Top 15 IPFire Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

IPFire is a server distribution with intended to use as a firewall. It focuses on flexibility, and scales from small to middle sized business networks and home networks.

Along with this hardened, minimalist come lots of addons that can be installed with a simple click. That's what makes IPFire different from other firewall distributions: it is easy to configure for any task, and easy to administer once it's set up.

1. Endian Firewall Community

Endian Firewall Community Endian Firewall Community (EFW) is a "turn-key" linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance with Unified Threat Management (UTM) functionality. The software has been designed with "usability in mind" and is very easy to install, use and manage, without losing its flexibility. The features......

2. SmoothWall Express

SmoothWall Express The SmoothWall Open Source Project was set up to develop and maintain SmoothWall Express - a Free firewall that includes its own security-hardened GNU/Linux operating system and an easy-to-use web interface.......

3. m0n0wall

m0n0wall m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software).m0n0wall is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD,......

4. IPCop

IPCop IPCop Firewall is a Linux firewall distribution geared towards home and SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) users. The IPCop interface is very user-friendly and task-based. IPCop offers the critical functionality of an expensive network appliance using stock, or even obsolete, hardware and OpenSource Software.OLD PC + IPCOP = Secure Internet ApplianceIPCop......

5. Simplewall

Simplewall Simplewall delivers robust firewall security, rich content filtering rules engine, bandwidth management and a simple way to monitor and stay on top.......

6. Untangle

Untangle Untangle is a platform for deploying network based applications. The platform unites these applications around a common GUI, database and reporting. Applications on the Untangle platform inspect network traffic simultaneously, which greatly reduces the resource requirements of each individual application. Untangle can act as a complete unified threat management (UTM)......

7. ZeroShell

ZeroShell Zeroshell is a Linux distribution for servers and embedded devices aimed at providing the main network services a LAN requires. It is available in the form of Live CD or Compact Flash image and you can configure and administer it using your web browser.......

8. EasyTomato

EasyTomato EasyTomato is a powerful, easy-to-use, free bandwidth manager that is perfect for schools, hospitals, and nonprofits with slow internet connections and limited IT knowledge.......

9. pfSense

pfSense pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall, and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and......

10. Rusroute

Rusroute RusRoute is a router and firewall, Internet gateway for Windows, it is the ideal solution for making Internet gateway for local area network (LAN) of any firm, the users' traffic encountering and restricting, protection against of network attacks with functions of NAT, redirect, dynamic TCP shaper with conditional expressions, VPN......

11. Gargoyle

Gargoyle Gargoyle is a free firmware upgrade for your wireless router, based on OpenWRT but with an enhanced interface (not LUCI) focused on ease of use. Some enhanced features of Gargoyle include MONITORING BANDWIDTH per connected computer, SET QUOTAS AND THROTTLE to ensure that network resources are allocated fairly; BLOCK FORBIDDEN......

12. Bandwidth Management and Firewall

Bandwidth Management and Firewall Bandwidth management and firewall, traffic shaping software for Windows XP/Vista/7/8/Server 2003/2008 R2.......

13. ConfigServer Firewall

ConfigServer Firewall This suite of scripts provides:Straight-forward SPI iptables firewall scriptDaemon process that checks for login authentication failures for:Courier imap, Dovecot, uw-imap, KerioopenSSHcPanel, WHM, Webmail (cPanel servers only)Pure-ftpd, vsftpd, ProftpdPassword protected web pages (htpasswd)Mod_security failures (v1 and v2)Suhosin failuresExim SMTP AUTHCustom login failures with separate log file and regular expression matchingPOP3/IMAP......

14. Free Firewall

Free Firewall Free firewall is a full-featured professional firewall that protects against the threats of the Internet. Control every program on your computer by permit or deny access to the Internet. Free Firewall will notify you if applications want to access the Internet in the background, without your knowledge. In Paranoid mode,......

15. WIPFW

WIPFW WIPFW is a MS Windows operable version of IPFW for FreeBSD OS. You can use the same functionality and configure it as only you work with IPFW.......