Network Security Device
Open-source software, a full-featured solution, meeting all your network security needs. Network security device (NSD)
Applications
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VPN Server
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High Availability
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Load Balancing
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Traffic Shaping
- Captive Portal
- UTM Device
- Firewall / Router
- DNS / DHCP Server
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IDS / IPS
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Transparent Caching Proxy
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Web Content Filter
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And more …
Features
FIREWALL & rOUTER
- Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI)
- GeoIP blocking
- Anti-Spoofing
- Time based rules
- Connection limits
- Dynamic DNS
- Reverse proxy
- Captive portal guest network
- Supports concurrent IPv4 and IPv6
- NAT mapping (inbound/outbound)
- VLAN support (802.1q)
- Configurable static routing
- IPv6 network prefix translation
- IPv6 router advertisements
- Multiple IP addresses per interface
- DHCP server
- DNS forwarding
- Wake-on-LAN
- PPPoE Server
VPN
- IPsec and OpenVPN
- Site-to-site and remote access VPN support
- SSL encryption
- VPN client for multiple operating systems
- L2TP/IPsec for mobile devices
- Multi-WAN for failover
- IPv6 support
- Split tunneling
- Multiple tunnels
- VPN tunnel failover
- NAT support
- Automatic or custom routing
- Local user authentication or RADIUS/LDAP
Intrusion Prevention System
- Snort-based packet analyzer
- Layer 7 application detection
- Multiple rules sources and categories
- Emerging threats database
- IP blacklist database
- Pre-set rule profiles
- Per-interface configuration
- Suppressing false positive alerts
- Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
- Optional open-source packages for application blocking
Enterprise Reliability
- Optional multi-node High Availability Clustering
- Multi-WAN load balancing
- Automatic connection failover
- Bandwidth throttling
- Traffic shaping wizard
- Reserve or restrict bandwidth based on traffic priority
- Fair sharing bandwidth
- User data transfer quotas
User Authentication
- Local user and group database
- User and group-based privileges
- Optional automatic account expiration
- External RADIUS authentication
- Automatic lockout after repeated attempts
Proxy and Content Filtering
- HTTP and HTTPS proxy
- Non Transparent or Transparent caching proxy
- Domain/URL filtering
- Anti-virus filtering
- SafeSearch for search engines
- HTTPS URL and content screening
- Website access reporting
- Domain Name blacklisting (DNSBL)
- Usage reporting for daily, monthly, etc.
Administration
Enterprise Reliability
- Web-based configuration
- Setup wizard for initial configuration
- Remote web-based administration
- Customizable dashboard
- Easy configuration backup/restore
- Configuration export/import
- Encrypted automatic backup to Netgate server
- Variable level administrative rights
- Multi-language support
- Simple updates
- Forward-compatible configuration
- Serial console for shell access and recovery options
SECURITY SYSTEM
- Web interface security protection
- CSRF protection
- HTTP Referer enforcement
- DNS Rebinding protection
- HTTP Strict Transport Security
- Frame protection
- Optional key-based SSH access
REPORTING AND MONITORING
- Dashboard with configurable widgets
- Local logging
- Remote logging
- Local monitoring graphs
- Real-time interface traffic graphs
- SNMP monitoring
- Notifications via web interface, SMTP, or Growl
- Hardware monitoring
- Networking diagnostic tools