ferm VS MikroTik RouterOS

ferm Reviews

MikroTik RouterOS Reviews

1. Guest

   11 months ago
   many bugs that block connections

   since 2 years they didn't fix bugs that block the router from the internet

ferm mentions (4)

• DHCP is not blocked by ufw/iptables

  I remember hating shorewall and similar ones because, well, I know iptables, and I know exactly what I want so using anything that tries to abstract it into it's own approach is torture as I need to take the rules I want and translate it to whatever mediocre paradigm shorewall (or ufw, or near-any other firewall manager in the wild) decided to put on top of iptables. I ended up using ferm... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• what is your favourite firewall frontend?

  I'm a big fan of ferm. Many major distros have it readily available as a package, and it makes for beautifully readable firewall definitions. Source: about 1 year ago

• anyone use a front-end to iptables?

  The last time I needed to do complex iptables stuff, I found FERM really helpful. The structured config language greatly reduces the amount of boilerplate code you have to type, while still having a pretty direct mapping to the emitted iptables rules. A bit like compiling sass to css. Source: about 2 years ago

• dog: An open source firewall management system for packs of firewalls (iptables)

  Also just about last thing I want is to deploy another configuration management system alongside the system that manages everything else on machine. Currently we just use Puppet to deploy ferm rules (which is best described as "iptables+", naming convention and such are still iptables-like but a lot of macros/syntax sugar around it). Source: almost 3 years ago

MikroTik RouterOS mentions (23)

• Ubiquiti showing other users' consoles

  Anyone using Mikrotik these days? Been Mikro-curious for awhile and always see them thrown around as a Unifi alternative. Yet to hear of any firsthand implementations though. [0] https://mikrotik.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Free - Self-hosted - WebRTC - alternative to Zoom, Teams, Google Meet - Real time video calls, chat, screen sharing, file sharing, collaborative whiteboard, dashboard, rooms scheduler and more!

  I keep reading it as the networking hardware company Mikrotik. Source: about 1 year ago

• hap ax2 or ax3

  The "Buy" link at the top of mikrotik.com - this is how most hardware vendors with a distribution network have their site set up. Source: over 1 year ago

• Germany ups reliance on Huawei for 5G despite security fears

  Or Mikrotik from Latvia, for switching/routing: Https://mikrotik.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Management VLAN vs Native.

  There is way to get default to do whatewer you want (including preseted VLAN on some port): Get some config, which you'd like to use as default Login to mikrotik.com Use branding section to get packet, which can be installed on any RoS to change default config and some other things. Source: over 1 year ago