Experience unparalleled value and performance with the Netgate 8300 Security Gateway powered by pfSense Plus software. The Netgate 8300 is tailored for medium to large business, xSP, MSP/MSSP with high connectivity and stability requirements. This unit is enterprise-ready, featuring Netgate's most expandable chassis and hot-swappable PSUs, ensuring mission critical reliability and ease of maintenance.
This security gateway boasts a formidable 2.0 GHz, 8-core, 16-thread Intel Xeon D-1733NT processor with Intel AVX-512 for exceptional Firewall and VPN performance. With quad 10G SFP+ ports, quad 1G SFP ports, and triple 2.5G RJ-45 ports, plus expandability with 10G, 25G and 100G ports via PCIe cards, the Netgate 8300 future-proofs your network infrastructure, scaling effortlessly with your business.
The Netgate 8300 maximizes your investment by delivering high-performance throughput at an incredibly competitive cost per gigabit. Compared to the 1541, it boasts a remarkable 47% firewall performance gain, 100% improvement in VPN and routing throughput, and a 175% increase in port density.
This compact 1U chassis optimizes space efficiency in server rooms and data centers, ideal for mission-critical deployments requiring robust high availability options and hotswap dual-power capability. Redefine your network standards by offering superior scalability, performance, and cost efficiency that exceeds industry expectations with Netgate's 8300 Security Gateway.
CPU: Eight Core 2.0 GHz Intel Xeon CPU.
Delivers 36 Gbps routing for everyday iPerf3-bidirectional traffic and over 26 Gbps of firewall throughput
Network Ports: 11 Independent 1G, 2.5G, and 10G ports.
Maximum port flexibility - with 1G, 2.5G, and 10G Ethernet configurable as WAN or LAN across the combination of 11 RJ45 and SFP ports
Expandability: PCIe 3.0 x8 for half-length low profile cards and PCIe 4.0 x16 for full-height three-quarters length cards
Storage: 512 GB NVMe 2280 M-Key M.2 SSD
Memory: BASE: 16 GB DDR4, ECC, 3200MHz via 2x 8 GB 1G x 72-Bit UDIMM (expandable to 32 GB via 2x 16 GB UDIMM), MAX: 32 GB DDR4, ECC, 3200MHz via 2x 16 GB UDIMM
Power: Dual hot-swappable PSU bays, Base: Internal 500W PSU (hot-swappable) included, 110V/240V AC input, MAX: 2 x Internal 500W PSU (hot-swappable) included, 110V/240V AC input
Cooling: Active - 7x chassis fans at the rear of the enclosure
LOW TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP
- pfSense+ software updates and security patches are provided free of charge for the life of the product
- No artificial limits or add-ons are needed for full functionality
- Enjoy unlimited users, firewall rules, IPsec tunnels, dual WAN, and more without additional usage or feature-based pricing
- Low power requirements to save money
- Designed for an extended deployment lifetime
GROWS WITH YOU
- Get all the security features you need to protect your business
- Flexible configuration and support for multi-WAN, High Availability, VPN, load balancing, reporting and monitoring, etc
- Add optional packages such as Snort or Suricata for IDS/IPS and network security monitoring. 1
EASY GUI MANAGEMENT
Intuitive web-based GUI includes :
- Configure advanced routing, firewall rules, VPNs, multi-WAN, and traffic shaping
- Dashboard with real-time traffic graphs
- Detailed diagnostics and reporting tools
SECURE REMOTE ACCESS
- Highly flexible, suitable for remote access and site-to-site connections, supporting a wide range of VPN types, including IPsec, OpenVPN, and WireGuard,
- Simplified multi-vendor supported VPN creation and management
- Secure connectivity for mobile and remote workers to the cloud
- Use the Amazon VPC Wizard to easily set up VPN connections with your Amazon EC2 cloud.
Best For:
- Medium-to-large sized organizations and businesses
- Enterprise
- Co-location, high availability use cases
- Service Providers and Managed Service Providers
Software Features
Router:
- Policy-based routing
- Multiple IP addresses per interface
- Multiple WAN connections (with load balancing and failover)
- Complex NAT mapping (outbound and inbound)
- Concurrent IPv4 and IPv6 support
- Optional multi-node High Availability (HA) clustering
- Dynamic routing protocol support [w/pkg]
Firewall, Attack Prevention, & Content Filtering:
- Extensive firewall rules
- Stateful filtering & packet inspection
- Per-interface configuration
- Ethernet (layer 2) rule-based packet filtering
- IP/DNS-based filtering and blacklisting [w/pkg]
- IDS/IPS with Snort-based packet analyzer [w/pkg]
- Layer 7 application detection and blocking [w/pkg]
- Reverse proxy [w/pkg]
- Geo/country blocking, IP block lists [w/pkg]
VPN:
- Site-to-site and remote access VPNs
- IPsec, OpenVPN, WireGuard
- Split tunneling
- IPsec policy-based and route-based protocol support
- OpenVPN Data Channel Offload (DCO)
- Intel IPsec Multi-Buffer (IIMB)
- IPsec acceleration with Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) (QAT)
User Authentication & System Security:
- User and group-based privileges
- LDAP authentication
- Automatic lockout after repeated attempts
- Optional key-based SSH access
- Traffic and bandwidth shaping
- Captive portal with user data transfer quotas
- External RADIUS authentication [w/pkg]
Configuration:
- Setup wizard for initial configuration
- Encrypted automatic backup to Netgate server
- Easy configuration backup/restore
- Multi-language support
Monitoring & Reporting:
- Customizable dashboard with widgets
- Local monitoring graphs
- Remote logging
- Network usage monitoring [w/pkg]
- Network diagnostics [w/pkg]