Based on our record, OPNsense seems to be a lot more popular than Advanced IP Scanner. While we know about 94 links to OPNsense, we've tracked only 1 mention of Advanced IP Scanner. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Nmap is very handy for doing deep scans, and I use it when I want to do a thorough scan of my network, but for when I want to do a simple ping scan to figure out what is active on the network and responding to pings, I have found Advanced IP Scanner to be very handy (advanced-ip-scanner.com). It will also do basic scans to tell you what if a device is running a web server (great for finding network connected... Source: over 2 years ago
Firmware's like Asuswrt-Merlin or OpenWRT can support dynamic-dns, or you can do like I do and run something like OPNsense in an x86 VM with a NIC passed through, or buy an inexpensive firewall appliance (up to 500mbps/1gbps/10gbps). Source: 6 months ago
The easiest solution is to buy your own router, set it up, disable the router functionality on the Fritzbox 7590 and plug your router into it. It'll be cheaper and easier than a Cisco Firewall, but if you want to go the dedicated firewall route then I would recommenced OPNsense. Source: 6 months ago
BSDs may not have a significant presence on desktops, but they're well known in the networking world for their reliability. They also were the foundation used to build OSes for specific applications. OpnSense and XigmaNAS, for example, are two excellent FreeBSD based applications aimed at firewalling/security and NAS/services. https://opnsense.org/ https://xigmanas.com/xnaswp/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
For switches? OpenWrt supports a few models toward the lower end, and SONiC support a bunch at the higher-end datacenter ToR market, but none of these options are SME production-ready like Linux servers or OPNsense firewalls. Source: 12 months ago
That’s a stupid policy, and it looks like one of my UDMs is defective. I’m an idiot for not just buying good quality open boxes and putting https://opnsense.org/ on them. 🤦🏻♂️. Source: 12 months ago
Nmap - Nmap Free Security Scanner, Port Scanner, & Network Exploration Tool. Download open source software for Linux, Windows, UNIX, FreeBSD, etc.
pfSense - pfSense is a free and open source firewall and router that also features unified threat management, load balancing, multi WAN, and more
Angry IP Scanner - Open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use
MikroTik RouterOS - The main product of MikroTik is a Linux-based operating system known as MikroTik RouterOS.
Fing - Discover which devices are connected to any Wi-Fi network, map devices, detect intruders, assess...
OpenWrt - OpenWrt is an open-source firmware based on Linux for wireless routers