The Homelab Show Episode 111: Open Source, Firewalls, and Other Updates
Channel: Lawrence Systems
Date: 2023-11-01

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Wikipedia List of router and firewall distributions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_and_firewall_distributions


* https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCop IPCop "The Bad Packets Stop Here" started 2001 ended 2019
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothwall Smoothwal started 2000 ended Last download for smoothwall org / express was 2014 (only has one supported on their buy me a coffee page)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearOS ClearOS is the successor to ClarkConnect and had the concept of being the all in one firewall, VPN, Proxy, Email server, web server, print server, user manager, and file server. Bought by HP and updates seem to have stopped
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentyal Zentyal very simliar to ClearOS, started 2009, seem to stil have a commercial offering last open source release was January 6 2021 last news update on their blog was from July 2021
*  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endian_Firewall Endian Firewall is a fork of the Linux firewall IPCop, They do still offer a community edition called that can be downloaded via Sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/projects/efw/  feature comparison https://www.endian.com/community/comparison/
*  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPFire IPFire also a fork of IPCop is still active but no Wireguard support, very little documentation, VLAN setup very confusing
*  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt OpenWrt started 2004 and is still active, but I have not used it so I can not really speak to it's overall functionality or ease of use.
*  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VyOS VyOS is a fork of Vyatta, still active offers, They offer free latest snapshot builds or self-compiled stable. Stable builds require subscription which start at $8,000 per year. They are working on a web interface but most features need to be done via the command line.

*  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M0n0wall m0n0wall was an embedded firewall distribution of FreeBSD  pfSense: Forked from the m0n0wall project in 2004, first released was in 2006
*  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense pfsense 2006 to present
*  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPNsense OPNsense forked from pfsense in 2015

Related topic: THE UNTOLD STORY: How the PIX Firewall and NAT Saved the Internet

https://youtu.be/GLrfqtf4txw?si=hRFPlc-hk1S9137-