom situations where you're connecting your firewall to a third party, a lot of times you have to go through these and figure out how to line it up and match them together. Coming over here to VPN settings on UniFi, we have the WireGuard server. This is actually very similar, except for I will say UniFi has the advantage of being able to do a QR code to make this easy to add devices. So the WireGuard is a

relatively simple VPN server to set up on both of them. But once you look at something like openvpn, even with a manual setup here, there's just not near as many options or Advanced features that you can do. And if you go over here to like site to site VPN and we look at doing openvpn or IP secc, same thing even with a manual setting, there's still not a lot of advanced detailed options that you have in here. Now if we look at the automatic sight to sight options, there's nothing built into pfSense for automated site to sight because pfSense doesn't have a cloud controller or anything to coordinate that. You can via the UniFi Network server or their site magic do automated sight to site. This is really cool. I think it's a nice feature that this is just built into the firewall. But with pfSense, we have the option of tail scale. It's a plug-in that you can load just going through their normal package manager, nothing and special. And with tail scale, this makes it easy to have

tail scale handle automatic sight to sight and other functionality. Tail scale is not supported because they have their automatic sight to sight and site magic built into UniFi, so I don't really expect them to put this on a road map because they have their own intrusion detection versus intrusion protection serotta or snort and all the features versus very basic and very basic for either one of these. Let me explain what I mean when you're looking at the snort settings or serotta settings. It's a similar interface in pfSense. You have a ton of granular controls not just of the settings but the categories which you want to check specific rules variables and so on and so forth. There's an absolute ton of exposed options here ways to pull in different lists and updates including paid subscriber rules. Inside of UniFi, you have Auto or Advanced and under Advanced there is a way to change the sensitivity. You'll notice that these are very similar to the rules exposed in pfSense and they're based on sraak cotta in the

back end so they're actually running similar services in the back end. They just don't expose as much detail. But this may be easier for some people because they can simply check the boxes they want, and that's adequate for what you need, including like the dark web blocker or block known malicious IPS from their threat entries. But they don't give you a lot of grind or control here in May of 2024 over exactly what you want added into that list or custom list or paid subscriber rules that you can buy from Snort or SRA cotta. This is where UniFi really differs from pfSense. pfSense does not really have, especially since Squid has been deprecated, any good way to manage SSL filtering. Now, even with Squid in the past, I never thought it was a great way to do it. They do not have a DPI system versus you have a really solid content filtering and DPI system inside of UniFi. Now, the traffic monitoring ort is kind of related. You can view some of that with some DPI information using ntop NG. I've done a

video on that uh you get to view it, but also control it, and they've done a great job of making this easy. So, we can select a specific device or a specific Network, and we're going to do it by device, save, and we're going to choose the apps. We'll select the apps, and let's say we don't want that device to watch YouTube or YouTube kids, so we're just going to hit save. You know what, I really think we should probably edit this and block Outlook as well. There we go, hit save. Now, this device on a schedule or everyday, every weekday, on a timer, etc., can have that blocked. They've just done a nice job of this, the same with even adding speed limits. It's kind of all part of the traffic control system here, and this is something a lot of users are really going to like, and it is a frequent request in pfSense and even with PF blocker. This is really not supported at this granular per device level, which leads us down here to DNS filtering and

yes via PF blocker because you can add very granular custom block list. But you get that at the firewall level, not the per device level, versus just the basic features that you have for DNS filtering inside of the UniFi platform. Now let's talk about advanced DNS options inside of pfSense. We have some very Advanced options, but there's really no equivalent to even show you inside of UniFi. So when we look at the DNS resolver settings, you have a lot of fine-grained control over what network interfaces it's attached to. You have some advanced settings if you want to fine-tune your DNS for a lot of different reasons. You can go through here and configure pretty much all your high-end DNS options and get very granular. You can leave them at default and they work fine at default, but if you have some of those Advanced use cases, especially the simple ones like host overrides, still don't exist currently in the UniFi platform. Goip filtering, this is across all of them, yes, is with PF blocker inside of PF sense.

