+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 -- From: Frank McClain <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Monday, April 22, 2013 2:14 PM To: Jason Drury <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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