Based on our record, OPNsense seems to be a lot more popular than NxFilter. While we know about 94 links to OPNsense, we've tracked only 5 mentions of NxFilter. 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.
There are market disruptors in all aspects of our field. Gravwell can provide you will centralized logging at a fraction of the cost of Splunk. Ubiquiti makes highly competitive access points. NXFilter can provide high quality DNS filtering for substantially less than Umbrella. Lenovo is seriously undercutting NetApp on storage, and they are literally using the same OSes and Lenovo is even making the hardware for... Source: almost 2 years ago
Does it have to be PowerDNS? You can use NxFilter. It's also a DNS server with filtering. You can create users and associate them to IP or IP range and assign different filtering policies based on user and groups. https://nxfilter.org/p3/. Source: about 2 years ago
A decent firewall or NXFilter or PiHole. Their new “business” is now selling your data apparently. Source: almost 3 years ago
Good firewall or a dns resolver like pinhole or NxF. Source: about 3 years ago
I've used NxFilter in a whitelist-only mode. Source: about 3 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: 5 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: 5 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 / 10 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: 11 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: 11 months ago
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pfSense - pfSense is a free and open source firewall and router that also features unified threat management, load balancing, multi WAN, and more
K9 Web Protection - This also contains the feature “Blacklist Without Password” which allows non-admin users to add sites to the “Always Block” list without requiring the K9 admin password.
MikroTik RouterOS - The main product of MikroTik is a Linux-based operating system known as MikroTik RouterOS.
CurrentWare BrowseControl - BrowseControl web filtering software blocks websites based on URLs and categories. Policies can be customized for each user, department, or OU. Includes other features such as an app blocker, port filter, and download/upload blocker.
OpenWrt - OpenWrt is an open-source firmware based on Linux for wireless routers