I have to agree about the lack of community-response in general. It's a great firewall/appliance, but they make it way too hard to customize, tweak and update for an open-source product. I built my own, mini, dev environment in order to patch a few things, but will certainly look into the one Robert produced.
I glanced at ZeroShell -- only glanced -- it seems a bit different to Endian. Some packages I see as strengths, others as weaknesses. For example, they leverage BIND, and you need to setup your own DNS. That's not trivial -- dnsmasq is more than sufficient for most SOHO applications. Plus, they built their own linux OS. That means any patches/additions have to be compiled from source and hopefully you have all the dependencies. I would much-prefer a CentOS-based distro that I could (at least somewhat) easily add my own features from standard RPMS. There are some good features there as well, I agree. And I have been long-waiting for Endian to allow true load-balanced WAN connections. On 11/15/2012 4:56 AM, Lorenzo Milesi wrote: >> I think you are probably right, Endian doesn't seem to be all that >> responsive. They also don't seem all that interested in >> complying with the GPL license. I sent an email directly to the folks >> associated with the EFW sourceforge project. If >> I don't hear anything back from them in the next couple of days I'll >> release the dev environment anyways. > Despite being Endian very good, I decided to move away for this reason. Bugs > never closed, no updates for OS releases, no committment in the community... > > I'm now testing ZeroShell and pfSense. They both have the same features of > EFW and much more, like PPTP support, hotspot, uplink failover, web > antivirus... ZS even uses an internal radius server for authentication. > pfSense is great as well, but it's on bsd and I'd rather stay on linux ;) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
