Hi, I am looking into buying a UTM firewall. Currently looking at DELL Sonicwall SOHO and Check Point 620. They are both around $600. I have also looked at Sophos Free UTM, but the price for their yearly IPS subscription is $3XX. Ouch. The main thing I'm looking for is Intrusion Prevention, since that role cannot be covered by any HIPS on the host. Any other product suggestions welcome.
Hi Brocke, I just downloaded pfsense to take a look. Has it spotted any attacks for you ? Hi fax, Thanks for the link.
I am a bit leery of running another Linux firewall. Last time I had Untangle and somebody broke the firewall. The web UI literally didn't work anymore. But I see pfsense is based on FreeBSD, so I may give it a try as I read somewhere a long while ago that the FreeBSD people are pretty security conscious. What kind of hardware are you running it on? How many PCs is your pfsense guarding ?
I'm running it on s mini over with a msata drive and atom processor with 4gb of ram. My home network has 11 devices from laptops to smartphones to DVD players. I also use it in a business network I manage. Security is very tight with it if configured right. Take a small amount of tweaking but not bad. The gui will help alert if errors
Can you give me the model version of that atom cpu? I want to go get the cpu benchmark passmark score of it to see how it compares to the Pentium 4 3Ghz I have idling in my house. The pfsense site says it recommends using a cpu less than 4 years old but I am not certain when that was written, but if it was written in 2009, then my Pentium 4 3Ghz would be within that 4 years old recommendation.
Here's some info AMD G-T40E Processor You should be fine with that cpu. Just make sure you have a fair amount of ram. I have 4gb
