Comments on: Seven Different Linux/BSD Firewalls Reviewed

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:16:51 +0000

I came upon this site years ago, probably the same year that this article was blogged. I’m back again testing the same software, only this time in a VM and with much more knowledge. I had narrowed my choices down to 3 which are m0n0wall, Pfsense, smoothwall. The only thing I liked about smoothwall was the IM proxy and the footprint. Otherwise, it’s features are pretty comparible to any router marketed today. I’d probably recommend this to the casual home network. I recently knocked it off my list beceause both m0n0wall and pfsense now support the IM proxy.

Needless to say, both BSD versions of the routers have an extensive bandwidth implimentations including Advanced QoS bandwidth throttling AND shaping and both are able to successfully shape P2P traffic in ways that ISP’s had done it based on L7. This is needed for todays highspeed internet and network traffic. Both have captive portals now and a wealth of security and other options FREE, that you probably wouldn’t even find in a single package in 1000 dollar corporate switches. However Pfense seems to do better at all of this of m0n0wall, plus it has an integrated modular system which is a bonus, to add stuff from a repository. Now with 2.0 around the corner, there are a lot of improvments and new features like multi-wan, oh, and I pfense has VLAN, not just vlan tagging like the rest.

Yup. I think I just convinced myself.

By: ADW

ADW — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:38:56 +0000

Excellent article & some interesting comments, has certainly given me food for thought. Any news on the next set of reviews?

By: lasaruzz200

lasaruzz200 — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:31:57 +0000

Hey, great Review, i tried the following firewall,
Clarc connect, Endian Firewall, Fsence, monowall, smooth wall and Untangle. why co’z its my job as a network security administrator, you have to try all the opensource in the market. And make your network very tight secure but FREE!!!. all the company right now are looking for that. I am using untangle for more than a years now, it has everything that i need
and yet im not satisfied, Web filtering, anti virus, proxy, vpn, etc. as in everything. but i can say its not yet that secured, so i came up in to this solution. why dont you set up a two best firewall that you want, and let them work together. having two firewall is more secure rather than single one.
for what ive tested this firewall is really great.

Untangle (you have to pay for some feature’s)
like:
fail over
Kaspersky AV
Load balance
Branding
etc. but really greate

Endian firewall

clarck connect

Fsence

hope this can help those guys that dont know yet what to used.

just email me if you need more explanation…

By: stanleyW

stanleyW — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:32:25 +0000

why don’t you consider ideco it’s all-in-one thing although in that case you wouldn’t be able to install nginx and others , I cannot say it’s gonna work for everybody but it works for me

By: TomK

TomK — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:05:28 +0000

You have played with a lot of firewalls. I am thinking of using either IPCop or pfSense, but I have a complication. I want to also run Nginx as a http load balancer and http caching server in the same machine. Any suggestions on what my final choice might be. I am running on CentOS 5.3 x64.

Thanks

By: stanleyW

stanleyW — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:40:54 +0000

Can these work with a network with over 200 computers?
or these are mainly for small networks I’ve tried many of firewalls mentioned but haven’t quite found the solution i need so i still plan to try out
1.mikrotik
2. ideco
3. coyote

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