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December 2019This Month's Topics
Special Announcements
TNSR™
pfSense®
Other News
 Holiday Sale for Netgate Appliances and Support   Using the RESTCONF API
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Application Highlight: Site-to-Site IPsec VPN  High performance secure routing - at any level - has traditionally forced buyers into either large capital outlays for ASIC-based appliances, or a large array of less expensive COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) hardware appliances / VMs - with inherent kernel-based packet processing limitations. TNSR uses Vector Packet Processing (VPP) to crush traditional high-performance routing economics - TNSR software can be used as a Site-to-Site IPsec VPN achieving speeds at 1, 10, 40, 100 Gbps, and beyond at dramatically lower price points. For more TNSR use cases, videos, and data sheets, please visit our TNSR resource page.
TNSR Tech Highlight: Open-Source Disruption
 What was once thought of as “software for hobbyists by hobbyists,” open-source is now ready for prime time and is now being leveraged by forward-thinking enterprises and service providers. By deploying open-source networking software, organizations are able to gain several benefits:
Our new open-source disruption education page covers these benefits in more detail as well as explaining how Netgate's TNSR software is one of the first breakout commercially-ready solutions built on top of open-source projects.
 Serve The Home Netgate SG-5100 Review  The team at ServeTheHome recently tested the popular Netgate SG-5100 gateway appliance. As with most of the STH work, they jump right into the meaty technical bits that we all love to read about. In Part 1, they cover the hardware, specs, configurations, and dual support for pfSense or TNSR software. Part 2 is all about performance. First they cover their bench test results where they used IMIX traffic to measure throughput performance of the SG-5100 running pfSense software. We are big fans of this approach over iPerf3 as it more closely resembles typical traffic seen in real-world conditions. They ran nine different performance tests to determine the maximum throughput they could achieve with zero packet loss, which we consider a useful measurement for evaluating network gateway appliances. As a bonus, they measured power consumption and noise of the SG-5100 during their testing—important details that we know customers care about. We look forward to Part 3 where they compare IPsec performance between pfSense and TNSR software on the SG-5100. Netgate pfSense Appliance Family Chart  Recently we published a new Netgate pfSense appliance family chart with the goal of giving our website visitors a quick side-by-side comparison of Netgate appliances against one another. While most of this data (and more) exists on individual product pages, we believe the chart makes it fast and easy for viewers to quickly determine which appliance is best for their needs. One of our latest blogs covers the variety of test conditions we put each of our products through and provides a fast, easy, and comprehensive compare and contrast of Netgate secure networking appliances. pfSense 2.4.5 Snapshots are Available pfSense 2.4.5 snapshots are live! This is an opportunity for you to contribute to the pfSense project without writing a single line of code, simply by downloading, testing, and sharing feedback on pre-release versions of pfSense.
If you have a problem:
*There is a known issue with Captive Portal and 2.4.5 at the moment as well. If you have Captive Portal active, either do not upgrade to 2.4.5 snapshots yet, or deactivate it first: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/9977 Reminder: Take a backup before, and a snapshot if it's a VM. These are early development snapshots and are likely to be unstable. Don't expect a smooth ride. We've fixed a lot of obvious things but there is much more left to do. Also, uninstall all packages before upgrading to ensure things go smoothly.
Other News SG-5100: The Ultimate Home/SMB Appliance with pfSense software 
Looking for the best appliance to run pfSense software in your home or small office? If you are like many of our customers, you are looking for something with:
If that sounds like you, the Netgate SG-5100 appliance with pfSense software is a perfect fit. Netgate is the only official producer of appliances that are designed, certified, and tested for pfSense software. Dollar-for-dollar, nothing will outperform this gateway appliance. Netgate Amazon Product Reviews  Our Amazon community wants to know what others think of our products. Whether you buy directly from us, our partners, or an e-commerce marketplace we would love to hear your feedback on your appliance on Amazon. If you are one of the many customers that use the Netgate SG-1100, SG-3100, SG-5100, or XG-7100 DT we would greatly appreciate your feedback and rating on the Amazon platform. Reviews like these are instrumental in how we shape future offerings and services for customers. Netgate Tech Tip of the Month - Web interface VLAN configuration
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