I'm testing opnsense right now, really like it. Fork of pfsense.
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:31 AM, AJ Weber <awe...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I was a long-time user of EFW and liked the product, but I'm not telling
> you anything you don't already know when I say that they've completely
> ignored the distro and there's virtually no development or support any
> longer.
>
> Someone here mentioned Ubiquiti's EdgeRouters a while back, so I bought
> an EdgeRouter Lite. It has been very stable, fast and secure. It
> doesn't have all of the "appliance" features, because it's designed as a
> router/fw first. But you can add debian packages to tweak it --
> provided you keep in mind that it has finite cpu and memory.
>
> Would be nice if their OS was ready to run on any intel-based box, but
> their prices are more-than-fair for the hardware. And their forums are
> very responsive from other users AND the developers.
>
> In my case, I replaced a EFW "PC" and a load-balancer with the one
> EdgeRouter Lite for way-lower electric consumption and faster throughput.
>
> On 2/10/2015 3:35 AM, Andre Mueller wrote:
> > Hello Matt
> >
> > Thank you very much for your answer.
> >
> > This night I found, that our router was not afflicted by an syn-flood
> > attack, but was hacked and was used as an syn-flood server itself. There
> > was no way to save it, as the "bad files" where distributed over the
> > system and reloaded themself permanently and so I had to set-up the
> > router from fresh.
> >
> > Yes your are right about the future development of the community version
> > and it is wise to move to an other firewall.
> >
> > best regards
> >
> >
> > Am 09.02.2015 um 17:02 schrieb Matt Hayes:
> >> I'm only responding as most likely you will not get a response from
> >> Endian themselves, I'm not sure why it is not working if you have syn
> >> flood protection enabled already. I myself am slowly moving from Endian
> >> Firewall Community as I'm not able to get any answers from Endian or
> >> their developers at all.
> >>
> >> There are numerous security issues with the distribution specifically
> >> with SSH and openssl. I'm moving to a more up to date and maintained
> >> firewall for my needs.
> >>
> >> Good luck.
> >>
> >
> >
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