+1 for pfsense, I left endian many moons and settled on Pfsense, great
community and great product. Please feel free to contact me via email if
you have some questions.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:51 AM, compdoc <comp...@hotrodpc.com> wrote:
> > Unfortunately for me, I love Endian, but I think at some point I'm
> going to have to say enough is enough and move on to something else that is
> actually maintained.****
>
> ** **
>
> I love Endian too and have used it for many years. I have also had
> customers running happily on it for years. But the threats to security are
> increasing and I'm afraid of using an outdated product any longer. ****
>
> ** **
>
> I've been trying a few of the firewalls listed on distrowatch.com, and
> the only one that has impressed me so far is pfsense. It's clamav is a
> little behind, (0.97.5) but I've read that the person responsible for
> maintaining that package does a good job of keeping it up to date, however
> other packages that interface with it have to be updated at the same time
> so it doesn’t happen too often. It's gui is surprisingly fast, and there
> are a large amount of packages/utilities to choose from. ****
>
> ** **
>
> You install the packages individually, which saves resources. (but don’t
> switch away from the page until the install is complete!) It's openvpn
> settings are different from EFW, and I have not been able to make it
> connect to a remote EFW firewall as a client. I had to install openvpn on
> an Ubuntu server behind the efw firewall. But that has a few benefits like
> the ability to use a newer version of openvpn, control over its settings,
> and . ****
>
> ** **
>
> It's nice to have a firewall with a choice of 32bit or 64bit, that has the
> ability to run well in a virtual machine, that is not abandoned, that uses
> a more mainstream OS for support reasons, that has packages that can be
> updated, that has a gui that is well tested, and that has more features I
> need.****
>
> ** **
>
> IPFire came close, but I managed to create an openvpn entry that could not
> be deleted later, and there were other gui anomalies. Vyatta is strictly
> command line unless you pay a subscription, but I didn’t find this out
> until after I installed it and enabled the gui. And Untangle would not run
> in a kvm VM on my server for some reason. (maybe video related)****
>
> ** **
>
> I think I've found a replacement in pfsense and have switched to it for a
> few days now. Good luck to all of you.****
>
> ** **
>
>
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