traffic shaping. There's a lot of advanced traffic shaping versus the kind of basic on or off that you have here. I've covered this before in videos where you can choose your different type of Q algorithm management, set your Wan up and Wan down speeds so you can get fine grain control over how you want the traffic shaping to be set up inside a PF sense multi-wan support. They do have failover basic support inside of UniFi but it's a lot more advanced inside of pfSense so let me show you the differences. When you go to your routing inside of pfSense, you have all of your different gateways. Then you can build your gateway groups and when you're building these Gateway groups, you have the option to tier them up to five different tiers or you can even have them sharing tiers. This allows you to change how the failover works, what the trigger level is high lency or packet loss and this can actually be on a per Gateway basis defined exactly how it monitors each of these gateways.

makes those determinations and sets the weights. This is important if you have really advanced failover needs, more than just failing over from one to the other. You do have the ability to fail over inside of UniFi, but it's not quite as granular. You can do distributed and choose how you want it distributed, but it doesn't really have tearing in here, and there's only two supported. So, there's not a ton of things. You either get a primary WAN or a secondary WAN failover or distributed. And as I noted, not a lot of fine-grain control. SNMP monitoring, this is popular in a lot of business environments because you have other services that may do the SNMP monitoring. You can do this with pfSense right now in the version 3 series. This is not an option for the firewalls, but there is an option to turn it on because it allows other devices that are unified to be monitored via SNMP. But this is coming to the 4.0 version, but this is the May 24 version of this video, hence.

I'm not talking about things that are not released yet, but that is actually coming soon for those wondering. Active Directory integration, yes, via RADIUS or LDAP. Yes, via RADIUS because I know people can do it, but this is where there's a little bit of a nuance I want to talk about. If you head over to the pfSense documentation, there's entire documentations from the people at Netgate that offer how to do this step by step. This is something that I know can be done in UniFi, but there's no official documentation from UniFi, exa, how to set this up, which is why I do say yes because I know people have done it, but you're going through people's guides or videos people have done to see it. There's not much documentation on the UniFi side that I could find, at least that shows official ways to set that up. Policy routing, they do IP-based policy routing inside of pfSense. You can do policy routing for even the VPNs and send things over other gateways, but at present not over the WiGuard one which

I think it's a little odd, but I'm sure that's a feature that will be coming out in the future. Packet capture, diagnostics tools, and NetFlow export. We can kind of group these together. This is a feature of pfSense. It's built in and a package available if you're not using pfSense Plus. If you're using pfSense Plus, this is automatically built into the web interface. But I say yes to the command line on both of these because they're running Linux underneath. So many of these features are there. If you want to do packet capture with something like WireShark, you could turn on SSH. SSH in. And I've covered before how to do this with like a UniFi access point. So yes, there's actually a lot of things you can do from the command line on there. But there's currently no NetFlow export. And the packet capture tools inside pfSense are actually quite good and quite granular. You can choose the interface that you want to capture off of. Then you can filter for only the

packets that you want. The advantage of doing it in a web interface like this is to be able to get very specific of only the thing I want on a network. And if that Network's remote, it's harder to set up wire shark to tie into it, but you can do that with PF sense. But now I can just grab a capture of some type of packet CU I want to see what's going on and be able to pull that data right into a pcap file that I can download and analyze on my system. They make it really easy to do inside of pfSense. Plus, they have all these other diagnostic tools like looking at the AR table or doing a DNS lookup so I know how the firewall seees something based on its DNS settings or even looking up what ports are open which is very helpful when you're trying to figure out or troubleshoot any port forwarding options. Now the last two are really popular among home users. I don't really see this as the target audience for people running the UniFi systems that's going

to be having HAProxy as your reverse proxy along with Let's Encrypt certificates. This is a nice combo. I put it on here because I know a lot of people would ask about it if I didn't, but I don't really see this as unifies task. It's not hard to insert the name of your favorite third proxy or even HAProxy where a lot of other people have a dedicated secondary reverse proxy, but it's nice having it built into pfSense because it's the central point in your network so it can handle all certificates and reverse proxy to other services that you may want to have on here. Now the last thing I want to cover here is the firewall rules themselves, and this is where there's a really dramatic difference in the way they handle it. You have good features and probably the most common features available inside of the UniFi platform for setting up firewall rules, but I don't believe they laid them out in the most concise or clear way. This is a little bit confusing when you have a whole lot of networks figuring.

