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    • LakshmanaL
      Lakshmana @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller where these appliances used?
      In enterprise level only??

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        VyOS is extremely similar to EdgeOS used in Ubiquiti firewalls. They are both forks of Vyatta.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
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          @Lakshmana said in Open source Firewall:

          @scottalanmiller where these appliances used?
          In enterprise level only??

          No, opposite. Most verge on hobby systems. VyOS is very enterprise, we use it in our big data center. That's shared code with Brocade and Ubiquiti.

          pfSense is FreeBSD / pf based and very good. But more or less an enterprise would never build their own firewalls. You buy appliances for that.

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          • LakshmanaL
            Lakshmana @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in Open source Firewall:

            @Lakshmana said in Open source Firewall:

            @scottalanmiller where these appliances used?
            In enterprise level only??

            No, opposite. Most verge on hobby systems. VyOS is very enterprise, we use it in our big data center. That's shared code with Brocade and Ubiquiti.

            pfSense is FreeBSD / pf based and very good. But more or less an enterprise would never build their own firewalls. You buy appliances for that.

            What is brocade and ubiquitous words used here??

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              With really good firewalls from Ubiquiti being so cheap and using EdgeOS the entire concept of making your own firewall is basically historical only. There is no value to it today outside of the educational value.

              The one rare exception is VyOS on large rack servers for cases where you need extreme throuput on a budget.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
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                @Lakshmana said in Open source Firewall:

                @scottalanmiller said in Open source Firewall:

                @Lakshmana said in Open source Firewall:

                @scottalanmiller where these appliances used?
                In enterprise level only??

                No, opposite. Most verge on hobby systems. VyOS is very enterprise, we use it in our big data center. That's shared code with Brocade and Ubiquiti.

                pfSense is FreeBSD / pf based and very good. But more or less an enterprise would never build their own firewalls. You buy appliances for that.

                What is brocade and ubiquitous words used here??

                Brocade and Ubiquiti are firewall vendors. Brocade makes very large enterprise gear like Juniper. Ubiquiti we talk about daily in here. It is nearly the only network gear we recommend for small business any more - it is so good and so cheap that nothing competes with it.

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                  Francesco Provino @Lakshmana
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                  @Lakshmana said in Open source Firewall:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Open source Firewall:

                  @Lakshmana said in Open source Firewall:

                  @scottalanmiller where these appliances used?
                  In enterprise level only??

                  No, opposite. Most verge on hobby systems. VyOS is very enterprise, we use it in our big data center. That's shared code with Brocade and Ubiquiti.

                  pfSense is FreeBSD / pf based and very good. But more or less an enterprise would never build their own firewalls. You buy appliances for that.

                  What is brocade and ubiquitous words used here??

                  Brocade is one of the top player in the networking world. They buy Vyatta and make their own (mostly closed source) version of the Vyatta appliance.

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                    Francesco Provino @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in Open source Firewall:

                    @Lakshmana said in Open source Firewall:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Open source Firewall:

                    @Lakshmana said in Open source Firewall:

                    @scottalanmiller where these appliances used?
                    In enterprise level only??

                    No, opposite. Most verge on hobby systems. VyOS is very enterprise, we use it in our big data center. That's shared code with Brocade and Ubiquiti.

                    pfSense is FreeBSD / pf based and very good. But more or less an enterprise would never build their own firewalls. You buy appliances for that.

                    What is brocade and ubiquitous words used here??

                    Brocade and Ubiquiti are firewall vendors. Brocade makes very large enterprise gear like Juniper. Ubiquiti we talk about daily in here. It is nearly the only network gear we recommend for small business any more - it is so good and so cheap that nothing competes with it.

                    Agree, Ubiquity stuff is good and cheap. You can replace a 3k€ Cisco 5510 with a 400€ ER-8.

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                    • LakshmanaL
                      Lakshmana
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                      Whether these firewall os are able to test in VM machine?

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
                        last edited by

                        @Lakshmana said in Open source Firewall:

                        Whether these firewall os are able to test in VM machine?

                        No, they are hardware. If you want to run a firewall in a VM, VyOS is the obvious choice. pfSense is kind of okay.

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                        • LakshmanaL
                          Lakshmana @scottalanmiller
                          last edited by Lakshmana

                          @scottalanmiller as checked providing the link for future reference
                          http://packages.vyos.net/iso/release/1.1.7/

                          https://www.pfsense.org/download/

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                          • Reid CooperR
                            Reid Cooper
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                            pfSense was really good in the past. But I agree, the days of building your own firewall on an old PC that you have are over.

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                            • DashrenderD
                              Dashrender @Reid Cooper
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                              @Reid-Cooper said in Open source Firewall:

                              pfSense was really good in the past. But I agree, the days of building your own firewall on an old PC that you have are over.

                              Right - the cost just isn't worth running your old PC. Power alone will cost more than the cost of an ER-X or ER-L.

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