Comments on: This is the Fastest review EVER of 5 Linux firewall distributions.*

By: CRasch

CRasch — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:54:31 +0000

No Mods for PFSense? All the MODS are Packages. They are available and downloadable right from the web GUI.

By: Frederic A

Frederic A — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:06:16 +0000

I have 2 sites for supported wireless network card for ipcop.
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/

By: Frederic

Frederic — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:32:15 +0000

Anyone tried Ideco gateway? i ran it for 2 weeks now and it works fine i couldn’t find any reviews on the product though just curious

By: john

john — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:16:19 +0000

With low cost USB flash memory, internal USB flash memory could substitute for a hard drive. I recall doing a test install of SmoothWall and it requiring a SCSI hard drive but I’m not sure why. pfSense complained at less than 512MB RAM but ran at near wire speed just the same.
Since spying on Americans has become big business, I was surprised not to see more tunnels for communication especially at the firewall router level with mod and custom options.

By: neil

neil — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:51:10 +0000

Almost forgot. the guys at clark connect were very very helpful when i was setting the machine up, ran into one or 2 problems with configuration, i gave them a password to the machine and they looked into it and told me where i was going wrong, for FREE. any other companies willing to do that, not from what i have found, you are lucky to get a reply to your email…

By: neil

neil — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:45:58 +0000

I ran clark connect on a dell poweredge 4100 dual pentium pro 200mhz. with perc raid controller and 6 18.4gig scsi drives, ran sweet as a nut, had mail and web server on it, 51 users, file storage, firewall, dynamic dns, print server. and 2 lans.

Ran perfectly for 4 1/2 years, then mainboard popped and game over. now run cisco 3600. and pay for webhosting.

By: Ramiro

Ramiro — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:43:41 +0000

I tested Clark Connect but it didn’t work,with a pentium II(kernel panic), Monowall ( doesn’t work with Realtek 8139) and discarted it) and finally Ipcop worked, but in general new ethernet cards aren’t supported.

I was using it for several weeks but now i will have to use other solution for traffic shaping because my “Ipcop box” was damaged by an electrical storm.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:59:12 +0000

To Shane @clarkconnect.

I can give you a reason for having a print server on a firewall (like some of the little checkpoint firewalls have). For use in a DMZ set up for all the visitors to your company who want access to the Internet AND a printer. Now they can plug into a DMZ port or WAP in a DMZ and print instead of connecting to the corporate network.

I wish it weren’t so but this tends to be the more accomodating (for the visitor) and secure method than allowing the visitor to plug into the LAN.

Thanks for doing the review; I’m surprised that there aren’t more of these. I was looking for a feature comparison chart. And thanks to the individual who mentioned Endian. That was one I looked at last year and couldn’t remember the name of it.

By: Daze

Daze — Sun, 18 May 2008 06:10:11 +0000

I’ve tried most of the firewalls except for pfSense. I must say that Endian seems to be very polished, and is so far my favourite. pfSense sounds like it also may be good. Running Tomato on a Linksys WRT54GL for almost a year, I think pfSense or Endian are going to be excellent. Smoothwall is quite slick, but lacks OpenVPN.

By: ISS

ISS — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:42:10 +0000

Really great article and perfect timing that I just ran across it… been using IPCop for a few years now and was looking at some new FW’s before I build a few boxes and this will give me some direction… I was also going to test Untagle… THANKS