Plugin system (easily deploy Snort, ntop, and many other applications).
In this post, I provide an introduction to Pfsense and explain how to get the most out of it. Utilizing Pfsense will solve these problems and provide you with a fully featured firewall/router with no additional cost over the price of the hardware you put it on. On the enterprise side of things, you may end up struggling against increasing licensing costs or limited functionality licensing. On the consumer side of things you may be dealing with insecure routers with limited functionality. Whether you’re running a small home network or working in an enterprise environment, it’s easy to find fault with consumer grade routers and enterprise routers/firewalls alike.