find out exactly how they're all structured versus the way it's handled in pfSense. Where you have not only a ton of options and as I noted, many of which you may not use, but if you need to use them, they're there. There's a lot of really advanced features, and because of the way they segment out all the firewall rules on a per-interface basis and allow you to put things like notes in between them so you can group the rules together, along with a very nice aliasing system in case you need to pull in other sources to help build the rules. They've just done a great job on this with the pfSense system in terms of layout and concise press. There's also the ability to granly do things in pfSense, such as import just firewall rules. So if you have to do something repetitive, you can actually grab rules, drag them across, repeat them across, or even import and export them between different pfSense devices to have them align to a structure that you want or even just import and export.

aliases that you want to set up. This gives you a really lot of advanced control over how you do firewalls, which is awesome. And not everyone needs it, but it's really nice if you do need it. And that's where these Advanced use cases come in. And that's why I did this video. It's not that one is better than the other. Now, granted, many of you make go, but I really need that DPI and content filtering options that are in the UniFi system. And hey, I get it. That's a frequent request that you just don't have inside of pfSense natively built in. But that being said, all those Advanced traffic rules. If you're going, I have a large-scale site. I have to set up. I have a lot of VLANs. I need all these extra features and uh, I need to have these different rule sets be able to have an alias so I can push this across with granular control. Hey, pfSense has it for that. But that's not an everyday use case and comparing niche products kind of get

you that better idea when I say, and I've said this on many times in many debates with people about which one should you get. Well, I like the advanced features in pfSense, and those are the features I'm talking about, but if you don't need them, well, then your use case comes down to buy what you need. Both of them are good platforms. I'm not here to bash on either one of them because, as I said in the beginning, I've seen them both in large-scale production systems. And if you're a small business running very few rules, which is a pretty common setup where most of your applications are in the cloud, and you don't really host anything on-site, and you're just a bunch of users using computers on the network, then you're probably not even spending a lot of time building out many firewall rules, so that doesn't really matter to you. All in all, let me know which one is right for you, and if it wasn't the two I covered, then let me know what is.

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UniFi와 pfSense는 모두 전반적인 보안 및 업데이트 분야에서 강력한 실적을 자랑하는 견고하고 안전한 플랫폼을 제공합니다.

UniFi는 지난 한 해 동안 방화벽 기능이 크게 발전한 반면, pfSense는 추가적인 에코시스템 및 플랫폼 통합이 없는 독립형 방화벽입니다.

이 두 가지를 비교하는 것은 개인 또는 회사의 요구 사항과 이러한 특정 요구 사항을 가장 잘 충족하는 방화벽이 무엇인지에 따라 결정됩니다.

네트워크 보안을 위한 pfSense와 UniFi의 비교

pfSense는 Netgate 하드웨어에서 실행하거나 가상화할 수 있는 반면, UniFi의 소프트웨어는 하드웨어와 통합되어 있습니다.

pfSense는 Netgate의 공식 중앙 관리 기능이 없는 반면, UniFi는 UniFi 네트워크 서버 및 사이트 매니저를 통해 관리 기능을 제공합니다.

Netgate 하드웨어와 함께 제공되는 pfSense에는 라이선스 비용이 없는 반면, UniFi는 UXG Pro 및 UDM 시리즈에 대한 라이선스 비용이 없습니다.

pfSense는 FreeBSD에서 실행되는 반면, UniFi는 Linux에서 실행됩니다.

UniFi에서는 자동 업데이트가 가능하지만 pfSense에서는 불가능하므로 "한번 설정하고 잊어버리는" 시스템을 원하는 사용자에게 더 편리합니다.

pfSense Plus는 UniFi에는 없는 롤백 기능을 제공하여 보다 상세한 변경 관리 시스템을 제공합니다.

ZFS 스냅샷, UniFi 로깅 및 VPN 기능 비교

ZFS 스냅샷을 사용하면 자세한 변경 로그와 OS의 세분화된 롤백이 가능한 반면, UniFi 로깅을 사용하면 롤백 기능 없이 변경 사항만 보고 검토할 수 있습니다.

pfSense는 데이터 암호화 알고리즘 미세 조정을 포함하여 VPN 설정에 대한 고급 세부 제어 기능을 제공하며, UniFi는 간편한 장치 추가를 위해 QR 코드를 사용할 수 있다는 장점과 함께 더 간단한 설정을 제공합니다.

