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UTM for home usage

/usr/home said:
Untangle appliance.
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My vote too,

Remember tho untangle doesn't support vlans.

What could be done tho is wap on one ip & network card, then the rest on the other network card and subnet.. Like how I have mine setup..
 
tangoseal said:
Pfsense?

I think it has vlaning support.
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Yes it does, remember tho. The more vlans the more CPU power u need !

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Actually, you need lots of CPU power if you are pushing load of traffic across the vlans.
 
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dashpuppy said:
they have NO PLACE! they are pure shit, no throughput, and if you spend 4x the price on one, you get RAPED for subscriptions.

they are junk,
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I've not been a fan of Netgears firewall for many years...but honestly, their new UTM products are quite decent. They leverage Commtouch, Kaspersky, and Sophos for the scanning engine. In a review on UTMs by Netgear, Fortinet, Sonicwall, and Watchguard appliances...the Netgear unit SMOKED the other 3 in stopping malware.

Pricewise...the UTM10 is cheaper than the Sonicwall TZ100W by over 200 bucks initially, (appliance and first year all inclusive subscription). Renewal wise..it's about 500 bucks per year...all inclusive. Sonicwall seems to actually do the raping here..they separate the services for the subscription renewal. 5x licenses for antivirus suite, 199, gateway AV/IPS/anti spyware, another 95, content filtering, another 95, anti spam...360, support...either 70 or 90 bucks depending on daytime only or round the clock, software updates (LOL)...gotta pay 55 bucks for that. Kinda adds up..looks like that's well over 500 bucks.
 
A SonicWall NSA 240 would do the trick. The subscriptions are a little pricey but they work pretty well. There's a lot of Sonicwall hate out there but their current gen is actually pretty good.

A Juniper SRX210 or Cisco ASA5505 would probably do the trick as well but I'm not sure how well the reporting and filtering features work out of the box.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about blocking their porn habits - I'd just worry about the viruses and spyware. Best practices apply - no local admin for those users. You might even consider a utility that restores the PC to a previous state when it reboots - Microsoft has one but I forget what it is called.
 
Another +1 for Untangle!

Been running an Untangle VM for about a year and love it! I don't restrict any sites, but I do have it pop up a message to ask the user if they are sure they want to allow access to porn/hate/etc. sites.

My wireless router allows for a Guest network, so I set that up and deny access to the other network, that way they can browse whatever they want but I don't have to worry about them infecting my systems. My viewpoint is that it is their devices so I don't really have a right to say what they can and can't do on them ;)
 
dashpuppy said:
i've played with a few, and they were both junk, Yes new units.!
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Recently took on a client that has an existing one..due to my prior dislike of Netgear, I was thinking I'd be recommending replacing it pretty quicky. But I did a little research on it..found out what it uses for antivirus/malware (and those facts are good)....found out that it's actually very effective as far as malware blocking (shown by valid testing at an antivirus/security comparison organization..not opinion)..rated much more effective than sonics and watchguards and forti's....and, well, the annual costs of it are actually not raping you compared to some others...so I'm going to probably leave it in place at this client. Throughput? The smaller UTM10 model I saw does 12 megs throughput (benchmarked by Tim Higgins at SmallNetBuilder) with all features turned on...much faster with certain ones turned off. But since my client is on a 6 meg pipe...clearly it's not a bottleneck.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
Recently took on a client that has an existing one..due to my prior dislike of Netgear, I was thinking I'd be recommending replacing it pretty quicky. But I did a little research on it..found out what it uses for antivirus/malware (and those facts are good)....found out that it's actually very effective as far as malware blocking (shown by valid testing at an antivirus/security comparison organization..not opinion)..rated much more effective than sonics and watchguards and forti's....and, well, the annual costs of it are actually not raping you compared to some others...so I'm going to probably leave it in place at this client. Throughput? The smaller UTM10 model I saw does 12 megs throughput (benchmarked by Tim Higgins at SmallNetBuilder) with all features turned on...much faster with certain ones turned off. But since my client is on a 6 meg pipe...clearly it's not a bottleneck.
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id have to start at a utm50 and go up from there..
 
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