YeOldeStonecat
Very Senior Member
As a small business network consultant...over the years it's become apparent the increasing need for something with more features than just an entry level biz grade NAT box for the small business. Many of my clients run on Small Business Server, or several servers including Exchange. With ad/malware on the increase, as well as SPAM...it's nice to have an added layer of protection done at the gateway.
Years ago I began piddling with some of the linux distros out there...and there's a lot..here's a list that certainly does not include all of them.
Some of the basic *nix router distros....
IPCop...one of the more popular ones, has a big development/support community with lots of add-on packages.
http://www.ipcop.org/
You can add UTM functionality to it with the add-on called Copfilter
http://www.copfilter.org/
m0n0wall
http://m0n0.ch/wall/
Smoothwall
http://www.smoothwall.org/
pfSense...built on m0n0wall...with stronger QoS features
http://www.pfsense.com/
Clark Connect is a cool distro for a small business, sort of an open source *nix version of Microsoft Small Business Server
http://www.clarkconnect.com/
vyatta
http://www.vyatta.com/
For some of the UTM distros....in addition to the Copfilter build of IPCop listed above....
Endian...one of my favorites..built on top of IPCop..with the features of Copfilter...bundled into one tight package
http://www.endian.com/en/community/
Comixwall
http://comixwall.org/
Astaro
http://www.astaro.com/
Untangle...this one is fantastic...I've built a few...using them in production...very powerful. Lots of features...even blocking of IM traffic and peer to peer traffic.
http://www.untangle.com/
eBox
http://ebox-platform.com/
Similar to ClarkConnect...quasi server duties
So in this thread...maybe some of us who have experienc with some of these can start conversations.
Years ago I began piddling with some of the linux distros out there...and there's a lot..here's a list that certainly does not include all of them.
Some of the basic *nix router distros....
IPCop...one of the more popular ones, has a big development/support community with lots of add-on packages.
http://www.ipcop.org/
You can add UTM functionality to it with the add-on called Copfilter
http://www.copfilter.org/
m0n0wall
http://m0n0.ch/wall/
Smoothwall
http://www.smoothwall.org/
pfSense...built on m0n0wall...with stronger QoS features
http://www.pfsense.com/
Clark Connect is a cool distro for a small business, sort of an open source *nix version of Microsoft Small Business Server
http://www.clarkconnect.com/
vyatta
http://www.vyatta.com/
For some of the UTM distros....in addition to the Copfilter build of IPCop listed above....
Endian...one of my favorites..built on top of IPCop..with the features of Copfilter...bundled into one tight package
http://www.endian.com/en/community/
Comixwall
http://comixwall.org/
Astaro
http://www.astaro.com/
Untangle...this one is fantastic...I've built a few...using them in production...very powerful. Lots of features...even blocking of IM traffic and peer to peer traffic.
http://www.untangle.com/
eBox
http://ebox-platform.com/
Similar to ClarkConnect...quasi server duties
So in this thread...maybe some of us who have experienc with some of these can start conversations.
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