Which UTM &/or Firewall Vendor do you prefer?

What UTM and/or firewall vendor do you prefer?

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I use to like draytek. However, I had almost all of my 2920's (about a dozen) fail all right around the same time frame from inception. They all started to get sketchy and fail at around 3 years of age. Plus one that I had that was only 6 months of age was one of the worse warranty claims I ever went through. It took about 4 months and tons of hassle.
 
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We typically use pfSense, but are wanting to move to Untangle, but we haven't had any decent sized new clients to install those on. We have been using the Unifi Stack lately (USG/Unifi Switches/AP's) for new small clients.
 
We use Palo Alto where I work at. I have been looking into building a pfsense box for home use though, so I voted for that.
 
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For UTMs......Untangle is our preferred one and we have a lot of 'em out there. Been using them for over 10 years.

Have a few clients on Sonicwalls
Have a client on Fortinet

If I wasn't well established with Untangle...I'd give Sophos a shot...have always played with it (and well before Sophos took it over, back when it was Astaro).

For non-UTMs...I love PFSense...we have a big multi-location client with them, and I've frequently used it at home since the very first version.
But for our go-to basic router now...we use Ubiquiti ER and USGs.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
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For UTMs......Untangle is our preferred one and we have a lot of 'em out there. Been using them for over 10 years.

Have a few clients on Sonicwalls
Have a client on Fortinet

If I wasn't well established with Untangle...I'd give Sophos a shot...have always played with it (and well before Sophos took it over, back when it was Astaro).

For non-UTMs...I love PFSense...we have a big multi-location client with them, and I've frequently used it at home since the very first version.
But for our go-to basic router now...we use Ubiquiti ER and USGs.
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I am running pfSense on an R210 for our office, I also have another R210 with Untangle loaded. Just haven't brought myself to switch over.
 
Slaters Kustum Machines said:
I am running pfSense on an R210 for our office, I also have another R210 with Untangle loaded. Just haven't brought myself to switch over.
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I call PFSense "The Ferrari of firewalls".....it's damn fast..and crazy good QoS. Great at VPN tunnels too.
I used to run PFSense on old IBM Thinkpad T20 vintage laptops at home...has the onboard NIC, I'd put in a 3COM PCMCIA NIC for the second one...and voila! A router with a built in keyboard, mouse, monitor, and battery backup!

We have Untangle on an old R200 at our office. Used to have it on an old Proliant dual Xeon DL360 or something....but, swapped out with the R200 about 3 years ago.
 
thecompu-doctor said:
I use to like draytek. However, I had almost all of my 2920's (about a dozen) fail all right around the same time frame from inception. They all started to get sketchy and fail at around 3 years of age. Plus one that I had that was only 6 months of age was one of the worse warranty claims I ever went through. It took about 4 months and tons of hassle.
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I also was a big fan of Draytek. Had issues with reliability so moved to Sophos (Cyberoam).
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
I call PFSense "The Ferrari of firewalls".....it's damn fast..and crazy good QoS. Great at VPN tunnels too.
I used to run PFSense on old IBM Thinkpad T20 vintage laptops at home...has the onboard NIC, I'd put in a 3COM PCMCIA NIC for the second one...and voila! A router with a built in keyboard, mouse, monitor, and battery backup!

We have Untangle on an old R200 at our office. Used to have it on an old Proliant dual Xeon DL360 or something....but, swapped out with the R200 about 3 years ago.
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We've been using untangle and are slowly replacing other various routers with untangle solutions for our managed clients. I recently bought a linksys WRT1900ACS and am in the process of setting it up in office with untangle running on it. It is my hope that if all goes well, this Untangle Linksys box will become our new router of choice for many of our residential and small office installs.
 
Much as I love Untangle...dunno that I'd want to support it in a residential scenario...constant calls about kids games not working or something.
With so much malware now going httpS...you want the SSL inspector in place and have to get that installed on each client...I picture that being quite a difficult task.

Looking forward to version 13 release soon...major interface overhaul, like...all new from scratch!
 
Untangle all the way. It is the perfect balance of features and ease of use. It also works out of the box without needing additional wrenching.
 
pfsense. Hands down. Runs rock solid in a vm. In my home lab I have it running in hyper-v (had to find a way to keep my windows admin skills up).
 
Kangaroo said:
pfsense. Hands down. Runs rock solid in a vm. In my home lab I have it running in hyper-v (had to find a way to keep my windows admin skills up).
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I used to run pfSense in a VM on my R710, but now I have it on a physical R210. It does what I need, but I keep meaning to try Untangle again, it's been a few years.
 
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