This means you get to tailor the hardware you choose to meet your environment's specific needs.

Unlike most common commercial firewalls offerings, the pfSense project is just the software portion of the firewall. Users familiar with commercial firewalls catch on to the web interface quickly, though there can be a learning curve for users not familiar with commercial-grade firewalls. There is no need for any UNIX knowledge, no need to use the command line for anything, and no need to ever manually edit any rule sets. PfSense software includes a web interface for the configuration of all included components. It has successfully replaced every big name commercial firewall you can imagine in numerous installations around the world, including Check Point, Cisco PIX, Cisco ASA, Juniper, Sonicwall, Netgear, Watchguard, Astaro, and more. pfSense software, with the help of the package system, is able to provide the same functionality or more of common commercial firewalls, without any of the artificial limitations. The pfSense project is a free network firewall distribution, based on the FreeBSD operating system with a custom kernel and including third party free software packages for additional functionality.

Pfsense on mikrotik