{"id":26737,"date":"2016-02-05T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T15:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/5-open-source-firewall-smbs\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T10:20:41","slug":"5-open-source-firewall-smbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/en\/5-open-source-firewall-smbs\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Open Source firewall for SMBs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;<strong>IPCop<\/strong>. It is a free software to be installed on your existing hardware which includes packet filtering, proxy, traffic shaping, VPN and secure remote access, user authentication, name services and time server. In addition, it provides performace graphics and system monitoring to make it easy to identify any issue. It is completely free and offers community support only.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>OpenWRT<\/strong>. It is an access point with ethernet ports, wifi, and management software. 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