OPNsense는 BGP를 지원하며, UniFi와 pfSense는 VLAN을 지원하며, pfSense는 더 고급 기능을 제공합니다.

OpenVPN으로 VPN 서버를 설정하면 고급 기능이 제한적으로 제공되는 반면, pfSense에는 자동화된 사이트 간 옵션이 내장되어 있지 않습니다.

반면, UniFi는 UniFi 네트워크 서버 또는 사이트 매직을 통해 자동화된 사이트 간 기능을 제공하는 반면, pfSense는 이 기능을 위해 테일 스케일을 사용하는 옵션을 제공합니다.

pfSense는 Snort 및 Suricata를 통해 침입 탐지 및 보호를 위한 세분화된 제어와 다양한 옵션을 제공하며, UniFi는 동일한 서비스에 대한 기본 제어와 함께 더 간단한 인터페이스를 제공합니다.

UniFi는 SSL 필터링에 탁월하며, 특히 Squid가 더 이상 사용되지 않는 이후 pfSense에는 없는 견고한 콘텐츠 필터링 및 DPI 시스템을 제공합니다.

pfSense 및 UniFi를 통한 디바이스 접속 및 트래픽 관리

pfSense와 UniFi는 모두 특정 앱 및 웹사이트에 대한 디바이스 액세스를 세밀하게 제어할 수 있으며, pfSense는 DNS 필터링 및 IP 필터링에 대한 고급 옵션을 제공합니다.

또한 pfSense는 보다 고급 트래픽 형성을 허용하고 사용자 지정 가능한 트리거 수준을 통한 장애 조치 구성을 포함하여 멀티-WAN 설정에 대한 광범위한 지원을 제공합니다.

반면 UniFi는 이러한 기능에 대한 기본 지원만 제공하므로 고급 네트워킹 요구 사항이 있는 사용자에게 더 적합합니다.

네트워크 장애 조치 및 모니터링을 위한 pfSense와 UniFi의 비교

pfSense는 분산 장애 조치 및 여러 지원 옵션을 포함하여 세분화된 제어가 가능한 고급 장애 조치 옵션을 제공하는 반면, UniFi는 장애 조치 기능이 제한되어 있습니다.

SNMP 모니터링은 pfSense 3 시리즈에서 사용할 수 있으며 4.

0 버전에 포함될 계획이지만, UniFi는 현재 SNMP 모니터링을 지원합니다.

Active Directory 통합은 pfSense에 잘 문서화되어 있지만 UniFi에는 공식 문서가 부족하여 설정 프로세스가 간단하지 않습니다.

또한 pfSense는 포괄적인 패킷 캡처 및 진단 도구와 NetFlow 내보내기 옵션을 제공하는 반면, UniFi는 이러한 영역에서 주로 명령줄을 통해 액세스할 수 있는 제한된 기능을 제공합니다.

네트워크 관리를 위한 pfSense 사용의 이점

pfSense는 특정 네트워크 패킷을 캡처하고 AR 테이블 조회 및 DNS 조회와 같은 진단 작업을 수행할 수 있는 사용자 친화적인 웹 인터페이스를 제공합니다.

또한 명확한 레이아웃, 인터페이스별 세분화, 규칙 가져오기 및 내보내기 기능을 갖춘 고급 방화벽 규칙 기능을 제공하여 네트워크 관리에 세분화된 제어와 유연성을 제공합니다.

고급 방화벽 제어: pfSense와 UniFi 비교

pfSense는 고급 트래픽 규칙과 세분화된 제어를 위한 별칭 설정을 제공하므로 여러 VLAN을 사용하는 대규모 사이트에 이상적입니다.

반면 UniFi는 방화벽 규칙이 거의 없고 애플리케이션이 대부분 클라우드에 있는 소규모 비즈니스에 더 적합합니다.

이 두 가지 중 어떤 것을 선택할지는 궁극적으로 사용자의 특정 요구 사항에 따라 달라지며, pfSense는 고급 사용 사례에 적합하고 UniFi는 간단한 네트워크 설정에 적합합니다.