HaVoK-69 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I have been looking for a new project lately and I have been looking a lot at making my own router with untangle, though recently I stumbled upon pfSense and I was curious, which should I do? Does anyone have much experience with the two they would like to share? I have seen untangle in action and I like the gui and everything but pfSense being a new discovery for me makes me curious. Which would be more secure for a home network running 2 desktops-wired 1 laptop (wireless) 1 netbook (wireless) and 2 console systems (wireless). I should note I live in a single story home made of cinder blocks and the systems are scattered between 3 different rooms so you can imagine the wireless signal isn't the strongest thing in the world. Thanks for any suggestions in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlocone Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I've used both products in the past. At the time Untangle wouldn't allow you to setup custom dns (opendns). In my opinion PfSense is a better product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 You might want to try eBox, if you want something a little more flexible. http://www.ebox-platform.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ap0the0sis Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I use Smoothwall as my firewall at home. It supports UPnP if you need that. I've used pfSense, Endian, custom IPtables with Ubuntu. Overall, Smoothwall has provided the most stable experience, and I enjoy tweaking it on occasion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaVoK-69 Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 Thanks for the quick replys, I will check them all out but I'd like to add I am looking for mostly something I can use to replace my wireless linksys wrt54g router with which would be very secure and add alot of functionality with different settings such as tracking packets coming in and out of my network. Currently my router randomly disconnects my wireless connected laptops and I'm hoping this may be a little more stable but also more secure. Thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Thanks for the quick replys, I will check them all out but I'd like to add I am looking for mostly something I can use to replace my wireless linksys wrt54g router with which would be very secure and add alot of functionality with different settings such as tracking packets coming in and out of my network. Currently my router randomly disconnects my wireless connected laptops and I'm hoping this may be a little more stable but also more secure. Thanks again Whatever you go with you may want to set up Xplico as its a really slick, good looking way of seeing what people are doing on the network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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