Re: Suggestions for Open Source Internet Security Gateway Distro/Product

[Justin Iverson <jiverson () primelending com>]

+1 for pfSense

I went through the same excerise you are going though.

I tried Astaro (now Sophos) and it's a slick product, but it requires a lot more horsepower than some of the other 
products out there.  I also tried ipfire and it is pretty nice, but didn't suit my taste.  I ended up going with 
pfSense because it was fairly lightweight and is pretty modular.  It also has quite a few community plugins.  I'm still 
in the process of setting it up completely, but I like what I have so far.

Some of the products out there sound free, but require you to pay for subscription to keep content up to date; so, do 
your research before installing.  :)

Good luck!

Justin
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From: Frank McClain <frank.mc.42 () gmail com<mailto:frank.mc.42 () gmail com>>
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Date: Monday, April 22, 2013 2:14 PM
To: Jason Drury <druryjason () yahoo com<mailto:druryjason () yahoo com>>, PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List 
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Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Suggestions for Open Source Internet Security Gateway Distro/Product

Jason,

I've used Untangle, and also a commercial version of Astaro (would probably be very equitable to the personal version 
currently available from Sophos) and liked both of them.

I'd also throw pfSense in there as well:  http://www.pfsense.org/

Regards,

Frank



Frank McClain


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Jason Drury <druryjason () yahoo com<mailto:druryjason () yahoo com>> wrote:
Folks,

I would like to setup an Internet security box for my home network for firewalling, dhcp, IDS, web filtering, and 
possibly VPN. It has been a long time since I've looked at the various Linux security distros that do this (I think 
Astaro Security was the best choice back then).

I did a few searches and it seems like there are a LOT of distros/products available now.

Here are just a few I came across:

1. Untangle - http://www.untangle.com/
2. Vyatta - http://www.vyatta.org/
3. Zentyal - http://www.zentyal.org/
4. Sophos UTM (formley Astaro) - http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-home-edition.aspx
5. Engarde Linux - http://www.engardelinux.org/
6. Smoothwall - http://www.smoothwall.org/
7. ClearOS - http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/overview.html

I do not care if it is gui or cli based. I would prefer something based on Debian/Ubuntu, but not absolutely necessary.

Does anyone have any experience with the above distros/products or could you recommend something else you like?

Thanks,
Jason

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