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title: Netgate Newsletter - December 2024
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| In this combined newsletter, we cover the latest pfSense Plus and TNSR software news, hardware news, cloud, and more. Enjoy! |
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| View in browser December 2024 Newsletter Happy Holidays   Thank you for being a valuable part of our Netgate family. We appreciate your support, trust, and partnership.   Wishing you a wonderful holiday season and a prosperous New Year!   - The Netgate Team   pfSense® Plus Software Version 24.11 is Here!   We are excited to announce the release of pfSense Plus software version 24.11. This release brings several major features that our users have requested, along with over 70 other improvements and bug fixes. Release Notes are available for review.    Major features include: Kea DHCP Enhancements, including support for High Availability and increased integration into Unbound. Among other things, this allows for DHCP client registration in the Unbound DNS Resolver and smoother updating of Unbound. Multi-Instance Management Early Look System Aliases in Custom Rules NTP Authentication Learn More pfSense Plus Software Tip- Building a Site-to-Site VPN with OpenVPN Data Channel Offload (DCO)   We have added a new recipe, OpenVPN Site-to-Site Configuration Example with SSL/TLS and DCO. This new recipe guides administrators through the configuration process for a site-to-site OpenVPN DCO link between two peers. DCO impacts how OpenVPN itself behaves, which can make configuring some roles such as a site-to-site VPN using DCO a challenge. Netgate provides a variety of pfSense® software Configuration Recipes, including recipes for site-to-site VPNs using IPsec, WireGuard, and OpenVPN.    Read the Blog Here Case Study- Chitale Dairy's Network Transformation with TNSR   Chitale Dairy, led by CEO and CTO Vishvas Chitale, is setting new standards in technology-driven dairy processing in India. Facing the challenge of managing 4.2 million routes and high traffic loads, they chose Netgate’s TNSR software for its scalability, low latency, and cost efficiency. This solution is empowering the company to enhance performance and achieve significant savings, paving the way for continued innovation.   Learn More TNSR Software Tip -  Using Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)  to Quickly Detect Outages   An important function of network routers is the ability to detect outages and begin the mitigation process as quickly as possible. In most environments, this means the need for near instantaneous detection of the event. This month’s Tech Tip will explain how to use BFD to detect a network outage much faster than would be possible using only an Interior Gateway Protocol like OSPF. This will allow OSPF to begin the process of recomputing available paths through the network, routing around, and mitigating the problem much sooner.   Read the Blog Here   TNSR Consultation   TNSR is an incredibly powerful router and VPN aggregator that can outperform the competition at a fraction of the cost. We invite you to learn more. Contact us to schedule a consultation.   Netgate 7100 Reached "End of Life" The Netgate® 7100 line of Security Gateway Appliances reached "End of Life" on December 14, 2024. This includes both desktop and 1U rackmount variants.    Given the importance of network security, we strongly recommend upgrading your 7100 series appliance to a newer model. Please explore our comparison table or visit our online store to find an option that works for you. Check out our product lifecycle page for more information about End of Life/End of Sale products. End-of-Year Sale  From now until December 31, 2024, you can enjoy a 10% discount on select Netgate appliances. Just use the code Secure2024 at checkout. Shop Now! Monthly Customer Highlights From PeerSpot “pfSense is an enterprise-grade product that is easy to use and has a simple GUI.   The dashboard is very handy. I use mine almost daily. I can put up the widgets I want to see or remove widgets I don't want to see. It has pertinent information about my services running, any VPN connections I have, and clients connected. It's a nice dashboard.   The failover functionality for connectivity helps minimize downtime. It has also been simplified recently with some excellent added features. If I lose or corrupt my image, I can easily reinstall the operating system and restore my configuration. I'm pleased with these features of pfSense.”   – John, Senior Network Engineer   Read the Full Review In the Cloud  Have you ever wanted to try pfSense Plus or TNSR software on the cloud? Netgate makes it easy to get answers to your questions and to try us out on AWS and/or Azure. We offer no-cost proof of concept trials for qualified opportunities. Visit Netgate in the Cloud for more details and to get started! Netgate Holiday Schedule The Netgate Global Support Technical Assistance Center (TAC) is fully staffed and operational 24/7/365 with our experts, which includes all holidays.  Netgate sales, manufacturing, and shipping teams will be unavailable during planned holidays.    2024 Netgate Holidays  December 24 – Christmas Eve December 25 – Christmas 2025 Netgate Holidays  January 1 –  New Year’s Day February 17 – President's Day April 18 – Good Friday May 26 – Memorial Day July 4 – Independence Day  September 1 – Labor Day October 13 – Indigenous People’s Day  November 27  – Thanksgiving November 28 – Thanksgiving December 25 – Christmas  December 26 – Christmas Technical Assistance Center The Netgate Technical Assistance Center (TAC) provides world-class technical assistance for pfSense Plus and TNSR software.    Each Netgate Security Gateway appliance and cloud instance comes with TAC Lite, which provides software updates and zero-to-ping support for effortless setup and configuration. TAC Lite ensures your Netgate appliance, equipped with pfSense Plus, AWS, or Azure firewall, is Internet-ready and connects to at least one client on the network.    Additionally, every Netgate TNSR install on a Secure Router, and TNSR software cloud instance includes TAC PRO, with the option to upgrade to TAC Enterprise.   Beyond TAC Lite, there are TAC PROl and TAC Enterprise tiers, which provide quicker response times and cover a broader range of support issues. No matter your support level, TAC is available 24/7/365 to assist you. If you would like to upgrade your current TAC subscription, please contact sales@netgate.com What Our Customers Say About TAC “Fast response even on a holiday.” - Craig Huckabee, Happy Customer   “The TAC team helped me plan a path forward to overcome a hardware failure in our production environment and potentially strengthen the rest of our fleet.” - Marc Mapplebeck, TownSuite    “I purchased pfSense Plus last year after using CE for years. I’m still loving it and happy to pay for the TAC Lite services. Still as stable on 3rd party hardware appliances.”  - Maxim Beaulieu, Happy Customer    “TAC support is always very responsive and quick to help. Best example of superb tech support in the entire industry!” - Roger Loeb, Martech We Want Your Feedback   Thank you for subscribing to the Netgate newsletter, and for your continued support of Netgate and our products. We are always looking for ways to improve and value your feedback. If you have suggestions, please reply to this email, contact us, or send an email to mktg@netgate.com. You can also talk to us on social media, or visit our forum. Useful Links & Information   Netgate Website Netgate Store mktg@netgate.com +1 512.646.4100 Join our growing social community! 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